Archbishop John C. Wester writes: The U.S. House of Representatives recently passed a budget reconciliation bill that is contrary to Catholic social teaching. The bill is now waiting to be debated in the Senate. It should be strongly opposed. Moreover, the church and the bishops of the United States should lead the way in speaking… Read More Trump’s Bill Steals From the Poor to Give to the Rich, says Archbishop John Wester

via Ruth Graham, Elizabeth Dias, and Jason Horowitz: Almost 40 years ago, an American graduate student in Rome was closely examining the question of what it meant to be a wise and effective leader in the Catholic Church. Today, the doctoral dissertation that Robert Prevost produced in the mid-1980s is one of the most detailed… Read More Pope Leo on Power and Authority in His Doctoral Dissertation

via the Vatican: In the context of the ongoing digital revolution, we must rediscover, emphasize and cultivate our duty to train others in critical thinking, countering temptations to the contrary, which can also be found in ecclesial circles. There is so little dialogue around us; shouting often replaces it, not infrequently in the form of… Read More Pope Leo: Let the Voice of the Poor be Heard

Millennial writer Sr. Bethany Welch writes: My prayer is that the man the cardinals selected as pope can help us renew a sense of communion. The Catholic Church is at its best when our efforts foster union and cultivate love, when we function not as a bureaucracy needing to be managed, but as a mystery… Read More The Greatest Challenge Pope Leo XIV Faces

Fr. James Martin, longtime chaplain of Colbert Nation, offered his thoughts on the new pope on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.