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The motto that Francis selected for his papacy, ‘looking at him with mercy, he chose him,’ was inspired by Caravaggio’s painting.
Latin America was core to Pope Francis’ theology. As pope he made significant contributions to the region.
US college leaders would do well to reflect on the courage of their counterparts in 1980s El Salvador who opposed injustice despite grave personal risk.
Viral selfie spot Saint Ignatius in Rome has much to teach us about the histories of painting, of understanding the eye, and of religious devotion.
Accounts of Asian American history often stop at the US border, but Asians were living in Latin America for centuries before the Declaration of Independence.
‘I see the church as a field hospital,’ Pope Francis once said – not a place where superficial solutions will do much good.
He will have a joyful welcome but a difficult task - to challenge negative values while enabling a more African Catholic church.
A teenage domestic servant showed signs of possession, and a miller was accused of witchcraft. Considering records of these events helps clarify what we can and cannot know about the past.
Residential schools and the papal bulls justifying the doctrine of discovery call out for concrete acts of atonement and reparation on the part of the church.
In the 1960s, the Catholic Church sought to downplay demonic possession, but its views since then have changed.
The Jesuits are among the Catholic Church’s most influential religious orders but no strangers to controversy.
For many, New Year’s resolutions do not last more than a few days or weeks. A theologian writes how we can learn from the challenges and reflections of Saint Ignatius.
At times we just don’t know what’s the right thing to do. St. Ignatius, who founded the Society of Jesus, developed a method of discernment that can be useful even to those who are not religious.
For many Zimbabweans Robert Mugabe will remain a contested figure.
July marks 50 years of Pope Paul VI’s encyclical prohibiting contraceptive use. For many years prior to it, the church had not been so explicit on its stance. How did it become such a thorny issue?
Bilocation is a popular Christian myth but also one that is known to modern physics.
Martin Scorsese’s new film Silence will be shown to an audience of priests at the Vatican today. It tells the story of persecuted Christians in 17th century Japan - an event still remembered by Nagasaki’s Catholic community.
As a Jesuit, Pope Francis is part of a long tradition of religious men of science. Will his leadership influence the Catholic Church’s stance on contemporary scientific issues?
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President, Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Professor Emeritus, HIstory Department and School of Public and International Affairs, York University, Canada
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Gudorf Chair in Catholic Intellectual Traditions, University of Dayton
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Rohrbaugh Family Assistant Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University
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Associate Professor of Systematic Theology, Regis College, University of Toronto
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Research Associate, Power Institute for Arts and Visual Culture, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Latin American Studies, University of Sydney