Can Christianity be tied to an “America First” vision? @MassimoFaggioli examines Rubio’s Athens speech and the Vatican’s resistance to making a global Church a tool of empire.
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#Vatican #GlobalCatholic
In his latest #VaticanDiary, @antoniospadaro traces how news of #PopeLeo’s diagnosis traveled from #Moscow to #Kyiv, and #Tehran to #Jerusalem. Spadaro observes that a religious leader’s health becomes a geopolitical matter when his voice carries weight in wars still being fought. Rival capitals asked one question: how is the health of the man who keeps asking for peace?
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In his latest #VaticanDiary, @AntonioSpadaro looks at #PopeLeo’s meeting with bishops on the tenth anniversary of Amoris Laetitia. Leo gives no ready answers, Spadaro notes, but poses a question: what kind of Church do people encounter when they are most fragile? Fragility, Leo stresses, belongs to all of us, the Church included.
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Three #Vatican-related events reveal a widening doctrinal gap between the #CatholicChurch and Judaism over Zionism and the State of #Israel — a divide diplomacy alone may not bridge.
@MassimoFaggioli examines what this means for Leo XIV’s pontificate.
#NostraAetate #Vatican #Judaism #PopeLeoXIV
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In his latest #Waypoint, @antoniospadaro traces #PopeLeo's view of the #UN back to his years as Augustinian prior general. Spadaro argues Prevost chose the table over denunciation, and the pope who now calls for UN reform, not lament, sees it as a forum where talking remains possible when elsewhere people have stopped.
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In his latest #VaticanDiary, @antoniospadaro unpacks #PopeLeo's theme for World Communications Day: attention, not clicks. Spadaro argues that real attention works like a compass, not a stopwatch, pointing us toward what matters. He also warns that #clickbait and algorithms train us for outrage instead, and that habit is the root of our polarization.
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The abuse of nuns in Africa has long remained hidden by fear, stigma, clericalism and patriarchy.
Sr. Mary Lembo sheds light on the silence surrounding victims — and the safeguarding efforts beginning to bring change.
#CatholicChurch #Safeguarding #Africa
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In his latest #Waypoint, @antoniospadaro pushes back on reading #PopeLeo's #France trip as electoral. He argues that Leo speaks to conscience, not politics, telling French Catholics tempted by nationalism that roots are good but walls aren't and that a #Christianity without Christ is just a bell tower without a bell.
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In his latest #VaticanDiary, @antoniospadaro previews #PopeLeo's trip to #France, themed "that the world may have life" just as the country legalizes assisted dying. Spadaro's read: Leo answers not by arguing the law, but by choosing proximity—sitting with the sick in Lourdes, meeting abuse victims, welcoming the thousands of adults now seeking baptism.
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Mental illness is not a failure of faith or a punishment from God. It is a form of human suffering that calls the Church to replace stigma with compassion, understanding and care.
How can the Church make God’s love visible to those who suffer?
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In his latest #VaticanDiary, @antoniospadaro analyzes a new #Synod report on picking bishops: the rules don't change, but who gets heard before a name reaches the Pope does—nuncios are asked to engage in deeper dialogue in the spirit of synodality. Bishops serve decades, so this quiet shift may shape the Church more than any encyclical, says Spadaro.
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The #CatholicChurch faces a growing debate over immigration as some US Catholic theologians defend mass deportations, challenging the positions of Church leaders and traditional Catholic social teaching. @MassimoFaggioli examines the emerging intra-Catholic divide.
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In his latest #Waypoint, @antoniospadaro tests the #NewDelhi BRICS summit’s call to put relationships over rivalry and people over politics against its own declaration that has nine paragraphs on Palestine but makes no mention of #Ukraine. Spadaro argues that papal diplomacy prioritizes people even when it comes at a cost. The #BRICS declaration, he says, largely does not.
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A year after Australia’s “once-in-a-generation” aged-care reforms, the report card is just 4/10.
Waiting lists persist. Costs are unaffordable. Flawed algorithms are replacing clinical judgment, while Support at Home remains too complex for many older Australians.
Reform must listen to the people it is meant to serve.
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Who is raising our children: the family or the algorithm?
Meta’s landmark settlement and new screen limits for teens raise a deeper question: should childhood be shaped by attention-driven algorithms—or protected by parents, communities and society?
Technology should serve childhood. Childhood should never serve technology.
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In his latest #VaticanDiary, @antoniospadaro analyzes eight years of the Sino-Vatican agreement which has resulted in 18 bishops getting ordained in communion with #Rome, four just this summer. The deal is working where it counts by safeguarding valid apostolic succession, and stands as proof that dialogue can still hold even as walls rise elsewhere.
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Are Catholic universities losing their Catholic identity?
Benedictine monk Virgil Michel envisioned Catholic truth as the “all-pervading atmosphere” of the entire curriculum. Today, some Catholic colleges risk reducing their mission to generic values any university could claim.
A Catholic university, argues this piece, should be where the Church does her thinking—pursuing truth, goodness and beauty without abandoning its theological identity.
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Can salvation be measured out of ten?
J.D. Vance gave himself a “7 or 8” when asked how confident he was of entering heaven. But Christianity points us beyond spiritual scorecards.
Salvation is not earned. It is grace.
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Is there a Christian ‘firewall’ against the far right in Europe?
From Germany’s clear rejection of the AfD to Austria’s dialogue with the FPÖ, France’s changing Catholic electorate and Italy’s complex ties with Giorgia Meloni, European churches are confronting the far right in very different ways.
#Europe #Christianity #FarRight #Church #Politics
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AfD’s landslide win in Saxony-Anhalt raises concerns for Germany’s churches and religious freedom.
Wolfgang Thierse calls on Christians and democratic forces to defend religious liberty, press freedom, academic freedom and civil society amid the AfD’s strong electoral showing.
#Germany #AfD #ReligiousFreedom #Democracy
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