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Pope Francis thinks in images, said Portuguese Cardinal José Tolentino de Mendonça, head of Vatican's Dicastery for Culture and Education, at a conference on "The Global Aesthetics of the Catholic Imagination" in Rome.

Article: A. E. Orobator, S.J., on Vatican II in Africa (REVIEW ESSAY) - Because I am interested in Africa, I want to highlight here the Nigerian Jesuit theologian A. E. Orobators The Impact, Reception, and Implementation of Vatican II in Africa in the new 800-page 2023 book The Oxford Handbook of Vatican II, edited by the lay Catholic theologians Catherine E. Clifford of Saint Paul University in Ottawa and Massimo Faggioli of Villanova University in Philadelphia (pp. 657-675).

Article: A. E. Orobator, S.J., on Vatican II in Africa (REVIEW ESSAY) - Because I am interested in Africa, I want to highlight here the Nigerian Jesuit theologian A. E. Orobators The Impact, Reception, and Implementation of Vatican II in Africa in the new 800-page 2023 book The Oxford Handbook of Vatican II, edited by the lay Catholic theologians Catherine E. Clifford of Saint Paul University in Ottawa and Massimo Faggioli of Villanova University in Philadelphia (pp. 657-675).

Catholics are called to conserve and protect even the parts of creation that are not so cute.

I was honored to be invited to an intimate lunch in recent days with Cardinal Pedro Barreto Jimeno, SJ, the Archbishop of Huancayo in Peru, along with a number of representatives from universities in South America. After attending a United Nations conference on water access and sanitation, the cardinal was visiting a few institutions of

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In an interview published Friday (March 10), Pope Francis called celibacy in the priesthood a gift from God but also a 'provisional' discipline observed mostly in the Western Church that is not essential to ordination.

Many Catholics around the world connect with this papacy and the universal church, but for some Francis' dreams of a more diverse and inclusive church are threatening.

Scholars and Catholics spoke to NCR about how Pope Francis has dealt with the Catholic Church's history of colonialism, and how he has confronted colonialism in its continuing forms.

When he was presented to a cheering crowd at St Peter’s Square, Vatican City, on 13 March 2013, few people outside Latin America knew much about Jorge Bergoglio. But a decade later, based on my work as a scholar of Catholicism, I would argue that most Catholics know and love Pope Francis. They also see a deep connection between his message and priorities, and their dreams and hopes for a better church and a world that is reconciled.