Is there a Providential trajectory in the last seven popes?
Let me praise the countless priests, deacons, religious and laity who have extended a new and vibrant apostolic spirit into an over-tired world
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Let me praise the countless priests, deacons, religious and laity who have extended a new and vibrant apostolic spirit into an over-tired world
(RNS) — Pope Francis' cardinal electors do not know each other well; they should take their time to elect a pope.
Pope Francis will soon have appointed 72% of the cardinal electors—but the next pope could still surprise us.
After the reforms laid out by Pope Francis are fully implemented, the Vatican Curia will never be the same. His recent predecessors talked abo...
(RNS) — The reforms of Pope Francis are revolutionary. They move the papacy away from its old monarchical model, where the pope is king with cardinals and bishops as princes and nobles, to a collegial model based on the teachings of the Second Vatican Council.