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The Vatican’s Statement on Gender Is Unsurprising, and a Missed Opportunity

The arc of Vatican rhetoric on sexual issues is long, and it doesn’t bend much at all. On October 30, 1986, the Vatican’s Congregation for the...

Paul Elie

Last Tuesday, Henry Kissinger, who served as the U.S. Secretary of State half a century ago, met with China’s defense minister in Beijing, and...

A rhetorical dispute between the Church and the Israeli government shows the limits—and the possibilities—of the Pope’s role in times of...

Last month, some four hundred and fifty Catholic leaders from around the world—cardinals, archbishops, bishops, priests and nuns, professors and...

The epigraph to Sister Helen Prejean’s book “Dead Man Walking,” published in 1993, is from “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”: “I went...

Pope Francis’s “apostolic journey” to Mongolia earlier this month had the unexpected consequence of bringing Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, a...