Pope Francis proved once more that praxis is more important to him than doctrine during the in-flight press conference coming back from Mexico when he mentioned the “famous” case of the Congolese nuns allegedly permitted to take the contraceptive pill because of a danger of rape. Yet, this same sentence – [...]

To those who thought that he was going to overturn the Church’s doctrine on admission to the sacraments for the civilly divorced and remarried, Pope Francis responded that “all doors are open, but we cannot say they can receive Communion. It would be a wound to marriage.” To those who thought that the joint [...]

Pope Francis’ approach to diplomatic issues is pragmatic and is aimed at achieving immediate outcomes that are less attentive to theological issues. He pursues a diplomacy of prayer, of the Holy Door, of mercy, but also a diplomacy with doctrinal-theological concessions, all in the interest of the “culture of the encounter” [...]

The Council of Cardinals will meet again February 8 – 9. Pope Francis appointed the Council to advise him on the Church’s government and on a possible reform of the Curia. But this time, more than on past occasions, the meeting encounters a certain disinterest. No one has written about it, and the cardinals [...]

One of Pope Francis’ main tasks is that of “going toward peripheries,” not only the “geographical ones,” but especially “the existential ones”. He made this clear in the speech he delivered during the pre-conclave meetings that gained him the necessary votes in the Conclave. And he has never tired of restating this goal [...]