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Monsignor Victor Manuel Fernandez, archbishop of La Plata, shakes hands with a a man after a Mass at the Cathedral in La Plata, Argentina, Sunday, July 9, 2023. Fernandez was appointed by Pope Francis to head the Holy See's Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith at the Vatican. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
FaithInterviews
Antonio Spadaro, S.J.
In an interview with La Civiltà Cattolica, Archbishop Victor Manuel Fernández reflected on his mandate from Pope Francis to “promot[e] theological knowledge” rather than to correct “doctrinal errors.”
FaithInterviews
Antonio Spadaro, S.J.
“Someone once said that tradition is the living memory of believers. Traditionalism instead is the dead life of our believers.”
Christoph SchönbornAntonio Spadaro, S.J.
'We have sometimes spoken of marriage so abstractly that it loses all its attractiveness.'
Austrian Cardinal Christoph Schonborn speaks during a news conference for the release of Pope Francis' apostolic exhortation on the family, "Amoris Laetitia" ("The Joy of Love"), at the Vatican April 8.
Antonio Spadaro, S.J.Christoph Schönborn
The Bible itself presents family life not as an abstract ideal but as what the Holy Father calls a “work of craftsmanship.”
Antonio Spadaro, S.J.Louis J. Cameli
The great question is this: How do we form consciences?
Cardinal Georges Cottier. O.P., speaks in Rome in March 2009 at an international conference marking the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin's "Origin of Species."
Synod on the Family
Antonio Spadaro, S.J.
Cardinal Georges Cottier, O.P., the former theologian for the papal household under St. John Paul II, feels that the Year of Mercy is an extraordinary opportunity given to the church to better discover herself and her mission.
Antonio Spadaro, S.J.
A church of the pure or a fisherman's trap, that is to say, a net containing a mixture of good and bad fish, according to an expression of St. Augustine? This is the question that comes to mind as my guests arrive: Cardinal Christoph Schönborn and his Dominican brother Jean-Miguel Garrigues. I
Pope Francis, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople embrace during prayer service in Istanbul.
Faith
Antonio Spadaro, S.J.
To climb the narrow staircases, in their understated elegance, which connect the floors of the Building of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, gives rhythm to the clear perception that this place, in itself small, is the spiritual heart of millions of Orthodox Christians worldwide.For 1,700
Pope Francis attends the morning session on the final day of extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the family at Vatican, Oct. 18.
Antonio Spadaro, S.J.
The love between a man and a woman stands as an image of the love of God. The call to family life is written into human nature. This vocation takes the form of a demanding voyage that is sometimes full of conflict—as is all of human life, after all. The vital force, the human energy contained
Faith
Antonio Spadaro, S.J.
“It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.”