Jeanie Hannaman

By Dr. Jules Gomes, The Stream - Statements Leo made upon receiving an honorary doctorate in October 2023 from the Universidad Católica Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo in Chiclayo, Peru, where he was presiding as Bishop Robert Prevost, surfaced late Wednesday... “A Catholic cannot truly claim to be ‘pro-life’ by maintaining a stance against abortion while simultaneously advocating in favor of the death penalty,” he declared. “Such a position would lack coherence with Catholic social teaching.”... Citing Bernadin, he observed that issues from “genetic research, abortion, capital punishment, [and] modern warfare to the care of the terminally ill” are “fundamentally rooted in one essential Catholic principle: the loss of even a single human life is a profoundly significant event.”

By Fr. Mario Alexis Portella, Crisis Magazine - On May 14, in his “Address to Participants in the Jubilee of Oriental Churches,” Pope Leo XIV not only praised “the unique spiritual and sapiential traditions that they preserve, and for all that they have to say to us about the Christian life, synodality, and the liturgy,” he also highlighted how the Oriental Churches have “a unique and privileged role as the original setting where the Church was born.”

By Dr. Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture - It is not necessary to itemize the dozen or more messages to various groups in any given month by which popes encourage various organizations in their particular missions. It will be some time before we can discern the basic Christian themes of this new pontificate. But we can state without fear that unless these basic themes emphasize an ever deepening conversion to Christ in response to the proclamation of the Gospel, the papacy will continue its slide into irrelevance.