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By Madalaine Elhabbal, Catholic Vote - The Vatican has just released a lengthy study document on the ecumenical and synodal dialogues regarding papal primacy... The Dicastery for the Promotion of Christian Unity released the text titled, “The Bishop of Rome,” on June 13. Notably, it is the first Vatican document on the subject of papal primacy since Pope St. John Paul II’s encyclical, Ut Unum Sint, or “On Commitment to Ecumenism,” in 1995... As CatholicVote previously reported, Ut Unum Sint “[emphasizes] the importance of increasing unity and communion between non-Catholic Christians and the Catholic Church.”

By Stephen D. Minnis, President, Benedictine College - From the start, our universities were not created to be “safe spaces” where people cocoon themselves away from ideas that challenge them. They were institutions that guarded their faith fiercely, but where every question was posed and vigorously investigated. Because of that, after the Roman empire fell, Benedictines transformed Western civilization through their mission of community, faith and scholarship by creating abbeys, liturgy and schools.