Fr. Mario Alexis Portella, Crisis Magazine, May 4, 2026
Fr. Mario Alexis Portella, J.D., J.C.D. is a priest of the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence, Italy, as well as a Visiting Fellow at the Danube Institute in Budapest, Hungary, and a Visiting Professor at ITI Catholic University in Trumau, Austria. He holds a doctorate in canon law and civil law from the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome.
Ever since the Church began engaging in ecumenical dialogue with “separated brethren” during the Second Vatican Council, we as a Church have refused to address the doctrinal disputes that actually divide us.
Last week, in his meeting with the Anglican Archbishop of Canter7ury, Sarah Mullally, Pope Leo XIV said:
While much progress has been made on some historically divisive issues, new problems have arisen in recent decades, rendering the pathway to full communion more difficult to discern. I know that the Anglican Communion is also facing many of these same questions at this time. Nevertheless, we must not allow these continuing challenges to prevent us from using every possible opportunity to proclaim Christ to the world together. ….
