The Key To the Church’s Success in This World, by Dr. Jeff Mirus

By Dr. Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture, May 23, 2025

Jeffrey Mirus holds a Ph.D. in intellectual history from Princeton University. A co-founder of Christendom College, he also pioneered Catholic Internet services. He is the founder of Trinity Communications and CatholicCulture.org.

Pope Leo is already very busy and, inevitably, he offers encouragement to a great many persons who promote various goods. For example, the Pope sent a brief video message to encourage the Network of Universities for the Care of the Common Home as it prepares for the 2025 UN Climate Change Conference (COP30). In this message, the Pope stated: “You will reflect together on a possible remission of the public debt and of the ecological debt, a proposal that Pope Francis had suggested…. And in this jubilee year, a year of hope, this message is so important.”

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. …

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