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Analysis Opinion•Controversies

Against the Unity Pope Leo XIV Seeks: Gestures and Words from Bishops That Fuel Polarization and Cause Confusion

Why is there so much controversy regarding key aspects of the Church’s internal life? Is the Church divided and in conflict, or is there more noise than peace? Does the Pope lean toward one tendency while alienating another? Answering these questions requires three clarifications to understand what is happening in the Church today.

Priests•Testimonies

The World’s Oldest Priest Dies: Who Was He? How Old Was He? Where Did He Live?

Father Bruno Kant always carried his breviary, «his last and most precious memento.» He obtained his high school diploma in Danzig in 1934. He lost his father in the War, a painful thorn that haunted him for a long time: «I wanted to be a priest because I thought that, after all the disappointments I had experienced, perhaps I could improve the world a little.»

Church and World•Vatican Diplomacy

Holy See Raises Its Voice in Favor of Protecting Cultural and Religious Heritage Amidst Armed Conflicts

The Permanent Observer of the Holy See to UNESCO, Monsignor Roberto Campisi, addressed the 224th Session of the organization’s Executive Board on April 13 in Paris and stressed the urgent need to protect places of faith and culture amidst conflicts, especially in the Middle East and Ukraine. Their destruction damages the culture of peoples and erases the collective memory, he explained