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Articles By Valentina di Giorgio

This is what Pope Leo XIV said about Rupnik, the situation in Venezuela, and the religious freedom rights of migrants in the USA

The Pope unfolded a conversation that ranged across continents and crises, touching on Venezuela, the Middle East, the United States, and even the dignity of workers. It was an impromptu dialogue, but one that revealed once again the pontiff’s instinct to read the signs of the times with moral precision and pastoral realism

This is how Pope Leo XIV’s first “synodal meeting” went: this is what he was asked and what he answered

In his words, synodality is not about meetings and documents, but about learning to walk together again — clergy and laity, men and women, rich and poor. “Sometimes,” he reflected, “resistance comes from fear or from ignorance. Not everyone runs at the same speed, and we must be patient with one another. If a few rush ahead and leave many behind, communion is broken