The American elections have made it clear that the Catholic Church now accepts abortion, considers it normal for a Catholic politician to include it in
As the exhaustive election cycle ends, it is hard not to feel disappointed by the results, disputed though they may be. With all the existential
Our Observatory is keeping a very close eye and ear on the discussion about the legal recognition of homosexual civil unions in the wake of
A distinguished Italian economist is deriding Pope Francis’ encyclical Fratelli Tutti as “not at all inspired by the thought of St. Francis of Assisi, but rather by
Several (probably apocryphal) stories about British Queen Victoria (1819-1901) tell about her ability not to see things that she did not want to see. One
Is there a correlation between the virus that has been assailing two billion people over the past ten months and the pandemic of errors that
It is deeply disturbing to read that, in one Asian cardinal’s opinion, Christianity must be baptized into Eastern religions: “The Church needs to be baptized
Two bloody beheadings by Islamic militants in France shocked the world. The French government and the media are trying to frame the attacks as only
The new encyclical, Fratelli Tutti (hereafter FT), is an atypical papal document. First, because contrary to tradition, it is not addressed to the Catholic bishops, clergy, or
Despite fierce global opposition, Rome has renewed its controversial concordat with China, claiming that the deal has done away with “illegitimate bishops” and resulted in securing
