"What we do know," said Brazilian-born theologian Leonardo Boff, "is that he's a North American with a Latin American soul." ...

General Audience: Pope tells why he Chose Name of Benedict. In his first general audience, which was held this morning in St. Peter's Square in the presence of 15,000 people, the Pope again gave ...

Many aspects of Pope Francis’ remarkable program of ecclesial renewal weare prefigured in Hans Urs von Balthasar’s vision for ...

In a lecture in praise of Klaus Gamber; quotation translated by Tracey Rowland in her book, Ratzinger’s Faith, The Theology of Pope Benedict XVI, Oxford University Press, 2008 , p. 142, and see ...

COMMENTARY: Thus, it was hard for me to pick up what would be Pope Francis’ last encyclical and read it with receptivity. But ...