Father Bux to Cardinal Cupich: The Liturgy Must Elevate Us to Divine Truth and Beauty

Father Bux to Cardinal Cupich: The Liturgy Must Elevate Us to Divine Truth and Beauty

To His Eminence Cardinal Blase Cupich Your Most Reverend Eminence, “For I think that God has exhibited us apostles as last of all, like men sentenced to death; because we ...
When “Welcome” Collides With Caesar: Dilexi Te and the Missing Question

When “Welcome” Collides With Caesar: Dilexi Te and the Missing Question

The Apostolic Exhortation Dilexi Te limits its discussion of “migrants” to three paragraphs: 73–75. Paragraph 73 claims that “The experience of migration accompanies the history of the People of God,” citing Abraham, ...
Dilexi Te: Treating the Poor As Slaves

Dilexi Te: Treating the Poor As Slaves

One of the most sneaky lines in Dilexi Te comes under the chapter heading titled, “Accompanying migrants.” It reads: “Mary and Joseph flee with the child Jesus to Egypt. Christ ...
From Altar to Activism: The Church’s Drift Toward NGO Theology

From Altar to Activism: The Church’s Drift Toward NGO Theology

Introductory Commentary From Vicki Yamasaki In this penetrating critique of Pope Leo XIV’s apostolic exhortation Dilexi Te, Professor Timothy J.A. O’Donnell warns that the document signals a troubling theological shift ...
Fr. Robert McTeigue: The Sacrament of Redistribution

Fr. Robert McTeigue: The Sacrament of Redistribution

There has been a lot of talk about the poor recently, but official documents seem to leave much unsaid. Let's take a closer look ...
Dilexi Te: The Gospel According to Marx

Dilexi Te: The Gospel According to Marx

Leo XIV’s first exhortation promises a Church “close to the poor.” What it delivers is a baptized socialism where salvation sounds suspiciously like wealth redistribution. The text opens with Revelation ...
Dilexi Te: Mass Migration Is Providential

Dilexi Te: Mass Migration Is Providential

Does the Vatican see the face of Christ in the old women raped, even to death, by asylum seekers? Does it see the face of Christ in the girls sex-trafficked ...
Dilexi Te: Pope Accidentally Exposes Post-Conciliar Church with One Question in First Apostolic Exhortation

Dilexi Te: Pope Accidentally Exposes Post-Conciliar Church with One Question in First Apostolic Exhortation

Pope Leo XIV’s first Apostolic Exhortation, Dilexi te, was thrust upon the world earlier today. What can I say? I read it. It was about the poor. I had a ...