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2 weeks ago | 
commonwealmagazine.org | Massimo Faggioli |Stephen Pope |George Scialabba |Helen Rouner
Pope Francis’s slow, ongoing recovery after his five-week hospitalization makes for a scenario full of uncertainties about the governance of the Vatican and the Catholic Church. It is indeed a complex picture, as Austen Ivereigh writes in the April issue of Commonweal. It’s also a test for the institutional system of the Catholic Church in an age of crisis of institutions, especially institutions of government. One easily targetable Church institution is the papal conclave.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
thetablet.co.uk | Massimo Faggioli
The crisis in academic theology is a problem for the Church, not just for Catholic colleges and universities. A leading ecclesiologist calls for the revival of a rigorous theology that is embedded in Scripture, tradition and the life of the Church / By MASSIMO FAGGIOLIThe crisis in academic theology is a problem for the Church, not just for Catholic colleges and universities.
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Jan 2, 2025 | 
international.la-croix.com | Massimo Faggioli
A recently published research paper statedthat in August last year, 39 percent of the U.S. population aged 18-64 usedgenerative AI. More than 24 percent of workers used it at least once in theweek prior to being surveyed, and nearly one in nine used it every workday. Theadoption of generative AI in the United States has outpaced the adoption of both personal computers and the internet.
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Dec 19, 2024 | 
international.la-croix.com | Massimo Faggioli
On January 20,2017, the Inauguration Day of the first Trump presidency, I was in Rome tospeak at a conference. I still remember listening to the new president’s speechon “American carnage,” during a taxi ride from Via Aurelia tothe city center. One week later, the “Muslim travelban” arrived —the clearest message of what kind of country the 45th U.S. presidentand his collaborators had in mind.
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Dec 12, 2024 | 
commonwealmagazine.org | Massimo Faggioli
As Commonweal’s centennial year comes to a close, I’ve been thinking about how the magazine has played a part in my life. I have what I think is a unique perspective, given that I’m probably the only kid from the University of Bologna in Italy to grow up and come to identify with “Commonweal Catholicism.” In Italian Catholicism, the expression “lay theologian” was always an oxymoron. So one can understand why my parents were so nervous about my interest in theology and Church history.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
dialnet.unirioja.es | Massimo Faggioli
Ayuda Buscar en la ayuda Buscar en la ayuda The Synod on Synodality (2021-2024) as an Institution, Historical-Theological Perspectives and Questions Faggioli, Massimo [1] [1] Villanova University, (Philadelphia, Estados Unidos) Localización: Teología, ISSN 0328-1396, Vol. 61, Nº. 143, 2024, págs. 77-96 Idioma: inglés Títulos paralelos: El Sínodo sobre la sinodalidad (2021-2024) como institución.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
international.la-croix.com | Massimo Faggioli
During the lastyear, since the Hamas attacks of October 7, 2023, relations between Pope Francis, Israel, and the Jews have become dangerously tense and in ways thataren’t always talked about in public. This situation has escalated in the lastfew weeks, just before the opening of the 2025 Jubilee, due to a series ofstatements Francis made about Israel's war in Gaza, particularly in a book published in Italian in November.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
publik-forum.de | Massimo Faggioli
Der klare Wahlsieg von Donald Trump begräbt nicht nur Joe Bidens Vermächtnis. Er vertieft auch den Rückzug des progressiven Katholizismus: In den sozialen Medien, in ihren intellektuellen Zeitschriften und Universitäten werden amerikanische Katholikinnen und Katholiken einen neuen Weg finden müssen, um mit einem grundlegend anderen politischen System umzugehen – und auch mit einer anderen Art von Katholiken an der Macht. Trumps Triumph katapultiert J. D.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
international.la-croix.com | Massimo Faggioli
One of the most important news reports in the global and “ecumenical” history of the church abuse crisis received little attention in our ecclesial conversations. On November 12, Anglican Archbishop Justin Welby of Canterbury unexpectedly announced his resignation following the publication of the “Makin Report” and its revelations on the handling ofJohn Smyth's abuse of boys and young men in the 1970s and 1980s.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
catholicoutlook.org | Massimo Faggioli
… And the beginning of synodalityWhen Francis was elected pope in 2013, “synodality” was a technical term used mostly by ecclesiologists and Church historians. But a synodal Church was the hope of many who did not have the word for it. The conclusion of the second assembly in October did not necessarily satisfy those hopes. But the process and the Final Document suggest that Catholicism is moving in the direction of a more communional, participatory, and missionary Church—if slowly.
