Pope Francis

"People who are against any compromise in this direction will see this as another sign that Francis has gone astray, that he is not adhering to church teaching. And they will add this to their list of complaints about him," says HDS Parkman Professor of...

Being holy is never a private thing; it is also a matter of being a good neighbor, messenger of peace, a healer and servant, a builder of community, particularly across religious borders, writes Professor Frank Clooney.

Professor Francis X. Cloooney writes about Oscar Romero, who was one of seven new saints canonized by Pope Francis on October 14.

On August 2, the Vatican announced a change in the Catechism of the Catholic Church’s teaching on the death penalty. The new teaching rejects the notion that capital punishment is legitimate in some cases, declaring that “‘the death penalty is...

"Ross Douthat’s To Change the Church is a highly readable but to my taste over-dramatized account of the papacy of Francis," writes Professor Frank Clooney.

"Breaking the hold of hard Catholic Gnosticism is a step toward healing the softer Gnosticism of seekers in the wider world," writes Professor Francis Clooney.

Pope Francis’s post-synodal apostolic exhortation on love in the family, Amoris Laetitia, has been received as “groundbreaking” by his supporters and schismatic by his critics. New York Times columnist Ross Douthat asserts that the Pope’s position on...

Professor Francis X. Clooney discusses the meaning of canonization of Salvadoran Archbishop Óscar Romero, a steadfast voice for the poor who was gunned down in 1980.

This feature is part of an HDS Communications interview series offering students a closer look at selected upcoming courses. Below, we chat with Hollis Professor of Divinity Emeritus Harvey Cox about his fall 2017 class “Pope Francis: His ‘Theology of the...

One of the problems about being pope, said HDS professor Francis Clooney, director of the Center for the Study of World Religions, is the immensely diverse set of political situations with which a pontiff’s words carry weight.