Pope

HDS Professor Kevin Madigan writes about the latest archival findings at the Vatican on Pius XII and the Jews.

"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...

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...

HBO's "The Young Pope," has renewed interest in the actual youngest pope. Professor Kevin Madigan offers insight to TIME magazine.

During his visit to the U.S., in addition to making history as the first pope to address Congress and parading through Central Park, Pope Francis will encounter a constituency that is deeply divided and far more "Americanist" than the one that Pope Leo...

Pope Francis, who has inspired both affection and controversy with recent remarks on homosexuality and atheism, made headlines again this week. In an interview with the editor of the leading Jesuit journal in Rome, the Pope criticized the Catholic Church...

The Harvard Gazette speaks with HDS professor Francis Clooney about the implications of Pope Francis's recent remarks on gay marriage, contraception, and abortion.

Bryan Hehir, former leader of HDS, and current HDS faculty member Francis Schüssler Fiorenza offer their take on the election of Pope Francis.

Following Pope Benedict XVI's February 11 announcement that he would step down from the papacy, Harvard Divinity School faculty have been widely featured in local and national media discussing the fallout of Benedict's resignation and the future of the...

HDS professors Kevin Madigan and Stephanie Paulsell in the Harvard Crimson on what Pope Francis's election could mean.