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The Church has changed how the sacrament of confession (now often called “penance” or “reconciliation”) is celebrated and presented since Vatican II, including a revised Order of Penance in the 1970s ...
Martin Luther’s virulent anti-Jewish tracts and towering cultural status were actively seized by Nazi propagandists who recycled his language and image to lend historical and theological cover to raci...
Pope Leo XIV did not explicitly say “Trump is not a savior” in the reporting available; his comments in a September 18, 2025 interview expressed , rather than issuing a theological or political verdic...
Abolishing confession to priests would remake Catholic sacramental life and force clashes between canon law and civil authorities: the Church treats the confessional seal as “inviolable” and says a pr...
The Church requires the petitioner to prove that one spouse suffered a psychological incapacity at the time of marriage that made them unable to assume “the essential obligations of marriage”; tribuna...
Martin Luther’s 95 Theses primarily attacked the , arguing that they misrepresented repentance and salvation and exploited the faithful; this focus appears consistently across recent summaries and his...
Canon law makes the seal of confession absolute: Canon 983 (and related commentary) forbids a confessor from betraying what is said in the sacrament, and the Church treats this secrecy as inviolable ....
The materials provided show , but they do document a tension between the Church’s doctrinal caution about divorce and its pastoral commitment to support abuse survivors. Available items emphasize pari...
Pope Leo publicly criticized U.S. President Donald Trump on September 30, 2025, questioning whether the administration’s hard-line immigration and mass-deportation policies were consistent with the Ch...
Jesus’ teachings on consistently intersect with contemporary social issues by framing a moral imperative to prioritize the poor, vulnerable, and marginalized — a theme reiterated across recent papal s...
The claim that there is a specific well‑known “Pope Leo” quote about kings cannot be confirmed from the materials provided: contemporary reports citing a “Pope Leo XIV” do contain a direct, attributab...