Spirituality


15/06/2026

The priest, addiction and the right to ask for help

Addiction has many forms - the bottle, the screen, the body, a bond that consumes - and almost always a single inner grammar. An attempt to read it...

12/06/2026

“The priest who isolates himself fades away”: Leo XIV writes to the clergy on the Feast of the Sacred Heart

On the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, which coincides with the World Day of Prayer for the Sanctification of Priests, the Pope signs a mes...

11/06/2026

Those priests bishops refuse to see, and Leo XIV’s indictment

Leo XIV speaks to young people, but his warning strikes at the heart of an ecclesial system that wears priests down and then leaves them alone.

24/05/2026

Pentecost: how can you gain a plenary indulgence?

Devoutly taking part in the singing or solemn recitation of the hymn to the Holy Spirit makes it possible to obtain a plenary indulgence: a grace w...

21/05/2026

The presbyterate and the necessary apoptosis

Covering up, moving around and tolerating is not mercy: it is precisely how a priestly body becomes diseased.

09/05/2026

Lace and poison. The small but toxic clerical faction Leo XIV has begun to push to the margins

Tradition is not the problem; its distortion into identity, power and retaliation is. Leo XIV has begun to take space away from that small but corr...

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