Like ordo amoris, this parable does not provide a general principle that can be applied automatically, nor can it serve as a direct guideline for migration policy. Instead, it awakens awareness ...

In the West, the practice of exchanging rings to mark a betrothal dates back to ancient Rome, when noble families would trade ...

A leading American bishop has described the debate over ordo amoris as a “non-issue” despite the term being used to defend US President Donald Trump’s position on immigration. The concept ...

Hundreds of mostly young demonstrators rally for immigrants' rights outside L.A. City Hall on Feb. 5. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) ...

To the editor: Over the last 30-plus years, I have seen so many miracle stories when a mentor Big Brother or Big Sister extends “open arms,” as Father Gregory Boyle puts it in his op-ed ...

In a very seventeenth-century-coded turn of events, the pope circulated a letter among the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops rebuking (though without naming) the vice president over his ...

This past week, Pope Francis delivered a letter to American bishops in which he clarified his interpretation of “ordo amoris,” or the “order of love,” a Christian theological concept initially ...

I won’t pretend to a particularly deep understanding of St. Augustine’s notion of ordo amoris — about which Vice President JD Vance has encouraged us all “to google” — or of St. Thomas ...

Vance, who was baptized Catholic in 2019, used the ancient Christian concept of “ordo amoris” to defend the deportations of migrants. In a letter Tuesday to U.S. bishops criticizing the Trump ...

Pope Francis weighed in on the true meaning of “ordo amoris” – a theological debate that Vice President JD Vance sparked last month. Vance, who converted to Catholicism in 2019, used the ...