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About the book
This volume examines current topic in theology. Taking as its starting point several events in 2025. The first essay engages with issues surrounding Pope Francis’s letter to the American Catholic Bishops in early 2025 which dealt with migration.
In his letter to American Bishops on the topic of migration, Pope Francis wrote on February 10 2025 that ‘an authentic rule of law is verified precisely in the dignified treatment that all people deserve, especially the poorest and most marginalised’, which he said ‘does not impede the development of a policy that regulates orderly and legal migration’. It is widely accepted that the late Pope Francis sought the assistance of the then Robert Cardinal Prevost, OSA, in writing this document.
Then in early October 2025 Pope Leo referred to the migrant issue in his Sunday address, calling on Catholics to ‘open our arms and hearts to [migrants], welcoming them as brothers and sisters, and being for them a presence of consolation and hope’. issues. The article looks . It is followed by an easy on hope.
The second essay deals with ‘hope and loss’. It addresses the concept of hope, which can certainly be understood as a commonplace term, but then goes on to examine the theological interpretation of hope. This involves not only a ‘theology of hope’ as developed at the end of the twentieth century, but also hope as a Christian virtue that forms an interrelated triad with faith and love.
Following this comes an essay on the role of Cardinals in the Catholic Church over time. The volume then switches to an essay on the funeral liturgy and the use of the sequence, commonly known as dies irae, dies illa. The volume ends with an examination of the Old Testament book of Ruth.
Contributors:
Thomas Eggensperger, OP, Wolfgang Muller, OP , Klaus Ganzer and Renae Barker
