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Catholic Re-Visions

The Pope Who Refuses to Play Our Game

Progressive Catholic commentators persistently interpret Pope Leo XIV as a character in America’s resistance to Donald Trump. His July 4 visit to Lampedusa implies that he is conveying a significantly larger narrative.

By Leonardo Mendoza
Technocracy, Political Theology, and Democratic Threat

The presence of technological elites in the Vatican at the release of Magnfica Humanitas indicates a shift in perspective concerning democracy. Put bluntly, it is not just human labor that is at stake; democracy hangs in the balance.

By Evan Marsolek
Who is Responsible for Death?

If you call someone to turn back to dust, you must prepare to be called upon in return.

By Isaac Kuhl-Schlegel

Around the Network

Caesar’s Economy or God’s?

The economy of Spirit, like God’s polity, is countercultural. The way out of the trap of living within the lie that the world is defined by boundaries shaped by tyranny and obedience to it, is to tell the truth that life demands freedom and creativity, valuing relationships over material things.

By Welling Hall
PTNCON27: Call for Seminar Streams

The Political Theology Network is hosting our sixth in-person conference, which will be held in Nashville, TN, from April 29 to May 2, 2027. Would you like to coordinate a thematic stream?

By Alex Dubilet & Lucia Hulsether
The Stack: PTN’s Thematic Newsletters

PTN members now receive a monthly thematic reading list with the most recent conversations on their topics of choice.

By Abel K. Aruan

Symposia

Catholic Re-Visions

Theological Negotiations: Pope Leo, President Trump, and Their Others

When authority is reduced to the ‘haves’ and ‘have-nots,’ we also reduce the figures within these debates to mere political caricatures of one another, trapped in a cat fight from which there is no escape.

By Zaccary Haney
Reevaluating Charisma

As is the case with religion, progressive intellectuals tend to look on charisma with suspicion, relegating it to the realm of authoritarian and manipulative politics.

By Maor Levitin
Postcolonial Imperialism
By Vincent Lloyd

ASSEMBLY Podcast

S4 E9: Why Synthetic Religions? On Nature, Culture, and the Political Struggle to Slow Down Time
By Amanda Furiasse
S4 E8 – Religion after the Outrage
By Amanda Furiasse
S 4 E 7- Adaptive Reuse
By Sher Tareen