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        Dr D'Cunha is right that clericalism is a wound, that it has cost the Church credibility it may not recover in my lifetime, and that several of her practical proposals are overdue. I want to say that plainly before I say the rest, because the rest is a serious...
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        Pope Leo XIV’s catechesis on the liturgy is complete. Read whole, the eight reflections are a single argument — and a map through the liturgy wars....
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        In a sprawling document articulating the duty of Christians to care for the environment, a Vatican advisory body wrote that taking action to preserve the planet for future generations is "not only an ethical requirement, but also a theological one." ...
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        06/09/2026
        Within all this goodness and messiness, joy and sorrow — for every great father, and every father who did not or could not live out the role as deep down they may have desired — we pray for you on this day with a heart that mirrors the heart...
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        Clericalism and synodality are opposites: ending clerical privilege, unpaid domestic servitude and closed-door governance, and reclaiming the baptismal dignity of the laity, is the structural cleansing a synodal Church requires....
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