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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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As religion returns as a tool of power from Washington to Moscow to Delhi, faith risks becoming an identity weapon; the Church stays effective only by remaining free and unenlistable....
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Dioceses across the country are reckoning with how to accompany a new subset of Catholics that have a distinct vision of the faith and relationship with the church unlike that of the cradle Catholics they have previously known. ...
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Over my 25 years as a spiritual director, I don’t think I have quoted any line (apart from verses from the Gospels) more than St. Augustine’s dictum, “Our hearts are restless until they rest in you.”...
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In the Christian tradition St Francis has long been the model of a commitment to simple living and of attention to nature. He saw the world of nature with all its rich connections as more than something out there to pray for....
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This is a practical intention – we all need water to live and many wealthy businesses compete with local farmers to use water for industry. Water is political. For human beings, however, water is more than a commodity....
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Irish Catholic, the Attorney General John Hubert Plunkett has always stood as a model for Catholic lawyers for prosecuting those responsible for the Myall Creek Massacre. ...
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Purgatory is not a place, a geography separate from heaven. It’s the pain, metaphorically, of having the grain of wheat fall into the ground and die to come to a new fruitfulness....
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To understand Study Group 9, you have to go back to the Synod on Synodality itself — the two-session gathering that Pope Francis convened to ask a deceptively simple question: how should the whole Church, not just her bishops, walk together in discerning her mission?...
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....
As religion returns as a tool of power from Washington to Moscow to Delhi, faith risks becoming an identity weapon; the Church stays effective only by remaining free and unenlistable....
Dioceses across the country are reckoning with how to accompany a new subset of Catholics that have a distinct vision of the faith and relationship with the church unlike that of the cradle Catholics they have previously known. ...
Over my 25 years as a spiritual director, I don’t think I have quoted any line (apart from verses from the Gospels) more than St. Augustine’s dictum, “Our hearts are restless until they rest in you.”...
In the Christian tradition St Francis has long been the model of a commitment to simple living and of attention to nature. He saw the world of nature with all its rich connections as more than something out there to pray for....
This is a practical intention – we all need water to live and many wealthy businesses compete with local farmers to use water for industry. Water is political. For human beings, however, water is more than a commodity....
Irish Catholic, the Attorney General John Hubert Plunkett has always stood as a model for Catholic lawyers for prosecuting those responsible for the Myall Creek Massacre. ...
Purgatory is not a place, a geography separate from heaven. It’s the pain, metaphorically, of having the grain of wheat fall into the ground and die to come to a new fruitfulness....
To understand Study Group 9, you have to go back to the Synod on Synodality itself — the two-session gathering that Pope Francis convened to ask a deceptively simple question: how should the whole Church, not just her bishops, walk together in discerning her mission?...