“Through the desert God leads us to freedom,” Pope Francis’ Message for Lent 2024
Dear brothers and sisters! When our God reveals himself, his message is always one of freedom: “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of…
Dear brothers and sisters! When our God reveals himself, his message is always one of freedom: “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of…
Ralph Moore highlights the enduring message of Dr. King, linking his fight for justice to Black Catholics’ struggle for the same—even unto sainthood. From the wonderful BlackCatholicMessenger (subscribe!) By Ralph Moore,…
The fight to move the Catholic Church in America to the right — and the little-known Orange County CA lawyer behind it In the Los Angles Times, December 2023 BY HARRIET…
Officers killed at least 1,232 people last year – the deadliest year for homicides by law enforcement in over a decade, data shows. https://mappingpoliceviolence.us/ By Sam Levin, for The Guardian, in Los…
Republished from The Synodal Times, https://www.synodaltimes.com/contributors/pope-francis-on-women-in-the-ordained-ministries/ Pope Francis on women in the ordained ministries “The tragic irony of course is that Pope Francis’ favourite metaphor for the Church is that…
10 June, 2019 by Elissa Roper Pentecost and Plenary: letting the Spirit blow As a theologian my hope is to inspire Catholics to embrace their baptismal calling to be mature…
…in the first millennium, until about the Gregorian reforms in the eleventh century [under Pope Gregory VII], all the churches, even before the great schism [1054], we all had synodal…
Excerpt from La Croix, August 2022 …things have been introduced which are not necessary or inevitable features of the Good News. One basic one is the practice of calling a…