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Posted on February 17, 2019

Points of agreement among world’s religions, and guiding our spiritual traditions through higher levels of ethical and moral behavior

https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/evolving-toward-cooperation/2019/02/12 …A major background event (known by some but not by all) was the thirty-some year process, through the Snowmass Interreligious Conference (hosted by the late Catholic Benedictine monk, Fr.…

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Posted on February 17, 2019

A Catholic Offer of Wisdom and Courage to Congress: “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”

January 18, 2019—On the occasion of Martin Luther King Day on January 21, eleven national and international Catholic justice and peace organizationsdelivered a joint statement to Congress today, entitled “Facing the…

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Posted on February 17, 2019

Facing the racial divide

Excerpt from Judith Best, NCRonline Feb 2019.  Check out: https://forthesakeofall.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/FSOA_report_2.pdf …Recently, I told a friend — a nurse and a healing presence in my life for more than 10 years —that…

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Posted on February 17, 2019

For those ready to leave…

Excerpt from Tom Roberts, NCRonline review of a panel discussion in Feb 2019 http://www.ncronline.org/news/accountability/catholics-churchs-middle-patience-has-run-out Ready to leave altogether? He would say that none of us has done enough to confront…

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Posted on February 17, 2019

Lay people’s relevant knowledge and competence gives them power in the church under Canon 212

http://catholicphilly.com/2019/02/news/national-news/theology-history-canon-law-may-figure-in-lay-role-in-addressing-crisis/ …Lay influence, though, manifested itself in many ways. “The Hapsburgs could submit names of people they would not want to be pope,” Root said, a practice not revoked until…

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Posted on February 17, 2019

Roy Bourgeois: subtle addiction to power cultivated in seminary

“In the seminary we learned that we were the consecrated ones. We, the men, were the ones called by God with a special task. We were called to be priests. And what…

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Posted on February 4, 2019

How to combat clericalism? Many laypeople remain convinced that an ‘interior renovation’ of the baptized will not suffice to remedy the clerical abuses of power condemned by the pope

Despite the affirmation of equal dignity of all baptized at the Council, “we have remained a prisoner of the old hierarchy between the teaching Church (priests) and the taught Church…

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Posted on February 3, 2019

Prophetic hope is only possible in community. We can take turns holding onto hope when one or another of us loses our grip on it. What was impossible alone becomes possible in community.

Prophetic hope is only possible in community — when we are able to remind one another of God’s faithfulness through the ages and in our own journeys. When we can…

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