On non-violence and being peace
On Center for Action and Contemplation blog, July 26-July 31, 2020 Gandhi’s spirit of non-violence sprang from an inner realization of spiritual unity in himself. —Thomas Merton (Sunday) Authentic spirituality is…
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McElroy homily for ordination of Aux. Bishop Bejarano: ‘Our mission must not be one of recovery but of transformation’
Attacks upon solidarity do not merely place people on the margins of society and Church, they exclude them entirely from meaningful participation. Exclusion is a reality in which issues of…
Sara Jolena Wolcott’s reflection
Sara Jolena Wolcott’s article, “From the Darkness,” stems from her personal experience working as a chaplain on the notorious NYC jail, Rikers Island. It’s about climate change, the prison industrial…
Revolutionary enough to resist “powerful but petrified institutions”
Dorothee Soelle (1929-2003) is an example of a contemplative who finds she must take action. I met her once in Germany at the Kirchentag (an assembly sponsored by the German…
Head of French bishops foresees women cardinals in future and women should get vote in synod of bishops
In La Croix, by Claire Lesegretain, France July 10, 2020 Archbishop Eric de Moulins-Beaufort, president of the French Bishops’ Conference (CEF), says he can imagine a day when there will be women in the College…
God desires shalom, “the realm of God,” as the hope and ideal for life on this Earth that is filled with justice and right relationship. Shalom is the substance of the biblical vision of one community embracing all creation
By Rev. Peter Sawtell (pre-retirement! July 2020) Four short affirmations offer guidance and challenge to the church. God wills shalom for the world. Shalom, of course, is a central concept…
Disinfecting Denial and Secrecy
Nuala Kenney, OC, MD, Halifax, in La Croix 29 June 2020 Breaking the pathologic silence and denial requires more than headlines. Pope Francis has said: “We are all living in…
New York parishioners petition Dolan for a more forceful racism statement
By Sarah Salvadore, NCRonline, June 26, 2020 Demonstrators in the Brooklyn borough of New York City protest racial inequality and police brutality June 6. (CNS/Jeenah Moon, Reuters) Parishioners of the…
