April 7, 2019

When justice means mercy: Should the accusers join the accused, no longer can they manipulate God’s will to subjugate and control

LaCroix, François Picart, Priest of the Oratory of France, April 6, 2019 The story of the woman caught in adultery is exemplary of the way the scribes and the Pharisees…

April 7, 2019

The blessing of humiliation

Father Michael Kelly SJ is the CEO of UCAN Services in La Croix, March 2019 One of the most engaging if highly contested books of the late 20th Century was that…

April 6, 2019

You, me, and white fragility – open letters from Next Church co-chairs

Excerpt from https://nextchurch.net/you-me-and-white-fragility-open-letters-from-the-next-church-co-chairs/ …That white people maintain their safety in difficult conversations about race by being silent – was a new idea for me this year. You and I became…

March 20, 2019

If the Church is seeking a future, it must consider another status for its priests, and make them renounce power that they exert over others

Bruno Frappat, La Croix, March 2019 The Church It’s not every day that it suits me to write in a Catholic newspaper! This is especially so when the Catholic Church…

March 20, 2019

“We face an urgent need for a change of the Church’s internal culture, by means of God’s recognition of our equality before him, with a priority for the weakest”

‘Let us not be afraid and let the suffering linked to these well-founded critiques become an occasion of liberation,’ says Swiss bishop, La Croix, March 2019 How should we view…

March 19, 2019

Cardinal Danneels: the most dangerous temptation is that of a crushed hope. Those who crush hope take away the joy of life, creativity, and imagination. And that, it seems to me, is fatal to the Kingdom of God in our times.

Words for us to keep in mind, as we focus our efforts around “transitioning off fossil fuels without delay” (Laudato Si’ 165). Scientists have said that must be now to…

March 19, 2019

Climate change is a movement to protect life – why you’ll never meet a white supremacist who cares about climate change. Behind the urgency of climate action is the understanding that everything is connected vs. an ideology of separation

By Rebecca Solnit in The Guardian, 19 Mar 2019 As the news of the Christchurch mosque massacre broke and I scoured the news, I came across a map showing that…

March 15, 2019

Don’t ask what will happen. Be what happens. Today, you are what is happening. Nothing is possible without action, and almost anything is when we rise up together.

By Rebecca Solnit in Climate change, The Guardian. Fri 15 Mar 2019 ‘The real lessons of history is that change often comes in unpredictable ways.’ Photograph: Facundo Arrizabalaga/EPA I want to say…