Promoting “the faith that does justice”
Father James Martin: Why you should pray to Pedro Arrupe, James Martin, S.J.July 12, 2018 Yesterday, the superior general of the Society of Jesus announced that the Vatican had given…
Service instead of Domination
From Fr. Richard Rohr, OFM, July 2018 May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you…
Black sisters and priests mark 50 years of shaping U.S. church history
By Dennis Sadowski – Catholic News ServiceJuly 12, 2018 Women pose in 1969 outside the National Black Sisters’ Conference headquarters in Washington. The organization’s founding came out of a meeting…
Roots of Liberation,
Reflection from Richard Rohr, Sunday, June 24, 2018 One of the great themes of the Bible, beginning with the Hebrew Scriptures and continued by Jesus and Paul, is “the preferential option…
The Word of God should intersect with the lives of God’s people, so they look around at what is happening in their community, think and act. The community then evaluates what they did so they could learn more. And then they celebrate.
Dear brothers and sisters, siblings in Christ, In the news, we have seen disturbing reports and pictures of children being taken from their parents and placed in detention centers by…
If our gospel is not “good news to the poor,” it is not the gospel of Jesus Christ
“Reclaiming Jesus: A Confession of Faith in a Time of Crisis” was signed by Fr. Richard Rohr and many other ministers this spring. He invites meditation on three of those affirmations:…
Behold: Our Christless Christianity
By Keith Giles Just in case you’re not paying attention, American Christianity is a Christless Christianity. We demand the Ten Commandments to be displayed in our courthouses, but we never…
Our Father
Our Father/Mother… who always stands with the weak, the powerless, the poor, the abandoned, the sick, the aged, the very young, the unborn, and those who, by victim of circumstance,…
