USCCB ‘ghosts from another era’
By FutureChurch, Nov 2019 As the camera spans the body that is called the U.S. Bishops on the first day of the General Assembly, I get the distinct feeling that…
Lessons from Old Art: The Harrowing of Hell and Liberation for All
Icons picture the Risen Christ standing astride the darkness and the tombs, pulling souls out of hell. Chains and locks fly in all directions. This is good news that’s worthy…
Overcoming judgmentalism and clericalism, “a cultural pattern in parish life that permits the mistreatment of lay men and women and excuses words and actions that have no place within a Christian community. It distorts effective patterns of decision making in ecclesial communities at all levels”
“If we are to build a more welcoming church in the United States, the searing issue of judgmentalism must be faced. There is no sin that Jesus condemns in the…
Editorial: Money shapes the US Catholic narrative
Oct 25, 2019 by NCR Editorial Staff, Accountability For more Editorial cartoons, click here. The Catholic Church in the United States is for sale. In quiet investments over a period of decades, wealthy…
“Active listening… to God, the Amazon, the people, and the pain of mother earth”. The cry is the same, whether in the Amazon or from our indigenous people in India
Synod Fathers Expected to Vote on Final Document on Saturday Afternoon OCTOBER 25, 2019 ZENIT STAFF SYNOD OF THE AMAZON Over the past three weeks, the daily press briefings have provided…
Corporate shenanigans and climate change depriving people of land and life
La Croix, October 2019, by La Croix International staff (with Catholic News Service) Papua New Guinea Thousands of Pacific islanders are living in fear for their future because of climate…
Pastoral councils should no longer be merely consultative, as currently. A Synodal Church means not only “walking together” but also “deciding together.”
Citing as an example the pastoral councils in a large number of parishes, Bishop Centellas proposed that these councils should no longer be merely consultative, as is the case currently. A…
“All you can really do for the very poor is to awaken their creativity by whatever means possible so then they can liberate themselves…We do it by doing rubbings of manhole covers and other ways.”
Bob Fox was a street priest whose parish was in the heart of Harlem. As a young priest he had studied with Ivan Illich in Cuernavaca, Mexico, who totally changed…
