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D.C.’s new archbishop has been preparing for this all his life Cardinal Robert McElroy, the Catholic Church’s new man in Washington, is uniquely suited to the role. March 17, 2025 If Cardinal Robert McElroy had decided long ago to prepare himself for engaging with presidents, public policy and a deeply divided Washington, he might have […]

“It is no longer credible to separate the cry of women from the cry of the poor and the cry of the earth. I think the Catholic Church has been far too slow to wake up to that,” said  Professor Celia Deane-Drummond Pope Francis’ “willingness to affirm leadership” among women is “a sign of hope”,

For a Synodal Church:  Communion, Participation, Mission XVI Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops Second Session (2-27 October 2024) Final Document 26 October 2024 commentary by Jon Rosebank for Spirit Unbounded ‘Practised with humility,’ write the bishops in their final document from the 2024 Assembly (47), ‘the synodal style enables the Church to

My response today to James Martin’s article in yesterday’s America magazine “The final Synod report is one big wordy yawn signifying absolutely nothing, so much nothing it is not worth the Pope’s while to issue a post synodal exhortation. Nothing to see here, folks. Not one single thing has shifted even marginally. There is nothing

Former President of Ireland, Mary McAleese, has opened up about her faith and hopes for the future of the Catholic Church at a special event at Mary Immaculate College. President McAleese was discussing ‘On Being A Catholic’ at the invitation of the Irish Institute for Catholic Studies (IICS) at MIC in front of an audience

In 2023 an international group of victim-survivors and allies from India, Lebanon, Australia, USA, and England met to develop a series of talks about church-related abuse. The result of our conversations is ‘Shaking the Tree’. Women and men, lay and religious, generously share their experiences of physical, sexual, emotional, and spiritual violence and power abuse.

The best hope from the Synod is to approve greater decentralisation, allowing some to move ahead while others are happy where they are.