By Arnaud Bevilacqua in La Croix International 22 March 2024 When walking through the streets of Sarcelles, Trappes, or other low-income suburbs on the outskirts of Paris, it is evident that the people living in these communities believe in God. Simbron is 24 years old and lives in one of these communities in La Courneuve, […]
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From Companion on the journey, Michael Centore
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We hear from Nate Tinner-Williams, Co-Founder and Editor of Black Catholic Messenger and Nigerian Jesuit priest Agbonkhianmeghe Orobator, dean of the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University and one of several Black synod delegates, who spoke earlier this month. First, a transcription of Nate Tinner-Williams’ opening of the Spirit Unbounded event parallel to
Oligarchic control here, oligarchy there, and insights for us as well as the larger whole, from The Guardian. “A top-down approach puts its faith in the persuasive abilities of a tiny few, and denies the fact that politics is a power struggle – and that engaging and organising more people gives your position more leverage.“
From Matthew Fox 18 March 2024. His highly recommended daily meditations are at https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/ Also encourages us to look back at Rosemary Radford Ruether! – Ed. In my major study on Aquinas, Sheer Joy: Conversations with Thomas Aquinas on Creation Spirituality, I devote several pages in the Introduction both to Aquinas’s “clay feet” where he cites
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Sent in by Spirit Unbounded Companion, in India, Astrid Lobo Gajiwala. Part of this essay formed the homily preached on 10 March 2024 at the Jesuit parish, St. Anne’s Church, Mumbai, to celebrate International Women’s Day. Many women however, are tired of fighting, of talking and talking, year after year, decade after decade, without any
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Contributed by Fr. Joe Healey, MM, 40 years in Africa and spreading base/Small Christian Communities (SCCs) there In a webinar on Thursday, 14 March, 2024 on “Church in Africa: Becoming Synodal in Mission,” Bishop Charles Kasonde, the Bishop of Solwezi, Zambia and the Chairperson of AMECEA (the regional bishops’ association of conferences of nine countries
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Also remembering women were at the Last Supper and Jesus welcomed women in public to what was considered a scandalous degree in his time. The Church’s open commensality attracted so many in the first couple centuries, including women deacons, ministering especially to other women. Do we want to choose to exclude or to welcome “todos,
Pope Francis said to Cardinals and the Vatican in December: “Sixty years after the [Second Vatican] Council, we are still debating the division between ‘progressives’ and ‘conservatives,’ while the real difference is between lovers and those who have lost that initial passion,” Pope Francis told the cardinals and senior officials of the Roman Curia when
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“Either we care for Mother Earth, our Common Home, and we join hands to work together in solidarity, or we join the procession of those headed for their own funeral.” By James T. Keane January 30, 2024 Reflecting on more than 80 years of life in his 2022 book Thoughts and Dreams of an Old