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When Jesus is challenged by the chief priests and elders to prove his authority, he replies with a question — “John’s baptism. Did it come from heaven, or was it of human origin?” Isn’t he saying that the kingdom of God is not about human authority? It’s about the Spirit. He’s asking them, “Was God’s […]

The man, who enters the present moment with his past still clinging to him, is put in a critical position precisely as the man through his past he has become; staking all, he stands before the future. -Rudolf Bultmann To read the rest of the article, please view the PDF.

When the 2024 Synod on Synodality issued its final document, our Catholic parish council asked my husband and me, as people who had followed it closely, what had changed. We explained that the synodal documents made it obvious a conservative minority had blocked progress. Nonetheless, “co-responsibility” and leadership roles for women were officially recommended. We

We need the love of others in this world to help us bridge the chasm. To read the rest of the article, please view the PDF.

If Pope Leo wishes to take up this issue of the clerical sexual abuse of female religious, as his early meeting with the head of the Dicastery for Consecrated Life would suggest he does, he will need to insist on a system of safe disclosure for religious sisters To read the rest of the article,

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”,

When a 27-year-old woman leaves the Catholic Church and begins training to be a priest in the Church of England, it might be assumed it is because she was put off by clericalism or misogyny or the cover-up of abuse, or saw her route to ordination blocked. But something more fundamental is sometimes at play

I’ve been a granny for 21 months. My grandson calls me MorMor which is a tradition we’ve taken from the Danish side of my family. To read the rest of the article, please view the PDF.

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