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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 […]

Don’t expect definitive answers at the end of the Synod’s final October session says Gerald O’Connell March 14, 2024 While the second and final session of the Synod on Synodality will conclude at the end of October 2024, Catholics should not expect major pronouncements on the particular issues raised during the first session and included

14 – International Day of Action for Rivers, with the theme “Water for All” – This year’s theme focuses on “Water for All”. Whether your community is tackling water rights, clean water access, fighting against dams, water grabs, and water privatization or removing dams and restoring rivers and fish migration, we know water is life and is

By Charlotte Gambert (in Paris) | France March 12, 2024, La Croix Announcements regarding the synodal process have been made in the dioceses, yet the level of effort put into these announcements varies by location, leading to confusion among some Catholics in France. The famed Institut Catholique in Paris (ICP) has launched a series of

Kevin Hargaden March 07, 2024 in America (Jesuit) magazine, Facebook, Twitter, Email Children place Easter lilies on a lawn during an event in Dublin on March 15, 2020. (CNS photo/Brian Lawless, Reuters) Just days after French legislators affirmed a constitutional right to abortion, Irish citizens will go to the polls on March 8 to consider

Pursuing “the very meaning of the Synod, which is a space for dialogue” the Catholic bishops of Belgium have issued a letter proposing that the Church establish a female diaconate and allow married men to be ordained to the presbyterate. The bishops’ 4-page letter to all dioceses is to promote discussion on these two ministerial topics

From the Black Catholic Messenger, Feb 2024, by Kevin Tachie. Ed. — Our thanks to Spirit Unbounded speaker and BCM co-founder Nate Tinner-Williams, a multi-talented former seminarian, still discerning his vocation and what it is right now, as he and we continue to work for the better world that is possible. This overview and reflection

For earlier joint statement of the President of the German Bishops Conference and the President of German Lay Catholics on the Synodal Way, please see the preface further down in this post and English translations of all German Synodal Way documents here:https://www.synodalerweg.de/fileadmin/Synodalerweg/Dokumente_Reden_Beitraege/beschluesse-broschueren/Englisch/Synodaler-Weg-EN-Decisions.pdf. Sources: CNA, La Croix, The Synodal Times, ZdK press release, and provided comments.

…It is the consequence of the deep-seated assumption of already knowing, of having nothing to learn from the Church, that is, from brothers and sisters in the faith, and not even from the pope. Or, even worse, it comes from the nihilistic assumption that it is impossible to know the truth or that it does

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.