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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I often have coffee with Mary, who is now in her late 80s. Last time I met her she told me about the winter boxes she had beenpacking at her church. To read the rest of the article, please view the PDF.
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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
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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
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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
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