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
French Catholics and dioceses continue to reflect on themes from the Synod on synodality Read More »
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
Recognizing our racism and getting better – results of a Jesuit study Read More »
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.
Shaking the tree: ‘From Silence to Speech’ by Mary Varley Read More »
By John Barnes, a doctoral candidate in systematic theology at Fordham University. His primary research interests lie at the intersections of Black religion and culture, pneumatology and Christology. His forthcoming dissertation, “Like the Rushing of a Mighty Wind: Embodiment, Being and the Construction of a Black Diasporic Pneumatology,” engages notions of spirit as the point
Ed- Dear friends, Spirit Unbounded organiser Maggie Conway shared her Lenten goal to memorize The Lord’s Prayer in its Aramaic translation — beautiful, insightful, and recommended! Prayers of the Cosmos, Meditations on the Aramaic words of Jesus The below translation of The Lord’s Prayer from Aramaic to English is taken from the book, Prayers of
Meditations on the Aramaic words of Jesus — The Lord’s Prayer and the Beatitudes Read More »