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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. […]

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

The book, It’s High Time: Women Religious Speak Up on Gender Justice in the Indian Church, found sacramental blackmail, clergy sexual abuse, clericalism and property disputes as some major challenges facing Catholic women religious in the country. “We train nuns to understand different forms of abuse, not only sexual but verbal and other forms.” Bhopal, India —

By Astrid Lobo Gajiwala, Mumbai, India. “We have sought to sing like a choir, many voices as though expressing one soul.  The Holy Spirit has gifted us with an experience of the harmony that (S)He alone can generate; it is a gift and a witness in a world that is torn and divided.“ These opening

From Catholic News Service, 14 Feb 2024 Share on FacebookShare on TwitterEmail to a friendPrint The vice of “acedia,” often translated as “sloth,” can cause laziness, but it is much more than that; it is a lack of caring for anything and being bored with everything, even one’s relationship with God, Pope Francis said. “The

Xavière Missionary Sister Nathalie Becquart, undersecretary of the synod By Joshua McElwee, Vatican City — February 13, 2024, Share on Facebook, Share on Twitter, Email to a friend, Print from NCRonline As the Vatican prepares to host the second part of Pope Francis’ major summit on the future of the Catholic Church this October, one

You have to keep inside the dolphins in the Venetian lagoon. These tall groupings of two or three wooden pillars, set a short distance apart, mark the outer edge of deeper water. To read the rest of the article, please view the PDF.

I fear for Pope Francis’s health. I wrote him a personal letter posted on 7 December, but it hasn’t left the UK yet according to the tracking number. I fear for his health because the last time I wrote personally to a pope was in May 1963 when I was six years old. The pope

The best hope from the Synod is to approve greater decentralisation, allowing some to move ahead while others are happy where they are.