by edel | Feb 13, 2022 | Articles, Featured, WithSidebar
By Thomas O’Loughlin | Reposted with kind permission of La Croix International If we are to listen to one another in a synodal Church, then we will have to be more careful lest our use of sloppy language leads us astray. We all do it! We use...
by soconaill | Jan 22, 2022 | Articles, Featured, WithSidebar
For Thomas O’Loughlin a synodal Church can be brought to life only if the culture of deference is put to rest. One of the major cultural shifts in Western society in the 20th century has been the decline – in many places, the disappearance – of the...
by soconaill | Oct 28, 2021 | Articles, Featured, WithSidebar
‘Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses…’ What is it that prevents Christian clergy from passionately defending this, the Lord’s prayer, as the key to resolution not only of the world’s terrifying climate crisis...
by soconaill | Oct 24, 2021 | Articles, Featured, WithSidebar
For the earliest Christians the story of Jesus was ‘salvation’ right now – not just a promise of life after death. For Jews whose land was occupied by an often brutal foreign power a belief in Jesus’s resurrection was also a belief that...
by soconaill | Sep 23, 2021 | Articles, Featured, WithSidebar
“I personally deserve attacks and insults because I am a sinner, but the Church does not deserve them. They are the work of the devil. I have also said this to some of them.” So said Pope Francis in mid September 2021, in conversation with Slovakian...
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