57% of Cardinal Electors are now Francis Appointees
With the appointment of 13 new cardinals on October 25th, 2020, Pope Francis has now appointed a clear majority (57%) of the men who would elect his successor – were he to die or retire soon. That does not mean they would necessarily elect a Pope Francis II, but...
‘Cruelty of the Highest Form’: Pope Francis on Family Separation
Pope Francis has called the Trump policy of separating parents from children at the Mexican border ‘cruelty of the highest form’. In its efforts to please anti-immigrant and racist tendencies in President Trump’s support base, the Trump administration began separating...
Pandemic Shows Us Future Church: Vatican Synod Secretary
In the hospitals and homes of a global family now fighting the coronavirus and praying together we are seeing God’s most important Cathedral of today and the missionary church of the future. So insists Pope Francis’s recently appointed secretary...
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Faith Formation: Pandemic Promotes Parental Role
“Catholic Church documents on the handing on of the faith declare unambiguously that it is the primary responsibility of the parents and the family. This pandemic-infested year provided a good opportunity to put this teaching into practice.” So declared...ACI – Latest News
Still waiting for a response from the Irish Catholic Bishops Conference - to ACI's Report on lay Involvement in Parishes - and with our church crisis deepening daily - we wonder if the ongoing pandemic can shake our clerical leadership out of its inertia before Irish clergy become extinct.
Conscious that all Minds and Hearts -across this whole planet, our only Home - will now be joined in the deepest prayer for those endangered, and for their rescuers - we await in confidence the Lord who crosses the deep to save us all - to lead us to the very different World - and different Church - that awaits.
And here we offer the ever-trustable gateway to the future: our globally known Prayer Page:
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