Focus
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Lessons we can learn from Mary for the Synod on Young Adults
Oct 26, 2018
There are four lessons which young people can learn from Mary that can be described as pastoral priorities for forming mature disciples.
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Synods aren’t just for the Bishops
Oct 19, 2018
Dietrich Bonhoeffer famously said that God granted American Christianity no Reformation. It’s also true that God granted America no Counter-Reformation.
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Not a youth crisis but an adult crisis
Oct 13, 2018
The Catholic Church does not have a youth crisis. It has an adult crisis. We have lost touch with what mature discipleship looks like, what constitutes true life and what holiness means.
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Accusations against Francis a ‘political frame job’
Oct 12, 2018
In an unprecedented three-page missive filled with a kind of forceful language rarely shared publicly between two Catholic prelates, Cardinal Marc Ouellet tells Archbishop Carlo Vigano his actions have been “extremely immoral” and that he has made an “unheard of and undeserved blow” on Pope Francis’ moral authority.
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Chinese Catholics split over Sino-Vatican deal
Oct 05, 2018
Chinese Catholics split over Sino-Vatican deal
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Pope Francis urges reconciliation in message to Church in China
Oct 05, 2018
Pope Francis urges reconciliation in message to Church in China
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Pope Francis meets 63 Jesuits of Ireland
Sep 21, 2018
On August 25, during his visit to Ireland for the World Meeting of Families, Pope Francis met with 63 Jesuits of Ireland.
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To the People of God: Letter of His Holiness Pope Francis
Aug 30, 2018
Penance and prayer will help us to open our eyes and our hearts to other people’s sufferings and to overcome the thirst for power and possessions that are so often the root of those evils.
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Reflections on 25 years of The Splendour of Truth
Aug 23, 2018
The Church celebrates the 25th anniversary of the encyclical “Veritatis splendor,” and reflects on the teaching of Saint John Paul II.
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Is Veritatis Splendor Infallible?
Aug 23, 2018
In the current climate of confusion and debate over the contents of Amoris laetitia, I recently re-read Veritatis splendor, the 1993 encyclical letter of Pope St. John Paul II on moral theology, which is cited in three of the five dubia relating to Amoris laetitia.
Sunday Reflection
Second Sunday of Advent: The incarnation, still dawning upon us
Advent is about the incarnation. The enfleshment of the Eternal Word has indeed already occurred. In many ways, however, the Incarnation is still dawning on us, with all the connotations you can squeeze out of that word ‘dawning.’
