Recent Editorial

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  We need fearless discussion on women's ordination

  Nov 16, 2015

  In an interview with The Irish Catholic newspaper, former Irish President Mary McAleese calls Pope Francis "by far the most intriguing pope of my lifetime.

  
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  Exxon proves the Pope’s point

  Nov 13, 2015

  Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si’ has often been assailed as anti-capitalist, but some of his comments about business seem prophetic in light of recent disclosures about Exxon’s long-ago research on global warming.

  
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  The earth is at risk

  Nov 13, 2015

  As the Vatican makes a concerted effort to influence the outcome of the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Paris later this month, one of the leading Vatican authorities on Pope Francis’ encyclical, “Laudato Si,’” told America.

  
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  The question of the synod’s ‘reception’

  Nov 13, 2015

  The ‘synodal process’, as defined by Francis, has become one of the markers of his pontificate.

  
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  Synod document highlights epikaia

  Nov 06, 2015

  As a priest ordained in 1970, I can only say, “The Vatican — finally — has come full circle.

  
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  Making a Universal Church less European

  Nov 06, 2015

  Missioners, migrants, international business people, diplomats and refugees all find that the experience of moving from one culture to another changes them.

  
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  ‘Take the pulse’ of the Catholic people

  Nov 06, 2015

  If you really want to know what happened inside the Synod of Bishops this past month, don’t obsess too much over its final report (relatio) on the Church and the family.

  
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  Change is possible

  Nov 06, 2015

  Though called an “ordinary general assembly,” the just-ended Synod of Bishops, with its surprising conclusion opened a wide path of mercy for divorced and remarried Catholics.

  
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  Synod was about affirming family, indissoluble marriage

  Oct 30, 2015

  At the conclusion of the 2015 Synod on the Family, Pope Francis emphasized that the gathering had been about recognizing that society is founded on the family and marriage as the permanent union of one man and one woman.

  
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  What the Synod did

  Oct 30, 2015

  The Synod of Bishops on the Family, which gathered Catholic bishops and other participants from around the world to discuss issues related to the family, has just concluded.