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Isabella R. Moyer

Isabella R. Moyer is past president of the International Organization of Marianist Lay Communities. She is a columnist for The Prairie Messenger, and her blog, catholic dialogue, promotes respectful dialogue instead of debate on issues of faith and church.

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Contract for Cincinnati archdiocese teachers builds walls, not bridges

Real dialogue is messy, hard, and necessary

What does Pope Francis think of the upcoming canonizations?

Eulogies and the Catholic church

'Francis effect' evident at international meeting of Marianist Lay Communities

Missing the NCR discussion boards

Honorific positions, grandiose titles encourage careerism, clericalism

In remembering Mandela, we are forced to revisit apartheid

Francis' focus on joy in apostolic exhortation something to emulate

Toronto mayor's antics highlight lack of personal accountability in today's leadership

We know what the pope said, but what did the women say?

Lessons learned from dealing with clerical bullies

Pope Francis asks us to be the reform we want to see

A prayer for wartime

What this Catholic woman wants

We need a deeper theology of women

We are not dumb sheep, and Pope Francis sees that

'You do know, right, that the world is getting better'

Is the saint-making machine outdated?

Parishes must put new wine in new wineskins

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