When terrorists wreaked havoc on the United States on Sept. 11, 2001, it forever altered global affairs — including, inadvertently, paving the way for a relatively unknown Argentine cardinal to eventually become Pope Francis.
Listen: Heidi, Father Daniel and David recap the big changes that happened over the summer, as well as reviewing the fallout from Traditionis Custodes, and the continuing battles over COVID-19 mitigation.
Just Catholic: Pope Francis changed canon law to allow women to be installed as lectors and acolytes. Perhaps the new women deacons commission — set to meet in Rome for a week beginning Sept. 13 — will study what (if any) diaconal tasks are impossible for women.
Distinctly Catholic: There is nearly nothing about the Catholic Church in the U.S. that prepares us to engage synodality with the kind of fulsome embrace it requires. We all have a lot of work to do.
