"Provocative pop-ups like Catholics for Catholics are ecclesiastical equivalents of a financial scam," writes Tom Roberts. "Don't give away the password to your spiritual account."
Reports submitted to the Synod of Bishops 2023 reveal discontent with the traditional presumption of a passive people who "pray, pay and obey," writes canon lawyer and former president of Ireland Mary McAleese.
The lawsuit by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton accusing Catholic-based Annunciation House of being involved in human smuggling and trafficking is beyond outrageous. To me, it's personal.
The critical response to Cecilia Gentili's funeral reflects a poverty of imagination for how the church might integrate queer culture within a Catholic liturgy in a way that respects both tradition and LGBTQIA+ dignity.
Our national political community is suffering. So is our church. So are universities. They suffer in different ways, but for the same reasons. There is no simple answer to this problem, but there is a good beginning.
"When presumably educated, responsible politicians sound as if they are preaching from a bar stool," Phyllis Zagano writes, "what can the rest of us do to remove angry denigration from whatever other pulpit we might be near?"
If the U.S. is going to experience a eucharistic revival, then it needs liturgical texts that promote the full and active participation by all people in the liturgy. The current text in English does not do that.
Gospel music is sacred music because in its embodied expression, we affirm, by the power of the Holy Spirit, that despite the realities of an anti-Black world, we too are children of God.
Pastors can now point to the language of Fiducia Supplicans to persuade some same-sex couples that they are not outside the circle of God's love or the concern of the church.