Category: Viewpoint
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Viewpoint: Is the Church Judge, Therapist, or Mother?
In the area of the Christian moral life, I suggest, there are three principal images at work: the Church as judge, the Church as therapist, and the Church as mother.
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Viewpoint: Radical Renewal Needed for Religious Life
Today, many women’s religious orders and congregations seem headed for a very insecure future (to put it mildly), or worse, extinction.
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Viewpoint: Advancing the Roles of Women in the Church
The Church continues to be at a loss as to how to advance the roles of women in its administrative structures.
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Viewpoint: Is Ash Wednesday Still Relevant in the 21st Century?
Catholics who show up for work after Mass on Ash Wednesday wearing ashes on their foreheads will likely be thought by fellow-workers to be indulging in a quaint and harmless old Catholic practice with not much contemporary relevance.
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Viewpoint: In Favor of the Restoration of “Sunday Best”
When Miss Manners proposes a return to wearing “Sunday Best” when going to church, I leap to her support. – M. Francis Mannion
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Viewpoint: There was (mostly) good news from Rome during 2013
“Get away from the introverted hot-house obsession with liturgical matters among some groups, and focus instead on ministering to a broken world.” – Msgr. Mannion
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Viewpoint: Mary’s Immaculate Conception Celebrates the Dignity of the Church and of Christians
The writings of Hugo Rahner and of then-Cardinal Ratzinger (in his beautiful little book, “Daughter Zion”) point out that early Christian theology and preaching developed the image of the “immaculate Church” in a very extensive way.
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Viewpoint: Pope Francis Inspires Questions about Clergy Lifestyles
“There is a great deal in Pope Francis’ style of life and ministry that inspires questions about the ways clergy live and minister.” — M. Francis Mannion