What “being a woman” is has always been and still is decided by men in the Catholic Church – to the disadvantage of women.
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What “being a woman” is has always been and still is decided by men in the Catholic Church – to the disadvantage of women.
Read moreA 2021 survey of Austrian priests inquires whether we’ve followed through on the new (restored) paths to Christian initiation in this post-conciliar age. And what do our choices mean with regard to “remembering” our Baptism?
Read moreAsk a hundred Catholics what is most important in the Church. They will answer: Mass.
Ask a hundred Catholics what is most important in Mass. They will answer: Transubstantiation, the transformation of bread and wine into Christ’s body and blood.
Tell a hundred Catholics that the most important thing in the Church is, therefore, transformation.
They will be outraged: “No, everything should stay the same.”
By examining texts shared between the Christmas and Easter seasons, we find the Paschal Mystery embedded at the heart of our Nativity celebrations.
Read moreWhat if we too were allowed to ask, accuse, even bring charges against God? Allowed to do so in court and receive a different answer than Job? To bring a more comprehensive indictment than theological expertise has long considered conceivable?
Read moreSixty years after the opening of the Council, it would be time to get serious about the fact that the baptized are not just to go “to church” on Sundays.
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