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Tag: Church Reform
St. Benedict’s Raven
A sacramental understanding of the church is necessary to any contemporary reform movement because without it we cannot separate loyalty to the institution from fidelity to Christ, even when those institutions become poisonous.
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Who Should Elect The Bishop? A Suggestion
My idea how the procedure of finding a new bishop for a diocese might look like.
Read moreThe Curse of Clericalism
Nothing remarkable there; indeed, the sort of things that liturgists have talked about both informally and formally during the past 50 years.
Read moreAssociation of US Catholic Priests passes resolutions
Resolutions were rejected asking permission to use the 1974 Sacramentary and calling for discussion of women and married men in the priesthood.
Read moreThe first 100 days of Pope Francis
“The Argentine soon made it clear that he had no appetite for the creeping traditionalism and pomp of church power that had begun under his predecessor.”
Read moreAn era that has passed away
It is clear that Pope Francis does not want to go back 60 years, to a time before the Council. He does not want to restore practices from a bygone era, or claim continuity with them. Significantly, he has named that era as one which has passed away.
Read moreReforming the Vatican is like nailing jelly to a wall
A half-millennium of attempts to reform the central administration of the Catholic Church has not succeeded.
Read moreHead of German Bishops’ Conference on Office of Female Deacons – UPDATED
Archbishop Zollitsch said that the Catholic Church could only regain credibility and strength by committing to reform.
Read morePope Francis: Vatican II was “beautiful work of the Holy Spirit” but some “wish to turn the clock back”
But 50 years later, “have we done everything the Holy Spirit was asking us to do during the Council,” he asked. The answer is “No,” said Pope Francis.
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