November 5, 2023, Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time: The prophet Malachi addressed words of challenge to all his listeners, and did not fear offending those who felt a sense of entitlement because of their office.
Pope Francis updated the statutes for the Pontifical Academy of Theology, which hadn't been revised in nearly 25 years, urging theologians to consider the challenges of ordinary people.
Sometimes 'culture warriors' are necessary. The Catholic Church in the United States has had occasion in our history to be more Ezekiel-like in its approach to culture.
“We can’t go backward,” Cardinal Robert McElroy told America’s Vatican correspondent Gerard O‘Connell at the end of the first session of the Synod on Synodality.