When victims and survivors of sexual abuse are blamed, marginalized, stigmatized or silenced, they can be traumatized all over again. The Archdiocese of Regina is trying something new in its work with survivors.
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Why so many Catholics want to get their ashes—even if they rarely go to Mass
Ash Wednesday isn’t a holy day of obligation, but in English-speaking countries, it still has a powerful draw even for Catholics who are otherwise non-practicing.
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We need to make the common good more than just a slogan
Christians today are split between “bottom-up” and “top-down” approaches to re-invigorating our sense of the common good.
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The history of synodality: It’s older than you think.
As the three-year synodal process that will culminate in the 2023 World Synod of Bishops gets underway, John W. O’Malley, S.J., offers some historical context for what synodality is all about.
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On abortion, Catholics—including politicians—can’t reduce the issue to a question of ‘choice’
Choice alone cannot be a sufficient moral framework for thinking about abortion because more than one human life is at stake.
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Is Pope Francis’ Synod on Synodality bound to disappoint—or will it renew the church?
A synod on synodality is a process about a process. And that stuck with me. A process about a process seemed to be without content. Where would this lead us?
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Latin America just had its first continent-wide church assembly. Here’s what happened.
It was Pope Francis who suggested that this was the moment for the continent to revive the vision of Aparecida—only this time in a synodal way, with the people of God as the protagonist.
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A stolen election, an insurrection, a big lie: Can Catholics unify a country engaged in an uncivil war?
If we are to differ intelligently and temperately, we must first share a great deal in common. Today, though, claims and counter-claims are made as if they were vindicated by the mere vehemence of their assertion.
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Cardinal Bernardin’s legacy reminds us: Catholics can (and should) embrace the modern world.
Sunday, Nov. 14, marks 25 years since Cardinal Joseph Bernardin’s death. Do Catholics today want a church that is “alive and rooted, public in its service to the city” and the world?
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What do Catholics mean when we say the Eucharist is ‘the true body and blood’ of Christ?
It is not sufficient for contemporary Catholics simply to repeat the formulas of the past.