The synod has just begun but there are already early signs that many aspects of church teaching and praxis are coming under scrutiny with demands for change including a change in the language it uses Seventy synod fathers spoke in the first 24 hours raising many issues including the need for the
Politics & Society
Posted inDispatches
Pope Gives Bishops a Synod ‘Bill of Rights’
In a major break with past praxis almost 50 years after Paul VI first established the synod of bishops Pope Francis has given the synod fathers the key elements for synodality something akin to a bill of rights that creates a climate of freedom He did so at the start of the synod rsquo s first pl
Posted inDispatches
Marriage, Violence, the Synod and “Gone Girl”
This week the church rsquo s Extraordinary Synod on the Family begins its deliberations on ldquo the pastoral challenges of the family in the context of evangelization rdquo nbsp Coincidentally the weekend also saw the opening of ldquo Gone Girl rdquo one of the most provocative and disturbi
Posted inPolitics & Society
Paul Ryan: We can do better in the fight against poverty
Paul Ryan: There is a lot of untapped potential in this country; I have seen it firsthand.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Regensburg Redux: Was Pope Benedict XVI Right About Islam?
Eight years ago this Friday Sept 12 Pope Benedict XVI delivered a lecture at the University of Regensburg in Bavaria in which he seemed to diagnose Islam as a religion inherently flawed by fanaticism It was an undiplomatic assertion to say the least.
Posted inInterviews, Politics & Society
Israeli Jesuit Father David Neuhaus: The first step to peace in the Holy Land is ending the occupation
Escalating violence between Israel and Palestine has left at least 213 Palestinians and 12 people in Israel dead since the outbreak of hostilities on May 11. In 2014, we spoke to Israeli Jesuit Father David Neuhaus on the more than six decades of conflict in the Holy Land.
Posted inPolitics & Society
American Exodus: Encountering Christ in the child martyrs of migration
On the Feast Day of Mother Cabrini, the patron saint of immigrants, a call to make room for today’s migrants and refugees.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
My father’s war: A note to my father on the 100th anniversary of the US entrance into WWI
World War I stories include several about enemies who discovered one another’s humanity. On the 100th anniversary of the United States’ entry into the war, this is one.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Signs Of the Times
Private investing for the common good?
A new development model seeks to turn the power of the market economy to social good.
Posted inFeatures, Politics & Society
Watergate, S.J.: Three Jesuits and the downfall of a president
By the spring of 1973, the break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C., had become a sensation but not yet an obsession.