Whatever a person’s experiences and fears of confession have been, going to confession behind a partition has a tremendous amount to offer us.
Sacraments
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When a Jewish hospital chaplain was asked to perform a Catholic baptism
If the baby was born alive and they waited for the priest to make it over to the hospital, they ran the risk that the baby might die before the priest arrived to perform the sacrament of baptism.
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Ordaining women to the priesthood will not fix the church’s institutional problems
Perhaps when we ask if women can be ordained, we are asking the wrong question.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Bishop McElroy: When bishops increase barriers to Communion, we are not being the pastors Pope Francis called us to be.
An exclusive interview with Bishop Robert McElroy on whether the bishops’ should deny Communion to pro-choice politicians and the need for a true “eucharistic revival.”
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We cannot separate the question of women’s ordination from the church’s history of sexism
While at the surface the question about women’s ordination has been asked and answered, rarely has it been asked in this new context where women’s full human dignity is unreservedly affirmed and defended.
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Women in the College of Cardinals: A modest proposal for a more equal (and prophetic) church
More pressing than the question of whether women can be ordained to the priesthood is the reality that clericalism and sexism have created and sustained a system in which women are treated as second-class citizens.
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
When we receive the Eucharist, we meet Jesus in the past, present and future.
Through the mystery of this sacrament Jesus reveals something inherent about himself and about our life in him.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
Cardinal Tobin and Bishop Rhoades discuss the Biden-Communion debate
During a panel hosted by the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life at Georgetown University, the church leaders offered reflections on the ongoing debate over Joe Biden and the Eucharist.
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As a Catholic writer, I criticize the church. Am I ‘giving scandal’?
The ever-present political talk of who is a good enough Catholic, or who should or should not receive Communion, hits close to home.
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What Joe Biden’s DC pastor thinks about the Bishops’ Communion vote
“This is a time to say, ‘Yes, let’s speak about the hunger…for the presence of God.’ This is the moment, and I think the bishops want to do that. But some of our pastoral leaders are making it difficult.”