We laypeople are failing in our mission. We have outsourced evangelization to a few paid members of staff and a collective of volunteers.

A Reflection for the Feast of Saint Mary of Magdala, by Sam Sawyer, S.J.

“We are reaching a breaking point,” the pope wrote in his message for the World Day of Prayer for Creation.

Pope Francis will soon arrive in Canada. What is the history of residential schools in Canada? And what might a papal apology mean in a long, important process of truth-telling and reconciliation?

“It seems necessary to make it clear that the ‘Synodal Path’ in Germany does not have the power to compel bishops and the faithful to assume new modes of governance and new approaches to doctrine and morals,” the Vatican said.

This is the theological virtue we call hope: remaining open to what will come, to whatever God determines. And what that might be, we truly do not know, no matter how certain we might think that we are.