VATICAN CITY (RNS) — When the 450 bishops, priests, nuns and lay Catholics who participated in October’s nearly monthlong Synod on Synodality finished their work Oct. 28, they had not called for women ...
The chancellor of the Roman Curia, Ghanaian-born Cardinal Peter Turkson, addressed the evolving nature of power in ecclesial and societal contexts in his Aug. 17 inaugural lecture for the opening of ...
Lumen Gentium, Vatican II’s Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, is well known for its landmark teaching about the role of the laity. However, an equally important concern of the document, and a much ...
Pastors face the critical challenge of guiding their congregations through lingering political tensions in the post-inauguration landscape. It was the exhale heard around the world. After what seemed ...
Too many of our worship services are digitally indistinguishable from secular spaces. Church can and should be different. Some years ago, author Hal Runkel trademarked a phrase that made his name: ...
A major contributor to this mindset is the belief in an ‘ontological change’ at ordination. In the early Church, the Eucharistic presider acted on behalf of the worshipping community, with the ...
I will be 80 years old in June. As a young child in the Methodist Church, I was certain I was called to ordained ministry. At Duke University, I majored in religious studies and then served as ...
DESTREHAN, Louisiana — An electric anticipation coursed through a church outside New Orleans where hundreds gathered on a recent night to pray for a victory they saw as just over the horizon, in a ...
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