A serious examination of Church practices and power structures is overdue. Only with an honest review can it genuinely promote the rights of women and those long marginalised.

Bringing culture into the liturgy isn’t about imitation but integration. As workshops unfold across Fiji, local leaders ask how to celebrate the Roman Rite without losing the vanua—their sense of place, people and belonging.

The time for waiting is over. If we say we are listening, we must act. Synodality won’t flourish through delay or indecision. Local parishes need to embrace what can be changed and stop waiting for permission to live out this new ecclesial vision.

A grandmother envisions her descendants laughing one day at the idea women were once excluded from Church leadership. But in 2025, the thought of a female Pope is still unthinkable, even as a symbolic list of “papabile” women emerges from the grassroots.

Chaos, chatter, and disrespect marred a previous parish’s Communion Mass. It became a turning point for one priest, who sought guidance from a seasoned colleague and never looked back.

Stupidity isn’t about intelligence, Bonhoeffer said. It’s social, not solitary. It thrives in groups, in crowds, especially under power. The more people conform to ideologies or parties, the more they risk losing independent thought.

Religious decline in secular democracies was predicted over a decade ago. Dr Richard Weiner noted that survival depends on “status or utility”—a cultural relevance that many faiths are losing. Without it, belief systems struggle to persist in the public sphere.

Whether built of wood or woven from thought, sanctuaries shelter our better selves. They offer silence without loneliness, solitude without isolation. They become sacred by being separate—reminding us that peace is not found in noise, but in the deliberate, generous hush of being still.

Shackled by regret or sedated by nostalgia, people often let the past govern their future. But Ezekiel declares that change is always possible. Redemption is not about your track record—it’s about the path you choose today.

Safeguards promised in Canada’s assisted dying law are eroding. Vulnerable people request assisted death and are often driven by loneliness, guilt, and loss of meaning—compromising true freedom of choice. The inclusion of psychiatric illness by 2027 intensifies concern.