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The Mass is for everyone – not just the intellectual few
Diverging approaches to liturgical language deepened tensions between East and West, contributing to the eventual schism of 1054.
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Life formation and viri probati
Flashes writer Justin Stanwix reluctantly recalls a personal push, a decade ago, to seek Vatican approval for ordaining viri probati in Australia.
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Racism speaks — Church and World must listen
Structural racism, papal apology, and one priest’s story converge to ask the Church to listen without defensiveness or excuse.
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Synodality’s promise meets hierarchical pushback
A church in crisis responds saying no to a genuine need and recommends more kneeling.
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The stranger has become the patient with no clinic
An ancient parable gets a modern diagnosis, stretching the definition of neighbor to reach across borders, poverty lines, and pandemics.
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Standing to pray: sign of a priestly people
Vatican II’s actuosa participatio means the entire gathering celebrates, a priestly people with a presbyter presiding rather than a priest set apart from a people.
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Forming leaders in a missionary church
Synodality asks how the church should act together, but formation for the leaders who must live it out remains an afterthought.
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Learning from a year as a secular priest
An atheist professor’s year offering rituals and conversation reveals what organised religion still gets right about human need.
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The rainbow’s real meaning
Beyond a sign of beauty, the rainbow is read here as a retired weapon, a divine vow to set violence aside.
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Bishops now earn as much as government ministers
Some Greek bishops spoke against their own raise, insisting a simple cassock was enough, while the Synod stayed silent on deeper reform.
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