Promotion
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Eucharist is a verb before it’s a noun
Celebration, not just consecration, sits at the center of this theologian’s rethinking of what happens at Mass. A priest’s authority to act “in the person of Christ” is inseparable from acting in the person of the whole Church.
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Craving certainty in an uncertain world
Pope Francis’s insistence that the Church belongs to everyone challenges legalistic approaches that quietly draw lines and exceptions.
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Restoring kneelers!
Sydney clergy must now restore kneelers everywhere, treating contested history as fact and recasting decades of reverent standing as a deficiency.
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Hope wears an apron, not a crown
In a noisy world, service is how faith still speaks. It’s less about what we believe and more about how we live. When words fail — and they often do — a kind gesture says: you matter, and you are not alone.
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The Church is not a ‘she’
Recent Vatican documents on women’s diaconate rely heavily on nuptial theology, arguing that female ordination would compromise the spousal relationship between Christ and church. This reasoning transforms metaphorical language into doctrinal necessity, creating theological problems by literalizing what tradition presents as symbolic representation.
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Bonhoeffer’s Theory of Stupidity speaks to our digital age
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.
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