Formation
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“Do you know them to be worthy?”
“I regret voting yes”: Thirty years on, a former priest formator reflects on how doubtful candidates were passed and what the church might learn.
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The bishop isn’t the hall’s most important person
The Church pours energy into leadership. Its future may rest with quieter people whose influence is real but hard to measure.
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The way the Church becomes Church
Courses and timetables treat initiation as a service delivered, like getting the washing machine repaired. Accompaniment, not added hurdles, offers a gentler, more personal road into the life of the Church.
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When parishes pick maintenance over mission
Reflection meetings reveal real comfort with stewardship and clear reluctance toward mission, a pattern that could spell trouble across post-Christian Britain.
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The liturgical discipline of mystery
Water, oil, fire, bread and wine do not merely represent something else — within the liturgical action they do something. They engage the body, awaken memory and invite response. Over-explanation risks leaving the assembly understanding more while perceiving far less.
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