Justice
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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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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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Rethinking how we respond to grief
Clichés meant to make sense of the senseless often backfire, leaving grieving people questioning whether they were ever truly okay.
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Can you forgive the people who destroyed your world?
Parents who lost children to a drunk driver and a gunman chose mercy over revenge. Their choices echo the Nuremberg interpreter who, concealing his Jewish identity, walked a Nazi propagandist to the gallows with compassion rather than contempt.
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Sexual morality is over-emphasised — Pope Leo
Freedom of religion, equality, justice for men and women — these are the moral questions Pope Leo XIV says the church should be leading on. His pointed critique of the over-emphasis on sexual ethics echoes a growing frustration among Catholics who feel the tradition’s full moral vision has been narrowed and distorted.
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Surprise! Vatican shelved another report on women deacons, again.
Regressive induction begins with the answer Church leadership wants and works backwards to find arguments that support it, while persistently ignoring inconvenient historical and theological evidence.
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