Leadership
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The Church and the Census
Cultural Catholics still shape church funding and influence: Behind the Census lies a quiet contest over funding, identity and influence.
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What if the Algorithm wears a Mitre?
A non-clericalist model is essential if the church hopes to keep the passion and creativity of lay believers.
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The vacuum where leaders should be
Politics and institutions are increasingly governed by risk management, not leadership. But real leadership requires imagination, courage and the willingness to challenge false stories. Of course, there are Trump, Netanyahu, Putin, Xi, Kim, and the Ayatollahs, who run their worlds according to their own storyline. But none in any meaningful way serve democracies. But are…
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The point of Rome
King Charles walked into Congress amid dread and left having threaded a needle. Pope Leo’s doing something similar from Rome.
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Quick thinking, slow witted
Dictators and demagogues understand a basic human weakness — our preference for neat, simple explanations over messy, complicated realities.
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The whole stadium feels it first
A room that listens this way learns things about itself that a closed room never could have learned.
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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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Parish mergers not enough to save a shrinking church
Consolidating parishes by staffing numbers addresses the symptoms, but real renewal asks something deeper of communities facing decline.
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Insufficient Courage
A boy raised on Mass, confession and Saturday novenas in the West of Ireland took his vows at eighteen. Now nearing eighty and suspended from ministry for fourteen years, he finds the certainties of his upbringing replaced by searching questions about the Church.
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Open church doors through respectful dialogue
Mission is not a one-way broadcast but an invitation to mutual learning. Parishes and ministries are called to open their doors, engage in respectful dialogue with their neighbours and discover how Christ’s message of mercy can be heard, experienced and lived together.
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