Leadership
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“The Challenge of Peace” modelled synodality before its time
In 1983, Cardinal Bernardin led the US bishops through public drafts and wide listening. That openness remains unusual more than forty years later.
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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 quiet virus that drains family and group life
Petty talk and gossip slips into families and groups with speed and stealth, hardening hearts and sapping the energy that keeps people together.
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The hard part — implementing Synodality
Approving a document was the easy. What happens next depends on whether laity, bishops and priests actually change how decisions get made.
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Andy Burnham’s Catholic moment
Faith and political leadership: Andy Burnham’s faith background raises questions about whether religion truly shapes political leanings across Western democracies today.
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Youth grappling with democracy
A protest sparked by education grievances grew into a nationwide reckoning over what democracy truly requires of citizens.
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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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