Tradition
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Can faith welcome what science finds?
Evolution now shapes social and moral thinking, and most churches accept the science while glossing over the challenges it poses.
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Tracking Catholic Eucharistic belief in the Real Presence
Belief climbs sharply among weekly churchgoers and those who rank faith above all else, reaching 88 percent when several markers combine.
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Faith we can touch
The incarnation means the physical world is where God comes to meet us. It isn’t something we have to escape.
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The emerging paradigm of Catholic spirituality and theology
Christianity has always been diverse. Modern research, psychology and philosophy now ask theology to stand on firmer, evidence-based ground.
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Baptised before you could blink
The near-universal practice of infant baptism gets a hard second look from someone who lived it, then questioned it.
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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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Claiming public space: who gets left out?
Christianity, indigenous spirituality and secular values compete for public space. Compliance divides us, and connection is what holds us together.
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Is the Church’s case against gay sex biblical?
Genesis 19 is ambiguous, the Gospels are silent on homosexuality, and the wider Bible ties Sodom to hostility toward guests.
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The real presence that walks out the church doors
Encountering Christ at the altar is meant to send believers toward the poor and marginalised in daily life.
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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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