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eCatholicism.org is a collection of Internet Resources with up-do-date and current information regarding the Church's interaction with the modern world, politics and society.

Besides being a resource for information, eCatholicism.org will also offer our visitors the ability to proclaim the Good News in new ways, to serve as witnesses to the Saving Power of our God and to re-affirm their identity as faith-filled communities to a world which desperately needs to hear the Gospel message - now more than ever before.

LISTENING & UNDERSTANDING As people of faith we are uniquely connected to time. We draw upon events and relationships from over two thousand years as the foundations of our faith and morals, of what we truly treasure, and we hope for a future full of promise in the kingdom already among us, within us yet not totally fulfilled. But how can we stretch back into the distant past, and forward into the unknown future, and yet keep our feet firmly on the ground of today? READ MORE

CATHOLIC CELIBACY AND MARRIED PRIESTS: A TRADITION OFTEN MISUNDERSTOOD Priestly celibacy is a discipline of the Latin tradition, not an unchangeable dogma, meaning the wider Catholic Church already includes married priests. SERVING, EDUCATING AND REPRESENTING LAY PEOPLE IN THE CHURCH 2027 offers a perfect opportunity to reflect on how the Church can go further in implementing the Vatican II vision of a Holy See body to promote the lay apostolate, by educating, serving and representing lay people in the Church.   VOCATION CRISIS: IS VATICAN II TO BLAME? Those holding the Second Vatican Council responsible for the decline in priestly vocations should examine whether their families have done what is needed to foster vocations. The global evidence and the teaching of successive popes point toward deeper spiritual and cultural challenges, leading us back to the same place: the domestic Church.   BIBLICAL LITERACY IS MORE THAN JUST KNOWING SCRIPTURE STORIES Understanding the interpretive lenses through which scholars and communities have read scripture can deepen our understanding of the Bible. POPE LEO DOESN'T MESS AROUND Pope Leo is someone who can't be pushed around. Even when he speaks about war and peace, migration or how to remain human in the age of artificial intelligence, the Successor of Peter remains, above all, a spiritual leader. SHEPHERD AND SOVEREIGN: HOW TO READ POPE LEO’S WORDS Pope Leo XIV speaks first and foremost as the Church’s spiritual leader, and his condemnation of war—including the conflict involving Iran—is a Gospel-based moral appeal rather than a political or diplomatic judgment. MAKING ALL THINGS NEW There is always the opportunity to rally around our humanity, to work as a community to celebrate art, teaching, writing, thinking — in short, to celebrate all forms of work that dignify the worker. ACCOMPANYING FAMILIES FACING DEPORTATION With federal immigration reform stymied since the 1980s, it’s been incumbent upon local communities to create alternative ways of welcoming and integrating new neighbors.