“I personally deserve attacks and insults because I am a sinner, but the church does not deserve them. They are the work of the devil."
 

We humans are straddling a precipitous moment of cosmic history. If we continue to ignore the signs of decline all around us, beginning with climate change, we will become an extinct species..
 

The Church is changing now, and the priest-led Church of the past will need to embrace a partnership approach with people into the future - a Church of “co-responsibility” between laity and clergy.

Stop worrying about whom to exclude from the table and instead focus our attention on including those who are excluded through no fault of their own...
 

It is necessary to preserve our religious roots and our history, while not keeping our gaze fixed only on the past, but looking to the future...

No major organized religious group has officially discouraged the vaccine, and many, like the Catholic Church, have explicitly encouraged them.

Francis' plan is for ordinary Catholics to have their say. The problem: No one seems to know about it.  U.S. bishops don't seem to care.

It is important to present the synodal process as a kairos moment- a time for change with a commitment of resource, capacity and energy.