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Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the
Opening of the Second Vatican Council
October 11, 1962

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Vatican II: 50 years later

This Week's Reflection

Waiting for the Spirit
Waiting is not an activity that we do well. And why? Because it means someone else or some other power is in control of our little world, not us. And being out of control and subject to others reminds us of our frailty and our vulnerability.

Recommended Websites

Enlightened Catholicism
A place for Catholics who don't find their Catholic identity in the standard definitions. "He drew a circle that shut me out. Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. But Love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle that took him in." Edwin Markham

Hierarchy's inability to mourn thwarts healing in church
The Catholic hierarchy from the papacy on down seems to be roiling through a series of manic episodes in which they execute perverted power plays against those perceived as enemies. This kind of mania often is exhibited by large identity groups whose power has been threatened and who are unable to respond adaptively to that loss through a process of healthy mourning.

LCWR-Vatican tensions
Jesuit priest Fr. James Martin, one of America’s most influential and popular clerics, has publicly expressed his support for the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, on Twitter.

Rome & Women Religious
The CDF action is certain to be a pastoral disaster, another instance of the hierarchy acting in an imprudent and counterproductive fashion. All Catholics should support the effort of the bishops to preserve and pass on the fundamentals of the faith, and correcting doctrinal error is part of that process. But wouldn’t the bishops be more effective in that task if they did not confuse disagreement about public policy with doctrinal dissent...?

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