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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.

THROUGH THE GATE

We have all been called to become “resurrection people.” The Crucified Christ teaches us that we carry within us - individually and as a community - the wounds of our world and of our Church. But the Risen Christ teaches us that these are also the wounds of Christ which have the potential to heal from the hurt that we have endured. The Cross conditions us to self-denial, to contradiction, and to the possibility of total failure. But The Empty Tomb assures us that the victory and the power of the Risen Lord are ours. Each day we are called to give our response to the world - a communal response based on a common faith expressed within our common community.

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THE COURAGE TO SAY “NO” AND TO FINISH THIS

Not the lazy “no” of cynicism or disengagement. Not the performative “no” of social media. The real “no” — the one spoken when you know it will cost you something. The one spoken when power expects your silence. The one spoken because a human being is being treated as disposable, and you refuse to accept it as normal.
MORAL AUTHORITY

History offers precedent. Countries lose their way, and the fear that we are losing ours is not irrational. Far too many of us are allowing this to happen. But history also offers something else: evidence that moral leaders, and people working together, can set a new course.
WHEN GOD DOES NOT STAND ON THE SIDE OF ANY ARMY

Leo may help break a trend that has dominated American Catholicism — less religion as national glue, more faith as a critique of power. Leo’s message dismantles the moral grammar of war: he does not merely say that war is evil but calls into question the cognitive and spiritual premises that make it possible.
ON BEING CATHOLIC IN AN ANTI-CATHOLIC TIME

The fact that the fuller body of social teaching is not clear to the world means we as a church in the U.S. have done an inadequate job of learning our own faith, explaining to others our own faith, and acting on our own faith.
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT POPE LEO’S OCTOBER MEETING ON MARRIAGE AND FAMILY

Pope Leo’s message announcing the meeting acknowledged that “there are, in fact, places and circumstances in which the church ‘can become the salt of the earth’ only through the lay faithful and, in particular, through families.”
REIMAGINING OUR SACRED STORIES

Our sacred communities are defined by our sacred stories. We view these sacred texts as the unchanging word of God. All of our different faith traditions have their own version of sacred stories, some written and some oral. To create a new Earth, we have to start with a story of oneness and interconnectedness, not separation.
BLESSED BE THE (RELATIONALLY) POOR

Pope Leo XIV’s apostolic exhortation Dilexi Te (Latin: I have loved you, Rev 3:9), reminds us that faith and love for the poor are inextricably linked. As Christians, we know human beings are made for communion with God and with one another. When that’s lacking, it’s a poverty as real as material want.
CHARACTERISTICS OF A CULTURE OF LAY FORMATION

A parish culture that is a “culture of formation” is sacramental. It is indelibly stamped by Christ at work in the sacraments. But this means that a parish culture which is a culture of formation is Eucharistic, because every ministry of the Church and every work of the apostolate are all bound together with the Eucharist and are directed toward it.

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