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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.

RENDER TO CAESAR

As Christians we are called to engage the world and bring our beliefs with us into Caesar’s domain. Vatican II reminded us to take our faith into the marketplace and interpret our times in the light of the gospel. If we have any doubts, all we have to do is to read papal and episcopal documents that address the most pressing issues of our day: poverty, globalization, war, the death penalty, health care, environment, the economy, etc. But the church of Jesus’ followers doesn’t exist apart from the world and we are called to be agents of change for peace and justice.

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IS THE HONEYMOON OVER FOR LEO XIV?

To ask the question is not to answer it – not quite – but everyone knew the honeymoon wouldn’t last forever, and Leo XIV is facing challenges that test his leadership in three key areas.
THE CATHOLIC CHURCH’S CULTURE PROBLEM IS CLOSER TO HOME THAN POPE LEO THINKS

Two women now head major Vatican offices, and a third will soon. But the altar rail tells another story about their progress in the church. As for women in ministry, while many expand the term “ministry” to include all manner of office work, teaching, social service and the like, technically it refers to the spiritual work of ordained clergy. In fact, the dictionary definition of “the ministry” is “clergy.”
WHY VATICAN II AND SYNODALITY ARE THE TWIN TASKS OF LEO'S PAPACY

His is a pontificate tasked with bridging the memory of Vatican II and the implementation of the church's synodal identity into the future. Whether he and the rest of the people of God succeed achieving this goal or not will shape Catholic life for decades to come.
TEN YEARS AFTER AMORIS LAETITIA : PROCLAIMING THE GOSPEL WITH FAMILIES

Pope Leo XIV’s upcoming synodal meeting on families challenges bishops to revisit Amoris Laetitia, prioritizing the primacy of conscience, pastoral mercy, and episcopal collegiality over rigid legalism.
THE CRISIS OF VOCATIONS: IS VATICAN II REALLY TO BLAME?

Few topics in the Catholic Church continue to generate as much debate as the legacy of the Second Vatican Council. More than fifty years after its conclusion, Vatican II remains central to discussions about liturgy, Church life, and the decline in priestly and religious vocations.
CLERICS WITHOUT CLERICALISM

Francis and Leo point to a different way of being the Church. The more we see laypeople taking full responsibility for living out the Gospel and the universal call to holiness, the more clearly we understand the actual role of priests and sacramental ministry in the life of the Church.
CONSEQUENCES OF COMPASSION

The Church hierarchy naively assumed that we could allow mass violation of our border and, at the same time, we could, as Sister Donna Markham said, “protect our citizens.”
THE INTERNET ISN'T OUR HOME: ON BECOMING DIGITAL GOOD SAMARITANS

The Good Samaritan is an ideal model for our incarnational recovery of digital evangelization because he is an icon of Christ’s love poured out for a broken world. His story reveals both whom and how to serve.

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