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DON'T LOOK BACK "Whoever does not take up his cross and follow after me is not worthy of me. Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it." Pretty tough words, since we have all had promises broken, have been betrayed and have had our share of disillusionment. Our instinct for survival fights fiercely against any threat to our identity and our existence. So we can easily become frustrated, cynical and totally self-absorbed. READ MORE

NOT FEELING CELEBRATORY AS AMERICA TURNS 250? READ JOHN COURTNEY MURRAY’S WORK To find a path today between such a post-Christian politics and the reactionary Christian nationalism it helped give rise to, perhaps no single idea offers more promise, among the many Murray offered, than that of the political principle of the sovereignty of God. RENEWING AMERICA FOR ANOTHER 250 YEARS WILL TAKE A CHRISTIAN HEART, NOT A CHRISTIAN NATION Christ does not advance the kingdom through political coercion or institutional domination. The kingdom arrives quietly, often unnoticed, yet capable of transforming everything around it.   THESE TRADITIONALIST CATHOLICS ARE DEFYING POPE LEO XIV, AND EMBRACING THEIR OUTSIDER STATUS A breakaway group of traditionalist Catholics will challenge Pope Leo XIV’s authority next week by consecrating four bishops without his consent. Rather than shying away from the confrontation, the Society of St. Pius X seems intent on embracing its notoriety.   WHATEVER HAPPENED TO SYNODALITY? There wasn’t much openness to listening at the U.S. bishops’ June meeting. On a topic as sensitive as sexual abuse, it was surprising to see such tone-deafness. Even on the topic of synodality itself, the U.S. bishops seem to prefer listening primarily to themselves. VATICAN BLOCKS WOMEN’S HOMILIES, TESTING LEO’S VIEW OF WOMEN IN CHURCH A Vatican ruling that bars laypeople, including women, from preaching the homily at Mass is testing the limits of Pope Leo XIV’s early signals of openness to women’s leadership in the Catholic Church. DO WOMEN HAVE AN EQUAL VOICE IN THE CHURCH? On this episode of the Glad You Asked podcast, the hosts talk to award-winning journalist Heidi Shlumpf about women's status in the Catholic church. A CATHOLIC SCHISM OVER WOMEN DEACONS? MANY OPPONENTS HAVE ALREADY LEFT. The Catholic Church’s latest objection to restoring women to the ordained diaconate is that it will cause a schism. News flash: There already is one. In fact, there have been many schisms, and there will be more. WHEN FAITH AND POWER COLLIDE It is encouraging to see that the pope is determined to continue expressing his pontifical views on current issues, no matter who tries to discourage him. His role as a moral authority, a missionary of peace, or a guardian of the world should never be diluted, not just for the Church but for the secular world at large.