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VIGILANCE AND ATTENTIVENESS There are certain passages in the New Testament that pull against the grain. They seem to contradict a central teaching of Jesus, a central part of the gospel. But their purpose is not to negate that teaching but, instead, to balance it and place it in a clearer perspective. The issue in today’s parable is the difference between wisdom and foolishness and how we can distinguish between the two. READ MORE

WHEN BISHOPS BLESS CAESAR: THE PERILS OF BECOMING EMPIRE’S CHAPLAINS The Church cannot proclaim a preferential option for the poor and vulnerable while lending moral legitimacy to political leaders whose policies undermine their dignity. The Church is called to pray for Caesar, not to become his chaplain. US BISHOPS ARE AT A CROSSROADS AS THEY HEAD INTO THEIR FALL ASSEMBLY The bishops' conference is at a turning point in the road, but many bishops seem reluctant to acknowledge that fact. The old culture warrior model of church leadership epitomized by Archbishops Charles Chaput and Joseph Naumann is giving way to a different approach that is both more pastoral and less worldly.   AMORIS LAETITIA: ‘WE’RE IN A DIFFERENT PLACE NOW’ Ten years after Pope Francis’ landmark teaching on marriage and the family created an uproar among some conservative Catholics, a gathering in Rome of the presidents of the world’s bishops’ conferences has confirmed that it is now a settled part of the life of the Church.   LEO ON MISSION: REDISCOVERING THE LAY APOSTOLATE How Vatican II’s vision of Christian life illuminates the call of Magnifica Humanitas. To realize this Gospel mission in the world, we need to communicate it to laity and support them in living it out. This will require building and renew ministries and movements toward this end. VATICAN II’S GUIDING STAR, FOR THE FEW REMAINING WITNESSES AND FOR US Hearing from a man who was there will give you a new appreciation for the vision of John XXIII and what the Holy Spirit builds in his church. Gaudium et Spes contains a beautiful description of the human person, foundational to how we live within the Church and how we as Christians relate to the rest of humankind. CAN ANYONE REALLY LEAVE THE CATHOLIC CHURCH? The church’s unwillingness to let go entirely of those baptized Catholic has raised concerns among those looking for a decisive break. Can a Catholic really leave the church? Sort of. Not participating is simple. Ending a parish membership could be a phone call away. But scrubbing history is more difficult, and dissolving sacramental records is off limits. TOWARDS THE ECCLESIAL ASSEMBLY OF OCTOBER 2028 - IMPLEMENTING THE SYNOD ON SYNODALITY Gathering the Church in order to reread together what has taken place and to share the wonders worked by the Lord is a practice rooted in the experience of the return from mission narrated in the Gospel: after having been sent out two by two, “The seventy-two returned rejoicing” (Lk 10,17), recounting what the Lord had accomplished through them. FACING OTHERNESS AND DIFFERENCES We have the great tradition within which revelation from God is understood to come mostly through the stranger, the foreigner, the unexpected, the unfamiliar, in what’s different. For this reason the scriptures insist on the importance of welcoming strangers. Since God is Other, strangers, among all others, are the most likely to be carrying God’s revelation.