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Pope Leo XIV seemed to hit his stride today in his high-profile visit to France, visiting a welcome center for migrants and survivors of human trafficking before speaking to a group of catechumens, new Catholics and members of a synodal assembly tasked with responding to France’s 400 percent jump in baptisms since the Covid-19 pandemic.
THE WOUNDS OF CATHOLIC WOMEN |
Keeping silent about this power imbalance in the church is not just dangerous for women. It creates a culture in which we become less inclined to notice or speak up when we see injustice in other contexts—with the poor, with migrants, with people suffering from war or structural violence. These issues are inseparable. |
A FULL VOICED CHURCH NEEDS WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP |
The synodal journey the Church is undertaking acts as a mirror that reflects back to us a forgotten truth: ecclesial identity does not lie in hierarchy, but in being the People of God. In this ecclesiological model, women and men share the same baptismal dignity, without distinction. |
ST. LOUIS (OSV News) — Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen — the 20th-century theologian, evangelizer, Catholic communications pioneer, teacher and preacher — is now Blessed Fulton J. Sheen.
Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, a pro-prefect for the Holy See’s Dicastery for Evangelization and papal delegate, pronounced the Church’s declaration on Archbishop Sheen’s holiness of life and witness to Jesus Christ at a Sept. 24 Mass celebrated in The Dome at America’s Center in St. Louis.
To the applause of pilgrims, Cardinal Tagle described Archbishop Sheen as a “son of Illinois, son of the United States of America” and “indeed, son of the world.”
In the United States, we can’t help but be reminded of the European roots of the Catholic Church. But I’d like to look at a wider and more recent era in the life of the Church—the emergence of, as Karl Rahner called it, a “world Church.” This is not a Church whose center is Rome or Europe, or for that matter the West. It is a Church without a center—inculturated into the language, history, and culture of every corner of the globe; and rooted not in the centers of power or privilege, but in the world of the poor.
Cardinal Ernest Simoni – the ‘joyous’ profession of the priesthood
Sarah Mac Donald
Speaking to The Tablet at Ireland’s national seminary in Maynooth, the cardinal said he wanted the seminarians studying for priesthood to “go forth and tell anybody and everybody who will listen that Jesus gave his life for us”.
Through an interpreter, Cardinal Simoni told the Tablet, “I want the world to see and take example from these seminarians here in Ireland who are taking the word of God forwards and onwards to other people.
“I feel Ireland is the shield of Catholicism in Europe and throughout the world and I hope the [seminarians] can keep that flame going.”
