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'SYNODALITY' WAS A VATICAN BUZZWORD. 5 YEARS ON, IT'S STILL CHANGING THE CHURCH |
Synodality remains a wedge issue within the church, the target of fierce and frequent attacks by conservative clerics. But after sparking tens of thousands of conversations about the life of the church held among all its members around the world, which set the stage for greater lay involvement and transparency in church governance, synodality increasingly appears here to stay. |
HOW POLITICS SHAPES AMERICAN CATHOLICISM |
Catholic voters have shifted to the right politically, yet on issues such as abortion, their views have become more liberal than they were ten years ago. Younger priests are more conservative because the generation now entering the priesthood is itself more conservative. |
Long before Benito Mussolini rose to international infamy, an Italian immigrant named Agostino de Biasi founded a New York City group called the Fascio in 1922. Immigrants from Germany, Spain, and Ireland supported American organizations with subtle and not-so-subtle ties to fascism in the years before World War II. This is not the kind of history we generally associate with Ellis Island’s poor, huddled masses.
In this way, they were more like their native-born American counterparts than they thought. In his provocative, timely, but frustrating book, Joseph Kelly argues that the roots of fascism can be found not in Europe but in the United States. “Fascism erupted out of American traditions…. [It] is a native weed,” writes Kelly, a professor of history and literature at the College of Charleston. To “understand this phenomenon, we need to push its origins back…into the nineteenth century.” Some readers will also need to adjust their definition of what, exactly, constitutes “fascism.”
Father John Riccardo may not be a household name, but when a bishop really wants to fire up his flock with a barnstorming, revival-style worship rally, he’s the man for the job.
Several times a year, he can be found crisscrossing the country to headline diocesan events aimed at kicking their evangelization efforts into high gear.
What makes this Michigan priest such a popular speaker?
Simply put, he has a knack for retelling the story of Christianity and getting people to seriously consider it as something true and therefore life-changing.
The common life of culture can only exist within what Pope Leo XIV in Magnifica Humanitas (On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial...
