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Follow up to the Founder’s Southern Cross Interview in March 2020: WAACSA’s relationship with the International Movement We Are Church
The recent interview of WAACSA's founder published in the Southern Cross has raised questions among readers about WAACSA's relationship with the International Movement We Are Church. WAACSA was founded in South Africa in November 2010 as an affiliate of the...
Text of Southern Cross interview of Founder of WAACSA on its 10th Anniversary, March 2020
History and purpose of WAACSA Towards the end of 2010 my wife and I sent an email to twelve Catholic friends expressing our concern that the Church was going back to a defensive, pre-Vatican 2 stance. We invited them to join us in establishing a South African movement...
Vulnerability as Strength: Keenan’s Key to Dismantling Clericalism
Published on National Catholic Reporter (https://www.ncronline.org) Dec 31, 2019 Vulnerability as strength: Keenan's key to dismantling clericalism by Tom Roberts Jesuit Fr. James Keenan really wants to turn the whole deal on its head. The highly regarded theologian,...
Bishops vote for married priests, call developed world to repent for harming Amazon
Published on National Catholic Reporter (https://www.ncronline.org) Oct 28, 2019 Bishops vote for married priests, call developed world to repent for harming Amazon by Thomas Reese by Religion News Service Vatican City — The synod of bishops meeting in Rome voted on...
Kenyan Man’s Search for his Father Runs into Church Cover-Up
Kenyan man's search for his father runs into church cover-up by Nicole Winfield by Rodney Muhumuza by The Associated Press Samburu, Kenya — When Sabina Losirkale went into labor, her sister Scolastica recalls, priests and religious sisters filled the delivery ward...
With Newman, The Church Gains its Saint for Modern Times’
With Newman, the church gains its 'saint for modern times' Blessed John Henry Newman widely seen as an architect of the modern church by Jonathan Luxmoore Oxford, England — When the convert-cardinal, Blessed John Henry Newman, is canonized by Pope Francis on Oct. 13,...
The Revolutionary Politics of the First Christmas
The Revolutionary Politics of the First Christma BY N.T. WRIGHT DECEMBER 23, 2019 N.T. Wright is the Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at the University of St Andrews, a Senior Research Fellow at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford University and the author of over...
Decolonisation and the Pan-Amazon Synod
The decolonial and intercultural hopes of the pan-Amazon synod by Daniel P. Horan, NCR, October 2019 The Instrumentum Laboris (or "working document") for the upcoming Pan-Amazon Synod of Bishops in Rome is bold, challenging and surprising in many ways, and not only...
Marie Collins Exposes Clerical Culture
In US tour, Marie Collins exposes clerical culture behind abuse cover-up by Tom Roberts, NCR, September 2019 Washington — The Catholic Church has reached a crossroads. Its leaders can either change, become open and accountable, or maintain the status quo: an...
Francis Warns of Ideology
Francis warns of ideology 'infiltrating' some quarters of US Catholic Church 'A schism is always snobbish ideology detached from doctrine,' pope says by Joshua J. McElwee ABOARD THE PAPAL FLIGHT FROM MADAGASCAR — Pope Francis warned Sept. 10 that ideology is...