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Lent’s long Gospels prepare us to be transformed at Easter
March 26, 2020
Sunday Mass, if we were able to go to it, would be a bit longer these weeks, even without the Gloria. We are in the midst of Lent’s long Gospels. That’s not their official name. Compared to regular Sunday fare though, the Gospel readings are much longer than usual. The three passages from John’s Gospel
When someone leaves the Church, how do we pastors respond?
March 19, 2020
Mary McAleese is still leaving the Catholic Church. Or considering it at least. Or threatening it. The former president of Ireland (1997-2011) wrote to Pope Francis after the Jean Vanier revelations saying that she would leave the Catholic Church “if it transpires that the Holy See failed to act to protect members of the L’Arche
A synod on synodality risks being self-referential
March 12, 2020
The seventh anniversary of Pope Francis (March 13) falls at a time when the pontificate’s agenda has run into difficulty on two key issues – synodality and curial reform. The first appears to have turned in on itself, the second disintegrated into something of a shambles.  Soon after his election Pope Francis put the Synod
Why didn’t Pius call Vatican II? 
March 05, 2020
The opening this week of the Vatican archives from the pontificate of the Venerable Pius XII offers a chance for scholars to answer the most interesting and consequential ecclesial question of that dramatic pontificate. Media interest will focus on the diplomatic questions, particularly in relation to the Jewish people during World War II. They key
Jean Vanier and the cult of the founder
February 27, 2020
The results of L’Arche’s investigation into their founder, Jean Vanier, were devastating on three levels. The news that the man praised the world over as a “living saint” had a series of sexually coercive and abusive relationships with at least six women over decades stunned the Catholic world. And not only the Catholic world; in
Is the dream of Francis as the ‘great liberal reformer’ dead?
February 20, 2020
Last week brought us the much-anticipated “post-synodal apostolic exhortation”. Is there any less lovely combination of words on the Vatican beat? This one though, Querida Amazonia, was lyrical and poetic, and Pope Francis chose to style it in the form of dreams which he has. Four of them to be precise: social, cultural, ecological and
‘The desire to confess is overwhelming’: The theology of Mafia movies
February 13, 2020
It was definitely not your godfather’s Oscars. The grand finale of Mafia films, Martin Scorsese’s three-and-a-half hour epic, The Irishman, garnered 10 Oscar nominations, including for best picture and best director. Yet The Irishman won no awards. The Mafia genre – once ground-breaking in the early 1970s – has now concluded. Oscar didn’t reward The
We used to believe bishops told the truth. What happened?
January 09, 2020
One of the biggest stories of 2019 took place exactly a year ago. The Diocese of Pittsburgh confirmed that Cardinal Donald Wuerl of Washington had, in fact, known about Theodore McCarrick’s sexual misconduct, despite his claims to the contrary. The revelations on January 10, 2019 were a mortal blow to the credibility of prelates, precisely
The Newman of the East
January 02, 2020
Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India In 2019 we became more familiar with the life and mission of St John Henry Newman. Perhaps in 2020 we might learn something about Mar Ivanios, called the “Newman of the East” by his people. This year the Syro-Malankara Church, the seat of which is here in Thiruvananthapuram, will be marking the
Kerala’s radiant Catholicism
December 19, 2019
Last month, Pope Francis and I were airborne over Asia together. In the air at the same time, but on different planes going in opposite directions. The Holy Father was coming back from Japan, and I was headed to India. We would both be thinking about the east, but in rather different ways. En route
This papal anniversary should be a day of rejoicing
December 12, 2019
The Eternal City keeps careful track of dates. If a bishop arrives for an audience on his ordination anniversary, you can be quite sure that the Holy Father has been briefed. Papal dates – birthdays, priestly ordination, episcopal consecration, papal election – are devotedly observed, the occasion taken for elaborate good wishes to be offered
The growing Marian enrichment of the Church’s calendar
December 05, 2019
The addition of a new feast to the universal calendar – Our Lady of Loreto on December 10 – is a reminder of the growing Marian enrichment of the Roman Missal. Pope Francis famously began his pontificate with a visit to the Madonna Salus Populi Romani at St Mary Major in Rome, and he visits
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