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Quebec cardinal: ‘We’re not managers, we’re not the boss’ of laypeople

February 14, 2023 Catholic News Agency 2

Quebec Cardinal Gérald Lacroix speaks at the International Eucharistic Congress in Budapest, Hungary, Sept. 7, 2021. / Daniel Ibáñez/CNA.

Rome Newsroom, Feb 14, 2023 / 11:45 am (CNA).
The Catholic cardinal of Quebec said Tuesday that pastors ar… […]

Features

Synodality and sinning against the Holy Spirit

December 8, 2022 Nicholas Senz 30

With an opaque name like “the Synod on Synodality,” even at this later stage in the process, some still wonder about the purpose of the Synod. What is the goal? Cardinal Mario Grech, head of […]

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New documentary calls on lay Catholics to become civic leaders

October 8, 2022 Catholic News Agency 2

An advertisement from the new documentary on Catholic lay leadership, "The Hour of the Laity," created by Tepeyac Leadership, Inc. / Courtesy of Tepeyac Leadership, Inc.

Denver, Colo., Oct 8, 2022 / 08:00 am (CNA).
What is the role of… […]

The Dispatch

Lima archbishop proposes replacing priests with laity as pastors

August 12, 2021 Catholic News Agency 34

Archbishop Carlos Castillo of Lima. / ANDINA / Norman Córdova.

Lima, Peru, Aug 12, 2021 / 16:00 pm (CNA).
The Archbishop of Lima last month presented his proposal to replace priests with lay people in parishes in the Peruvian capital.Archbishop … […]

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President Biden and a Catholic inflection point

January 20, 2021 George Weigel 52

For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female: for you are […]

Special Report

“Phoenix from the Ashes” conference addresses roots of abuse crisis, solutions

March 11, 2019 Jeanette Flood 4

“Phoenix from the Ashes: The Sex Abuse Crisis and the Future of the Catholic Church”, a conference hosted by Father Gabriel Richard High School (FGRHS), was held on Saturday, March 4th, in Ann Arbor, Michigan. […]

Books

The Smoke of Satan provides clear, concise analysis of the episcopal crisis

November 15, 2018 Gregory J. Sullivan 20

“Through some fissure the smoke of Satan has entered the temple of God.” — Pope St. Paul VI in 1972 The sex-abuse crisis, now in its episcopal phase, is certainly the worst crisis the Church […]

Editorial

Without truth there is no trust, and without trust…

July 23, 2018 Carl E. Olson 70

This is not a time for silence, mediocrity, or fear for the laity or the bishops. The rot and corruption must be outed; the truth […]

The Dispatch

Spiritual direction and the role of the laity

July 5, 2017 Russell Shaw 13

Lately I’ve been reading the autobiography of Saint Teresa of Avila. Although not always easy going, it’s a compellingly interesting book and, now and then at least, a surprisingly amusing one. For Saint Teresa, along […]

Essay

Pentecost and the Role of the Laity

June 4, 2017 Peter M.J. Stravinskas 4

Editor’s note: The following homily preached by the Reverend Peter M. J. Stravinskas, Ph.D., S.T.D., today, on the Solemnity of Pentecost (4 June 2017), at the Church of the Holy Innocents in New York City. […]

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