by | Jan 15, 2017 | Newsletters
(Please use links at left hand side to find out more about emboldened text.) To young people, their parents, grandparents, and friends: If you have moved on from the Church believing it to be outdated and out of touch with your needs, you have an unprecedented...
by | Jan 8, 2017 | CCRI News
by Tony Flannery C.Ss.R This January marks a significant milestone in my life; the eighteenth of the month is my seventieth birthday. I have wondered how best to mark it. I am not by nature a ‘party person’, so that option did not greatly appeal to me. Having spent...
by | Dec 31, 2016 | Newsletters
(Please use links at left hand side to find out more about emboldened text.) As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome in the new, let us continue to pull together to work for the reform of our Church. While it may seem that Pope Francis is moving slowly, he is...
by | Dec 22, 2016 | Press Releases
December 22, 2016 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Rene Reid Work phone: 775-825-9196; Cell phone: 775-772-1210 Rene.Reid@CatholicChurchReformIntl.org www.CatholicChurchReformIntl.org Catholic Church Reform Int’l urges Pope Francis to have young people present in...
by | Dec 5, 2016 | Ireland
We thank the Association of Catholic Priests for permission to reproduce this article. From the visit of Pope John Paul in 1979 to the visit of Pope Francis in 2018, a period of almost 40 years, we can trace the trajectory of the stunning decline of the Catholic...
by | Nov 29, 2016 | India
Astrid Lobo Gajiwala, a valued CCRI Advisor, preaches on the readings for the Second Sunday of Advent
by | Nov 26, 2016 | Newsletters
To all interested in the reform of our Church: There is a movement underway to bring together worldwide organizations and Christian communities who want to see the reform of the Roman Catholic Church and to work in collaboration toward this renewal. Whether you are an...
by | Nov 18, 2016 | CCRI News
Vatican City — Pope Francis is firing back at foes of his efforts to make the Catholic church more open and pastoral in its ministry, telling an interviewer that “they are acting in bad faith to foment divisions.” The pontiff’s lengthy interview in Avvenire, the...
by | Nov 13, 2016 | India
After efforts to persuade the Catholic church in India to deal with sexual abuse of women by clergy, and upset over the church’s slow progress, a group of Christian women, mostly Catholics, announced steps for addressing the issue on their own. “We should...