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How our Church needs to be fixed

by George Rippon Article originally published in Catholica As I sit down to write I am often not quite sure where I will end up. This time I know. Having seen most of my recommendations ignored over the years I will in faith and hope give them another run, with some...

Opening Prayer – Strategy Team Meeting – 30 March 2016

In the name of the Creator with whom we share divinity, the redeemer with whom we share humanity, and the Holy Spirit who unsettles and inspires us. God of Surprises,    you call us       from the narrowness of our traditions       to new ways of being church      ...

World Day of Prayer – 4 April 2016

Celebrate the 22nd Annual World Day of Prayer for Women’s Ordination The World Day of Prayer is a concerted global action held annually on the feast of the Annunciation, to draw attention to women’s ordination into an inclusive and accountable Catholic Church. Every...

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 We are very grateful to the many colleagues who donate their time and expenses to our cause but inevitably there are expenses which need to be paid. Your donation – however much you can afford – will be deeply appreciated. Please support our...

Newsletter – 28 March 2016

March 28. 2016 To church reform organizational leaders: At this time when Christians are being persecuted all around the world – in France, Belgium, the U.S., and now Pakistan, it is time for Christians to unite and stand together. If the Roman Catholic Church...

But the Resurrection is different.

I think that hope is more significant than faith and love. Hope is rooted in imagination, in the ability to grasp other possibilities, to conceive of other options. It helps us escape a monochrome, paranoid world. While we all have imagination, we need the artist to...

Jesus & ourselves, compare! He emptied himself, we peacock!

by Dr James Kottoor Murder most foul on the cross. It made Friday good for the world and is called “Good Friday” Jesus is supposed to be the fulcrum on which everyone who calls him/herself to be a Christian must swing around all throughout his/her life, twenty-four...

From Peripheries he comes as outcast

The Homeless Jesus comes to the Vatican  By ANDREA TORNIELLI in Vatican Insider, 3/03/2016 A life-size sculpture of the Nazarene, depicted as a homeless person lying down on a bench, has been placed at the entrance of the Office of Papal Charities. It was created by...

A prayer for women’s priesthood

From Iglesia Descalza, by Rebel Girl   This prayer for women priests and the sketch to the right, were produced by a Benedictine nun at the Monasterio de Sant Benet in Catalonia, Spain, Sr. Montserrat Unterlöhner (photo), and were originally published in Catalan on...