Tag: synod
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What position do you play? Four models of ministry from Acts
Faith, like life itself, is not a spectator sport. It is meant to be lived and played, not just watched from the sideline. But how do we find our role, our position, in a Church that only values one role? For the last few decades, Catholics appalled by the Church’s response to the sexual abuse…
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Writing straight with our crooked lines: #Synod15, family, and the hot issues.
For the next three or so weeks, the focus of the Church is off of Pope Francis and on the bishops gathered for the ordinary synod on the family. If this sounds like deja vù, it’s because last year bishops gathered for an extraordinary synod on the same topic (ordinary synods happen every three years;…
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“I’m sticking with Jesus”
Is anyone else finding it relevant that as the Church leadership discusses rules on divorce and remarriage, contraception, homosexuality and other family issues, the daily readings from Galatians, in which Paul rails against the congregation for falling for false prophets who undercut the power of the gospel of grace by insisting that followers have to…
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All About Expectations
I kinda thought my next post wouldn’t be until Pope Francis published his encyclical on the environment, but I realized that there’s been a lot of attention about this week’s extraordinary synod of bishops on the topic of the family, and my non-Catholic, was-Catholic, and Catholic-but-busy friends were aware and not necessarily sure about it.…
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Francis’ Focus on the Family
Slight departure from my too infrequent posts on Evangelii Gaudium, about which much more needs to be said. This week’s news is personal and local for me, as Pope Francis announced an a series of meetings by bishops (called synods) on the topic of the family. One remarkable thing is that he asked all families…
Reading Francis 