An excellent tribute to bishop I've always held in great admiration as he approaches an imminent retirement. Analysis: The Pastoral Approach of Archbishop Charles Chaput
Throughout history, people’s faith and their attachments to religious institutions have transformed, argues Sumit Paul-Choudhury. So what’s next? BBC - Future - Tomorrow’s Gods: What is the future of religion? :
Christians were not always “Christians.” That is, the members of the early Church didn’t refer to themselves as “Christians.” So where did this name come from? Christians were not always called “Christians” :
Father José Granados discusses the controversy over changes with the Pontifical John Paul II Institute’s new statutes. JPII Institute VP Warns: ‘More Here at Stake Than Just an Institution’s Survival’ :
Two Vatican developments have occurred over the last week, neither of which on its own amounts to a thunderclap, but each of which, in its own way, is still noteworthy. Kerfuffle over John Paul II's legacy, plus Pope Francis's JV team :
In August, 2009, a wrongly imprisoned priest was asked by Cardinal Avery Dulles to add his voice to the volume of Christian literature from those unjustly in prison. Prison Journal: A Decade of Writing at These Stone Walls :
May God help us all if the Church's bishops are divided on something as straightforward as transgenderism. Given that it's predicated on two false premises: (1) That God mistakenly puts a different gendered soul into the wrong body at conception, and (2) That gender is something that is divorced from its physical expression, I cannot see how the Church's shepherds can fail to see that it stands clearly in opposition to the Church's teaching and theology. To acknowledge this in no way diminishes or discriminates against people who suffer from what heretofore was called 'gender dysphoria'. It simply accurately describes the true nature of their illness for what it is and dispels the false notion that somehow we are little more than divorced or independent spirits trapped inside an inconsequential body. Uruguay bishops divided on transsexual referendum vote