Tag: voices of faith

September 15th, 2018

Relief

I need a break from the head-spinning chaos of the sex abuse scandal, so I’ve decided to write about something in the church that works: the Catholic Relief Services (CRS). It – and I – were born in the same year, 1943, so we are celebrating 75 years together. The odd name “Relief” relates to…
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March 10th, 2018

“Major Statement on the Role of Women”

This is a quote from John Allen in Crux, who notes that every twenty years, “the Vatican has felt compelled to issue a major statement on the role of women.” Leave it up to Crux to remind us of Inter Insigniores in 1976 and Ordinatio Sacerdotalis in 1994. This time the major statement has been…
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February 10th, 2018

Embrace Your Heresy!

I am indebted to Simone Campbell for this week’s theme, courtesy of Marian Ronan. In The Georgetown Voice, the ever-revolutionary Campbell “then took audience questions, leading to a profession of her personal ‘heresy,’ her belief that women can and should be ordained. “’Ordination is an extension of baptism, and there are different kinds of baptism……
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