I had agreed, along with 11 other people from my congregation, to attend a program on congregational discernment, but I was not looking forward to it. I was skeptical of the diocese’s ability to teach ...

As a college teacher and as someone who works with a wide variety of people of all ages, I hear a lot of generalizations and assumptions about a broad scope of topics ranging from business, to ...

ROME – Since the beginning of Pope Francis’s Synod of Bishops on Synodality in 2021, the concept has been notoriously abstract and difficult to define. This week, however, rank-and-file pastors from ...

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