Sometimes it is more beneficial to reflect on the meaning of a season near its end than at its beginning. Often it seems that well before the season concludes many people have moved on, and have largely forgotten the season’s meaning.
We include some strong views this week, including a semi serious view that Argentinian Evangelicals were to blame for Argentina’s soccer loss to Spain. (You pray like a gringo, you play like a gringo, said some fans.)) We begin, however, with some strong views of synodality — and go on from there.
Give your servant, therefore, an understanding heart — 1 Kings 3:9
The Association of U.S. Catholic Priests (AUSCP) announces the election of three new members to its national Leadership Team. The three were nominated and elected by the membership during AUSCP’s 15th Annual Assembly, held in June 2026 in St. Louis, Missouri.
Human rights dominate our search for wisdom this week: How ICE uses crowd control weapons; how teachers have First Amendment rights, how Islamophobia roiled a Texas election; and the SSPX seeks canonical rights. We begin with a call to end the silence about Gaza from Father John Heagle.
Those who are just must be kind — Wisdom 12: 19
Closing its 15th Annual Assembly in June, the Association of U.S. Catholic Priests (AUSCP) unveiled a bold new vision for the organization’s future and adopted a fresh multi-year Strategic Plan. Both are aimed at deepening the association’s synodal mission and broadening its reach among priests across the United States.
Centered on the theme “Building the Future: Church, Priesthood, and Global Engagement,” the
assembly brought together ordained priests and lay Friends to deliberate on structural renewal, global
migration, and the evolving role of pastoral leadership within a modern, relational Church.
