Due to a retreat and scheduled vacation, Wisdom Wednesday is presenting preplanned collections of items for the next several weeks, with a return to the customary style and format on September 13. Today we explore what remains of Catholic News Service after the U.S. bishops shut down its North American operations.
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Upcoming Retreats and Sabbaticals – September 2023
Retreats help us remove ourselves from the daily routine of our ministry and provide opportunities for us to re-focus, re-energize, and re-connect to our priorities as ministers of the word and actions of Jesus. Sabbaticals also remove us from our daily routines but for an extended period of time to…
Season of Creation
The Catholic Church commemorated the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation on September 1st. This also marked the beginning of a month-long ecumenical awareness initiative called the “Season of Creation,” which concludes on October 4th with the feast of Saint Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of ecology. Read the full September 3 e-bulletin HERE…
Wisdom Wednesday | Synod on Synodality
Due to a retreat and scheduled vacation, Wisdom Wednesday is presenting preplanned collections of items for the next several weeks, with a return to the customary style and format on September 13. This week, we we explore the Synod on Synodality from several sources.
Caring for Creation: Global Warming and Ecological Conversion
In response to the major threats to our common home pollution, biodiversity loss and especially global warming, Pope Francis has summoned us to an “ecological conversion” leading to the practice of an “integral ecology” needed to save the Earth. In Laudato Si, Francis begins his treatment of an ecological conversion by noting…
God’s challenging call – are you up for it?
By Tony Magliano You may not think about it. You may not pray about it. You may not even know about it. But like it or not, if you’ve been baptized, God is calling you to be a prophet! “A prophet? Who me?” That’s right, a prophet. And yes, you!…
Wisdom Wednesday | A Pastoral Approach to Gender
Due to a retreat and scheduled vacation, Wisdom Wednesday presents preplanned collections of items for the next several weeks. This week, we offer a series of reports on “A Pastoral Approach to Gender.”
Letter to Bishops
At the annual Assembly of the AUSCP, the members strongly affirmed a statement which was proposed by the Mutual Support Work Group regarding gay men who serve as priests in our Roman Catholic Church. The statement was intended to be a voice of support for gay priests, who generously serve…
Letter to All U.S. Bishops
AUSCP Executive Director, Steve Newton, CSC, recently wrote a letter to all of the U.S. bishops, active and retired, in which he apprised them of AUSCP’s latest activities. He gave a brief summary of the AUSCP Annual Assembly in San Diego, Unity Through Synodality, and included a copy of the statement on gay priests that…
Wisdom Wednesday | August 16th
We ask this week for prayers for Maui. . We feature a major collection of items as we approach the sixtieth anniversary of the March on Washington with Dr. Martin Luther King. And we observe the signs of the times – actions and issues bubbling or boiling up in religious and secular society.