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Lent offers us a new opportunity to examine our lifestyles. In his Lenten reflection, Pope Francis puts fasting, praying and almsgiving in a creation care frame. It might be good for all of us to reflect on this: “Fasting, that is, learning to change our attitude towards others and all of creation,…

AUSCP & Contemplation During AUSCP’s 2019 Assembly in St. Louis, Sr. Suzanne Giblin, CSJ, will lead us in contemplative dialogue and prayer. AUSCP’s Leadership Team met with her during our January Retreat. She left us all a more deeply bonded group with one another and our Triune God. She is working with…

An NCR article by Peter Feuerherd (NCR online 2/5/19) draws attention to a Boston College report released in December 2018. The paper, titled “To Serve the People of God: Renewing the Conversation on Priesthood and Ministry,” argues that sacramental doctrine is a starting point in transforming seminary formation. First comes baptism, then comes holy…

We are excited to announce the selection of the 2019 St. John XXIII Awardees: Richard Creason, an AUSCP Founding Father, retired pastor of the St. Louis Diocese, and long time peace & Justice advocate Sr. Norma Pimentel, MJ, Executive Director of Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley, Diocese of Brownsville,…