Article Who Are These ‘People’? Synodality can demythologize clerical power, but in order to work, the people it centers must include the vulnerable, not just the elite. By Massimo Faggioli October 7, 2021 Vatican II Pope Francis Clericalism Laity
Article Synodality? What’s Synodality? Synodality is essential for recovering the legitimacy of ecclesial spaces. But the U.S. bishops don’t seem to want to consider it. By Massimo Faggioli June 15, 2021 Clericalism Pope Francis Bishops U.S. Catholicism
Article An Ambrose of Our Own Our current system of choosing bishops discounts the laity and local priests in favor of patronage from above. That must change. By Nicholas P. Cafardi December 9, 2020 Bishops Clericalism
Article The Complicated Legacy of Bishop John England Bishop John England leaves behind a complicated legacy: a useful method of thinking beyond clericalism, and a warning about the application of natural law. By Paul Lakeland November 25, 2020 Clericalism Bishops Race
Article The Double Agent McCarrick was both a product and a manipulator of a system of clericalism that desperately needs to be overhauled. By David Gibson November 13, 2020 Bishops Sexual-abuse Crisis Clericalism
Article What to Make of the McCarrick Report? Lessons from an investigation years in the making By Peter Steinfels November 11, 2020 Bishops Sexual-abuse Crisis Clericalism
