At its best, America balances the Establishment and Free Exercise clauses, but the Supreme Court’s ruling in ‘Kennedy’ drastically upsets that balance.
The controversy at Nativity School shows how the Church has allied itself with discrimination, undermining its credibility and failing to live up to its values.
Faith-rooted community organizing, with its emphasis on building relationships and developing practical strategies, can help us think about synodality.
In the United States, there is a growing gap between Catholic academia and the institutional Church, one that hinders our ability to understand the sex-abuse crisis.
In their quest to prioritize diversity, Catholic educational institutions must not forget the diversity that already exists in their own tradition and history.
“It was important that I forgive her and all my former torturers because they were repositories of my childhood, living rosaries of shared, idiosyncratic memories.”
Opening instituted ministries to women begins a new reckoning with an ecclesiology that has for a long time divided the Church too simply into clergy and laity.
It’s no secret that racism is pervasive in the Church. The fight for Black Catholic education and vocations in the 1960s and 1970s showcases one striking example.
Human anthropology and sexual ethics are subject to change. But the knowledge that we were created in the divine image to love and be loved is eternal.
“Authentic collaboration in the Church is possible only when women are seen as whole and necessary, not as challenges or threats to the ‘purity’ of clergy.”
Pilgrimage sites can be like trusted family elders: we need to visit them, respect them, and thank them for the ways they help us throughout our lives.
If the institutional Church takes seriously the call to synodality, then its clergy must be willing to humbly consider the Spirit that moves its people.
Sohrab Ahmari’s latest book attempts to answer fundamental questions. But his foggy appeal to tradition misunderstands its purpose and potential in our lives.
