Can Morality be Taught?
Chapter 10 from What Happened to Sin, by Seán Fagan. S.M. The Columba Press, 2008. The new thinking on many of the topics touched on in the previous chapters has been a source of confusion and…
God’s Gift of Forgiveness
Chapter 9 from What Happened to Sin, by Seán Fagan. S.M. The Columba Press, 2008. Whatever about the therapy required to deal with neurotic guilt, there is a sure-fire remedy available for real guilt and sin,…
Papal Power
Paul Collins A proposal for change in Catholicism’s third millenium From Papal Power by Paul Collins published by Harper Collins 1997, pp 1-32. Contents Introduction Ch. 1. Does the Church equal the pope, and the pope equal…
We need a Pope able to think, willing to learn
By John Wijngaards Published in the National Catholic Reporter, March 2013 We need a saintly pope, many people say. Perhaps. But I can’t forget the advice of Teresa of Avila, doctor of the church. Given…
The Final Battles of Pope Benedict XVI
by Fiona Ehlers, Alexander Smoltczyk and Peter Wensierski from Der Spiegel 15th June 2012 The mood at the Vatican is apocalyptic. Pope Benedict XVI seems tired, and both unable and unwilling to seize the reins amid fierce…
Trent Launches World Revolution in Theology
Published on National Catholic Reporter (http://ncronline.org )Sep. 07, 2010 At the gathering of moral theologians in Trent, Italy, Maggie Ssebunya, a Ugandan doctoral student in theology at Boston College, talks with Jesuit Fr. Peter Henriot, an American who…
Professor Dr Leonard Swidler outlines the areas in which the Catholic Church should adopt democratic principles
Mgr Scicluna: tackling accountability in the Church Bringing together theologians, psychologists, sociologists and other leading experts in the field, the meeting aims to go beyond the sex abuse crisis and examine the broader context of…
A Vision of Church for the Future
by Virginia Saldanha * Taken from Asian Horizons, Vol. 9, No. 3, September 2015 Pages: 454-466 Published on our website with the necessary permissions Abstract The resignation of Pope Benedict XVI brought into public domain…
Two Reports of Australian Bishop Geoffrey Robinson’s U.S. Tour
Report 1. Robinson forced to choose loyalty to abuse victims CN Catholic News, June 16, 2008 Concluding his US tour, retired Sydney priest Bishop Geoffrey Robinson says that he was forced to choose between loyalty…
The Case for Electing Catholic Bishops
Charles McMahon, October 11, 2006 It is probably fair to say that the average American Catholic paid little attention to the bishop of his or her diocese before the events of recent years, specifically the…