Becoming the Church we are called to be: 60 years after Lumen Gentium | Synod on Synodality

Friday, December 20, 2024

Julian Paparella

Sixty years after Lumen Gentium, the question is as relevant today as it was then: What kind of Church is God calling us to be and to become?

The Sacrament of Salvific Unity: 2024 Instrumentum Laboris Part Two | Synod on Synodality

Saturday, September 7, 2024

Matthew Neugebauer

The Instrumentum Laboris for the 2024 session of the General Assembly calls the Synod and the Church to look upward and shine outward.

The Light of the Nations: 2024 Instrumentum Laboris Part One | Synod on Synodality

Thursday, August 29, 2024

Matthew Neugebauer

The Instrumentum Laboris for the 2024 session of the General Assembly calls the Synod and the Church to look upward and shine outward.

Deacon-structing: What is the One, True Church?

Tuesday, March 28, 2023

Deacon Pedro

At a high school reunion shortly after Pope Benedict XVI was elected, I was challenged by a former classmate who is now a United Church Minister.

Open the doors and windows of the Church: 60 years since Vatican II

Saturday, October 8, 2022

Julian Paparella

October 11, 2022 marks 60 years since the start of the Second Vatican Council. So what was Vatican II and why does it matter today? Vatican II was the biggest Church event in the 20th century, bringing together all the bishops of the Catholic Church – 2,625 of them! – with the pope and many […]

Changes in Catholic approaches to ecumenism | One Body

Tuesday, July 28, 2020

Sr. Donna Geernaert, SC

In this third article of our new series, Sr. Donna Geernaert explores the development of Catholic teaching on ecumenism in the last century.

Deacon-structing Love Part 6: JOY

Sunday, October 29, 2017

Deacon Pedro

This week we are looking at what I’m going to call the Joy of Love or Love Joy. For the last couple of weeks we’ve been looking at love. Last week in particular we saw at a few love myths. Today we go back to where it all began because this Sunday’s Gospel reading is […]

Pope Francis’ Homily during Prayer Vigil for the Family

Tuesday, November 4, 2014

Salt + Light Media

On October 4, 2014, Pope Francis presided over a prayer vigil leading up the the Extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the Family. Below is the full text of his address: Dear families, good evening! The evening falls on our assembly. It is the hour in which one willingly returns home to the same meal, in […]

Deacon-structing: The Law of Love

Saturday, October 25, 2014

Deacon Pedro

A reflection for the 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time, year A. The readings are Exodus 22:20-26, Psalm 18, Thessalonians 1:5c-10 and Matthew 22:34-40. Which is the greatest commandment of the Law? This was a real question at the time of Jesus. People would gather around the water cooler at work and talk about which commandment […]

Photo of the day: Light of the Nations

Friday, August 10, 2012

Cheridan Sanders

The Council itself, in the Dogmatic Constitution Lumen Gentium, said this: While Christ, ‘holy, innocent and undefiled’ (Heb 7:26) knew nothing of sin (cf. 2 Cor 5:21), but came only to expiate the sins of the people (cf. Heb 2:17)…the Church…clasping sinners to its bosom, at once holy and always in need of purification, follows […]