I had agreed, along with 11 other people from my congregation, to attend a program on congregational discernment, but I was not looking forward to it. I was skeptical of the diocese’s ability to teach ...

It is the time of year when resolutions are freely tossed about, more as conversation starters than commitments to the coming year. They often fall in the categories of would’a should’a could‘a or the ...

ROME – Since the beginning of Pope Francis’s Synod of Bishops on Synodality in 2021, the concept has been notoriously abstract and difficult to define. This week, however, rank-and-file pastors from ...

This series explores the spiritual discipline at the heart of the Shema: listening. In Hebrew, sh’ma means more than hearing words—it means listening attentively and responding faithfully. Across ...