Jeanie Hannaman

By Charles Collins, Catholic Herald - For comparison, the Fathers of the First Council of Nicaea in AD 325—exactly 1,700 years ago this year—took less than three months to define the Divinity of Christ and set the date for Easter. After four years of synodality, we still do not have a clear working definition of what synodality even is... Asked by the Vatican’s own news service to define synodality, the Undersecretary of the Synod Secretariat, Sister Nathalie Becquart, referred to the Final Document, quoted Australian theologian Ormond Rush—who called synodality “the Second Vatican Council in a nutshell”—and pointed to the Synod’s tagline: “Communion, participation, mission.” This was not an impromptu exchange but a formal interview to highlight the Pathways document. ...

By John M. Grondelski, Crisis Magazine - ...dismissing a Mass for “care of creation” as some kind of ecclesiastical tree hugging loses the perspective that the world over which God gave us dominion is valuable: intrinsically albeit finitely. The “world” (together with the flesh and the devil) should not divert us from God; rather, it is intended to lead us to Him. (That is, in part, what natural theology is about). Let’s not devalue creation.