Jeanie Hannaman

By Sarah Cain, Crisis Magazine - The Church has never and will never change her teaching on the unworthy reception of Holy Communion—she can't. But our Bishops must change their 60's-rooted praxis of allowing it to happen... It is a strange feature of our times that when a priest fulfills his sacred duty it becomes news. Such is the case with Fr. Ian Vane, who rightly refused Holy Communion to British MP Chris Coghlan after Coghlan’s public support for assisted suicide. Such an action by a priest should be common—as common as “Catholics” who promote evils while maintaining a public platform are today.

By Dr. Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture - Hopefully this goes a long way toward explaining why Pope Leo refers to synodality as a style or an attitude. Presumably this pope has far too much missionary experience to resort to badly-orchestrated group-think to get things done. As the Pope recently reminded us by parsing the word “synod” into its Greek roots, “synodality” means that we Catholics are on “a way together” which benefits from the active participation of all—not so much in discussions or planning sessions but in the “way together” itself, that is, in ongoing apostolic work, ongoing witness to Christ.

By Dann Aungst, The Stream - Forgiveness is not just a part of the Christian life—it is at the very heart of it. From the moment sin entered the world through Adam and Eve, humanity has needed healing, reconciliation, and restoration. Baptism cleanses us from original sin, but we continue to wrestle with concupiscence—the ongoing inclination toward sin. This interior battle makes the call to forgiveness all the more urgent and necessary for our spiritual health and eternal destiny.