Month: May 2025

Taken from Religión Digital this is a letter from a religious sister to Leo our new Pope. Click on the English translation within the link: https://www.religiondigital.org/vaticano/Carta-Papa-Leon-XIV-nuevamente-mujeres-iglesia_0_2778622120.html

Greetings to you all. Hoping you are experiencing these reflections as food for the soul. By passing them on to others they don’t stop with you but take on a life of their…

Novelist Sue Monk Kidd describes why cultivating an image of the Sacred Feminine is so important, particularly for women raised within Christianity: Taken from the website of Richard Rohr: https://cac.org/daily-meditations/why-she-matters/ A…

Mary McAleese is reported as saying the exclusion of women from ordination is based on “fake theology”. Ireland’s former President has formal qualifications in both Civil and Canon Law but…

Saturday, 10 May 2025 Thank you very much, Your Eminence. Before taking our seats, let us begin with a prayer, asking the Lord to continue to accompany this College, and…

Fourth Sunday of Easter – prayers of the faithful Introduction (by the Presider) As the people of God welcomes a new pope, we pray a blessing on the Church and the whole…

Prior to his election as Pope Leo XIV, Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was Prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops. Here is the biography of the 267th Bishop of Rome. By…

Vatican News: https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2025-05/pope-leo-xvi-peace-be-with-you-first-words.html Pope Leo XIV greets the faithful and the world invoking peace and pledging to work for a united Church faithful to Jesus and to the Gospel. Pope…

The phone rang. The White Smoke had appeared. I turned on the TV. My immediate assumption was that one of the more prominent characters would now be named as Pope….

Behold the man… PREVOST Card. Robert Francis, O.S.A. Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, O.S.A., Prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops, Archbishop-Bishop emeritus of Chiclayo, was born on 14 September 1955 in Chicago…

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4th Sunday of Easter (C) 2025. Theme is Shepherds & Soot.

The Redemptorist priest says many popes before Francis were not reformers, and it won’t be long before we see what way a new pope is going to go. THESE DAYS,…

Western People 6.5.2025 Tomorrow, May 7, 2025, of the 252 members of the College of Cardinals, 135 who are under 80 and therefore qualify to vote, will enter the Sistine…

Jim McDermott May 06, 2025 (RNS) — Before the last conclave, Ulrike Heckl found herself looking at photos of the cardinals who were preparing to elect the next pope and…

On the fourth Sunday of Easter each year, we honour the Risen Lord as our Good Shepherd. We pray for vocations to priesthood and Religious life: we pray that God…

 hello@rootandbranchsynod.org                  www.rootandbranchsynod.org            No. 151             06/05/2025 “The Church is like a bird with a…

ALCATRAZ: ‘Escape from Alcatraz ‘(1979) with Clint Eastwood, impressed many, and was a successful film. Seemingly, it aired recently on a South Florida PBS Station. Within hours, the Donald had…