Michael Seán Winters from the National Catholic Reporter writes:
At last week’s general audience, Pope Francis expressed his concern about Catholic groups that chart their own path. His words are a challenge to those on both the left and the right who discount the importance of thinking with the church.
https://www.ncronline.org/news/opinion/distinctly-catholic/pope-francis-challenges-catholic-left
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Jo O’Sullivan writes of her experience of the WMOF and the Papal Visit; “deep in our souls the pain of centuries of oppression is still there. And now our pain has been inflicted by the very source that comforted our forebears through their agonies. Is it any wonder so many of us can’t move beyond that sense of betrayal?”
Francis “keeps asking us to pray for him. I do. And I also pray for us. We need and deserve an Institutional church which reflects real Christianity – that church which rallied around the homeless who gathered at the GPO on Sunday night.”
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THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK:
“Just because a Catholic has a thought does not mean it is a Catholic thought that has been had.” – Michael Sean Winters.
How well are we, ACP trailblazers, campers and campfollowers, positioned in relation to Pope Francis’s ‘four co-ordinates’ – or have we mislaid our compasses or Franciscan GPS?
He wasn’t just taking aim at the synoding Germans, y’know.