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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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.