lumen gentium

The Apostolic Constitution ‘Praedicate Evangelium’ on the Roman Curia

Evangelization and the missionary nature of the Church On March 19, 2022, the Solemnity of St. Joseph, Pope Francis promulgated…

2 years ago

Religious Life:  From chaos to ‘kairos’?

An unprecedented crisis in Western religious life Historians of religious life know well that in the course of Church history…

2 years ago

Lay People as Teachers of the Church

At his weekly general audience on May 27, 2015, Pope Francis asked engaged couples to read Alessandro Manzoni’s novel The…

2 years ago

The First Ecclesial Assembly of Latin America and the Caribbean: Experiences of a synodal process

Embracing renewal at a time of uncertainty In the days immediately preceding the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, in February…

2 years ago

What is the Synodal Journey? The thought of Pope Francis

“For a Synodal Church: Communion, Participation and Mission” is the title of a journey solemnly begun on October 9-10, 2021,…

3 years ago

Towards a Synodal Church

When we apply the term “synodality” to the Church, we do not intend to designate a more collaborative decision-making process…

3 years ago

Saint John Henry Newman: Faith, Holiness and Imagination

The Cerdagna plateau in the Catalan Pyrenees has villages with Romanesque churches that are as solid and dark as a…

4 years ago

The Synod for the Amazon: A fresco for our ‘common home’

The Special Assembly of the Synod of Bishops for the Panamazon region has just ended. Here we offer some immediate…

5 years ago

Evangelical Imbalances: Francis Writes to the People of God in Germany

The German Church is on a preparatory phase of her synodal journey[1] and Pope Francis has written a Letter[2] to…

5 years ago

From De Ecclesia to Lumen Gentium

The schema of the preparatory doctrinal commission On November 23, 1962, while the conciliar assembly began to discuss the text…

7 years ago