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LIONS AND LAMBS

If ever we needed powerful images to touch our imagination and give us a vision of what will come to pass when our God comes, Isaiah's prophetic poetry fills the hearts of modern people with hope, just as it did for the Israelites who suffered slavery and exile from their homeland. Isaiah proclaims that where there has been war, God comes to bring peace. He will restore the lineage of David and give the people a faithful shepherd to lead them. On that day, "a shoot shall sprout from the stump of Jesse and from his roots a bud shall blossom” and justice will flourish..

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SECOND SUNDAY IN ADVENT

In this fracturing world, we're all on a long climb. We'll find ways to care for those whose stamina runs dry while the rest of us move forward. All we need is the conviction that we are on the way to something dreamed of, but currently out of sight. We can keep going if we believe..
THE DOCTRINAL CRISIS OVER IMMIGRATION IN THE US CHURCH

A deep divide has opened between the Catholic Church’s consistent teaching on immigration and the instincts of many US Catholics shaped more by partisan identity than by the Gospel. This is not a mild disagreement over prudential details. Increasingly, it reflects a refusal to receive the Church’s teaching at all.
MIGRATION SHOULD BE A CHOICE, NOT A NECESSITY

A just response requires more than managing borders. It demands international solidarity, development policies that respect human dignity and foster the common good, and a renewed commitment to building conditions in which people are truly free to stay and flourish.
THE US BISHOPS' YOU ARE NOT ALONE INITIATIVE

How Local Churches Can Stand in Solidarity with Immigrants and Refugees: The 'You Are Not Alone' initiative is a set of practices that dioceses and parishes can adopt to show solidarity with migrant families.
VATICAN DOCUMENT ON WOMEN DEACONS OPENS DOOR TO MORE CONFUSION

The Vatican has issued, solely in Italian, the opinion of the chair of Pope Francis’ Second Commission for the Study of the Diaconate. Its substance can be translated quickly: Women cannot be ordained as deacons because they cannot “image Christ.” It is in effect a statement that the Catholic Church officially views women as “other.”
WILL THE WOMEN DEACONS DEBATE DOOM SYNODALITY?

Some worry about the latest ‘patriarchal stalling tactic’ - Treating this issue differently than others also may be hinting that change is not coming anytime soon.
LEANING INTO THE HOPE OF ADVENT WHEN THE WORLD FEELS SO DARK

We are in “now and not yet” circumstances, the dark time before the dawn. We know what’s right, but wrongs keep happening. In a time of persecution, we should learn from Advent’s lesson of hopeful anticipation for the arrival of better times.
SEARCHING FOR A WOMB TO BIRTH A MESSIAH

Speaking metaphorically, before a log can burst into flame, it needs to pass through a certain advent, a certain drying out, a period of frustration and yearning. So too, the dynamics of how a special kind of love is born in our lives.

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