All the Kingdoms of the World: On Radical Religious Alternatives to Liberalism is an important read because none of us yet knows how influential integralists will become and because Vallier takes the movement seriously.
On the first day of their plenary, the bishops are all huddled in small group sessions. This is frustrating for us in the press, but we can hope this more synodal approach helps the bishops find a way to come together.
It is time for the pro-life movement in this country, and especially for the U.S. Catholic bishops, to recognize that their nearly 50-year effort to overturn Roe v. Wade was a deeply flawed political strategy.
If we listen only to what the media has written about the synod on synodality, we might miss important opportunities for church reform, writes NCR contributor Thomas Reese.
The pope insists that theology engage in "dialogue within the ecclesial community and an awareness of the essential synodal and communion dimension of doing theology."
There will be a few key elections tomorrow but campaign watchers should be wary of any analysis that seeks to extrapolate national trends from these very specific contests, says NCR columnist Michael Sean Winters.
With the new speaker of the House, the principal issue is how he brings his religion into politics. Mike Johnson is assuming the meaning of the Bible is uncontested, that his interpretation is the only available one.
Before the close of this year's synod session, Pope Francis restated what the church is at its core and, in doing so, denounced a church governed by clericalism.
The final document of the synod's first session has some very specific proposals, and the section on formation especially has some clues about how to proceed. The model for formation: Jesus' way.