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What We Need Now seeks faithful, authentic reform of the Catholic Church. Our essays aim to help Church leaders (lay and clerical) pursue life-giving renewal
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Christian Anthropology and the Crisis of Marriage (opens the original)
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The understanding that man and woman are made in the Imago Dei with complementary gifts realized in fruitful conjugal love continues to vanish from American life, bringing with it an increase in human suffering.This collapse in Christian anthropology, and its replacement with an anthropological anarchy, fuels the flight from marriage. It is a threat to the future of Christian faith and the future health of the Church and its mission.To flesh out this point, consider that 80 percent of all weekly
Active Participation Revisited (opens the original)
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Nearly ten years ago I found myself in Rome for a private audience with Cardinal Robert Sarah, the then-Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, in order to share with him the vision and plans for Source & Summit and to seek his feedback and blessing.After waiting some time for the meeting to begin in his unusually warm office, his secretary came in and opened the windows to let in some cool air. Eventually, Cardinal Sarah entered the room, almost floa
The Evangelization Power of Rome (opens the original)
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In centuries past, the great missionaries of the Church—many now canonized saints—traveled to the far ends of the earth to bring Christ to those the Church once called pagans. The dangers were not exaggerated. Months crossing open ocean, with a genuine chance of shipwreck, disease, and starvation always possible, if not likely. And, if a missionary made it all the way to his destination, there was more than a passing chance of horrific martyrdom. Survival brought no guarantee of success. First c
The Incomplete Work of Renewal (opens the original)
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In my mid-20s, I went through my own version of what some might call today the “quarter life crisis,” precipitated by a late night’s realization that the birth of our first daughter meant my theology teacher’s salary was going to buckle under the weight of growing responsibility. I began to experience dissatisfaction and unhappiness in the decisions that had led to my present situation. The next two years would see a flurry of change—cross country moves and multiple job shifts—before the quarter
The Mass: Our Intimate Encounter with the Transcendent Lord (opens the original)
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All of us, whether religious or not, long for transcendence because the human heart was made for it. By transcendence I mean the awareness of something greater than ourselves; something bigger than us. It’s that experience of something so beautiful, so powerful that words fail and our hearts are stirred. Perhaps you’ve felt this when gazing upon a star-filled night sky, or hiking the Ozarks, or entering a breathtakingly beautiful cathedral. Such natural experiences of transcendence are gifts tha
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