Jerry Filteau

Bishop: Synod questionnaire shows most reject teaching on contraceptives

Feb 24, 2014

Even more regular churchgoing Catholics in Bishop Robert Lynch's diocese find church teaching on contraception no longer relevant.

Church needs to restore synodal structure, reformist Austrian priest says

Jul 22, 2013

The Catholic Church needs to restore a synodal structure of governance and end its current form of highly centralized Vatican rule, said Fr. Helmut Schuller, leader of a group of Austrian priests advocating priestly ordination of women and married men and other church reforms, during a July 22 luncheon in Washington.

Revisiting 'Pacem in Terris' personally after 50 years

NCR Today

Apr 18, 2013

At a lunch with an old friend this Tuesday [April 10] I reminded him how much Pope John XXIII’s 1963 encyclical, Pacem in Terris (“Peace on Earth”) had changed our lives.

In 1970 both of us – he from Brooklyn, I from the Diocese of Fargo, N.D. – left Theological College, the U.S. bishops’ national seminary at The Catholic University of America.

With the low-salary entry-level jobs typical for ex-collegians with liberal arts/philosophy/theology majors, we and a third ex-seminarian joined up to share an inexpensive apartment in the Washington suburbs.

Experts: 'Pacem in Terris' had radical impact on church teaching

Theology

Apr 18, 2013

Pope John XXIII's 1963 encyclical Pacem in Terris radically affected Catholic social teaching not only on war and peace, but on church-state relations, women's rights, religious freedom, international relations and other major issues.

Peter Turkson: Pope Francis sets new tone for Curia

Parish

Vatican

Apr 17, 2013

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Jerry Filteau

Bishop: Synod questionnaire shows most reject teaching on contraceptives

Church needs to restore synodal structure, reformist Austrian priest says

Revisiting 'Pacem in Terris' personally after 50 years

Experts: 'Pacem in Terris' had radical impact on church teaching

Peter Turkson: Pope Francis sets new tone for Curia

'Pacem in Terris' focus of two Washington conferences

Boston cardinal urges social ministry gathering to focus on mission

Pope Pius XII was prepared to resign as pope

Woodstock Theological Center to close in June

Sex abuse becomes legacy of Los Angeles cardinal

Cardinal Mahony barred from public ministry in Los Angeles

Obama proposals on gun control align with religious leaders' pleas

Seminar: Catholic school crisis calls for creative responses

Bishops face the growing retirement crisis of religious orders

National collections hurt when dioceses drop or combine them

Update: Statement on economy denounced by archbishop fails to pass

Catholic Charities summit seeks creative ways to cut poverty

Panel: U.S. Catholic vote is important, even if it doesn't exist

Bishops' longtime social justice spokesman retires

Symposium highlights challenges to international religious freedom

Voice of the Faithful seeks to expand its challenges to sex abuse, church structures

Voice of the Faithful marks 10th year with new calls for church reform

Philadelphia breaks new ground on managing Catholic schools

Controversial former Seattle archbishop celebrates 50-year anniversary as bishop

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