Building Integrity for Mission
THE NATIONAL STRATEGY TO PREVENT AND RESPOND TO CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE 2021–2030 (Australia). This guide will help children and young people understand child sexual abuse, how and where to get help, and how the National Strategy is improving Australia’s response to child sexual abuse. When this guide refers to a child, it refers to anyone under the age of 18 years. This guide is recommended for children aged 9 years and up.
On November 22, Pope Francis gave a card, “The Beatitudes of the Bishop” to all members of the CEI (the Italian conference of bishops) meeting in Rome. The text offers encouragement and pastoral guidance not only to the Italian bishops but to the more than 5,000 Catholic bishops in the world today.
The Harvard Business Review examines The Real Reason People Won’t Change. It’s a psychological dynamic called a “competing commitment” and it explains something known as Immunity to Change.
No. 244 of the journal of missiology Spiritus, produced by the Society of the Divine Word (SVD) for free dissemination. This is the Latin American edition.
The Church of God is convoked in Synod. The path entitled “For a Synodal Church: Communion, Participation, and Mission” was solemnly opened on the 9th – 10th of October 2021 in Rome and then in each particular Church.
A basic question prompts and guides us: How does this “journeying together,” which takes place today on different levels (from the local level to the universal one), allow the Church to proclaim the Gospel in accordance with the mission entrusted to Her?
RENEWAL and continuing formation are more than synonymous terms. They seem to mean one and the same thing. There are many religious who expect this ‘ongoing formation’ to solve all their present and future problems. They believe that it will ensure perseverance and fidelity, provide a bulwark which will safeguard their own proper identity against the host of changes which threaten to erode it; that it will reveal the secrets of self-education and creativity, and enable them to see what provision should be taken for the future. Read more …
In his article, Leading from Within, Parker Palmer reflects on five ways spiritual leaders tend to cast ‘shadow’ rather than ‘light’ in their ministry of leadership. In this presentation, Gerardine Doherty, fdnsc offers her interpretations on some of the ways these realities are casting ‘shadows’ in today’s church.
In Section 3 we looked at each of the motivational forces; Values and Needs. Now we will consider the various values, that mould and shape our whole life of faith as MSC, what Jules Chevalier calls the sentiments of the Heart of Christ. Our starting place is to understand the nature of values and the different kinds of values that influence human behaviour.
On August 23, the Meeting of the First Five Years of the Province of Rio de Janeiro began in Juiz de Fora (MG), composed of the accompanier, Fr. Ruaro Cândido, and the following companions: Fathers Adeilson, Alisson, Bruno, Eliezer, Fábio Júnior and Magno Luís, and the Deacons Pablo, Patrick and Roney.
This is the second section of a series on deepening self-understanding in service of the Mission. In order to live our lives with a degree of ‘normal’ emotional integrity it is necessary to develop the capacity to ‘step-back’ from the self stuck in reactive emotional states.