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Pilgrimage to the Holy Land – Day 2 (2 May 2017)
May 2, 2017 My fellow pilgrims met outside in the courtyard this morning. (Pic 1). We met our guide, Iyad, who is a local Christian Palestinian. Our morning and evening lectures and our day’s excursions were all in and about Palestine. I am only beginning to...
Pilgrimage to the Holy Land – Day 1 (1 May 2017)
Day 1, May 1, 2017 After a 15-hour flight from San Francisco, my husband and I landed in Tel Aviv in the wee hours of this morning. We are staying in St. George’s guest house for pilgrims in Jerusalem. (Pic 1). After a few hours’ sleep, we had breakfast, and headed...
2017 May 01 – Strategy Team Meeting
Here is a brief summary of the call this past Monday. Present on the call: Clyde Christofferson - United States Virginia Saldanha - United States Don Pribor - Mexico Ed Schreurs - The Netherlands Jean-Pierre Schmitz - France Peter Mbuchi - Kenya Liz Ngami - Kenya...
Springtime Reflections for Church Renewal
by J A Dick (Reproduced with permission) April 20, 2017 Reform-minded people need to change their conversation about church reform. Otherwise they end up either talking to themselves or simply repeating what everyone else has been saying for the past ten years....
2017 April 24 – Strategy Team Meeting
Present on this week’s call: Clyde (U.S.), Christina (New Zealand), Peter (Kenya), Don (Mexico), Jean-Pierre (France), Lula (Brazil), Liz (Kenya), Rachael (India), and Rene (U.S.) Summary of the outcomes of today’s meeting: Lula Ramires joined our call today and...
2017 April 10 – Strategy Team meeting
Present on the Strategy Team call: Clyde (U.S.), Ed (Netherlands), Christina (New Zealand), Peter (Kenya), Don (Brazil), Kochurani (India), Paschal, tried to connect (Australia), and Rene (U.S.) and invited guest Liz Ngambi (Kenya). Present on the Young Adult call...
Women take initiative to wash the feet of women and other marginalized sections
by Kochurani Abraham The foot washing ritual of women and other marginalized sections organized by the ecumenical feminist women's fellowship 'Women's Lives Matter' ( a local unit of ICWM), at Santwanam Center for battered women and children, Kottayam, was a...
Letter: Including Women and Girls in the Washing of Feet on Maundy Thursday.
31 March 2017 To, Cardinal Oswald Gracias, President, Conference of Catholic Bishops of India, Cardinal George Alencherry, President Syro-Malabar Bishops’ Synod (SMBS) Baselios Cardinal Cleemis Catholicos President, Holy Episcopal Synod - Syro-Malankara Church Your...
Church has to be humane, neither male or female!
‘Holy Father Church’, aging, dying? A reflection on an interview with Kochurani Abraham in Global Sisters Report by Dr. James Kottoor From the time of Constantine, we always had only the “Holy Father Church”, patriarchy, male dominated....
Open Letter to the Bishops of Australia
Catholics for Renewal has drafted this letter in consultation with many Catholics strongly committed to the teachings of Jesus and their Church. People of the Church have been distressed by the increasing failings of our Church, particularly in the context of the...
Concern about sexual abuse in the Church
22nd March, 2017. To Baselios Cardinal Cleemis, President, Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI), Major Archbishop of Trivandrum, Archbishop’s House, Pattom, Trivandrum – 695 004. Kerala. Subject: Concern about sexual abuse in the Church Dear Cardinal Cleemis,...
2017 March 9 – Strategy Team Meeting
CCRI Strategy Team Meeting 9 March 2017 Present on the call : United States : Rene, ClydeSouth Korea : PaulKenya : Peter India : Virginia Mexico : Don Australia : Paschal Paul - the Catholic Church needs an official body of lay representatives and/or regional bodies...
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