Episcopal Governance and Catholic Communion
If such is not the universally accepted sense of Catholic communion, we bishops must look to ways to strengthen Church unity. Relations do not speak first of control but of love. If there is a loosening of relationship between ourselves and those whom Christ has given us to govern in love, it is for us to reach out and re-establish connections necessary for all to remain in communion. As you know, we have recently begun discussions on how we might strengthen our relationship to Catholic universities, to media claiming the right to be a voice in the Church, and to organizations that direct various works under Catholic auspices. Since everything and everyone in Catholic communion is truly inter-related, and the visible nexus of these relations is the bishop, an insistence on complete independence from the bishop renders a person or institution sectarian, less than fully Catholic.
The Cross Wins, It Always Wins. A Meditation on the Gospel of the Fifth
Sunday of Lent
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The Gospel today is, to the world and to those who are perishing, utter
madness, utter foolishness. For Christ, in effect, declares that dying (to
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