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Synodal virtues: valuing a sense of agency 

Thomas O’Loughlin is a presbyter of the Catholic Diocese of Arundel and Brighton and professor-emeritus of historical theology at the University of Nottingham (UK). His latest book is Eating Together, Becoming One: Taking Up Pope Francis’s Call to Theologians (Liturgical Press, 2019). He writes here about what will engage all the baptized in synodality. Reprinted […]

A way of transformation in ministry: A reflection on pastoral supervision 

Eveline Crotty RSM, is Institute Leader of the Institute of the Sisters of Mercy Australia and Papua New Guinea and past President of Transforming Practices, a group of autonomous practitioners offering support for people in ministry through pastoral supervision. She explores the meaning of pastoral supervision and why it is so effective in understanding and […]

A Pathway but for whom and to where?

Mary Monagle advocates on behalf of survivors of sexual abuse. She looks at the new Pathways process for Victoria from a perspective built on years of personal contact with people damaged from sexual abuse by church-related perpetrators.