Fr. Alex writes about his experience at the International Meeting of Responsibles in Italy
At the end of August, I had the privilege of joining people from over 70 countries at the International Meeting of Responsibles in La Thuile, Italy. When Fr. Michael invited me, I have to admit that I was surprised, since I hold no “official” responsibili...
Sharing a judgment from the attendees of the Mountains and Plains summer vacation
This year close to 200 individuals and families from the Mountains and Plains region – spanning across Kansas, Oklahoma, and Colorado – chose to spend a few days in the mountains participating in the CL vacation as many other communities did around the co...
For September’s Book of the Month, we propose again Vaclav Havel’s The Power of the Powerless
Vaclav Havel wrote The Power of the Powerless in 1978, ten years after the Warsaw Pact armed forces came into Czechoslovakia to clamp down on the nation as it was demonstrating a troublesome penchant for a democratic socialism that was unacceptable to the...
A witness to the experience of the Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina Summer Vacation
Each one of us made it to the CL family vacation wrapped up in our own solitude of worries, concerns, and even objections and complaints. Our small group arrived at the venue, surrounded by friends we had encountered over the years, longing for missing fa...
An interview with Fr. Aaron Wessman, author of The Church's Mission in a Polarized World
In 2017, following four years of studying in Europe, Fr. Aaron Wessman returned to America and discovered an anger and divisiveness much more pronounced than when he left. While the last seven years have further entrenched this divisiveness, Fr. Aaron has...