We seek changes that will provide all Roman Catholics the opportunity to participate fully in Church life and leadership.

“The Catholic Church and Its Hospitals: A Marriage Made in Heaven?” with Patricia A. Gabow, MD
This week’s liturgy
FutureChurch Online Liturgies are lay-led by volunteers from the community and include opportunity for small group faith sharing. All are welcome! Join us most Sunday evenings at 7pm ET.
Lent 2025
34th Annual Fall Event

Lent 2025 Retreat: Respond from your Contemplative Heart with Nancy Sylvester, IHM

Lent 2025 Session Five: Praying with and for Women

Lent 2025 Session Four: Praying with and for the Environment

Bending Toward Justice: Sr. Kate Kuenstler and the Struggle for Parish Rights

Lent 2025 Session Three: Praying with and for Immigrants and Refugees
- Lent 2025 Retreat: Respond from your Contemplative Heart with Nancy Sylvester, IHM
- Lent 2025 Session Five: Praying with and for Women
- Lent 2025 Session Four: Praying with and for the Environment
- Bending Toward Justice: Sr. Kate Kuenstler and the Struggle for Parish Rights
- Lent 2025 Session Three: Praying with and for Immigrants and Refugees

Second Sunday of Easter
Today we invite you to explore the resurrection as symbolizing a transcendent world; engage faith as a question of courage; and embody faith and doubt with the examples of martyrs in Palestine and Central America, and “making a way out of no way.”
The Just Word This Week
Inclusive. Life-giving. Liberating.
The Just Word Commentary is a three-year project, providing life-giving, liberatory commentaries on the Catholic lectionary readings for all three years the Church has provided them (Designated Year A, Year B, and Year C). The new yearly cycle begins on the first Sunday of Advent. Right now, we are headed into Year B of the cycle, which takes its gospel readings from the book of Mark. Year A uses the book of Matthew, and Year C uses the book of Luke.
As we transition out of Year A into Year B, we want to give a huge thank you to our Year A writers for their deep thoughts and feelings. It’s not an easy thing to write from a Catholic perspective that often stands with those that the Church itself does not.
We’re so excited for our upcoming year of commentaries we have lined up, and we hope you’ll join us once again. We’d love to connect with you! Let us know your favorite entry so far or something you would love to see in Year B ahead!
FutureChurch in the News
Activists frustrated yet hopeful after synod punts on women deacons
Heidi Schlumpf | National Catholic Reporter
The quiet revolution in women’s roles in the Church
Joanna Thyer | Eureka Street (Australian Jesuit Magazine)
Major Vatican Reform Effort Ends In “Patriarchal Stalling” On Ordination of Women
Gary Gately | The Catholic Observer