We seek changes that will provide all Roman Catholics the opportunity to participate fully in Church life and leadership.
Naming Obstructions to God’s Inbreaking: A Lenten Evening of Reflection with Father Anne
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.
Featured Projects
Praying with the Shepherd Within: An Advent Evening of Reflection with Father Anne
The Spirit Still Speaks: New Voices for Reform
Dr. Cynthia Bailey Manns Accepts 2025 Fr. Louis J. Trivison Award
Barbara Anne Kozee Accepts 2025 Sr. Christine Schenk Award
2025 Fall Event Night Two – Award Ceremony
The Just Word This Week
Inclusive. Life-giving. Liberating.
The Just Word Commentary was a three-year project that offered life-giving, liberatory reflections on the Catholic lectionary readings across the Church’s full three-year cycle: Year A, Year B, and Year C.
While the project has now concluded, all of the reflections and readings remain available as an ongoing resource for prayer, study, and preaching. We are deeply grateful to the writers who contributed their insight, courage, and faith throughout these years. Writing from a Catholic perspective that intentionally stands with those the Church itself has often marginalized is no small task, and their work continues to speak powerfully.
Though no new commentaries are being produced, we hope readers will continue to return to The Just Word Commentary—to revisit favorite entries, discover new ones, and engage these reflections in fresh ways. We’d still love to hear from you: which reflection has stayed with you, or where has this project met you in your own faith journey?
FutureChurch in the News
“A ‘new wineskin’ kind of Catholic”: FutureChurch convenes panel of young church reformers
By Michael Centore | Today’s American Catholic
As conclave begins, reform groups prepare for Pope Francis’s successor
By Michael Centore | Today’s American Catholic
Activists frustrated yet hopeful after synod punts on women deacons
Heidi Schlumpf | National Catholic Reporter