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		[{"id":3140,"link":"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/2025\/12\/02\/daily-reflections-3-9-december\/","name":"daily-reflections-3-9-december","thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/path-1024x576.jpg","alt":""},"title":"Daily reflections 3 - 9 December","postMeta":{"_edit_lock":["1764539330:9"],"_thumbnail_id":["3141"],"_edit_last":["9"],"_nc_following_users":["9","1"]},"author":{"name":"flashes","link":"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/author\/flashes\/"},"date":"Dec 2, 2025","dateGMT":"2025-12-02 05:15:00","modifiedDate":"2025-11-30 23:36:50","modifiedDateGMT":"2025-11-30 10:36:50","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/category\/reflections\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Reflections<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/category\/reflections\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Reflections<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":"","series":""},"readTime":{"min":1,"sec":52},"status":"publish","excerpt":"Advent unfolds quietly, asking me to notice where hope waits beneath the surface of daily life. In honest choices, quiet service, and letting go of old fears, I prepare for a fulfilment I cannot yet see. Watching for Christ\u2019s return, I learn to trust that what is unfinished will one day be gathered and made whole."}]	

		[{"id":3009,"link":"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/2025\/11\/25\/political-science-insights-can-help-the-church\/","name":"political-science-insights-can-help-the-church","thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Meaning-and-importance-of-political-theory-300x169.jpg","alt":""},"title":"Political science insights can help the church","postMeta":{"_edit_lock":["1764089948:9"],"_thumbnail_id":["3010"],"_edit_last":["9"],"_nc_following_users":["9","12"]},"author":{"name":"John Warhurst","link":"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/author\/johnwarhurst\/"},"date":"Nov 25, 2025","dateGMT":"2025-11-25 05:05:00","modifiedDate":"2025-11-26 05:58:09","modifiedDateGMT":"2025-11-25 16:58:09","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/category\/flashes\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Flashes<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/category\/flashes\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Flashes<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":"","series":""},"readTime":{"min":2,"sec":39},"status":"publish","excerpt":"Synodality represents a major cultural shift. Political science reveals how large reforms mirror society\u2019s move from fossil fuels to renewable energy: slow, demanding and contested. Structural change requires persistence, patience and strong leadership capable of guiding communities through uncertainty and resistance with clarity and courage."},{"id":2956,"link":"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/2025\/11\/25\/clericalism-hijacks-the-church\/","name":"clericalism-hijacks-the-church","thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/clericalism-300x169.jpg","alt":""},"title":"Clericalism hijacks the Church","postMeta":{"_edit_lock":["1762938627:9"],"_thumbnail_id":["2958"],"_edit_last":["9"],"_nc_following_users":["9","15"]},"author":{"name":"Angela Hanley","link":"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/author\/angela-hanley\/"},"date":"Nov 25, 2025","dateGMT":"2025-11-25 05:04:00","modifiedDate":"2025-11-12 22:07:15","modifiedDateGMT":"2025-11-12 09:07:15","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/category\/flashes\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Flashes<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/category\/flashes\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Flashes<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":"","series":""},"readTime":{"min":2,"sec":48},"status":"publish","excerpt":"Ordination was once a commissioning for service within a community. Now, it's treated as an \u2018ontological change\u2019 \u2014 a mystical elevation. Exploring shift from \u201cVicar of Peter\u201d to \u201cVicar of Christ\u201d."},{"id":2915,"link":"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/2025\/11\/25\/rethinking-parish-life\/","name":"rethinking-parish-life","thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/once-was-parish-church-300x169.jpg","alt":""},"title":"Rethinking parish life","postMeta":{"_edit_lock":["1763460819:9"],"_edit_last":["9"],"_thumbnail_id":["2918"],"_wp_page_template":["default"],"_nc_include_in_auto_share":["1"],"_nc_following_users":["9","2"]},"author":{"name":"JP Grayland","link":"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/author\/joeg\/"},"date":"Nov 25, 2025","dateGMT":"2025-11-25 05:03:00","modifiedDate":"2025-11-18 23:13:39","modifiedDateGMT":"2025-11-18 10:13:39","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/category\/flashes\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Flashes<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/category\/flashes\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Flashes<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":"","series":""},"readTime":{"min":2,"sec":45},"status":"publish","excerpt":"The Catholic parish once stood as the Church\u2019s neighbourhood heartbeat. Today, that model no longer fits. From Canada to New Zealand, the shift from \u201cmaintenance to mission\u201d is taking hold. Lay-led communities, family-of-parishes, and digital ministries are showing that faith can flourish even where buildings close."},{"id":3034,"link":"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/2025\/11\/25\/global-south-shut-out-again-synods-liturgy-team-under-fire\/","name":"global-south-shut-out-again-synods-liturgy-team-under-fire","thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/multi-cultural-liturgy-300x169.jpg","alt":""},"title":"Global South shut out again: Synod\u2019s liturgy team under fire","postMeta":{"_edit_lock":["1763632142:9"],"_thumbnail_id":["3035"],"_edit_last":["9"],"_wp_page_template":["default"],"_nc_include_in_auto_share":["1"],"_nc_following_users":["9","16"]},"author":{"name":"Carmel Pilcher","link":"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/author\/carmel-pilcher\/"},"date":"Nov 25, 2025","dateGMT":"2025-11-25 05:02:00","modifiedDate":"2025-11-20 22:49:01","modifiedDateGMT":"2025-11-20 09:49:01","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/category\/flashes\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Flashes<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/category\/flashes\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Flashes<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":"","series":""},"readTime":{"min":2,"sec":22},"status":"publish","excerpt":"Reactions to the new Synod liturgy working group focus heavily on diversity. With limited involvement from the Global South, the dominance of clergy and few women represented, many suggest the credibility of the group\u2019s synodal aims is weakened."},{"id":2864,"link":"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/2025\/11\/25\/2864\/","name":"2864","thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/faith-in-humanity-300x169.jpg","alt":""},"title":"When divine justice feels delayed","postMeta":{"_edit_lock":["1763460804:9"],"_thumbnail_id":["2865"],"_nc_include_in_auto_share":["1"],"_nc_automation_sources":["a:2:{s:18:\"useCustomSentences\";b:0;s:15:\"customSentences\";a:0:{}}"],"_nc_post_highlights":["a:0:{}"],"_edit_last":["9"],"_wp_page_template":["default"],"_nc_following_users":["9","36"]},"author":{"name":"Kevin Liston","link":"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/author\/kevinliston\/"},"date":"Nov 25, 2025","dateGMT":"2025-11-25 05:01:00","modifiedDate":"2025-11-18 23:13:24","modifiedDateGMT":"2025-11-18 10:13:24","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/category\/flashes\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Flashes<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/category\/flashes\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Flashes<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":"","series":""},"readTime":{"min":2,"sec":54},"status":"publish","excerpt":"esus\u2019 assurance that God\u2019s chosen will find quick justice seems contradicted by human experience. The faithful must grapple with the gap between divine promise and human suffering, asking what role God\u2014and we\u2014play in the story of justice."},{"id":2780,"link":"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/2025\/11\/18\/liturgy-needs-a-living-voice-not-a-frozen-page\/","name":"liturgy-needs-a-living-voice-not-a-frozen-page","thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/frozen-in-time-300x169.jpg","alt":""},"title":"Liturgy needs a living voice, not a frozen page","postMeta":{"_edit_lock":["1763599400:9"],"_oembed_2325d27312de26f4884efe20eb0d63cd":["<iframe title=\"Shaping the Assembly: How our Buildings Form Us in Worship\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"500\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen style=\"max-width:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/read.amazon.com\/kp\/card?preview=inline&linkCode=kpd&ref_=k4w_oembed_zaSqLhzgCggmmG&asin=1788126114&tag=kpembed-20\"><\/iframe>"],"_oembed_time_2325d27312de26f4884efe20eb0d63cd":["1763486279"],"_nc_include_in_auto_share":["1"],"_nc_automation_sources":["a:2:{s:18:\"useCustomSentences\";b:0;s:15:\"customSentences\";a:0:{}}"],"_nc_post_highlights":["a:0:{}"],"_edit_last":["9"],"_wp_page_template":["default"],"_wp_old_date":["2025-11-18"],"_thumbnail_id":["2976"],"_nc_following_users":["9","30"]},"author":{"name":"Thomas O'Loughlin","link":"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/author\/tomoloughlin\/"},"date":"Nov 18, 2025","dateGMT":"2025-11-18 05:05:00","modifiedDate":"2025-11-19 06:17:59","modifiedDateGMT":"2025-11-18 17:17:59","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/category\/flashes\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Flashes<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/category\/flashes\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Flashes<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":"","series":""},"readTime":{"min":3,"sec":11},"status":"publish","excerpt":"Worship often sounds more written than spoken, as if directed at God rather than spoken with God. Liturgy that stays on the page risks sounding noble but distant. Translation is not imitation but incarnation."}]	

		[{"id":3041,"link":"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/2025\/11\/25\/christendom-is-over-but-not-christianity-cardinal-zuppi\/","name":"christendom-is-over-but-not-christianity-cardinal-zuppi","thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/eye-to-the-world-300x169.jpg","alt":""},"title":"If Christendom is over, Christianity certainly is not - Cardinal Zuppi","postMeta":{"_edit_lock":["1764109388:9"],"_edit_last":["9"],"_thumbnail_id":["3045"],"_wp_page_template":["default"],"_nc_include_in_auto_share":["1"],"_nc_following_users":["9","67"]},"author":{"name":"Mateo Zuppi","link":"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/author\/mateozuppi\/"},"date":"Nov 25, 2025","dateGMT":"2025-11-25 05:15:00","modifiedDate":"2025-11-26 11:22:59","modifiedDateGMT":"2025-11-25 22:22:59","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/category\/analysis-comment\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Analysis and Comment<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/category\/analysis-comment\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Analysis and Comment<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":"","series":""},"readTime":{"min":8,"sec":8},"status":"publish","excerpt":"In an address to the Italian bishops, Conference President, Mateo Zuppi , describes a Church that refuses to draw battle lines, sees no enemies to defeat, and only people to love. Stripped of presumed influence, the community rediscovers its true strength: the quiet gift of itself."},{"id":2996,"link":"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/2025\/11\/25\/leo-and-bartholomew-to-stand-together-at-historic-nicaea\/","name":"leo-and-bartholomew-to-stand-together-at-historic-nicaea","thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Leo-XIV-Bartholomew-I-300x169.jpg","alt":""},"title":"Leo and Bartholomew to stand together at historic Nicaea","postMeta":{"_edit_lock":["1764109550:9"],"_thumbnail_id":["2998"],"_edit_last":["9"],"_wp_page_template":["default"],"_nc_include_in_auto_share":["1"],"_nc_following_users":["9","1","68"]},"author":{"name":"David L. Klein","link":"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/author\/davidklein\/"},"date":"Nov 25, 2025","dateGMT":"2025-11-25 05:12:00","modifiedDate":"2025-11-26 11:25:17","modifiedDateGMT":"2025-11-25 22:25:17","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/category\/analysis-comment\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Analysis and Comment<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/category\/analysis-comment\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Analysis and Comment<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":"","series":""},"readTime":{"min":5,"sec":7},"status":"publish","excerpt":"The historic site of Nicaea, where Christian doctrine was first unified, now hosts Pope Leo XIV and Patriarch Bartholomew in a gesture of shared faith. Their presence together invites reflection on unity, tradition, and the potential for healing old rifts."},{"id":3001,"link":"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/2025\/11\/18\/what-does-pro-life-mean\/","name":"what-does-pro-life-mean","thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Leo-at-vatican-300x169.jpg","alt":""},"title":"What does 'pro-life' mean?","postMeta":{"_edit_lock":["1763487738:9"],"_thumbnail_id":["3003"],"_edit_last":["9"],"_nc_following_users":["9","1"]},"author":{"name":"flashes","link":"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/author\/flashes\/"},"date":"Nov 18, 2025","dateGMT":"2025-11-18 05:12:00","modifiedDate":"2025-11-19 06:41:53","modifiedDateGMT":"2025-11-18 17:41:53","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/category\/analysis-comment\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Analysis and Comment<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/category\/analysis-comment\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Analysis and Comment<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":"","series":""},"readTime":{"min":6,"sec":26},"status":"publish","excerpt":"Pope Leo XIV stirred debate by linking pro-life values with treatment of immigrants. His comments challenged American Catholics to rethink the narrow focus on abortion, urging a broader understanding rooted in Church teaching on dignity and human rights."},{"id":2993,"link":"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/2025\/11\/18\/trump-absent-from-us-bishops-mass-deportation-statement\/","name":"trump-absent-from-us-bishops-mass-deportation-statement","thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/us-bishops-meeting-300x169.jpg","alt":""},"title":"Trump absent from US Bishops' mass deportation statement","postMeta":{"_edit_lock":["1763504947:9"],"_thumbnail_id":["2994"],"_edit_last":["9"],"_nc_following_users":["9","25"]},"author":{"name":"Thomas Reese","link":"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/author\/thomasreese\/"},"date":"Nov 18, 2025","dateGMT":"2025-11-18 05:10:00","modifiedDate":"2025-11-19 11:28:51","modifiedDateGMT":"2025-11-18 22:28:51","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/category\/analysis-comment\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Analysis and Comment<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/flashesinsight.com\/category\/analysis-comment\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Analysis and Comment<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":"","series":""},"readTime":{"min":6,"sec":8},"status":"publish","excerpt":"An urgent message on immigration nearly failed to reach the agenda at the bishops\u2019 meeting in Baltimore. Only behind closed doors did leaders push to address the crisis, ultimately empowering four bishops to draft the hard-won pastoral statement."}]