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MISSION statement:

We are a group of Catholics, some of whom are ordained, brought together by our love of Christ's Church and our anxiety about its future. Still inspired by the Second Vatican Council, we want to contribute fully to the life of our Church so that we may be a more effective sign of the Kingdom of God. To do this, we believe that an atmosphere of openness and dialogue both with each other and with our church leadership needs developing. Accordingly, we aim to supply channels of free and frank communication. We desire to help create a climate of trust and respect for all where this dialogue may be fostered.

THEOLOGY statement:

ACTA is a movement built from below by clergy and laity alike in every diocese in England and Wales. It exists to give those people an effective voice. It is an instrument to establish and promote space for a trusting dialogue within a hierarchically structured people’s Church.
 
ACTA believes that the reforms of the Second Vatican Council are the only way forward for mission to modern society. It is not a small chapel of selected followers; it believes in the Church as a “big tent”, with open doors. As a free and representative association of believers, it seeks to liberate the expertise in the ranks, so as to bring added energy and witness to the Church in the world.

Gaza this October

Written by: Chris McDonnell
Published: 29 December 2023

Hour by hour
countless
munitions fall
in an exchange
of fearsome fire.

 

Smoke erupts
from shattered
Buildings hanging
through the orange
glow of flame.

Read more: Gaza this October

A Happy & Peaceful Christmas to you and yours !

Written by: Alex Walker
Published: 24 December 2023

Bethlehem2023

Becoming Synodal Video

Written by: Alex Walker
Published: 09 December 2023

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Becoming Synodal

Written by: Frank Callus
Published: 17 November 2023

We have just completed the Synod on Synodality in Rome. The attention of the world has started to focus on the key issues that the Church will grapple with in the years ahead. Some emphasis has been laid on the scale of the event – four hundred bishops; some on the breaks with tradition- the role of women and the fact that some have voting rights. Following years of press coverage on the issue of clerical sexual abuse, this relatively positive interest in the Catholic Church is welcome.

The holding of the Synod marks a key point in the process. It represents the culmination of discussions that led to diocesan syntheses, to a national synthesis and to a Continental Stage held in the Spring. In the months ahead we will learn more of the discussions in Rome and something of the preparations for the follow-up Synod in October 2024. It is certainly becoming easier to think of synodality as a characteristic of the nature of the Universal Church, a process for determining its structures and systemic realities. To be sure, there will be decisions made that are applicable to the whole Church, ways of acting out the Gospel that will be influenced by the global conversations and deliberations. Pope Francis, himself, has defined the Church through this synodal process – the Church is synodal by and in its very nature.

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Getting our feet wet

Written by: Chris McDonnell
Published: 16 November 2023

Chris McDonnell 28 October 2023


When someone is elected to high office, we often talk of their having “a honeymoon period”, a time to settle in before judgements are made on performance, a time to get to know how to exercise responsibility, a time of patience with the occasional mistake. Only later does the scrutiny become more incisive and the edges sharper in argument.

Read more: Getting our feet wet

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  3. Spirit Unbounded
  4. Notice of Annual General Meeting 

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