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==== Given your personal awakening to the reclaimed, radical Jesus, how do you navigate your relationship with the Catholic Church? ====

Possible Paths Forward:

✔ Stay Within and Work for Reform:
* Advocate for regenerative, life-affirming Catholic theology and practice.
* Engage with movements within the Church that align with Christ’s liberatory teachings (e.g., liberation theology, Franciscan spirituality, eco-theology).
* Push for greater lay participation, decentralization, and social action within the Church.

✔ Move Toward a Broader Christ-Centered Spirituality:
* While maintaining Catholic identity, seek spiritual integration beyond institutional limits.
* Explore mystical, contemplative traditions (e.g., Teilhard de Chardin, Thomas Merton, Richard Rohr, Cynthia Bourgeault).
* Engage with grassroots Christian communities that embody regenerative faith, social justice, and spiritual wholeness.

✔ Challenge the Church’s Alignment with Empire:
* Refuse to support its corporate and hierarchical excesses.
* Engage in prophetic critique—calling out contradictions between Christ’s teachings and institutional corruption.
* Demand structural changes, including economic transparency, gender equality, and lay empowerment.

✔ Live the Reclaimed Jesus in Your Own Life and Community:
* Regardless of Church politics, embody Christ’s teachings through personal and communal action.
* Create regenerative, life-affirming initiatives: - Support cooperative economics and mutual aid networks. - Participate in justice movements that align with Christ’s vision. - Integrate contemplative practice with activism—engaging both inner transformation and outer systemic change.