August 23, 2020: Authority that makes Christianity credible with Elyse Raby

Preaching for the Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time, Elyse Raby offers a reflection on authority:   "This is the kind of lived authority, the kind of witness and testimony, that opens the doors to the kingdom of heaven. This  is the authority that makes Christianity credible. It is the kind of authority that we so desperately need from our church leaders who are in positions of authority."   Elyse Raby is a doctoral candidate in systematic theology at Boston College. She is completing her dissertation on the church as the body of Christ in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Catholic theology and, in particular, how different understandings of embodiment shape our understandings of the church, its ministry, and its relationship to the world.   Visit www.catholicwomenpreach.org/preaching/08232020 to learn more about Elyse, to read her text or watch her video, and for more preaching from Catholic women.