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" ... Caggiano: First we need to evangelize. We also want people who come to church to see it as a collegial, collaborative enterprise where everyone, whether clerics or laity, works together to achieve a common initiative. We’re also creating a leadership institute. Clergy and lay leaders will have an opportunity for the first time in our diocese to have the latest training whether in business skills, public relations, business practices, communications or social media. ... "
" ... In the first six months of his Papacy, Francis squarely addressed the first critical question any CEO needs to ask about her company: what are the “jobs to get done?” He decisively articulated the job of the Church—serving society’s most vulnerable. In an unusually candid self-critique the Pope shifted the Church’s culture from, in his words one of “institutional self-preservation” back to its core mission. In the parlance of disruptive innovation theory, Francis focused on the products and services not only from the point of view of the decreasing number of existing consumers of Catholicism, particularly in the West, but also the much larger market of non-consumers—the non-practicing Catholics and non-Catholics. Predictably this disruption has created both excitement and energy as well as anxiety and resistance from incumbent management and conservative laity. The key to the Pope’s success as an innovator might just be that he leads by example. Rather than changing any creed, dogma or theology—that would inevitably create unnecessary tension and resistance—the Pope’s actions and practices simply embody the genuine mission of the church. Theology will then follow practice. Here are a few our our favorite things Pope Francis has done: ... "
" ... While Kirill and the ROC hierarchy have strongly supported Putin, cooperation between the two outside Russia's borders has given Kirill a few headaches in the past year or so as aggressive Russian actions have served to alienate many of the clergy and laity who lead and belong to Orthodox Churches of the Moscow Patriarchate within Russia's neighbors. Making this worse is the perception that the Church has merely become the soft power arm of the Kremlin, and evidence that the ROC has been closely cooperating with Putin on Ukraine in particular. As one example, the Church has been willing to act on the Kremlin's behalf in wielding Russian influence over the pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine. Last year, when the rebels were convinced to release the OSCE observers they had captured, it was the ROC that negotiated for their release, allowing the Kremlin to continue to pretend that it had no relationship with the rebels. ... "