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Sr. Josée Ngalula and the courage of conscientious dissent inside the Synod
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Sr. Josée Ngalula and the courage of conscientious dissent inside the Synod

When a Congolese Benedictine sister quietly declined to co-author a contested section of the Synod's final report, her choice illustrated something the CCMMP calls courage-fortitude: the willingness to withhold assent when conscience demands it, even inside an institution one loves. Presence + examines what that decision reveals about virtue formation under institutional pressure.

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