Category: Social Justice
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The Feast of the Holy Innocents: martyrs as victims or victors?
LIZETTE LARSON — Are martyrs victors – bearing their palms and wearing their crowns through their deaths in Christ, or are they victims in and of themselves – within a popular piety sense that they represent themselves, dying, rather than joined to Christ?
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Thanksgiving for Bearers of Hope
NICHOLAS DENYSENKO — The most powerful force inside me insists that God will remain God – the one who seeks the lost sheep to return them to the flock because of irresistible love.
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Preaching and the Political, Part 3: Christ the King
BRUCE MORRILL – The liturgical year is reaching its culmination, as has the U.S. political cycle. Preaching on Christ the King in the wake of Election Day invites consideration of this feast’s modern origin and present implications.
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Eucharistic Prayer IV: Part One
TIMOTHY BRUNK — The prayer invites us to ponder the unity of all people.
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Corita Kent: “Loud and Clear” (Ritual) Artists Amid Adversity and Uncertainty
REBECCA BERRU-DAVIS — “What the world expects of Christians is that Christians should speak out and that they should voice their condemnation in such a way that never a doubt, never the slightest doubt, could rise…”
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Eucharist, Faith, and Social Justice
BRUCE MORRILL — Morrill lectures on Christian faith as a praxis of liturgy and ethics given as part of a series supporting the USCCB’s Eucharist Revival at St. Francis Xavier Church, New York City, April 7, 2024.
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The Feast of Creation and the Mystery of Creation
LIZETTE LARSON — Like many ecumenical gatherings which truly listen to one another, there was a delight in simply being gathered together and in being pleasantly surprised by the insights of each represented ecclesial community.
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World Day of the Poor 2023
Facing Christ in anyone who is poor “Do not turn your face away from anyone who is poor” (Tobit 4:7). Pope Francis chose this theme for the seventh annual World Day of the Poor, observed on November 19, 2023, the Sunday before the Solemnity of Christ the King. The parish to which I belong is…
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Book Review: Unruly Saint
One of most passionate accounts of Dorothy’s great love for Christ and for the suffering sister and brother before us.