Category: Social Justice
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Human Dignity / Immigration / Liturgy
TIMOTHY BRUNK — The root reason for human dignity lies in man’s call to communion with God.
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Pray for Pope Francis
KATHARINE E. HARMON — Pope Francis remains hospitalized for double pneumonia. Will we continue to pray for the most vulnerable among us?
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The Genesis of a Jubilee Year of Hope
ANDRENIQUE ROLLE — Pope Francis’ 2025 prayer intentions address global and spiritual concerns during the Jubilee Year of Hope. Also in his message for the 58th World Day of Peace he calls for forgiveness freedom and systemic change to promote justice and human well-being.
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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.