As noted recently in the New York Times and elsewhere, the Jews of Ukraine have plenty of reason for concern. History has not been kind to the Jewish communities of Eastern Europe: from pogroms to the Holocaust, the memory of historical trauma is very much alive. But as Russia commences a war in Ukr
Source: The Enigmatic Role of Anti-Semitism in the Russia-Ukraine Conflict | Religion Dispatches
Joanne Bray,
WOC national Board, VOTF
Bridgeport, CT
This morning I came across a song many Catholic women have loved and sung over the decades as we have worked for change. May it offer you, all Sisters, as balm for rest along the way.
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Cardinal Turkson should urge bishops to show up in full regalia and be with the young people in their dioceses! LET’S SEE some ACTION beyond statements!
Climate AND Refugee Crises: https://ritebeyondrome.com/2018/11/02/bishops-you-belong-at-the-border/
The border is a great place to witness opposition to the world in its reliance on domination and force as solution to crisis
Source: BISHOPS, You Belong at the Border! – Rite Beyond Rome
God, Guns and and a militant kingdom theology of claiming the earth for God by force.
The following is a review that appears in the current issue of Kerux, the newsletter of Pax Christi Metro New York, the New York chapter of the international Catholic peace association.
Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment. By Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz. City Lights Books, 2018. 208 pp. $16.95.
To say that we have been hearing a lot lately about guns in the US, and about the Second Amendment to the Constitution, is to vastly understate the case. And the activism of the Parkland shooting survivors might even cause us to feel hopeful about US gun policy. Indeed, former SCOTUS Justice John Paul Stephens has recently called for the repeal of the Second Amendment!!
In Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz provides timely–and stunning–context for this conversation. Drawing on her expertise in the history of indigenous peoples and American history overall, Dunbar-Ortiz shows that the…
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Dr. Linda Ghisoni, married and mother to two daughters… Born in 1965, graduated with degrees in philosophy and theology in 1991… gained a doctorate in canon law from the Pontifical Gregorian University in 1990…lawyer and professor of canon law at the Pontifical Gregorian University.)
Prof. Michelina Tenace, born in 1954…studied philosophy… degree in foreign literature… doctorate in theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University, where she teaches fundamental theology and subjects related to anthropology and Oriental Christianity.
Laetitia Calmeyn, born … in 1975. A nurse who specialized in palliative medicine,…degrees in theology…a doctorate in theology at the Pontifical John Paul II Institute in Rome.
Today’s appointments may seem minor, but they are nonetheless further noteworthy steps in ongoing efforts to make it possible for women’s voices to be heard in Vatican offices where decisions are made.”
“nonetheless further noteworthy steps… to make it possible for women’s voices to be heard” in Vatican offices…” WE SHALL SEE…pending the next pope’s inclination.
“belief that God’s law must override that of humans”…This kind of theology is what gets the Church into trouble with “holy alliances” with dictatorships and such, doesn’t it?
A notion popular after the 2016 election was that liberals on the two coasts — people like me — had been living in a “bubble.” We were clueless about the lives of Trump voters.
I was skeptical about this. I have relatives and friends who voted for Trump. Yet I am also still astounded by the outcome of the election and events since then. And now Manlio Graziano’s Holy Wars & Holy Alliance has me wondering whether…
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