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Culture of Peace Symposium 2008
Join us from October 2 - 5, 2008 for the second Symposium for a Canadian Culture of Peace Programme. This year's focus will be the creation of new Culture of Peace Networks in communities across Canada, aiming to connect individuals and organizations dedicated to nonviolence and a culture of peace.
Arab and Jewish Canadians hail victory in breaking Gaza siege
While Obama, Biden and McCain keep groveling to the Israeli lobby, ordinary citizens break Gaza siege
Editorial And Other VoicesRoy Bouegeois drunk on new wine
Fr. Roy Bourgeois is merely the latest sacrificial lamb to pay the price for saying the obvious: "Sexism is a sin."
Prophetic VoicesCatholic Worker, mother of eight, tossed in jail for praying during a North Carolina execution
Mary and three others attempted to symbolically enter the prison to stop the execution. At a police line, the four knelt in prayer in the driveway where witnesses enter the prison.
ArtsThe Church Women Want edited by Elizabeth A. Johnson. Crossroad, 2002 paper pp. 141 A Catholic Common Ground Initiative Book
This book reports on a series of lectures staged in New York's Westchester County, refereed by Commonweal's former editor, Margaret O'Brien Steinfels and involving ten important women in the church.
People Of God: Committed To RenewalSpeaking to a secular age
"I am sometimes deeply dismayed by the language religious people use in the public square" says ethicist Margaret Somerville
People Of God: Committed To Renewal'Conscience compels us to be here today Homily text of Father Roy Bourgeois, Lexington, Kentucky
Founder of the School of the Americas Watch, Maryknoll priest Roy Bourgeois, co-celebrated with Roman Catholic Womenpriests at an ordination of a womanpriest, on Aug. 9, 2008 in Lexington, Kentucky. He has been summoned to meet with his superior and General Council in Maryknoll, New York on Monday, Aug.18, 2008. New York's Cardinal Egan was involved in this summons.
Re On this train there is room for "saints and sinners, losers and winners, lost souls" etc. Looks like the Church of the big tent to us.
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