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For Labor Day, church should embody social teachings

Author: Richard McBrien

September 06, 2010

It is no accident that in recent presidential elections many bishops (and cardinals) have clearly sided with the Republican candidates over the Democratic candidates. For such bishops the litmus test is the abortion issue. They are critical of the late Cardinal Bernardin's consistent-ethic-of-life approach.

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Shatter the Stained Glass Ceiling Tour new catholic times sensus fidelium public lecture

September 01, 2010

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A Letter to an Israeli Policeman: August 18, 2010

Author: Sr. Paulette Schroeder

August 21, 2010

The Israeli Defense Force continues to humiliate Palestinians on a regular basis. Sr. Paulette Schroeder, a Franciscan nun working as a Christian Peacemaker reports from Hebron.

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Conversation, Dialogue or Prescription?

Author: Philip Schmidt

June 21, 2010

She could not know, however, the damage the Church has done in refusing to hear the cries of other gay Catholics who cannot get their stories heard as hers was at St. Michael's parish hall before the archbishop. She cannot know the damage of those who, in denying who they are, in trying to be who the Church would have them be, have struggled with alcoholism, debilitating depression, substance abuse and suicide. These stories never get told.

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