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 The
places they'll go: Nuns working on the margins
The tough and
tender mercies of women religious transform the most remote and desolate
corners of poverty, misery, and heartache.
It takes nerves of
steel to stand in your doorway and tell rebel soldiers waving guns that
no, the woman they are seeking is most certainly not in the room behind
you, when in fact she is hiding a few feet away, under your bed. But
that's what Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe did. Read
more.
Once you've had a chance to
read this story from our June
issue, browse the rest of it and let us know what you thought.
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happy to hear from you!
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 Can we call God 'Mother'?
In using maternal metaphors for God
alongside the paternal ones, we embrace the fullness of God's love for
us.
Most Christians are
familiar with referring to God as Father, but can we call God
"Mother"? Many places in the Bible and Christian tradition as
well as theological voices answer this question affirmatively: God can be
referred to as "Mother." In fact, every recent pope since John
Paul I has made some reference to the value of understanding God like a
mother. Read
more.
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 Why
are we throwing a fit about crying rooms?
When young children fuss in church, it gives
everyone involved a needed break if babies can cry it out behind closed
doors.
On a scale of one to 10, my
kid goes to 11. At age 4, he's high energy, high intelligence, and often
highly challenging. I love everything about my little wild man until
Sunday morning comes and we're at Mass and everyone's staring at me like
I brought an ape into the room. For us, the cry room is a necessity
because children are a work in progress. We need a space to turn our
little ape into a Mass-trained child, an overhaul of such proportions
that removal from the staid silence of the pews is often required. With
all these distractions to the actual Mass, the question remains: Do cry
rooms really serve parishioners? The answer is yes. Read
more.
What do you think? Should
we 'suffer the children', even when they disrupt the Mass? Or should we just
be glad to see young families in church? Take
our survey and let us know!
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 Meet
the 'evangelical' Catholics who are remaking the GOP
In today's Republican Party, a number of factors
have forged a new religious identity that supersedes familiar old
categories.
Recent presidential
elections have elevated several evangelicals, including former Arkansas
Gov. Mike Huckabee, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and Texas Gov. Rick
Perry. But heading into the 2014 midterm elections, several of
the Republican Party's emerging leaders are Catholic, including some who
maintain evangelical backgrounds or tendencies. Read
more.
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Homelessness can't be solved
with spikes and signs
We should be treating people experiencing homeless
with compassion--not with signs that they are unwelcome.
In my daily commute to
Chicago's Loop, the sights and sounds become routine. Leaving my
apartment at nearly the same time every day, I see the same people on the
train platform with me to catch the same train. Another aspect of city
life that has become routine is the number of people experiencing
homelessness that I pass by. They are the same faces standing in the same
places. Read
more.
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 Listen: Free
State Serenade
By Chuck Mead (Plowboy Records, 2014)
Chuck Mead began his
musical life as a punk rocker in his native Lawrence, Kansas; then he got
the itch to play country and couldn't stop scratching. But this, his
third solo album, combines bright, catchy country and rockabilly musical
settings with dark, bone-chilling lyrical themes worthy of Johnny Rotten
himself. Read
more.
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