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The Months and Weeks Ahead...
- "....'You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native
among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in
the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God' (Leviticus 19:34)....
"I wish to reaffirm that 'our shared response may be articulated by four verbs: to welcome, to protect, to promote and to integrate'....
"The principle of the centrality of the human person, firmly stated by my beloved Predecessor, Benedict XVI,[5] obliges us to always prioritise personal safety over national security...." (Pope Francis, Message for the 104th World Day of Migrants and Refugees [1/14/2018], 8/15/17)
- Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time (8/27/17)
(audio of readings)
(signed homily)
- 138th Anniversary of Our Lady's Appearance at Knock (8/21/17)
- Barcelona terrorists plotted bomb attack on Sagrada Família (Catholic Herald, 8/21/17)
Earlier in the news...
- "....I know there is an eclipse tomorrow. The reports on the radio, TV spots, news reports are hard to ignore. I am prepared. I have glasses to watch with, and a pair of binoculars with the appropriate filters on them.I have a good sense of what the sky will look like; outside Philadelphia, where I live the sun will be just under 80% obscured...." (The Catholic Astronomer: The Vatican Observatory Foundation Blog, 8/20/17)
- Saint Peter's University Hospital "Advance Directive for Health Care" could foster the impression that Catholic medical ethics are merely a set of sectarian idiosyncrasies (8/20/17)
- A piece of the Berlin Wall at Battery Park City (8/19/17)
- The Legacy of White Supremacy: Why Confederate Monuments Should Come Down (Witherspoon Institute, 8/18/17) Note: The Witherspoon Institute is a Princeton-based think tank that has distinguished itself with scholarly defenses of the sanctity of life and marriage/family.
- "The effort to revise the history of the Civil War to favor the South in popular memory began the moment that America's bloodiest war had come to an end. Former Confederate leaders, preachers and ideologues, determined to shake off the notion that they had fought to defend a society based on human servitude, launched a campaign to bury the real cause of the war that has not ended to this day....Now comes the latest effort in that tradition, a $56-million, 216-minute blockbuster film called 'Gods and Generals.' Funded by Ted Turner Pictures and directed, written and produced by Ronald Maxwell....'Gods and Generals' is part of a growing movement that seeks to rewrite the history of the American South, downplaying slavery and the economic system that it sustained" (Southern Poverty Law Center, 8/15/03).
- excerpts from The Cardinal Muller Report (8/17/17)
- What's happening with the English translation of the Vatican's Charter for Health Care Workers? (8/13/17)
- "....Inconsistencies arise in such areas as the provision of sign language interpreters and captioning for persons who are deaf, in the accessibility of church facilities for persons with mobility needs, and in the availability of catechetical programs for persons with intellectual, developmental, and other disabilities ....Since the parish is the center of the Christian experience for most Catholics, pastors and other parish ministers should make every effort to provide for all Catholics with disabilities who reside within a parish’s boundaries...." (USCCB, Guidelines for the Celebration of the Sacraments with Persons with Disabilities, Rev. Ed., 6/15/17)
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