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2 months ago | 
ncronline.org | Kat Armas |Heidi Schlumpf |Daniel P. Horan |David Dault
Oppressive empires have always existed. Emperors have built their kingdoms on the backs of the dispossessed, convinced their power is divinely ordained. They call their conquests "peace" and name their destruction "defense," stripping people of their homes, dignity and right to grieve. Empire is always grasping and consuming, never asking, never listening. It expands without permission, without heed for the cries of those in its path. Expansion is its gospel; dominion, its sacrament.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
goodfaithmedia.org | Kat Armas
Editor’s Note: Editor’s note: “Look Back” is a series designed to highlight articles from the Good Faith Media archives that remain relevant or historically interesting. If you have an article from our archives that you’d like us to consider including in this series, please email your suggestion to [email protected]. This article first appeared at Good Faith Media on September 21, 2022. Chukka chukka chukka.
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May 8, 2024 | 
christiancentury.org | Kat Armas |Melissa Florer-Bixler |Benjamin Dueholm |Elizabeth Schrader Polczer
“I haven’t read a devotional in years,” Kat Armas confesses in the first line of her new devotional book. I rarely finish a devotional, although I buy and start them regularly. Still, I devoured Sacred Belonging in a couple of days instead of taking the recommended 40.
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Jan 22, 2024 | 
ncronline.org | Kat Armas |Joshua J. McElwee
Pope Francis meets with members of the International Association of Journalists Accredited to the Vatican in the Clementine Hall of the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican Jan. 22, 2024.
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Jan 22, 2024 | 
ncronline.org | Kat Armas |Josephine Kwenga
As we sit down to reflect on what receiving the prestigious People's Choice SDGs Award means to us as the Sisters of St. Joseph of Tarbes, we are compelled by how this award was an exceptional experience of communion for us, not only in Kenya, the project location, but the entire St. Joseph of Tarbes family.
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Jan 22, 2024 | 
ncronline.org | Kat Armas |Brian Fraga
Robert Heineman, third from the left, is pictured with his family at his Call to Action retirement party. Heineman died Dec. 13. (Courtesy of Eileen Heineman) Robert Heineman used to tell his friends and colleagues from the progressive Catholic reform group Call to Action that the best way to bond with a donor was to sleep on their couch.
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Jan 22, 2024 | 
ncronline.org | Kat Armas
Is it due to your understanding that the hawk flies, spreading its wings to the south? Or at your command does the eagle soar, the vulture build a nest on high? —Job 39:26–27I opened my front door, exasperated at the yapping of my dog, Rogelio. The sun had set, and dusk was settling over our snow-covered lawn. I was dealing with those evening hours with a newborn when their seemingly insatiable hunger strikes for hours on end.
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Jan 22, 2024 | 
ncronline.org | Kat Armas |Michael Sean Winters
In the Tiroler Volkskunstmuseum in Innsbruck, Austria, featuring regional art of the Tyrol, there is a collection of magnificently, and intricately, carved nativity scenes. One of them shows the manger set amidst the mountainous Alps, with medieval towers looking down on the scene. That carving may not be historically accurate, but it is not heresy either. Its lack of historical precision does not undermine the doctrine of the incarnation.
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Jan 22, 2024 | 
ncronline.org | Kat Armas |Eduardo Lima
On Dec. 16, Indigenous activists from the remote province of Jujuy, in far northwestern Argentina, were preparing to pack up their camp in a public plaza in Buenos Aires, where they had been living since August, when a group of heavily armed men arrived to forcibly remove them. The dozen or so activists had come to protest a change in Jujuy's provincial constitution that they say will make it easier for mining companies to extract lithium from the Indigenous community's land.
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Jan 22, 2024 | 
ncronline.org | Kat Armas |Aleja Hertzler- McCain
18 U.S. bishops have signed a letter calling for the United States to cut military spending and instead invest in ending poverty. "The growing gap between the rich and the poor is compounded by a growing gap between our nation's spending on weapons and preparations for war and our commitment to end poverty," the statement said. Pax Christi USA, a Catholic peace organization, led the Bread Not Stones campaign behind the letter.
