Rebecca Weiss
Digital Editor at U.S. Catholic
Writer at Freelance
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1 month ago |
ncronline.org | Rebecca Weiss
Editor's note: this article contains spoilers. The premise of Coralie Fargeat’s satirical horror film "The Substance" is straightforward: A middle-aged movie star (an Oscar-nominated Demi Moore) is panicking because the industry has declared her obsolete. So when she is offered an illicit treatment called The Substance, which promises "a better version of yourself," she takes it. The film pushes the body horror genre to its extreme, yet the result is strangely liberating.
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1 month ago |
uscatholic.org | Nathaniel Hunter |Rebecca Weiss
Sirach 27:4-7Psalm 92:2-3, 13-14, 15-161 Corinthians 15:54-58Luke 6:39-45Late winter is a dreary time, but starting my garden seedlings for a new growing year always cheers me up. Inside, I start my peppers and tomatoes under lights. Outside, I’ll be planting peas and onions soon, and digging potato trenches, pruning my fruit trees.
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Dec 29, 2024 |
uscatholic.org | Rebecca Weiss
On December 29, 2024, at age 100, Jimmy Carter died, leaving behind a powerful legacy that can be summarized by the Carter Foundation’s motto: “Waging Peace . . . Building Hope.” Those goals shaped Jimmy Carter’s long life—and he credited Jesus with empowering his commitment to peace and hope.
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Nov 20, 2024 |
uscatholic.org | Nathaniel Hunter |Rebecca Weiss
The United States does not feel like a great place to be a woman right now. I’m not proud of a nation in which 75 million Americans voted for a convicted felon and serial predator over an accomplished, empathetic Black woman. Of Catholic voters, 56 percent who turned out chose Trump, so I’m not feeling great about my church, either. And given that 52 percent of white women voted for a man who is a serial sexual predator, it’s clear that something is deeply wrong with my demographic.
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Nov 6, 2024 |
uscatholic.org | Nathaniel Hunter |Rebecca Weiss
Around 2 a.m. on November 6, once it was clear what the election outcome would be, I finally went to sleep. It was not a restful night. Every time I woke up, I thought about things like the people who depend on the Affordable Care Act for their health coverage, the people in disaster-prone areas, women with reproductive health issues, my friends who are LGBTQ+—everyone who will be harmed by the election of a far-right regime predicated on hate, fear, and superstition.
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"The amount a worker receives must be sufficient, in proportion to available funds, to allow him and his family a standard of living consistent with human dignity." - John XXIII, Pacem in Terris
They had a fantastic opportunity to build character during COVID but instead threw tantrums and put our vulnerable at risk. If they find a coping mechanism to get through an economic it won't build character. You can't build character when you lack the basic materials for it.
The latest defense of the Trump tariffs is that the impending Trump recession will build character. What are a few months or years of unemployment compared to a glorious someday-soon future manufacturing hinges and knobs -or stitching t-shirts and athletic shoes? 1/x
Presently looking over the PDF proof pages for 'The Books That Made Us: Deconstructing the Modern Christian Classics.' Which means the real live book is getting closer to being a real thing.
