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Month: June 2020

At site of Floyd’s death, Catholics reflect on personal experiences of racism

“Are you going to shoot my daddy?”

“Are you going to shoot my daddy?” It was a question a young boy asked a police officer 17 years ago, as he watched the officer point a gun at his father’s head. The family, African Americans, was moving into a new house in Minneapolis, and the police arrived with guns.

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Accompaniment at the Hour of Death

By Susan Klemond | A few weeks after nursing-home visits were restricted nationwide because of the coronavirus, Mary Pavek’s 87-year-old mother died at a residential care facility in Boise, Idaho, though…

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Christians, Muslims hope Mosul project helps rebuild trust

Christians and Muslims hope a project to reconstruct Mosul’s iconic places of worship, badly damaged by Islamic State militants during their 2014-2017 occupation of the city, will also help to rebuild trust between Iraq’s fractured religious communities.

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A Pilgrim on the Way: My Journey on the Camino de Santiago

The Camino de Santiago changed my life entirely and the experience continues to bear fruit. There are a myriad of events speak to me, but three faces rise up from the depths of my heart, from shadow to light. These seem to hold the essence of my sojourn: the Child, the Old Man, and the […]

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A Pilgrim on the Way: My Journey on the Camino de Santiago

The Camino de Santiago changed my life entirely and the experience continues to bear fruit. There are a myriad of events speak to me, but three faces rise up from the depths of my heart, from shadow to light. These seem to hold the essence of my sojourn: the Child, the Old Man, and the […]

The post A Pilgrim on the Way: My Journey on the Camino de Santiago appeared first on The Catholic Gentleman.

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Did the Church ‘Forget’ the Holy Spirit until the ’60s?

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When I was growing up, I distinctly recall hearing, more than once, presumably well-meaning teachers and preachers say something like the following: “The Church kind of forgot about the Holy Spirit for a long time, and with Vatican II, we […]

The post Did the Church ‘Forget’ the Holy Spirit until the ’60s? appeared first on OnePeterFive.

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Cardinal suggests U.S. cities hold prayer events to promote healing

With anger and frustration still high in the United States over the death of George Floyd, religious leaders should organize ecumenical and interreligious prayer initiatives to bring people together and promote healing, said a top Vatican official.

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UK Foreign Office asked to help religious minorities during coronavirus pandemic

The British government is being called on to assist religious minorities around the world who are facing further hardship due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.

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