The elevation of Pope Leo XIV is a profound and historic occasion. Like so many around the world, I am praying for him and wishing him and the Church well as his papacy begins.
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So let me get this straight, we finally get an American pope, and some of the America first crowd is mad because he cares about the poor and immigrants. Am i missing something here?
•Said racism should be rejected and justice should be sought
MAGA’s worst nightmare!
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sometimes i wonder how many versions of myself i’ve outgrown without even noticing. i look back at old photos and remember the thoughts i used to carry, the dreams i thought would save me. it’s strange how you can live inside yourself every day and still not realize you’re evolving. it’s only when you look back that you realize how far you’ve come, how many lives you’ve already lived in the same skin.
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I’m going to say something that shouldn’t be controversial but will be. If you are a Christian, you can support border control and immigration being legal vs illegal. You CANNOT celebrate deportations and get off on the cruelty, and be a real Christ follower. Period
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With the inevitable migration pressures resulting from climate change and political disruptions,
totalitarian regimes are predominating worldwide. Efforts to gain rights for women seem to be regressing. Women and girls are increasingly victims of sexual assault (rape). Some of these oppressions are patriarchal, some are based in religious interpretations, others are hierarchal power domination.
In the past, a democratic system held hope that the voices of many would be heard and heeded. That made objectives worth working toward, rather than fleeing, the threats of "moving out of the country." The question has now become "where else can I go?" The looming loss of bodily autonomy, the moral imposition of biologically unrealistic laws, and the resulting loss of life and potential make living in certain states untenable. With the uniquely American existence of gun violence on an epidemic public health scale, lack of security and safety will cause the breakdown of functioning society - no tourism, no public education, no commerce, no peace. Just mounting body counts.
Thank you for your fine words, Beverly. I had a friend tell me yesterday she was thinking about leaving the country and we had a long discussion on where we would go. Perhaps Iceland which treats women like full citizens or the Nordic countries.
Those thoughts have come to my mind too, following this substack. I guess the decay of public life in our small Nordic countries, along with the global trend, will happen sooner than your dreams of them go away. You know how many people live on Iceland? Finland has a remarkable history of male/female relationship. Half of their national myth, Kalevala, is about the marriage between a woman from a matriarch society and a man from a patriarch society.
Thank You Beverly, for the wake up call. In the U.S. we must go to the streets in protest, door-to-door to educate a bamboozled electorate, and, today, to the airwaves to see a democratic process that still works For The People, All Of Us This Time.