New Catholics - Good Friday service has a collection each year which directly benefits the Church in the Holy Land, including medical care, education, upkeep of the holy sites, etc.
War has limited & stretched their resources.
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"Sometimes to find the light, we must first touch the darkness."
The main alter of my parish church, St. Mary's of Greenville, stripped on Holy Thursday night to commemorate the Passion of Christ.
The story of Good Friday is in one sense the most typical story of all: an authoritarian regime putting to death anyone who dares dissent, religious leaders more concerned with their own power than the truth, people eager to spit on anyone who calls out their hypocrisy.
Yet, it is also the strangest story of all: how an unjust act led to …
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Notes have become the playground of my writing. Sometimes an article gets started and then gets revised as I fine tune what I’m trying to say. The picture in this case is one that I took when I was at Christ The Good Shepherd in Saginaw, MI. One of many pictures I have in my collection.
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“I love independent filmmaking. I don't agree with a lot of it, but that's the point.” — Gena Rowlands
In its zeal to do the right thing from a “woke” perspective, Lincoln High School blithely ignored the Civil Rights Act and the Bill of Rights, as if these foundational documents didn’t exist or had fallen down the well of irrelevance. We’re fortunate that in past decades, the inhumane and unacceptable practice of discrimination on the basis of race or other immutable traits was challenged by the values stated in the Bill of Rights and then codified into law. If FAIR had to start from scratch today, confronting Lincoln High School’s well-meaning but illiberal potluck without the benefit of settled law, FAIR’s chance of success would be small or even challenged with outrage and accusations of racism. Just another example of why FAIR is so necessary in 2023.
