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Breaking: Here are Five Takeaways from #QueridaAmazonia, Pope Francis's new apostolic exhortation.
1) Fighting for the rights of the poor.
2) Recognizing the Amazon's distinct cultural riches
3) Everything in creation is connected.
4) Emphasis on inculturation
5) Questions surrounding the Eucharist (nothing in the exhortation about the ordination of "viri probati")
Full text here: sinodoamazonico.va/content/sinodo…
And analysis by Gerard O'Connell @gerryorome, Vatican correspondent for @americamag americamagazine.org/faith/2020/02/…
And from @ColleenDulle co-host of "Inside the Vatican"
americamagazine.org/faith/2020/02/…
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Happy Feast of #OurLadyOfLourdes! Did you know that when the Blessed Mother appeared to St. Bernadette, it was in a grotto that was used as a garbage dump? Our Lady also spoke to Bernadette in the local patois, Lourdais, rather than French. And she appeared not as a woman...
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Two priests in two separate parishes (US and Canada) attack transgender people, one talking about a "crime." There is no group of people in the church so relentlessly excluded, marginalized and persecuted as LGBTQ people. They have to listen to this even in homilies on Sundays.
Often, open-minded and thoughtful Catholics profess surprise, and even disbelief, when I share what I hear every day from LGBTQ people, who report how they are treated in their parishes. But homophobia (and transphobia) and outright hatred are still a part of the Catholic church.
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