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2 Nov, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Gospel: On #AllSoulsDay we are reminded that those who believe in Christ will enjoy everlasting life (Jn 6). They also help us with their prayers. As Nancy Dallavalle writes in @GiveUsThisDayLP, "The generations that go before us live anew in the fragile moments of our lives..." Image
...We may long for the clean slate, the fresh start, to be self-made--to cast off the weight of despair, to leave the bitterness behind forever. Instead our beloved dead gather round. In Christ we see them fully, as we cannot in the flesh. Their faces press close...
...but their hands urge us forward. Their hands are God's mercy: saturating all creation, rolling the loss and the graced into a single river of love poured into our hearts, coursing through the rivers of all time, carrying us home...
May the rest in peace, may we all rise in Christ."

Give Us This Day, November 2020

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Religious liberty should not be used as a cover for homophobia. Do Catholic adoption agencies also seek to exclude couples who are Jewish or Protestant? They too are not "following church teaching," in one case by not believing in Jesus. Why focus only on same-sex couples?...
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...and the only "church teaching" that seems to matter has to do with same-sex marriage. There are many other important church teachings that adoptive couples are probably not following, and there is no exemption sought by Catholic social service agencies.
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1 Nov
Dear friends: Last night I was finally able to watch the lovely new film "Fatima," which I highly recommend. It's a faithful version of the appearances of Our Lady of #Fatima, in Portugal in 1917 to three young children....
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Attempts to deny that @Pontifex said what he said (or that it was edited to make him say something different) are amazing. Because he's said all these things before, though either privately or not as widely known. Let's look at what he said about #LGBT people in the new film....
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During an in-flight press conference on the way back from Dublin, in 2018, the Pope said:

"Because that son and daughter has a right to family, and their family is this family, just as it is."

vatican.va/content/france…
2. "They're children of God and have a right to a family."

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