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Submitted by Dennis Coday on March 19, 2008 - 2:30am. --- Everything under the sun ...I wanted to remind everyone that NCR Cafe will be closed to making comments for the Triduum and Easter Sunday. We will shut off comments on Thursday afternoon. You can still read.
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Upcoming book links parishioners' politics with their priests' views
Posted on Mar 19, 2008 03:26am CST.| NCR Book Club |
By Patricia Zapor, Catholic News Service
| Politics in the Parish: The Political Influence of Catholic Priests By Gregory Allen Smith Georgetown University Press, Release date: April 15 |
A small study to be reported in an upcoming book on the political influence of parish priests found huge differences in the types of political messages being emphasized from one parish to another, which may come as no surprise to anyone.
But whichever subjects their priests address, said author Gregory Smith, a fellow at the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, people clearly are being influenced in their political thinking by what they hear from the pulpit and read in their parish bulletins.
Passé for whom? And so what for us?
Posted on Mar 19, 2008 04:16am CST.| From Where I Stand by Joan Chittister, OSB | March 19, 2008 |
| Vol. 5, No. 23 |
Fortunately, I've been reading newspapers. Otherwise, I may have missed the major story of the 21st century: The woman's movement is over, I hear. And from a reputable source: young women in this country who consider their mother's concerns for the role and status of women to be "so passé" as one young woman on a recent CNN International interview put it in regard to the present election season in the USA.
