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Catholics: Go Purple Today for #SpiritDay in Support of LGBT Youth!

Originally posted on Bondings 2.0:
Today, millions will ‘go purple’ to support LGBT youth and take a stand against all-too-prevalent bullying based on sexual orientation and gender identity.  They’ll be wearing purple and using purple on social media as a way to show that they…

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A Prayer for the Synod

“….it is necessary to say everything that in the Lord one feels should be said, with human respect, without fear. And, at the same time, one must listen with humility and receive with an open heart what the brothers say.

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Boston’s Cardinal O’Malley: LGBT Church Worker Firings “Need to be Rectified”

Originally posted on Bondings 2.0:
Cardinal Sean O’Malley seated among other panelists at Crux event. (photo credit: The Boston Globe) In a one-to-one conversation following a public speaking engagement, Boston’s Cardinal Sean O’Malley said that the firing of church workers because of LGBT…

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Ubuntu: Our Covenantal Relationship with Each Other

                                                                               

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Marching in Honolulu for the Children of Gaza

Last week, for the third consecutive Tuesday, people in Honolulu gathered to protest the escalating assault on Gaza and its people, and in particular the horrific violence inflicted on innocent children. Repeatedly. This time the protest started with a march

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July 22: Honolulu Protests Assault on Gaza. “Bethlehem – 2006” Revisited

Sharing here, with permission, a poem, “Bethlehem – 2006” written by Methodist minister, Rev. Barbara Grace Ripple after her visit to the Holy Land. She went back again in 2013 and found the situation worse. She spoke with Palestinians, Christians

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Ukrainian Church, South Side, Pittsburgh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBzr9BGxZ1U In the distance, the Monongahela River and what once used to be steel mills. Across from a car wash and a few blocks away from numerous ethnic restaurants and bars, sits the genteel old Ukrainian Catholic church of St.

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