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A year or so ago I got together with some college friends. Good guys--careers, families, some churchgoers, others not, all involved in their communiti...
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With the priority of focusing on a preferential option for the poor, including an allegedly "unprecedented rural development project," he proclaimed, "we intend to correct intolerance, discrimination, inequality and the absence of solidarity." A few months ago, his attempts to eliminate corporate tax loopholes, as well as now repudiated accusations Unking him to the murder of prominent lawyer Rodrigo Rosenberg, provoked thousands of angry members of the middle and upper classes to the streets demanding his resignation.
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In the time of colonial Mexico, Christians rejected human sacrifice as practiced by the Aztecs. For the preferential option begins by seeing the poor not as objects of pity but as brothers and sisters.\n The CELAM statement describes some of the main expressions of this spirituality: its feasts, novenas, rosaries, processions, love of the saints, personal intimacy with Jesus and Mary, and home altars. Other key issues in the final document include the importance and preservation of culture; proper care of the environment; the use of modern media in proclaiming the gospel; and the formation of disciples and missioners who can dedicate themselves to work on every level of society.
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... Ethic for the One-third World: The Preferential Option for the Poor and Challenges to Middle-class...
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...The problem was not simply one of poor theology (there were some excellent theologians wo...-families policy, and the ubiquitous preferential option for the poor. We lost in a landslide, which...
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Overstating breadth of priest scandal
Regarding "Men behaving very badly" (Other Views, May 20):
... Catholics of ignoring their bishops and the poor ("Boehner not in 'circle of protection,' " Other V...The church's commitment to "the preferential option for the poor" relies on these foundations o...
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As they walk into school each morning, Nicole Taylor's sons, Markeith and Derick, walk by a life-size, wooden and plaster crucifix hanging on the wall. The arms are missing. Officials found the armless statue in the attic 10 years ago as they were preparing to reopen Holy Names Catholic School in North Memphis.
Dr. Mary McDonald, Catholic Schools superintendent, told the staff to put the broken crucifix on the wall with this sign: "We are the arms of Christ in the world.
... more than 1,400 mostly non-Catholic and poor students at eight schools (fundraising allowed the... this requires the Church to make a preferential option for them.". As McDonald drove by abandoned ...
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... Square" on the "preferential option for the poor," one of the oldest aspects of Catholic social tea...
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... thought have always insisted on a preferential option for the poor. John Paul uses the Parable of...
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I WAS TOLD as a child, with age comes wisdom. Now 53, I'm not so sure. Wisdom is not just a product of age. It is product of experience, or more precisely, learning from experience.
Thursday was the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's inauguration. It was the beginning of "Camelot," a mythical place captured by author T.H. White and romanticized by the musical team of Lerner and Loewe.
... also has been updated: It is the war on the poor. The poor are now undeserving, lazy, often residin... and theology instructors, in the "preferential option for the poor.". The Tea Party would have me...