Pope Francis is said to be “clearly improving” from the flu, and plans to attend the global climate change conference. The pope is also worrying about same-sex blessings in Germany and the decline in seminarian number in Spain. There is a small flicker of light at the end of the climate crisis tunnel – even as a water war threatens in Arizona.
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Overcoming Racism: Education
The American bishops pastoral letter Open Wide Our Hearts lists discrimination in educational opportunities as one of the ongoing unjust manifestations of systemic racism in the United States. Historically, slave owners in the Southern states made every effort to keep their slaves illiterate, even imposing stiff penalties on any white persons teaching slaves…