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No back to school fun for child laborers
By Tony Magliano It’s that special time of the year for kids in many countries as they start heading back to school. And for those who have discovered the fun of learning, school is an adventure! But for millions of working children worldwide, the adventures of a new school year…
Wisdom Wednesday | September 7th
Labor Day, observed Monday, marks a pivot for many people from summer slowness to a rushing and renewed range of matters — Labor, Climate, Black Lives – and for Wisdom Wednesday, a cluster of “things we missed last week.”
Vatican II Priority 3: The Church in the Present World
The joys and hopes, the griefs and anxieties of the people of this age, especially those who are poor or in any way afflicted, these too are the joys and the hopes, the griefs and anxieties of the followers of Christ. Indeed, nothing genuinely human fails to raise an echo…
Vatican II Priority 2: Religious Freedom
This Vatican Synod declares that the human person has a right to religious freedom. This freedom means that all men (and women) are to be immune from coercion on the part of individuals or of social groups and of any human power, in such wise that in matters religious no…