Wisdom Wednesdays

Wisdom Wednesday today offers a series of quotations to ponder and discuss during your Thanksgiving weekend. We include reaction to the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict, COP26 and the U.S. bishops’ assembly. A critical question comes from reading a Children’s Bible: “Does God love boys more than girls?” And we have a tongue-in-cheek proposal for the U.S. bishops to take up more big questions, like how to use the confessional and the question of whether cats have prevenient grace.

Wisdom this Wednesday requires acknowledging that this collection of articles is prepared early in the week – before much of the action at the General Assembly of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. So instead of breaking news, we will offer links to news sources and several other articles of interest from the USCCB, the Vatican, and beyond.

This week, we offer provocative discussion of Communion, abortion, conscience, politics and women’s role in the Church – and that’s only the first item! We follow with a closer look at THAT speech from Archbishop Gomez, updates from COP26, vaccination news, and more.

It’s November! Already begun with All Souls and All Saints, November includes international climate action and U.S. Supreme Court sessions before racing to Thanksgiving, Hanukkah and the First Sunday of Advent. But first, a measured look at National Native American Heritage Month and an invitation from the Catholic Committee of the South and AUSCP regarding synodality.