Copy Desk Daily, Aug. 19, 2019

by Mick Forgey

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Our team of copy editors reads and posts most of what you see on the websites for National Catholic Reporter and Global Sisters Report (the NCR project focusing on women religious). The Copy Desk Daily highlights recommended news and opinion articles that have crossed our desks on their way to you.

Church in Poland continues confrontation with the LGBTQ community: On the 75th anniversary of Poland's uprising against the Nazis, Krakow Archbishop Marek Jedraszewski denounced LGBTQ campaigners who have been staging equality marches across the countries. As Jonathan Luxmoore reports, Jedraszewski's words "marked a new stage in the Polish church's confrontational stance."

Global Sisters Report was in attendance at the 2019 Assembly of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious. You can find all of GSR's coverage here. From over the weekend:

Dan Stockman reports on the unanimous vote of the nearly 700 members in attendance: LCWR commits to combat racism, serve immigrants and address climate change.

For her ministry and advocacy for immigrants at the southern border, Sr. Norma Pimentel received the Leadership Conference of Women Religious Outstanding Leadership Award. 

Pacifism of my friend Joan Baez inspires a new generation: Colman McCarthy has been teaching peace studies to high school, college and law students for the past 37 years. Every semester, he devotes time to his friend Joan Baez's essays on pacifism. He shares some of his students' reflections.

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