Copy Desk Daily, Oct. 30, 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.

Fall meeting agenda sees US bishops making plans to plan priorities: Michael Sean Winters continues his curtain raiser for the U.S. bishops' plenary meeting, looking at the released agenda: "The stated need to wait until the next round of strategic planning shows the lack of nimbleness we expect from a bureaucracy, but it shows something else, too."

One of the church's newest saints, who was canonized during the Amazon synod itself, would be most pleased with the gathering's dialogues: St. John Henry Newman would approve of synod's final document.

"Sadly, this past Sunday, I had to refuse holy Communion to former Vice President Joe Biden," said Fr. Robert Morey: Biden denied Communion at Mass during campaign stop in South Carolina.

Evangelical women do balancing act in public life​: Jason Stiedl reviews Kate Bowler's book The Preacher's Wife: The Precarious Power of Evangelical Women Celebrities.

 

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