<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; border-bottom: 1px dotted #ccc;" class="full_width_image"><img style="width: 624px; max-width: 100%;" src="https://www.ncronline.org/files/styles/email_newsletter_full_width/publ… style="color: #04619d; text-decoration: none;" href="
![https://www.ncronline.org/files/styles/email_newsletter_full_width/publ…](https://www.ncronline.org/files/styles/email_newsletter_full_width/public/2024-07/20240418T0615-POPE-USCCB-1775320.jpg"/></div></div><h2><a){kind=link}
Charles J. Russo, Joseph Panzer Chair in Education and Research Professor of Law, University of Dayton.
<h2><a style="color: #04619d; text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.ncronline.org/vatican/vatican-news/vatican-synod-agenda-foc… synod agenda focuses on participation and inclusion, not hot button issues</a></h2><div style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="byline">by Christopher White</div><div style="font-size: 19p
<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; border-bottom: 1px dotted #ccc;" class="full_width_image"><img style="width: 624px; max-width: 100%;" src="https://www.ncronline.org/files/styles/email_newsletter_full_width/publ… style="color: #04619d; text-decoration: none;" href="
![https://www.ncronline.org/files/styles/email_newsletter_full_width/publ…](https://www.ncronline.org/files/styles/email_newsletter_full_width/public/2024-07/20240319T1702-PRIESTS-SYNOD-MEETING-1773915.JPG"/></div></div><h2><a){kind=link}
<div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; border-bottom: 1px dotted #ccc;" class="full_width_image"><img style="width: 624px; max-width: 100%;" src="https://www.ncronline.org/files/styles/email_newsletter_full_width/publ… style="font-size: 19px; font-fam
![https://www.ncronline.org/files/styles/email_newsletter_full_width/publ…](https://www.ncronline.org/files/styles/email_newsletter_full_width/public/2024-07/Joseph_Stalin%2C_Franklin_D_Roosevelt_and_Winston_Churchill%2C_in_Teheran%2C_1943%2C_edit.jpg"></div><div><hr><p> </p></div><div){kind=link}
Karen Celano is director of curriculum development at St. Benedict Classical Academy in Massachusetts. She has served as a teacher, principal, school board member and faith formation educator at a number of Catholic schools and parishes in New York and Boston.
<h2><a style="color: #04619d; text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.ncronline.org/opinion/ncr-voices/open-letter-patriots-make-… open letter to patriots to make America American again</a></h2><div style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="byline">by Joan Chittister</div><div style="font-size: 19px; font-family: 'Georgia', serif;"><p&
<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; border-bottom: 1px dotted #ccc;" class="full_width_image"><img style="width: 624px; max-width: 100%;" src="https://www.ncronline.org/files/styles/email_newsletter_full_width/publ… style="color: #04619d; text-decoration: none;" href="
![https://www.ncronline.org/files/styles/email_newsletter_full_width/publ…](https://www.ncronline.org/files/styles/email_newsletter_full_width/public/2024-07/7.8.24%20Francis%20and%20Abp%20Coyne.jpg"/></div></div><h2><a){kind=link}