<h2><a style="color: #04619d; text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.ncronline.org/opinion/ncr-voices/north-american-synod-docum… American synod document hits all the right notes</a></h2><div style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="byline">by Michael Sean Winters</div><div style="font-size: 19px; font-family: 'Georgia', serif;">&l
<h2><a style="color: #04619d; text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.ncronline.org/spirituality/pencil-preaching/god-so-loved-wo… so loved the world</a></h2><div style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="byline">by Pat Marrin</div><div style="font-size: 19px; font-family: 'Georgia', serif;"><p>Pencil Preaching for Monday, April 17, 2023</p>
Ray Suarez is the host of the weekly radio program and podcast "On Shifting Ground." His next book, We Are Home: Becoming American in the 21st Century, is scheduled for publication next spring, from Little, Brown.
<h2><a style="color: #04619d; text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.ncronline.org/spirituality/pencil-preaching/my-lord-and-my-… Lord and my God</a></h2><div style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="byline">by Pat Marrin</div><div style="font-size: 19px; font-family: 'Georgia', serif;"><p>Pencil Preaching for Sunday, April 16, 2023</p>
<div style="font-size: 19px; font-family: 'Georgia', serif;"><p><strong>Welcome to Culture Weekly.</strong></p>
<p>This week, Jesuit Fr. Jim McDermott admits that he, like many of us, finds the Easter Triduum challenging. Liturgically and emotionally, there is much to take in. And after decades of hearing the same stories over and over, there's a constant risk that at some point we begin taking them for granted. </p>
<div style="font-size: 19px; font-family: 'Georgia', serif;"><p><strong>Welcome to Monday. Since 1992, the Carmelite Prisoners' Interest Organization, or Capio, has responded to inmates' practical and material needs while pushing for criminal justice reform in Nigeria. And Catholic sisters — with a 50-year history of advocating for Brazilian Indigenous populations in their struggle for land rights and cultural survival — continue to show up in solidarity. </strong></p>