<h2><a style="color: #04619d; text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.ncronline.org/opinion/ncr-voices/marian-principle-and-minis… 'Marian principle' and ministry — an Advent reflection</a></h2><div style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="byline">by Christine Schenk</div><div style="font-size: 19px; font-family: 'Georgia', serif;"
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December 7, 2022
<p>The cultural struggle between same-sex marriage and religious liberty took center stage this week in all three branches of government. On Monday (Dec. 5), the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/12/05/colorado-creative-su…; of a web designer, who is an evangelical Christian and refuses to produce websites for same-sex marriage ceremonies.
Nate Tinner-Williams is co-founder and editor of Black Catholic Messenger and a Master of Theology student in the Institute for Black Catholic Studies at Xavier University of Louisiana.
<h2><a style="color: #04619d; text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.ncronline.org/spirituality/pencil-preaching/i-am-you-always… am with you always</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 Wednesday, December 7, 2022</p>
December 6, 2022
<p class="MsoNormal">In the days after his recent dinner with former President Donald Trump, the rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, reflected on the experience in a video posted to Twitter. Speaking to an associate, Ye said his own exchanges with Trump were tense. But as they dined, he said, the former president was practically glowing about someone else at the table: Nick Fuentes, the white Christian nationalist whom Ye had brought with him to Mar-a-Lago.<o:p></o:p></p>
<h2><a style="color: #04619d; text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.ncronline.org/spirituality/pencil-preaching/why-shepherds-f… shepherds first?</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 Tuesday, December 6, 2022</p><
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