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<h2><a style="color: #04619d; text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.ncronline.org/spirituality/pencil-preaching/outcast"> The outcast</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 Thursday, November 3, 2022</p>
Deborah Rose is co-director of FutureChurch, a 32-year-old Catholic organization advancing reforms of the Second Vatican Council and working for a just and inclusive church. Along with co-director Russ Petrus, FutureChurch promotes just, open and collaborative structures for Catholic worship, organization and governance; ordained and lay ministries open to all Catholics who are called; and strategies that ensure that the Eucharist, the center of Catholic life and worship, is abundantly available to all Catholics, wherever they live, work and pray.
<div style="font-size: 19px; font-family: 'Georgia', serif;"><p><strong>Welcome to Wednesday. An NCR commentator recounts the fear of being half a world away from his daughter, as she was locked down because of a violent shooting at her Missouri high school. And as many return to in-person events in the third year of the pandemic, staff for Catholic volunteer programs are expressing hope that they will face fewer challenges as they recruit now for the 2023-24 volunteer year.</strong></p>
<h2><a style="color: #04619d; text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.ncronline.org/opinion/ncr-voices/time-start-scratch-us-bish… to start from scratch with US bishops' 'Faithful Citizenship' document</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-fa
<h2><a style="color: #04619d; text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.ncronline.org/spirituality/pencil-preaching/cloud-witnesses… cloud of witnesses</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, November 2, 2022</p>
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<h2><a style="color: #0e76bd; text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.ncronline.org/earthbeat/justice/nigerians-call-out-governme… call out government failures as Catholic nonprofits aid flood victims</a></h2><div style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="byline">by Valentine Iwenwanne</div><div style="font-size: 19px; fon
<h2><a style="color: #04619d; text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.ncronline.org/spirituality/pencil-preaching/o-when-saints">O when the saints</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, November 1, 2022</p>