<div style="font-size: 19px; font-family: 'Georgia', serif;"><p><strong>Welcome to Thursday. Benedictine Sr. Joan Chittister outlines what worries her about the future of our country: running out of leaders who run for election with standard American concerns in mind. And statements about LGBTQ+ people from Archbishop Alick Banda and the Zambian bishops' conference contrast with those from Pope Francis. </strong></p>
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<h2><a style="color: #04619d; text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.ncronline.org/spirituality/pencil-preaching/sign-hope">Sign of hope</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 10, 2022</p>
<h2><a style="color: #04619d; text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.ncronline.org/opinion/ncr-voices/leadership-we-wanted-and-l… leadership we wanted and the leadership we got</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>Nominees o
<h2><a style="color: #04619d; text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.ncronline.org/opinion/ncr-voices/no-red-wave-midterm-electi… red wave, but midterm elections give both parties much to ponder</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
<h2><a style="color: #04619d; text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.ncronline.org/spirituality/pencil-preaching/faith-grounded-… grounded in history</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 9, 2022&
Marching to a Silent Tune is a Catholic childhood to young adult look at a complicated journey to social consciousness, civil liberties, war resistance and peace activism within the social and military environment of the turbulent 1960s. This insightful book is relevant to all civilians and members of armed forces grappling with the very real questions of personal morality when it comes to making war... and building peace.
Kirkus Reviews calls it, “edifying…frank, enlightening…idiosyncratic.”
<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="max-width: 400px; margin: 0 auto;"><a href="https://www.ncronline.org/vatican/francis-comic-strip/francis-comic-str… style="max-width: 100%;" src="https://www.ncronline.org/files/styles/email_newsl
<h2><a style="color: #04619d; text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.ncronline.org/spirituality/pencil-preaching/my-duty">My duty</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 8, 2022</p>
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