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Copy Desk Daily, Sept. 13, 2019

by Teresa Malcolm

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Our team of copy editors reads and posts most of what you see on the websites for National Catholic Reporter and Global Sisters Report (the NCR project focusing on women religious). The Copy Desk Daily highlights recommended news and opinion articles that have crossed our desks on their way to you.

Welcome to Global Sisters Report's new website! GSR got a site redesign and editor Gail DeGeorge gives a tour of the changes.

Is it a good time to be a Catholic publisher? It's certainly a challenging time, with the changes in the overall industry coinciding with Catholic-specific problems like the abuse crisis and people leaving the church. But reporter Heidi Schlumpf found a positive outlook all the same at the annual meeting of the Association of Catholic Publishers.

The liturgical conversation continues in Letters to the Editor, with readers' thoughts on Mass ad orientem, part two.

Lawyers across US to work pro bono for immigrants detained in Mississippi ICE raids. Catholic Legal Immigration Network Inc. (CLINIC) is working with the Lawyers for Good Government Foundation on the initiative.

On the Catholic Day of Action for Immigrant Children in Newark, New Jersey, GSR Horizons columnist Sr. Susan Rose Francois risked arrest to deliver the message: Not in my name.

Former Irish President Mary Robinson: Disruption is best option left to head off climate disaster. She spoke at Boston College recently with an urgent call to action.

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