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Reflections on the April 21st Easter Sunday Bombings in Sri Lanka and Our Care for God’s Creation
On this week’s episode of Just Love, Monsignor Kevin Sullivan talks about the tragic bombings in Sri Lanka and also a Catholic climate movement. Marion Boteju is the Corporate Secretary and Chief of Staff for Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of New York. Marion’s family is from Sri Lanka and she spent part of her childhood in that country. She talks to Msgr. Sullivan about some of her reflections on the terrible bombings that took place in Sri Lanka at several Churches and Hotels on this Easter Sunday, and what – in her opinion – should be done to address religiously based violence in her family’s native land. Kelly Moltzen…
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Happy Easter!
Second Reading: 1 Corinthians 5:6B-8 Brothers and sisters:Do you not know that a little yeast leavens all the dough?Clear out the old yeast,so that you may become a fresh batch of dough, inasmuch as you are unleavened.For our paschal lamb, Christ, has been sacrificed.Therefore, let us celebrate the feast, not with the old yeast, the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. Couldn’t we use more sincerity and truth this year? Don’t we have too many in-your-face examples of malice and wickedness? We can feel helpless and paralyzed in the midst of the overwhelming maelstrom that engulfs us. So perhaps the most hopeful and insightful image is…
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Passover and Volunterism
On this week’s episode of Just Love, Monsignor Kevin Sullivan talks about Passover and volunteering alternatives to Spring Break. Rabbi Michael S. Miller is the Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer of the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York. Rabbi Miller speaks a bit about the work of the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York, as well as the celebration of Passover, which begins on Friday, April 19th – the same day that Catholics and other Christians commemorate Good Friday. Lisa Bowman is Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer for United Way Worldwide. With Spring Break commencing for colleges across the country and young people will…
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A Look at Religious Freedom in the Islamic World and a Look at Volunteerism for National Volunteers Week 2019
In this week’s episode of Just Love, Monsignor Kevin Sullivan talks about freedom in Islam and National Volunteer Week. Prof. Daniel Philpott, Ph.D. is a Professor of Political Science at Notre Dame University and the author of the book “Religious Freedom in Islam: The Fate of a Universal Human Right in the Muslim World Today.” Prof. Philpott talks about his finding is his book which examines the status of religious freedom in the world’s 47 Muslim majority countries, and where he sees the Islamic tradition containing “seeds of freedom” that are potentialities for developing a more robust understanding of religious freedom in the Islamic world in the future. Kara Cunnane…
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Fourth Sunday of Lent – Ambassadors of Reconciliation
Second reading: 2 Corinthians 5:17-21 Brothers and sisters: Whoever is in Christ is a new creation: the old things have passed away; behold, new things have come. And all this is from God, who has reconciled us to himself through Christ and given us the ministry of reconciliation, namely, God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting their trespasses against them and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. So we are ambassadors for Christ, as if God were appealing through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. For our sake he made him to be sin who did not know sin,…
