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COVID-19 Vaccinations and Democrats for Life
On this week’s episode of Just Love, Monsignor Kevin Sullivan talks about how COVID-19 vaccinations are being made available in underserved communities and also a conversation with the president of Democrats for Life. Dr. Ramon Tallaj, M.D. is the Founder, and Chairman of SOMOS Community Care, a network of over 2,500 healthcare providers located in the Bronx, Queens, Manhattan, and Brooklyn who have come together to ensure better health care for Medicaid members in the New York City area. On today’s show, Dr. Tallaj will be sharing with our listeners the impact that COVID-19 has had on the communities that SOMOS Community Cares serves, as well as the plans it…
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and The Incursion of the Capital
In this week’s episode of Just Love, Monsignor Kevin Sullivan talks about the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. and also the violent incursion into the United States Capital. Prof. Charles McKinney, Ph.D. is the Neville Frierson Bryan Chair of African Studies and an Associate Professor of History at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. During this weekend when we remember the life and legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Prof. Charles McKinney shares with us what the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. means today in the context of the aftermath of the Killing a George Floyd and the rise of the “Black Lives Matter”…
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Discussing Voter Turnout for Traditionally Underrepresented Groups in the Georgia Senate Runoff Elections, and How Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Nashville is Assisting Families and Businesses Impacted by the Tragic Christmas Day Bombing in that City
On this week’s episode of Just Love, Monsignor Kevin Sullivan takes a closer look at voter turnout in Georgia, and he also talks to Catholic Charities of Nashville about their work after the Christmas Day bombing. Gilda Pedraza is the Founder and Executive Director for the Latino Community Center (LCF), a grant-making public charity supporting Latino-Led and Latino-serving community organizations with advocacy, technical assistance, and direct investments. Raphael Warnock and Jon Oddoff defeat incumbent Georgia Republican Senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue this week, granting Democrats control of the National Senate. Gigi Pedraza talks to us about what her organization the Latino Community Fund of Georgia, did to educate Latino…
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Discussion of the Biggest Catholic News Stories of 2020, and the Imperative of Christians Speaking Up for those Experiencing Human Rights Abuses and Religious Persecution across the Globe
On this week’s episode of Just Love, Monsignor Kevin Sullivan talks about the biggest Catholic news stories of the year, and the human rights abuses and religious persecution around the world. Christopher White is a National Correspondent for the National Catholic Reporter newspaper. During this final week of 2020, Christopher talks with us about what in his opinion as a reporter for a National Catholic news publication were some of the major stories of this past year, and what we might be looking forward to in the year to come. Knox Thames is a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Global Engagement down in Alexandria, Virginia. During this final week…
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Christmas in the Time of COVID in Bethlehem, and the State of Refugees in the World on Christmas 2020
On this week’s episode of Just Love, Monsignor Kevin Sullivan talks about Christmas in the Time of COVID in the town of Jesus’s birth – Bethlehem, and a look into the lives of refugees around the world during Christmas time. Brother Peter Bray, FSC, EdD who is the Vice-Chancellor of Bethlehem University, a Catholic co-educational institution in the Lasallian Tradition located in Bethlehem – the town of Jesus’s birth – dedicated to providing a quality higher education to the people of Palestine. During this week when we approach the birth of Our Savior in the manger 2,000 years ago, Brother Peter shares with us a bit about the work of…
