What is the role of the Church in the age of polarization? What resources听can our Catholic faith offer to heal fierce partisanship of our times? How might the sacramental imagination and wisdom of Catholic Social Teaching transform the "us" vs. "them" mentality that holds so many in its grip? It is tempting to feel fatalistic about the growing polarization around us, but there are good reasons for hope. This is what this latest issue of听C21 Resources听magazine means to inspire.
, Civilize It: A Better Kind of Politics, which includes a pledge, Scripture meditations, promotion packet, prayers, tips from Pope Francis, reflections, (including those published in this issue of C21 Resources), and more.
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Use these links for the , entitled 鈥淩eflections on Impediments to Synodality: Polarization and the Escalation of Conflict,鈥� and
, 鈥淚n Conversation: Honoring Ideological Divides On and Off Campus,鈥� with Lisa Kloppenberg, Vincent Rougeau, and Eduardo Pe帽alver, and discover more resources from Conversations on Jesuit Higher Education.
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Joan D. Chittister, O.S.B. - offered by the , the entitled "A Moment for Something More Soulful Than Politics,鈥� published in Oneing, and more information from through these links.
Hosffman Ospino - Dr. Ospino's full chapter, 鈥淭he Unheeded Middle: Catholic Conservative-Liberal Polarities in an Increasingly Catholic Church,鈥� and many more resources from authors across the Catholic Church are published in (edited by Mary Ellen Konieczny, Charles C. Comosy, and Tricia C. Bruce, Liturgical Press, 2016).
Christine Emba - This excerpt is from a panel discussion, at the Georgetown University - Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life covening in 2018. , 鈥淭hough Many, One: Overcoming Polarization through Catholic Social Thought.鈥�
Fr. Aaron Wessman - To on his book, (New City Press, 2023).
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,听Civilize It: A Better Kind of Politics, which includes a pledge, Scripture meditations, promotion packet, prayers, tips from Pope Francis, reflections, (including those published in this issue of听C21 Resources), and more.
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