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Catholic Relief Services unable to provide aid to southern Gaza amid ongoing war
- By Michie
- One Bread, One Body - Catholic
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A Catholic Relief Services (CRS) official told CNA this week that the organization has been unable to get humanitarian supplies through the southern Gaza Strip since early May and that it no longer has supplies in the warehouses in the area.
“Most of the aid crosses through Rafah, and the Rafah crossing has been closed since early May because of the military operations there,” spokeswoman Megan Gilbert told CNA in an email.
“We’ve not had any CRS goods enter the south half of Gaza since May 6,” she explained. “Not into Rafah or Kerem Shalom.”
“We are getting trucks (over 50 so far) into the north half of Gaza since Erez West opened,” she said. “Those trucks contained ready-to-eat food, hygiene kits, bedding kits, and emergency shelter items.”
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“Most of the aid crosses through Rafah, and the Rafah crossing has been closed since early May because of the military operations there,” spokeswoman Megan Gilbert told CNA in an email.
“We’ve not had any CRS goods enter the south half of Gaza since May 6,” she explained. “Not into Rafah or Kerem Shalom.”
“We are getting trucks (over 50 so far) into the north half of Gaza since Erez West opened,” she said. “Those trucks contained ready-to-eat food, hygiene kits, bedding kits, and emergency shelter items.”
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Catholic Relief Services unable to provide aid to southern Gaza
“Most of the aid crosses through Rafah, and the Rafah crossing has been closed since early May because of the military operations there,” a spokeswoman said.
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The ‘Gen Z’ flip: Why young women are leaving religion — and how to bring them back
- By Michie
- One Bread, One Body - Catholic
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For the past 20 years, men have left religion at higher rates than women; but for the first time in decades, young men are more likely to stay with it, while young women are leaving, according to a recent study.
For the past three generations — baby boomers, Generation X, and millennials — men when surveyed were more likely to have left religion than women.
Now, the opposite is true — Generation Z women are more likely to disaffiliate than men, at 54% to 46%, respectively, according to an April survey by the Survey Center on American Life and American Enterprise Institute (AEI).
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For the past three generations — baby boomers, Generation X, and millennials — men when surveyed were more likely to have left religion than women.
Now, the opposite is true — Generation Z women are more likely to disaffiliate than men, at 54% to 46%, respectively, according to an April survey by the Survey Center on American Life and American Enterprise Institute (AEI).
Why they leave
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Why young women are leaving religion — and how to bring them back
For the first time in decades, young men are more likely to stick with religion, while young women are leaving, according to a recent study. Why?
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The incredible baby boom in Kansas sheriff’s office
- By Teresa W.
- One Bread, One Body - Catholic
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In Boone County, the law enforcement officers have been busy bringing family to the forefront of their work.
Over the years the birth rate in the United States and lots of other countries around the world has been declining. In fact the CDC (Centers for Disease Control) has issued provisional data for 2023 that shows a 2% decrease in the birth rate since 2022.
However, this doesn’t seem to be the case in one Kansas county, where the sheriff’s office has welcomed 15 babies over a one-year period since “circa 2023.”
In a wonderful photo shared on the Facebook page of the Boone County Sheriff’s Office, the officers are captured all together with their youngsters.
The post was met with many comments expressing gratitude for the work the officers carry out on behalf of the citizens of Boone County. And as one person commented, these young parents are certainly ensuring a generation of future deputies.
Impressively, Kyla Scudder of Kyla Mae Photography, who charged no fee for the photoshoot, managed to capture the sweet baby-sheriff reunion with most of the babies actually looking at the camera.
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The incredible baby boom in Kansas sheriff's office
In Boone County, the law enforcement officers have been busy bringing family to the forefront of their work.aleteia.org
Sorry, but from the title I'm imagining a bunch of women giving birth in the Sheriff's office.
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Learning Foreign Languages
- By Astrid
- The Kitchen Sink
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Eskimo* words are strange, with many syllables,Yep! That's a common phenomenon. At least it was working when you needed it to.
British-American linguist and University of Edinburgh lecturer Geoffrey K. Pullum published a book of collected essays in 1991 called The Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax, the title essay of which covered this exact situation. It turns out the 'answer' to the question of how many words the Inuit have for snow (which I won't spoil here -- primarily because I don't know where my copy of this book is right now, and I can't remember off the top of my head...) requires a dive into the thorny issue of what exactly qualifies as a 'word', cross-linguistically. This is a question that does not have a universally-accepted, pat answer, and many books and articles have been written about it. Suffice it to say that the number of words for snow in Inuit languages is far, far fewer than what people who do not speak an Inuit language tend to imagine, and that the popularity of this idea hides a somewhat less numerically-impressive (but still very interesting) reality. If I recall correctly, it is shown in the essay that there are more individual words for types of snow in English than in Inuit languages, again owing to the difference between how English and Inuit words 'work'.
prefixes, suffixes and infinixes, if that last is a thing?
I was told the longest word the UAF linguistics dept
could come up with in Yup'ik was something like
" will you or will you not make me a nu e airplane".
So I'd guess the many words for snow would to
" us" be actually just what 'we" would use two or three
separate words. " heavy wet snow" " packed powder".
The inuit are a subgroup.
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Francis Faces Another Mess in Argentina
- By WarriorAngel
- One Bread, One Body - Catholic
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The latest controversy involving bishops the Holy Father has appointed in his native country may have permanently scuttled the chances of ever making a papal trip home.
Pope Francis is having serious trouble with the appointment of bishops in his native Argentina.
It is quite likely that the latest calamity will kill off whatever slim chance existed of a papal visit home later this year. It was the disastrous papal visit to Chile in 2018, plagued by controversy over troublesome episcopal appointments, that led the Holy Father to cease visiting South America.
On Monday, Archbishop Gabriel Antonio Mestre resigned as archbishop of La Plata. He is only 55 and had been the archbishop for less than nine months. Mestre had previously been bishop of the Diocese of Mar del Plata, appointed by Pope Francis in 2017. The similarity of diocesan names — Diocese of Mar del Plata, Archdiocese of La Plata — may cause confusion, but nomenclature is the least confusing part of this startling story.
Mestre’s resignation after only nine months in La Plata comes after two failed attempts to replace him in Mar del Plata since last September. First, though, the backstory.
The Rise of Fernández
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Francis Faces Another Mess in Argentina
The latest controversy involving bishops the Holy Father has appointed in his native country may have permanently scuttled the chances of ever making a papal trip home.www.ncregister.com
May a great Saint arise to aid the Church on earth.
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Former priest ends his life ahead of abuse hearing in New Mexico
- By WarriorAngel
- One Bread, One Body - Catholic
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Or it was made to look like a suicide from inside?A former Catholic priest of the Archdiocese of Sante Fe, New Mexico, ended his life ahead of a May 24 hearing on criminal charges of sexual abuse.
Daniel Balizan, who faced a possible sentence of 10 years to life if convicted, had been arrested in June 2023 after having been indicted by a federal grand jury on criminal charges of coercion and enticement of a minor.
The Archdiocese of Santa Fe confirmed Balizan’s death in a May 24 press release, stating that it was “saddened by the news of former priest Daniel Balizan having taken his life; we pray for comfort for his family and those who cared for him. May God have mercy on his soul.”
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Former priest ends his life ahead of abuse hearing in New Mexico
A former Catholic priest of the Archdiocese of Sante Fe ended his life ahead of a May 24 hearing on criminal charges of sexual abuse.www.oursundayvisitor.com
Nevertheless; may the Lord have mercy.
May the Lord heal those damaged as well.
Mercy Lord.
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Prayer for salvation
- By jess09
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Praying for salvation to come to these groups 
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