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In the Eucharist, the Church has ‘the hope that many Americans are yearning for.’
For the past few weeks, the world of U.S. politics has seemed especially contentious and unstable, with an overabundance of supercharged storylines producing a new wave of anxieties and raising the political temperature.
But as the political drama continues, 50,000 Catholics in Indianapolis and thousands more following the National Eucharistic Congress (NEC) from afar seem unphased, their attention decidedly not on partisan politics, but on the source and summit of their faith.
“I doubt there is any place in the nation so untroubled by our tumultuous politics right now as the attendees at the Eucharistic Congress,” Stephen White, the director of The Catholic Project at The Catholic University of America, told the Register from Indianapolis. “Not because people here are indifferent to politics, but because, right now, they’re focused on something infinitely higher and better.”
Running through Sunday, the five-day Eucharistic extravaganza comes on the heels of a July 13 assassination attempt against former president Donald Trump and amid ongoing calls for ailing President Joe Biden to not seek reelection, including from members of his own Democratic Party. The NEC has also overlapped with the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, which began on Monday and concluded Thursday night, and precedes the Democratic convention in Chicago by one month.
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For the past few weeks, the world of U.S. politics has seemed especially contentious and unstable, with an overabundance of supercharged storylines producing a new wave of anxieties and raising the political temperature.
But as the political drama continues, 50,000 Catholics in Indianapolis and thousands more following the National Eucharistic Congress (NEC) from afar seem unphased, their attention decidedly not on partisan politics, but on the source and summit of their faith.
“I doubt there is any place in the nation so untroubled by our tumultuous politics right now as the attendees at the Eucharistic Congress,” Stephen White, the director of The Catholic Project at The Catholic University of America, told the Register from Indianapolis. “Not because people here are indifferent to politics, but because, right now, they’re focused on something infinitely higher and better.”
Running through Sunday, the five-day Eucharistic extravaganza comes on the heels of a July 13 assassination attempt against former president Donald Trump and amid ongoing calls for ailing President Joe Biden to not seek reelection, including from members of his own Democratic Party. The NEC has also overlapped with the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, which began on Monday and concluded Thursday night, and precedes the Democratic convention in Chicago by one month.
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Eucharistic Congress Provides Chance for Catholics to See Politics Differently
In the Eucharist, the Church has ‘the hope that many Americans are yearning for.’
