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Prayer and introspection are key elements in easing divides.
How might Catholics engage secular culture with a view to diminishing the polarization and hostility that colors so much contemporary social discourse, especially on the heels of the presidential inauguration Jan. 20?
Zina Gomez-Liss, a parishioner at Sacred Heart parish in Newton, Massachusetts, is mildly optimistic that polarization and political discord might ease if Catholics in particular remain “guarded by our better angels.” Quoting Abraham Lincoln from his first inaugural address in 1861, Gomez-Liss told the Register that the recent presidential election campaign seemed to leave the world “changed and more fearful.”
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How might Catholics engage secular culture with a view to diminishing the polarization and hostility that colors so much contemporary social discourse, especially on the heels of the presidential inauguration Jan. 20?
Zina Gomez-Liss, a parishioner at Sacred Heart parish in Newton, Massachusetts, is mildly optimistic that polarization and political discord might ease if Catholics in particular remain “guarded by our better angels.” Quoting Abraham Lincoln from his first inaugural address in 1861, Gomez-Liss told the Register that the recent presidential election campaign seemed to leave the world “changed and more fearful.”
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How-To for Engaging a Contentious Culture: What Catholicism Has to Say
Prayer and introspection are key elements in easing divides.