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Weekend Bulletin |
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March 18 & 19, 2023 |
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Blessing of the Week |
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This week I want to introduce you to Tess Gallagher Clancy and Ben Stegbauer – the “dynamic duo” who work on The Just Word. Tess and Ben began working on the Just Word at the end of last year just as we began the public roll out of the project after a months-long initial visioning phase spearheaded by our 2019 Christine Schenk Award recipient, Karen Gargamelli-McCreight.
The two first met in divinity school at Union Theological Seminary and their passion for social justice and Catholic Social Teaching brought them to The Just Word.
Ben is originally from Cincinnati, OH (which he likes to say is the greatest city in the world) and attended Xavier University, where he majored in Theology. After Xavier, Ben did a year of service through the Jesuit Volunteer Corps in Scranton, PA at the Saint Joseph’s Center, a ministry of the Congregation of the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary that provides services to individuals and families who have special needs. Ben had also previously worked as a direct support professional to people with developmental disabilities during college. After JVC, Ben enrolled at Union, where he was “Minister of Fun” and chair of the Eco-Justice Caucus. He graduated in 2022 to a Master of Arts in Theology. Ben currently lives in New York City at the Catholic Worker.
Tess was born and raised in western Montana on Salish land, in an Irish American family. The valedictorian of her high school graduating class, Tess then attended the University of Montana where she majored in history, focusing on Latin American and United States revolutionary history. She then enrolled at Union where she pursued a Master of Divinity and concentrated in social ethics, graduating in 2022. Over time Tess has been actively engaged in a number of advocacy efforts including climate justice and LGBTQ+ justice. She has all been actively involved the Catholic Worker, Call To Action, and Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice/ Poor People’s Campaign.
Their passion for social justice and belief in Catholic Social Teaching’s potential for transforming the world shines through in their work. And Deb and I have been so impressed by and pleased with their work as they recruit social-justice-minded Catholics to write commentaries for the Just Word, edit entries, write entries themselves, and help spread the word about the project on social media.
Thank you, Ben and Tess! You are both blessings not only to the FutureChurch community, but also to the larger global Church as we strive live out the Gospel.
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Russ Petrus |
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The Just Word
Confronting Antisemitism with Marjorie Corbman
This week, Marjorie Corbman invites us to explore the painful context of the Gospel of John’s depiction of Jews and Judaism through the insights of the Jewish New Testament scholar, Adele Reinhartz; engage the change in the Church’s teaching on Judaism in the twentieth century through Vatican II; and embody an opposition to anti-Semitism and anti-Judaism through the examples of Johannes Oesterreicher and Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (JFREJ).
"In this text, we see the breakdown of relationship between members of the same community who are no longer able to understand one another. Rather than attempting to resolve the tension, Reinhartz invites us to acknowledge and feel the pain of division."
Marjorie Corbman is an educator and theologian who currently spends her days working with the wonderful students at Mansfield Hall, a residential learning community for neurodivergent college students in Burlington, Vermont. Her theological writing is informed by her mixed-faith Jewish and Christian background, and her experiences working with organizing/activist communities associated with both religious traditions. She lives with her wife, Meg, and their very silly dachshund in Vermont.
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Catholic Women Preach
"See. Judge. Act" with Sr. Nicole Trahan, FMI
Preaching for the Fourth Sunday of Lent, Sr. Nicole Trahan, FMI offers a reflection on seeing and dismantling systems of injustice in our world:
"People often do not want to see. When people benefit from injustice or they are not negatively affected, there is little impetus to change. In fact, those who expose injustices are generally met with dismissal or anger or silencing or discrediting. Does that mean we stop bringing issues to light? Not at all. In fact, not only are we to expose injustices when we see them, we are also called to do what we can to dismantle the systems that create them. This is what it means to be a child of light..."
Sr. Nicole Trahan, FMI, a native of Orange, Texas, is a member of the Daughters of Mary Immaculate (Marianists) and currently lives in Dayton, Ohio. Sr. Nicole serves her congregation as a member of the provincial leadership team, vocations director and director of the pre-novitiate program. She is also a part-time campus minister at Chaminade Julienne Catholic High School.
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"Mary Magdalene and The Risen Jesus" Series |
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Set of four 5×7 greeting cards featuring the art of Laura James, commissioned by Rita L. Houlihan, depicting John 20:10-22. Blank on the inside. Each pack of four contains 1 of each:
- Called By Name
- Jesus Commissions Mary Magdalene
- Mary Magdalene Proclaims Resurrection
- Pentecost – Jesus Sends Them Out
Art: © Laura James for Rita L. Houlihan, 2021. Used with permission. Scripture translations: The Inclusive Bible © FutureChurch, 2022 and A Women’s Lectionary for the Whole Year: Year W © Wilda C. Gafney, 2021. Used with Permission.
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"Mary Magdalene Proclaims Resurrection" |
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Set of four 5×7 greeting cards featuring the art of Laura James, commissioned by Rita L. Houlihan, depicting John 20:18 “Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, ‘I have seen the Savior’; and she told them that he had said these things to her.”
Blank on the inside. Each pack of four contains 4 copies of the same card.
Art: © Laura James for Rita L. Houlihan, 2021. Used with permission. Scripture translation: A Women’s Lectionary for the Whole Year: Year W © Wilda C. Gafney, 2021. Used with Permission.
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March 23, 2023 at 7pm EDT |
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Dr. Nikki Taylor on "Driven Toward Madness" |
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As part of our Women Witnesses for Racial Justice series, please join Dr. Nikki M. Taylor, Professor of History and Chair of the Department as she discusses her book Driven Toward Madness: The Fugitive Slave Margaret Garner and Tragedy on the Ohio (2016).
The focus of her story is Margaret Garner, an enslaved wife and mother who, along with her entire family, escaped from slavery in northern Kentucky in 1856. When their owners caught up with the Garner family, Margaret tried to kill all four of her children–and succeeded in killing one–rather than see them return to slavery. Using black feminist and interdisciplinary methodologies, this book tetells this harrowing story from the perspective of Margaret Garner–a woman who could not read or write and left little of her own voice in the historical record. Ultimately, Driven Toward Madness examines why this fated act was the last best option for her as an enslaved mother.
Professor Nikki Taylor, Ph.D. specializes in 19th century African American History. Her sub-specialties are in Urban, African American Women, and Intellectual History. Educated at the University of Pennsylvania (BA) and Duke University (MA, PhD, Certificate in Women’s Studies), Dr. Taylor has won several fellowships including Fulbright, Social Science Research Council, and Woodrow Wilson. Her current research examines enslaved women who used lethal violence to resist slavery from the colonial to antebllum eras, challenging all previous interpretations about the nature of their resistance.
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April 6 at 12 noon EDT
Women Remembered: Jesus' Female Disciples
Authors Professor Joan Taylor and Professor Helen Bond will offer a look into the lives of Jesus’ female disciples based on their exciting new book, Women Remembered: Jesus’ Female Disciples (2022). While many of the women in Christian Scriptures have been dismissed, stereotyped, or misrepresented, Professor Taylor and Professor Bond present some of the latest findings and recover the stories of the women who have helped shape our faith.
Joan Taylor is Professor of Christian Origins and Second Temple Judaism at King’s College London. She has authored numerous books and articles about Jesus and his world, notably The Immerser: John the Baptist within Second Temple Judaism (1997), Jesus and Brian: Studying the Historical Jesus via Monty Python’s Life of Brian(2015) and What did Jesus look like? (2018). She has studied questions of women and gender for many years, and has edited, with Ilaria Ramelli, Patterns of Women’s Leadership in Early Christianity (2021). She also works in radio, television and film, and co-presented, with Helen Bond, Jesus Female Disciples: The New Evidence (2018) for Channel Four. Together they have recently authored Women Remembered: Jesus’ Female Disciples (2022).
Helen K. Bond is Professor of Christian Origins and Head of the School of Divinity at the University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on the social and political history of Judaea under Roman rule, the historical Jesus, and the canonical gospels. She is the author of Pontius Pilate in History and Interpretation (CUP, 1998), Caiaphas: High Priest and Friend of Rome? (Westminster John Knox, 2004), The Historical Jesus: A Guide for the Perplexed(Bloomsbury, 2012), Jesus: A Very Brief History (SPCK, 2017), The First Biography of Jesus: Genre and Meaning in Mark’s Gospel (Eerdmans, 2020), Women Remembered: Jesus’ Female Disciples (Hodder, 2022), and a number of shorter studies and articles. She has contributed to over 50 TV and radio documentaries, including acting as historical consultant to The Nativity (BBC, 2010) and co-presenter (with Joan Taylor) of Jesus’ Female Disciples(C4, 2018).
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A Post-Benedict, Post-Pell Church with Paul Collins |
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Historian, writer, and commentator Paul Collins joins FutureChurch to share his insights on the legacies of Pope Benedict XVI and Cardinal George Pell and what the future holds in a post-Benedict and post-Pell Church.
Born in Melbourne and now living in Canberra, Paul Collins is an historian, broadcaster, and writer. For many years he has worked in varying capacities in TV and radio and has written regularly for most of Australia’s leading newspapers and magazines, as well as for print media in the UK, the United States, Germany, and Austria. He has a Master’s degree in theology (Th.M.) from Harvard University, and a Doctorate in Philosophy (Ph.D) in history from the Australian National University (ANU), and is a Fellow of Trinity College of Music, London.
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"The Church: People of God on a Mission" online course |
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FutureChurch Followers receive 20% off with code FUTURE
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Begins March 22nd. This 6-week course featuries text by Dr. Morris Pelzel and videos of faculty from Boston College School of Theology and Ministry. The course platform is open to registrants 24/7 and participants can expect to commit about 3-4 hours each week to reading and participating in the discussion forums.
“Communion, Participation, and Mission,” the theme for the Synod on Synodality reflects the life and aspiration of the Catholic Church. How do we come together in Christ with our human diversity? How do we contribute through our various vocations and ministries to the shared life of faith? And how do we carry the message of the Gospel out into the world in fruitful ways? In this course we reflect on these issues of being church as well as the Church’s teaching role, sacramentality, differences of culture, and the tension between the Church’s transcendent nature and its engagement with the human world.
FutureChurch followers receive a 20% discount with code FUTURE.
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Catholic Church Involvement in Native American Boarding Schools: Learning to Walk the Good Road Toward Healing |
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Presented by the Listening, Learning and Education (LLE) Subcommittee of Catholic Native Boarding School Accountability and Healing Project (AHP).
Monday March 20 | 2:00pm to 3:30pm ET "Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma and Resilience in First Nations Communities" with Dr. Amy Bombay, Anishinaabe from Rainy River First Nations. Details/Register
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"Our Lady of the Way" Prayer Service for Equality |
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Saturday, March 25, 2023 at 11 a.m. ET (US) / 4 p.m. CEST
Join Women's Ordination Conference for this virtual prayer service (via Zoom) on World Day of Prayer for Women's Ordination.
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CTA Metro NY Annual Meeting |
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Sunday, March 26, 2023 | 2-4 pm
Please join us to learn about RECONNECT-a project that gives young people the tools to build a life for themselves and be a positive part of their community. We will meet a few people who are currently training and working at the Thomas Berry Place Retreat Center in Queens, NY. There will be a video tour of the training site featuring the culinary and print shop skills programs. We will also talk with Fr. Jim O’Shea, the founder of the RECONNECT PROJECT. Time for questions and comments will be at the presentation’s end.
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