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Expanding Horizons 150 Years after Vatican I: Toward a Renewed Relationship between Synodality and Primacy
No full textPope Francis calls the church to greater synodality to build up practices of communion, participation, and mission at every level of the church’s life. Proponents of synodality often interpret Vatican I’s definition of papal primacy as an obstacle to the synodal path. Recent scholarship, however, suggests ways that Vatican I need not present a stumbling block; rather, when properly contextualized and interpreted, Pastor Aeternushas the potential to illumine the inherent dynamism between primacy and synodality. This study explores how fresh approaches to Vatican I and synodality can direct us to more responsive ecclesial structures in the diverse and changing church of today
Hmong New Year
No full textNyob Zoo Xyoo Tshiab! HAIS annual Hmong New Year highlights the diversity of the Hmong culture in celebration of ending a year and welcoming the beginning of a new year.Thanks to our presenter Dr. Shoua Yang, performers Sua Vaj, Kevin Phoojywg Xiong, and Txos Lauj, MCs Selina Vang and Chong Yang, and HAIS\u27s president Yuepheng Lor
Tomorrow’s Stewards: Engaging Youth with Environmental Volunteerism
Get PDFEnvironmental volunteers are of great value to their host organizations, the environment, the economy, and civil society. The Friends of Acadia (FOA) Drop-In Stewardship Volunteer Program hosts volunteers who complete an assortment of tasks in Acadia National Park. However, this program has no regular youth volunteers. Engaging youth volunteers is critical for program effectiveness, civic engagement, generativity, and increasing personal development. Drawing on survey data collected from FOA volunteers and College of the Atlantic students, this paper analyzes volunteer motivations and interests, and barriers to participation. I conclude with suggestions for how FOA can recruit more youth volunteers
Oscar Romero and Juan Gerardi: Truth, Memory, and Hope
Get PDFSalvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero and Guatemalan Bishop Juan Gerardi were prominent defenders of human rights during the civil wars that characterized their two countries during the 1980s and 1990s. By their public proclamations and prophetic witness, they laid the foundation for the United Nations Truth Commission in El Salvador, the United Nations Commission for Historical Clarification in Guatemala, and the Recovery of the Historic Memory (REMHI) project in Guatemala. Inspired by the need to dignify the victims of state-sponsored violence by refusing to forget, and accompanying the survivors in their struggle for justice, Romero and Gerardi were instrumental in uncovering the truth, establishing justice, and recovering the historic memory of the people as essential elements of hope and reconciliation in their respective countries
Catholic Peacebuilding in Times of Crisis: Hope for a Wounded World: A Summary with Link to Recordings of Presentations
Get PDFBishop Thomas Gumbleton and Pax Christi USA\u27s Contribution to the 1983 United States Catholic Bishops’ Pastoral Letter, The Challenge of Peace: God\u27s Promise and Our Response
Get PDFThis essay is a personal reflection on the contribution that Bishop Thomas Gumbleton and Pax Christi USA made to the creation of the U.S. Bishops’ 1983 pastoral letter on peace. It begins with the early history of Pax Christi USA and discusses activities through the years that led to the U.S. Bishops’ letter on peace in 1983. These activities include: Call to Action 1976; Bishops’ Masses for Peace; the Pax Christi USA Disarmament Commission; a discussion of the debate on May 1-3, 1983 on the letter that resulted in a 238-9 vote in favor of the letter; pastoral letters published by European nations and Japan in 1983; and the impact the letter had on the careers of Bishop John O’Connor and Bishop Thomas Gumbleton. The essay concludes with a reflection on the necessity for global governance
Equitable Partnerships in Global Health: Shifting the Paradigm to Address Disparities
No full textIf we are serious about promoting health equity for all, we must begin by creating equitable partnerships. We will discuss how to shift the paradigm in our global health work by critically examining our language, attitudes, and practices, so that neither power nor pity determine our ability to collaborate effectively.
Dr. Lisa V. Adams (she/her) is the Associate Dean for Global Health, Director of The Center for Global Health Equity, and a Professor of Medicine in the Infectious Disease and International Health Section at Dartmouth. She designs and leads interdisciplinary global health programs and teaches and mentors college, medical, and public health students in global health. Dr. Adams is an expert in international tuberculosis care and prevention with a focus on improving care delivery to children and persons living with HIV. She has worked in over a dozen countries providing technical assistance to Ministries of Health and academic and nongovernmental partners. Her popular 2019 TEDx talk is entitled Global Health Partnerships: Check Your Privilege at the Border
Everyday verticality: Migrant experiences of high-rise living in Santiago, Chile
Get PDFOver the last three decades, Santiago, Chile has experienced rapid urbanisation. The city’s expansion has prompted the proliferation of high-rise residential buildings, mediated by spatial segregation along class lines and fragmented urban governance. Concurrently, economic opportunities in Chile have drawn regional labour migrants, resulting in an unprecedented increase in migratory flows. Drawing on ethnographic research, this article charts the everyday experiences of migrants in high-rise residences. As new arrivals seek housing, social networks channel migrants – particularly Venezuelans – into shared high-rise apartments, producing specific buildings as vertical enclaves. Lived experiences within the confines of verticality are frequently shaped by the challenges of overcrowding. As migrants craft daily practices to mitigate these limitations, their routines make full use of limited space and meaningfully engage with building common areas, public spaces and neighbourhoods. The everyday practice of verticality articulates links between high-rises and surrounding sites, neighbourhoods and the broader urban fabric
Izzy\u27s Blueberry Wish: A National Guard Deployment Story of Family Resiliency
Get PDFIn 2019 I walked along a Florida beach, worried about my son’s upcoming third deployment. Although I laughed when sea gulls stole chips left on a swimmer’s blanket, thoughts of saying goodbye shrouded the sun. During previous deployments, I had never cried when I hugged him goodbye. But that day on the beach tears stung my eyes as I recalled the uncertainty and fear that gripped my heart with each deployment.
I wiped away my tears and watched children play in the surf and fill buckets of sand, and I wondered how children cope when their parents are deployed. My son once told me about a fellow officer who skyped with his toddler during a yearlong absence in Iraq. Whenever her father’s face appeared on the computer screen, his daughter waved and smiled and blew kisses. She knew her daddy’s face and voice, yet when her father returned home and stood in the living room, she didn’t run to embrace him. Instead in bewilderment, she turned toward the computer screen.
The soldier’s story inspired me to write Izzy’s Blueberry Wish. By writing the story and researching organizations devoted to assisting military families, I learned that military children face unique challenges, both educational and emotional. Separation from a parent is wrenching, but with family and community support, children also find unwavering courage.
Izzy’s Blueberry Wish is fiction. The gravel road Izzy runs down to her home doesn’t exist. But Izzy is very much in my heart
Collegeville Connections: The End of Burnout
No full textThrough research on the science, culture, and philosophy of burnout, Malesic explores the gap between our vocation and our jobs, and between the ideals we have for work and the reality of what we have to do. He eschews the usual prevailing wisdom in confronting burnout (“Learn to say no!” “Practice mindfulness!”) to examine how our jobs have been constructed as a symbol of our value and our total identity. He argues that can look to communities of monks, intense hobbyists, and artists with disabilities to see the possibilities for resisting a “total work” environment and the paths to recognizing the dignity of workers and non-workers alike