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Welcome to NCR Today, a newsletter that will round up our top stories of the day,
plus point out important reads from our sister publications, Global Sisters Report
and EarthBeat. Your feedback is important to us, so please reply to this email with
your thoughts and questions.
Now on to the news.
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How seven climate-conscious young Christians are deciding their vote [[link removed]]
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On Nov. 3, millions of members of Generation Z will be able to cast their first
ballots in a presidential election. Polls show that climate change [[link removed]]
and the environment [[link removed]]
rank high among young voters' top issues.
These young people will account for 37% of eligible voters [[link removed]],
equaling Baby Boomers and older generations, with Gen X rounding out the remaining
quarter. Much is at stake for climate policy in the country:
Will a second term for President Donald Trump solidify his environmental rollbacks,
or will Democratic nominee Joe Biden return the U.S. to the Paris Agreement and
its position as a global leader?
EarthBeat spoke with seven young Christians about the election, their vote and climate
change. All plan to vote. All said climate change is affecting their lives, and
all see their faith influencing how they vote and why they care about the climate
crisis.
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More background:

* The global climate fight could be lost if President Donald Trump is reelected,
reports The Guardian [[link removed]].
* Bishop John Stowe of Lexington, Kentucky, said in a recent webinar that the environment,
and other issues beyond abortion, are critical to consider when voting [[link removed]].
* All of NCR's 2020 election coverage can be found here [[link removed]].
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The church needs 'notorious' women willing to dissent, too [[link removed]]
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In her first job in Catholic journalism, 25 years ago, NCR executive editor Heidi
Schlumpf learned that two other staff writers - both men - earned several thousand
dollars a year more than she did, even though she had more experience.
When she asked her editor for a raise, he defended the discrepancy noting that,
as a married woman, Schlumpf's salary was a supplement to her husband's.
"Today that would be illegal - thanks to women like Ruth Bader Ginsburg and others
of her generation who fought so that women would be treated equally, especially
in the workplace," Schlumpf writes.
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More background:

* Trump has said he will announce a nominee to fill Ginsburg's place on the Supreme
Court this week. Two Catholic women judges are on the short list [[link removed]].
* One of those on the short list is Amy Coney Barrett, whose connection to People
of Praise was scrutinized in 2018 [[link removed]]
when she was last a prospective nominee. (That spot is now filled by Brett Kavanaugh.)
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More headlines
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* ICYMI: Recently, Wisconsin Catholic bishops of announced an end to the dispensation
from the obligation to attend Sunday Mass, issued in March because of safety concerns
related to the coronavirus pandemic. But we are still in the middle of a pandemic
and it's too early to require Mass attendance, we write in our editorial [[link removed]].
* At Global Sisters Report, read a Q&A with María Soledad Gómez Navarro [[link removed]],
one of only about 20 researchers in the Spanish language who study Catholic sisters.
* Every Tuesday and Thursday, we post a new Francis comic strip. In today's strip
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Brother Leo looks for a good read in the library. All of the comic strips can be
found here [[link removed]].
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Final thoughts
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NCR Forward members [[link removed]]
are regularly invited to members-only events. On Thursday, Franciscan Fr. Dan Horan,
a NCR columnist [[link removed]],
will be talking with our members about "Laudato Si': The End or the Beginning?"
Become a member today [[link removed]]
to get an invitation to this week's and future events.
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Until Wednesday,
Stephanie Yeagle
NCR Production/Online Editor
[email protected] [mailto:[email protected]?subject=NCR%20Today%20newsletter]
Twitter: @ncrSLY [[link removed]]
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