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Welcome to NCR's weekend edition email! This is a new look to our weekend newsletter,
so please email us your thoughts and suggestions.
Now on to your weekend must reads.
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Young Catholics are using TikTok for community, evangelization [[link removed]]
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TikTok, the viral social media app, is all the rage with young people around the
world, including Amber-Rose Schneider, who first joined Tik-Tok to find other young
Catholic teenage creators like herself.
A self-described "cradle Catholic" and graphic design student at Liberty University,
Schneider, now 21, began using her TikTok as "@the_religious_hippie [[link removed]],"
a fun moniker her friends gave her. She was posting casually, but had what she calls
a "turning point" in her faith, and began posting openly about her beliefs.
For young U.S. Catholics like Schneider, TikTok is more than an app for dances,
funny memes and challenges in 60 seconds or less. It's a community dedicated to
evangelizing and defending the faith as well as a place for networking and recreation,
especially during the coronavirus pandemic, as more young people are seeking connection
and answers in a particularly divisive year.
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More on social media:

* Despite canon law's prohibition against political endorsements by clergy, many
prelates have entered the partisan fray on Twitter, resulting in increased division
and confusion among the faithful, writes NCR columnist Franciscan Fr. Daniel Horan
[[link removed]].
* "Screened Out" acknowledges we have free will [[link removed]],
but with addictive social media sites and gaming, it's not always a sure thing that
a person can change his or her online life without intervention.
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Book review: Soviet memories of WWII's searing horrors [[link removed]]
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Originally published in Russian in 1985, now in English, Svetlana Alexievich's Last
Witnesses listens to adults looking back on their experiences as children during
World War II in the Soviet Union.
Its U.S. appearance in paperback this past summer, after a hardback release last
year, was perhaps intended to coincide with this year's commemorations of the 75th
anniversary of the end of World War II in 1945.
Those commemorations have been muted, given the global health pandemic. But that
development actually works to the book's advantage, drawing attention away from
official history and sites of battle to the lesser-known locales of violence where
civilians were vulnerable to horrific acts.
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More headlines
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* Former priest Joe Fagan, who died Sept. 2 at age 80 [[link removed]],
helped build Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement, one of the toughest and most
enduring action groups in the country.
* ICYMI: Pope Francis asked members of the United Nations [[link removed]]
how they think they can respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and build a more peaceful,
more just world when many of their countries spend billions on military weapons
and when their treatment of the unborn, of refugees and of women shows so little
respect for human life.
* ICYMI: The Supreme Court denied the appeals of two federal death-row inmates [[link removed]].
* ICYMI: The late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg l [[link removed]]ay
in state Sept. 25 at the U.S. Capitol [[link removed]],
the first woman so honored in America, making history again as she had throughout
her extraordinary life.
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Weekend wrap-up
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Every Saturday, NCR posts a Scripture reflection [[link removed]]
from either St. Joseph Sr. Mary M. McGlone [[link removed]]
or Dominican Sr. Carol J. Dempsey [[link removed]].
In today's reflection, McGlone writes [[link removed]]
that the reading from Philippians "tells us that if we are willing, we can take
on the attitude of Christ." You can sign up to receive our Scripture reflections
two months in advance [[link removed]]
or you can get an email each Saturday [[link removed]].
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See you next weekend,
Stephanie Yeagle
NCR Production/Online Editor
[email protected] [mailto:[email protected]?subject=NCR%20Today%20newsletter]
Twitter: @ncrSLY [[link removed]]
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