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Here are your weekend must reads. It's more than just basketball for the high school
boys in this docuseries. A Scripture scholar lays out the reasons to ordain women.
Detroit Archbishop Allen Vigneron participates in a partisan event.
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Docuseries on basketball at St. Benedict's Prep School has lessons from off court
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"Benedict Men [[link removed]]"
- a new docuseries from executive producer and basketball superstar Stephen Curry
on Quibi - follows the boys' basketball team at St. Benedict's Preparatory School
in Newark, New Jersey, as they work toward a 2018-19 state high school championship.
The series uses the basketball season as a framework to tell the story of St. Benedict's
guiding principle - "What hurts my brother hurts me" - and how that plays out in
a learning community of students, monks, teachers and coaches. As headmaster Benedictine
Fr. Edwin Leahy told Pauline Sr. Rose Pacatte in an interview, "We don't call St.
Benedict's a campus, and we don't use the term 'student body.' We are a community."
What makes St. Benedict's boys' basketball team stand out is not their sports prowess,
though their talents are recognized and allowed to develop, but each one's character.
In an environment teeming with diversity, including Christians, Muslims, Jews, Blacks,
Latinos and whites, all come together to become men.
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Book review: Scripture scholar John Wijngaards lays out the reasons to ordain women
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In a small, very readable and well-argued book, John Wijngaards presents his decadeslong
research on women's ministry. The reader of What They Don't Teach You in Catholic
College: Women in the Priesthood and the Mind of Christ is invited to follow him
on a journey that recalls his own awakening shortly after the Second Vatican Council
to his present scholarship on the issue.
Wijngaards' verdict is unequivocal: If the church continues to ignore insights from
Scripture, reason and experience in favor of the tradition, it perpetuates a cultural
prejudice that has held back millions of women. Given the changes in similar teachings,
slavery in particular, there is no reason why the position toward women could not
change.
Wijngaards' book encourages Catholics to seriously engage with their faith. He provides
readers with theological reflections that recalibrate a faith tradition that is
at risk of losing its core mission: to remember the words and deeds of Jesus Christ
in the Eucharist, and then to go and do as Jesus taught.
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More headlines

* ICYMI: Archbishop Allen Vigneron offered the opening prayer [[link removed]]
for a virtual fundraising event for Right to Life of Michigan, during which the
organization offered an endorsement of President Donald Trump.

* "I do not have to convince God that Anthony is a good boy despite his suicide,"
writes Leticia Ochoa Adams [[link removed]].
"I also do not worry that God has damned my son's soul. I believe he can save not
just Anthony, but me as well."
* In the latest Soul Seeing column [[link removed]],
Patrick Reardon writes about his twice weekly ritual that, for him, is a sacrament
- 50-minute sessions of psychotherapy.
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Weekend wrap-up
For Catholics, Oct. 4 is widely recognized as the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi,
the patron saint of ecology. What does that mean? Who made that decision? And why?
EarthBeat has the answer [[link removed]].
Also, Sunday's readings [[link removed]]
call us to contemplate the feast of St. Francis of Assisi [[link removed]]
and the final day of the worldwide observance of the Season of Creation [[link removed]].
And Pope Francis' new encyclical, "Fratelli tutti [[link removed]],"
is expected to be signed and released this weekend.
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See you next weekend,
Stephanie Yeagle
NCR Production/Online Editor
[email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
Twitter: @ncrSLY [[link removed]]
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