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Welcome to Friday. The Amazon is struggling one year after the beginning of the
Vatican's Synod for the Amazon. Our opinion editor says the bishops are not listening
to the needs and desires of marginalized communities. A recent poll obscures some
inconvenient facts about how Catholics feel about the presidential candidates.
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Impeded by pandemic crisis, dreams and goals of Amazon synod endure [[link removed]]
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It was one year ago that the Synod for the Amazon opened at the Vatican. The synod
closed three weeks later with a document that set out a series of pastoral, cultural
and environmental challenges for the church in the Amazon. Pope Francis drew on
that document to write his papal exhortation, Querida Amazonia, released in February.
Then the coronavirus pandemic swept through South America, battering the Amazon
region with its scattered communities and poor health care facilities. As the wave
of illness subsides, the dreams and goals set out at the synod remain, but the church
also faces new challenges.
The pandemic has increased the urgency of some issues that were discussed extensively
at the synod, especially the destruction of forests and threats against indigenous
peoples. Deforestation and fires have accelerated this year, as law enforcement
efforts have been hampered by the pandemic and communities have been less able to
mobilize to defend their lands.
"The pandemic came out of the blue, surprised everybody and here we are," said Fr.
Peter Hughes, a Columban priest based in Lima, Peru, who was involved in synod planning
and participated as an expert. "Life hasn't been the same and won't be the same."
Although the pandemic caught most of the world by surprise, those involved in the
synod and Amazonian ministries knew that "the impact was going to be proportionally
greater in Amazonia than anywhere else," Hughes told EarthBeat. "And that's exactly
what has happened."
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More background:

* Pope Francis has decided the next world Synod of Bishops at the Vatican, which
will take place in October 2022 [[link removed]],
will have the theme: "For a synodal church: Communion, participation and mission."
* Pope Francis talks a lot about "synodality," but on the interrelated questions
of married priests and women deacons, the talk fell short, writes NCR columnist
Phyllis Zagano [[link removed]].
* In Querida Amazonia, Pope Francis denounced the unrestrained development in the
Amazon [[link removed]]
that he says destroys one of the planet's critical ecosystems and disenfranchises
its indigenous peoples.
* All of NCR's coverage of the Synod for the Amazon can be found here [[link removed]].
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Catholic Church must reject its anti-Black misogyny [[link removed]]
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"There is an abyss in our church," writes NCR opinion editor Olga Segura, "and it
is because the bishops, collectively, and, by extension, other leaders in the church
are not listening to the true needs and desires of marginalized communities."
In her commentary, Segura lines out recent events starting with a grand jury deciding
not to indict the officers involved in the shooting death of Breonna Taylor, more
anti-racism protests erupting across the country and Los Angeles Auxiliary Bishop
Robert Barron responding with some dangerous rhetoric.
"One of the most remarkable differences between the social protests of the 1960s
and those of today is that the former were done in concert with, and often under
the explicit leadership of, religious people," Barron wrote, adding, "It is exceptionally
difficult for the religiously motivated to get any traction with those formed by
postmodernism, and vice versa. The two groups tend to stare at one another across
an intellectual abyss."
"Barron's words do not exist in a vacuum; at any other moment in American history,
this rhetoric from a bishop could be seen as merely laughable or tone deaf, but
in 2020, it is dangerous," writes Segura.
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More background:

* In another commentary [[link removed]],
NCR opinion editor Olga Segura says that Catholic discourse on Black Lives Matter
must amplify women founders.
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More headlines

* So-called "devout" Catholics are not necessarily more likely to support President
Donald Trump, according to an analysis by Scott Liebertz [[link removed]],
assistant professor of political science and criminal justice at the University
of South Alabama.
* This week's letters to the editor [[link removed]]
include responses to articles on Catholics for Trump, bishops on Twitter, Cardinal
George Pell's historic trial and more.
* ICYMI: Wednesday night's vice presidential debate between Sen. Kamala Harris and
Vice President Mike Pence won't change much about the 2020 race, says NCR political
columnist Michael Sean Winters [[link removed]].
* ICYMI: The latest financial transparency measures enacted at the Vatican are meant
to restore order, ensuring money serves its purpose and does not become an object
of idolatry, Pope Francis told European finance experts [[link removed]].
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Final thoughts
Global Sisters Report publishes a column each Friday called Horizons [[link removed]],
where younger sisters reflect on their lives, ministries, spirituality and the future
of religious life. This week's dispatch from Providence Sr. Tracey Horan [[link removed]]
talks about how pain and tension invite us to ask important questions about what
it means to be Catholic. You can sign up to receive an email [[link removed]]
each time a new Horizons column is posted.
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Until Monday,
Stephanie Yeagle
NCR Production/Online Editor
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