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Welcome to Tuesday. NCR columnist María Teresa (MT) Dávila says we need to face
the fact that the focus on the pro-life position has had disastrous consequences
to the common good. A year after a papal visit, Mozambique is besieged by an Islamic
insurgency that is displacing hundreds of thousands. A new PBS documentary explores
the largest non-white voting bloc in the country - Latinos.
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Hyper focus on abortion issue obscures call of common good [[link removed]]
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In recent years, the public voice of the Catholic Church has been limited to the
pro-life cause, defined as overturning and resisting the laws that make abortions
legal, writes NCR columnist María Teresa (MT) Dávila, an associate professor of
Practice, Religious and Theological Studies at Merrimack College.
With the presidential election looming closer, Dávila says we are challenged to
"face the fact that the pro-life position, as articulated and defended for years,
has had disastrous consequences for the fullness of the Catholic vision of the common
good in the public square."
"For decades, focus on the right to life of the unborn has shaped the public and
political will of many Christians," she writes. "Undoubtedly, the number of abortions
carried out any year is a staggering and painful reminder that we continue to be
deeply immersed in a 'culture of death.' "
"But this hyper focus, paired with the political manipulation of the issue, draws
a false line in the sand and creates a litmus test for the role of people of faith
in the public square that obscures the multiple ways in which we participate in
a culture of death," she continues.
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More background:

*
In NCR's recent editorial [[link removed]],
we say that democratic socialism's concern for the common good is not antithetical
to our Christian and Catholic faith.

* Catholic teaching provides ways for voters to evaluate candidates on the basis
of abortion - and of other serious issues like the pandemic or racism, writes David
E. DeCosse [[link removed]],
a director at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University.
* Not all Catholics believe that abortion is the single defining issue in deciding
how to vote, says Patrick Carolan [[link removed]],
Catholic outreach director for Vote Common Good.
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Mozambique besieged by insurgency a year after papal visit [[link removed]]
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A year after Pope Francis' visit to Mozambique, where the pope lauded the forging
of a peace deal after decades of civil conflict, the country is now besieged by
an Islamic insurgency that is displacing hundreds of thousands.
Francis visited Mozambique from Sept. 4-6, 2019, making the trip largely to praise
a landmark agreement between the country's ruling party and opposition group Renamo
that ended decades of conflict.
The current conflict in the Cabo Delgado province, on the country's northern border
with Tanzania, is raging on without resolution. Many are concerned that President
Filipe Nyusi, who is widely seen as an autocratic and corrupt ruler, will be unable
to end it.
The United Nations has described the situation in Mozambique as a worsening conflict
that, together with an already precarious humanitarian situation, has forced more
than 300,000 people to flee.
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More background:

* In August, Pope Francis called Bishop Luiz Fernando Lisboa of Pemba, Mozambique,
to express concern about his diocese [[link removed]],
and to support Lisboa during a defamation campaign launched by Mozambique's president.
* Two missionary sisters captured by rebels in northern Mozambique were released
unharmed last month [[link removed]],
according to their congregation, the Sisters of St. Joseph of Chambery.
* Read all of NCR's coverage of the 2019 papal trip to Africa here [[link removed]].
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More headlines

* From Latino Public Broadcasting comes a new documentary, "Latino Vote: Dispatches
from the Battleground [[link removed]],"
that explores the largest non-white voting bloc in the country - Latinos - and mobilization
efforts to increase their turnout in the 2020 election.
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At Global Sisters Report [[link removed]],
a Q&A with Judith Baenen, who as a young Loretto sister in 1965, flew with a Kansas
City contingency of Catholics to bear witness to the events in Selma.
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Final thoughts
Don't forget to join us tomorrow at 1:30 p.m. Central for a Facebook Live conversation
on coronavirus, health care and the election [[link removed]].
Executive editor Heidi Schlumpf will speak with NCR political columnist Michael
Sean Winters and Ralph McCloud, director of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development
at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Follow us on Facebook [[link removed]]
for the latest news and events.
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Until Wednesday,
Stephanie Yeagle
NCR Production/Online Editor
[email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
Twitter: @ncrSLY [[link removed]]
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