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Welcome to Friday. NCR columnist Mike Leach realizes he needs to forgive President
Donald Trump, even if he doesn't deserve it. Jesuit Fr. Stephen Kelly, one of the
Kings Bay Plowshares 7, has spent more than 11 years in jail. They are both Catholic,
but Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her opponent, John Cummings, are a study in
contrasts.
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I need to forgive Donald Trump [[link removed]]
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"I need to forgive President Donald Trump," writes Mike Leach in the latest Soul
Seeing column. "Not that he needs it. I need it."
Leach writes that even though Trump hasn't hurt him personally - he and his family
are safe and happy - the president has hurt thousands of others.
"Especially the dead ones he may have saved by telling the truth. And their families.
And all those children sleeping on cement in cages near the border. And their mothers
who still don't know where they are. At best, Trump has devastated families, deepened
division, ignited violence, made a mockery of decency, damaged our democracy, and
now threatens our coming election. O, how that bothers me!"
You can read the rest of his column here [[link removed]].
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Four years ago about this time in October, Jesuit Fr. Stephen Kelly celebrated Mass
for a national gathering of Catholic Workers that had just ended in Las Vegas. The
celebration did not occur at a church, but on sacred land stolen from the Western
Shoshone Nation 70 years ago by the U.S. government for the testing of nuclear weapons,
now known as the Nevada National Security Site.
Nowhere else on Earth has suffered so many nuclear detonations. With the permission
of the Western Shoshone National Council, the site has also been a place of worship,
penance and of nonviolent resistance for many years.
Kelly has spent more than 11 years wearing the khaki or orange habit of a prisoner,
all for participating in communities of nonviolent resistance to war.
Since April 4, 2018, the 50th anniversary of the Rev. Martin Luther King's assassination,
Kelly has been in the Glynn County Jail in Brunswick, Georgia, for a protest with
six others at Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay, the Atlantic home port of the Trident
submarine.
You can read more about Kelly here [[link removed]].
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More background:

* As Catholic Worker and peace activist Clare Grady awaits sentencing for her participation
in the Kings Bay Plowshares action [[link removed]],
she says, "Is it time for lamenting or rejoicing? It's always time for both."
* Listen to NCR's podcast [[link removed]]
as Kings Bay Plowshares 7 activists explain why they broke into a U.S. nuclear weapons
facility, and what it felt like.
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More headlines

*
Perrysburg, Ohio, physician Dr. Richard Paat and Baldemar Velasquez, founder of
the Farm Labor Organizing Committee, have been working together [[link removed]]
on behalf of northwest Ohio's migrant communities for the past dozen years.
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NCR political columnist Michael Sean Winters says [[link removed]]
Mark Shea's new book, The Church's Best-Kept Secret: A Primer on Catholic Social
Teaching, is "a great book to help people realize the ways our politics and culture
in the U.S. has distorted our self-understanding of Catholicism."
* At EarthBeat [[link removed]],
Gary Gardner, consultant to GreenFaith, writes about "eco-anxiety," the unease that
comes in the face of climate catastrophes, species extinctions, melting icecaps
and other perils collectively labeled an "existential threat" to humanity.
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Watch our Facebook Live discussion [[link removed]]
with executive editor Heidi Schlumpf, columnist Michael Sean Winters and Ralph McCloud,
director of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development, about coronavirus, the
Affordable Healthcare Act and the upcoming presidential election.
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Final thoughts
Every Friday, NCR posts Your Thoughts [[link removed]],
our online collection of letters to the editor by readers. This week, read responses
to the debate about how a few words can render a baptism invalid [[link removed]].
You can join the conversation by following these guidelines [[link removed]].
Also, a reminder that we are in the middle of our Fall Member Drive, in which we
ask our loyal readers to consider joining our community of NCR Forward members.
For just $5 a month, you can get a ton of benefits, such as special events, member
polls, question and answer sessions and more. You can find out how to join here
[[link removed]].
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Until Monday,
Stephanie Yeagle
NCR Production/Online Editor
[email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
Twitter: @ncrSLY [[link removed]]
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