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Welcome to Tuesday. A Wisconsin Catholic priest holds an indoor rally telling the crowd to vote for President Donald Trump. The battle for a New York representative seat is between two vastly different Catholics. In Africa, farmers are learning new methods to fight floods and drought.
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A Wisconsin Catholic priest, whose viral video claimed "you cannot be Catholic and be a Democrat," continued his campaign in Chicago this month with a speech at one of the city's tony clubs, where he appeared to violate quarantine orders and addressed an indoor crowd, with at least some of the people not wearing masks.
"What person worthy to be called American has a problem with making America great again?" asked Fr. James Altman to an audience failing to comply with the city's guidelines, as he made his case that Catholics must vote for President Donald Trump over former Vice President Joe Biden. "This actually is a crucial time in history where Catholics better get it right. And the shepherds better be getting it right," he said of the U.S. bishops.
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This year's battle for New York's 14th District offers a study of contrasts between two Catholics.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the incumbent, is the only freshman representative to be nationally known by her initials (AOC) and to be portrayed on "Saturday Night Live." She rode a 2018 progressive surge into unseating a longtime Democratic centrist in a primary battle, is a proponent of the Green New Deal and a frequent Twitter target for President Donald Trump.
John Cummings, Ocasio-Cortez's Republican challenger, is a former NYPD police officer, and a teacher for 22 years at St. Raymond High School for Boys in the Bronx, his alma mater. He told NCR, playing on the idea that all politics is local, that he is focused on exploiting what he described as an underlying dissatisfaction with Ocasio-Cortez in the heavily Democratic district.
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More headlines
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To head off deadly consequences of climate change and help farmers adapt, Catholic agencies are funding agro-ecology learning centers and solar-powered community wells in southern African countries.
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Fratelli Tutti does not mention "Islam" or "Muslims," but it is part of the broader legacy that Pope Francis will leave the church on Catholic-Muslim relations, as well as interreligious relations more broadly, writes Jordan Denari Duffner, a doctoral student of theology and religious studies at Georgetown University.
- At Global Sisters Report, a Q&A with Sr. Meena Dias, a member of the Sisters of Holy Family of Nazareth, who serves at St. Xavier's Academy in Old Goa, an institution that works with people with disabilities.
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Final thoughts
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Until Wednesday,
Stephanie Yeagle
NCR Production/Online Editor
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