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1st Virtual Central States District Conference
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Conference theme - “Hearts On Fire”
Registration fee is $20.
◆ Please complete the form and return with Council / Court check, money order or cashier’s check. NO personal checks accepted.
◆ Make ALL checks payable to: KPC CSD Conf. Fund and mail with Registration Form. NOTE: Registration deadline June 4, 2021
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To: Knight Leslie L. Farr II
KPC CSD Financial Secretary
P.O. Box 1051
Florissant, Missouri 63031
Email a copy to CSD Recording Secretary
Knight Jonathan Jones
majjone@gmail.com
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5904 East 97th Street
Kansas City, Missouri 64134
“Please get your Early Bird registration in early and thank you for your dedication to our Noble Order”.
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 Gloria Purvis has been interviewed on a lot of podcasts, but she has never hosted a podcast herself.
Until now.
Purvis, whose weekday radio show “Morning Glory” was abruptly canceled without notice by EWTN last December, is launching a new podcast in May via America Media, the Jesuit communications ministry that includes America magazine.
New installments of “The Gloria Purvis Podcast” will be posted weekly, although neither Purvis nor America Media had a launch date set at the time of the May 11 announcement. The podcast will be available via Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and other podcast apps. Read More The American Catholic bishops are frequently criticized by the left and the right for what they say in the political arena. Conservatives want them to speak out more on abortion and gender issues and less about immigration and the poor. Progressives, on the other hand, want them to do exactly the opposite.
But it’s what the bishops haven’t said, particularly on racial justice, that has kept them from being a more prophetic voice in American life. Few if any bishops, for example, have participated in the Black Lives Matter movement or said anything about voter suppression laws. African Methodist Episcopal clergy, on the other hand, have rallied and threatened boycotts over voter suppression bills in state legislatures across the country. The U.S. Conference of Catholics Bishops has said nothing. Read More The ongoing national discussion about systemic racism holds both challenges and opportunities for people of faith of all racial backgrounds, according to a Washington archdiocesan priest and a Georgetown University law professor, who are both African Americans, and both working to help people understand the issues.
Father Patrick Smith, pastor of St. Augustine Parish in Washington, and Anthony Cook, professor of law at the Georgetown University Law Center, each pointed to the need to understand unvarnished history as the starting point for people of faith to begin to help root out and move beyond systemic racism. Read More As Fr. Andrew McNair was introduced as the Diocese of Phoenix’s new chaplain to the African American community, a sense of excitement rippled through St. Pius X Church.
Later, one of the speakers addressed the crowd gathered on April 18.
“Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah,” exclaimed Andrea Weeks Hardin, a member of the diocese’s Black Catholic Ministry since 1994 and part of its Racial Healing and Reconciliation Commission established last year by Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted.
Turning to Fr. McNair, she expressed hope that this is only the beginning.
“I want you to know you have many witnesses here who saw you sign those papers,” she said to scattered laughter. “We have a lot of work for you to do. You have a whole congregation of people behind you. We know we will move forward finally in the right direction. Read More The Leadership Conference of Women Religious and the National Black Sisters Conference issued a joint statement May 5 on the importance of ensuring that all people enjoy the right to vote "regardless of their race, zip code, economic status or party affiliation."
"As women of faith and faithful Americans, we believe that all people have the right and obligation to participate fully in our democracy," the sisters' statement said, adding that they "strongly oppose all attempts to restrict that participation by limiting the sacred right to vote." Read More LSU made history Thursday by naming University of South Carolina Provost William "Bill" Tate as the first Black president in the school's history and the first Black to lead a school in the Southeastern Conference.
Black students weren't even allowed to attend LSU until 1953.
"Quite frankly I didn't think this day would come that an African-American would become president in the SEC," Tate said. "Y'all made it possible. Read More In a series of letters – a total of five letters from the priest to the future saint still exist – Father Tynan asks for a loan “on easy terms.” Mother Drexel writes back, asking for more information about the people who want to build the chapel and if they have money to contribute to its construction.
Father Tynan writes that the parishioners are Black Catholics, most of whom own their own homes or farms, and that he says Mass for them on the second Sunday of each month in a building they fixed up for that purpose.
Mother Drexel, learning that the chapel will cost $1,000, pledges $500 to the effort if the founding parishioners can raise the other half. They did so in one day. “They must have made some major sacrifices to make that happen so quickly,” Father Qureshi said of those founding parishioners. “To raise $500 would have been no easy feat when the average Sunday collection then was about $2.” Read More As the guilty verdicts were read April 20 in the trial of a white former Minneapolis police officer in the death of George Floyd, Reynold Verret, president of Xavier University of Louisiana, “could hear the rumble of a collective exhalation” across the New Orleans campus.
Verret admitted that he, students, faculty and staff at the historically Black Catholic university felt apprehensive about the trial and whether Derek Chauvin, the former officer, would be found guilty of multiple charges in Floyd’s death.
Such apprehension existed, he said, because Black people feel marginalized in American society.
“The feelings that are unspoken about being otherized, about this country that sees me as different, those feelings that have been internalized are very damaging,” said Verret, who came to the U.S. from Haiti as a child. Read More
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