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Tag: Social justice

  • The pounding waves

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    Peter Sidebotham
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      For me, sitting relaxed in a beach-front café, watching the sun set over the Indian Ocean, the fishing boats setting out for the night present an idyllic scene: life in all its richness, there for all to enjoy. For the stripped-down men, battling their way against the incessant, pounding waves, the reality is so,…

  • Dear Pope Francis

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    Peter Sidebotham
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    I may not, strictly speaking, count myself one of your ‘flock’. Nevertheless, I thought I would write a response to your recent Encyclical Letter, Laudato Si’[1]. I do this for three reasons: first, because you have addressed this Encyclical not just to members of the Roman Catholic Church, but to ‘every living person on the…