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The Focolare movement — the “Work of Mary” founded by Chiara Lubich — is partnering with national and international peacekeeping initiatives to overcome polarization and practice fruitful dialogue during the 2024 election year.

Four major nonprofits recently launched a joint effort to counteract rising polarization and isolation in the U.S., including Catholic Charities USA, the organization dedicated to carrying out the domestic humanitarian work of the Catholic Church.

The musical movie “Mean Girls” could be one way to understand our highly polarized and politicized world today. Americans increasingly identify with one political group and react with hostility or fear to those who are not in their group.

The Synod on Synodality’s gathering in Rome is both modeling and providing an answer to the path to authentic unity for a deeply polarized church.

Cardinal Gregory said Pope Francis has made it “totally uncomfortable to take great comfort in any one dimension of the church’s social teaching.”

The book titled, “El Pastor” (The Shepherd) covers the “challenges, reasons and reflections” of Pope Francis over the course of his pontificate.

Father R. Aaron Wessman, the author of “The Church’s Mission in a Polarized World,” explores how we might rein in the momentum of hate that is pushing us further and further apart.

Media outlets that identify as Catholic must live “in a spirit of communion” with the pope, especially at a time of “overly dramatic debates, also within the Church, which do not even spare the person and the magisterium of the pontiff,” the Vatican secretary of state said.