#WBW2017 will call on advocates and activists, decision-makers and celebrants to forge new and purposeful partnerships. Together, let’s attract political support, media attention, participation of young people and widen our pool of celebrants and supporters.
Only then can we campaign for a generation and commit to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.
As a Catholic I have been surrounded by religious imagery. At its best it inspires and challenges. At its worse it is tacky and cheap. Yet apart from galleries and some European Churches you will search in vain for an image of the Virgin Mary breastfeeding.
Perhaps this is the week to invite our local parishes and religious centres to include this image in our public spaces as an acknowledgement of the Incarnation and the role of Mary as Mother of the Lord.
Are your Churches and places of worship welcoming spaces for women to breastfeed as they pray? It seems that the Pope is quite open to this practice:
“You mothers, go ahead and breastfeed, without fear. Just like the Virgin Mary nursed Jesus,” he told worshippers attending an annual ceremony commemorating the baptism of Jesus.
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