Publisher @OrbisBooks, saint-whisperer @GiveUsThisDayLP. #TolstoysTalesofTrump. #MastersofSocialIsolation. Seeking meaning in the sacred and the absurd.
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All the young activists rising up give me hope as I leave my life. As the movement against the Vietnam War showed, young people can save lives when they make their care known in action. Keep going. The world is in your hands. cnn.com/videos/tv/2023/03/23…
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Listened again to my @messyjesusbiz conversation with @juliafspa. About #DorothyDay, my life as a "saint watcher," my correspondence with #SrWendyBeckett, vocation and the power of living witness. If this was my last message I wouldn't be unhappy. bit.ly/3FRxED1
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@RobertEllsberg retweeted
Fritz Eichenberg created this image of the Annunciation for the cover of Dorothy Day’s “The Long Loneliness.” We see an already pregnant Mary, evidently asleep, while an angel whispers in her ear. Meanwhile, a winding road leads to Mt Calvary, where 3 crosses are waiting.
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Remember it like yesterday.
Pentagon Papers whistleblower @DanielEllsberg says his 10-yr-old daughter “was cutting ‘Top Secret’ off the top and bottoms of the pages with her scissors”, while his 13-yr-old son was “working the Xerox machine”, as part of his clandestine bid to lift the lid on the Vietnam War
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@RobertEllsberg retweeted
I asked Vietnam War whistleblower @DanielEllsberg how he reckoned with the risks he was taking in pursuit of patriotism: “We were in a war in which people were dying every day by [the] hundreds”, he tells me. “That didn’t seem a hard choice to make.”
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“I’m not in a rush to leave, but it’s been a wonderful party and it’s time to go home and go to bed”. My candid conversation with Pentagon Papers whistleblower @DanielEllsberg about his incredible life, and making peace with his terminal cancer diagnosis
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“My work of the past 40 years to avert the prospects of nuclear war has little to show for it. But I wanted to say that I could think of no better way to use my time and that as I face the end of my life, I feel joy and gratitude.” nytimes.com/2023/03/24/opini…
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St Oscar Romero, archbishop of San Salvador and voice of the voiceless, was assassinated in March 24 1980 while celebrating Mass. My reflections in @GiveUsThisDayLP
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Bishop Fernand Cheri III, OFM, Aux. Bishop of New Orleans, a prophetic champion of racial justice, joins the ancestors. See his afterword to Ansel Augustine's "Leveling the Praying Field." "Systemic racism is an immoral monster...The immoral monster lives in us, but so does...
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...the revolutionary love of Jesus Christ. Child of God, where do you stand? Is it in solidarity with the church on the margins, or do you hold them in contempt?...I must confess that I am still learning the scope of racism in society and in the church...I confess that I can...
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never do enough to promote Black Lives Matters as a Right to Life mantra and a principle of Catholic social teaching, second to none. I have learned that living in denial of racism gives you a heart attack. Racism eats away the fabric of your self-esteem and fills you with rage.
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Therefore you must take a stand and take action...It is foolhardy to assume that combatting racism will be a top priority in the church, equal to abortion. Yet I cannot give up the fight to push for racial equity and justice." Rest in Peace, Bishop! @OrbisBooks
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Blessed Clemens August von Galen, died March 22 1946. Anti-fascist bishop. My reflections in @GiveUsThisDayLP
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Peter Maurin, co-founder with Dorothy Day of the Catholic Worker, was once asked why he did not bathe more often. He replied, “So as not to arouse envy.”
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Thrilled to attend the first annual Elizabeth A Johnson CSJ lecture on Theology & the Earth at Fordham (by She Who Is). Note; there will be a new book next year!! @OrbisBooks 🌏
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St Patrick’s day is celebrated as an occasion of Irish pride. But his first introduction to Ireland was involuntary. At 16 he was kidnapped from his village in Britain by Irish raiders and taken to Ireland as a slave. “I was chastened exceedingly and humbled every day in hunger.”
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