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Dorothy Day has been called many things, including a saint. Perhaps it would have suited her best to add her name to a new Staten Island Ferry. Commissioned today, with Martha Hennessy speaking and christening with champagne.
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Staten Island was the site of her happiest moments, her great love, the birth of her daughter, and the arduous decision to become a Catholic, which set her on the path of her vocation. It was later the site of a Catholic Worker Farm.
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In her later years it was site of a camp where she liked to rest and restore herself by the shore. And now it is where she is buried.
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“Anti-Semitism is the most horrible blow which Our Lord has received in His Passion that continues forever; it is the most bloody and the most unpardonable, because He receives it upon the face of His Mother and from the hands of Christians.”—Lėon Bloy, d Nov 3 1917
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On this feast of All Souls, remembering @Orbisbooks authors and friends who left us this year. Their books, wisdom, and good deeds live on. Albert Nolan, OP, Jim Forest, Dr. Paul Farmer, Thich Nhat Hanh.
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Delighted to receive my copy of @d_l_mayfield’s new book about Dorothy Day, “Unruly Saint.” I attach my foreword here, hoping it will entice you to read this fresh take on a saint for our time. (On the 125th anniversary this week of her birth in 1897.)
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The Feast of All Saints--my favorite day of the year. Here is an article about why I write about saints (with a title I DID NOT choose): americamagazine.org/faith/20…
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My November “Blessed Among Us” in @GiveUsThisDayLP include: Dorothy Day, Sojourner Truth, Etty Hillesum, Raissa Maritain, St Martin of Tours, St Elizabeth of the Trinity, and more surprises. 😇
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In his book, "The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner," he shares this story, fruit of more than 50 years of research, including dangers and near misses that remained unknown even to the two leaders at the time.
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When the Cuban Missile crisis began 60 years ago I was 6. My father, @DanielEllsberg, a defense analyst at the RAND Corp hopped on a plane and flew to DC, where he camped out at the Pentagon, serving on 2 working committees advising the "ExComm" of the National Security Council.
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The crisis ended much as he expected. Given US strategic superiority, he expected the Soviets to back down. Yet, as he continued to study the crisis he was shocked and appalled to discover how close the world had come to the end of civilization. How close? “A handbreadth.”
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