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FD of St Benedict, father of western monasticism. For centuries his monasteries presented the challenge of an alternative world that prized social equality, the dignity of work, the cause of peace and hospitality, and a vision of health, wholeness and ecology. Still relevant.
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Awaiting trial for breaking into a nuclear base, 7 Catholic activists are unrepentant religionnews.com/2019/07/10/…
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The irony of Trump’s “Salute to America”: Is there any basis to believe he would not have been on the wrong side of every moral test in US history, every battle for liberty and human rights— from Indian “removal” and slavery, to segregation, Japanese internment, torture? Etc.
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Dr Joel Filartiga, Paraguayan doctor, artist, and human rights crusader, died July 5. In 1976, to silence his opposition to the dictator Stroessner, the police chief kidnapped his 17 yr old son and tortured him to death. Filartiga waged a relentless campaign for justice.
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Joel Filártiga, Paraguayan doctor who battled Stroessner dictatorship, dies at 86 washingtonpost.com/local/obi…
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That is correct, though a lot to explain in a tweet. The 3 Healy brothers, sons of a slave and her white master, were light-skinned and passed for white. They were sent north and became priests but never addressed slavery and avoided identification with their race.
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Augustus Tolton (d. July 9 1897) was the first black priest in America. Born into slavery in 1854, he escaped to freedom in Illinois with his mother, a devout Catholic, and 2 siblings. With the help of a priest he pursued seminary training in Rome and was ordained in 1886,
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In Chicago his arrival was enthusiastically welcomed by African American Catholics--in contrast to the cool reception (at best) from fellow clergy. As his bishop reported, his troubles resulted "because he wants to establish a kind of society that is not possible (integration)."
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"Thus I use up my life in the desire for pleasures and the thirst for experiences, for power, honor, knowledge and love, to clothe this false self and construct its nothingness into something objectively real. ..
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"And I wind experiences around myself and cover myself with pleasures and glory like bandages in order to make myself perceptible to myself and to the world, as if I were an invisible body that could only become visible when something visible covered its surface.. .
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"But there is no substance under the things with which I am clothed. I am hollow, and my structure of pleasure and ambitions has no foundation. I am objectified in them. But they are all destined by their very contingency to be destroyed. . .
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"And when they are gone there will be nothing left of me but my own nakedness and emptiness and hollowness, to tell me that I am my own mistake."--#ThomasMerton, "New Seeds of Contemplation"
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