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Honoring the memory of Lamin Sanneh, Yale Divinity School expert on world Christianity religionnews.com/2019/01/08/…
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St Philip of Moscow to Ivan the Terrible: At this altar we are offering a pure and bloodless sacrifice for men's salvation. Outside this holy temple the blood of Christians is being shed. God rejects him who does not love the neighbor. I have to tell you this though I die for it.
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Q: Is there anything that Ivan the Terrible could do that would endanger your support?
@JerryFalwellJr : No. I can't imagine him doing anything that's not best for the country.
@ShaneClaiborne
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The the poem is all about questioning the building of a wall:
“Why do they make good neighbours? ...
Before I built a wall I'd ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offence.
Something there is that doesn't love a wall.”
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You missed a new one: “At the request of Democrats, it will be a steel barrier rather than a concrete wall.”
Soon: “At the request of the great state of W Va It will be made of clean coal.”
Eventually: “At the request of the Man on the Moon it will be made of cheese.”
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Remembering: “A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian.”— Pope Francis
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In 2019 World Day of Peace message Pope Francis addresses political vice: corruption, denial of rights, justification of power for "reasons of state," xenophobia, racism, lack of concern for environment, plundering of natural resources for sake of profit, contempt for exiles...
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"Blessed is the politician who personally exemplifies credibility. . . Political addresses that tend to blame every evil on migrants and to deprive the poor of hope are unacceptable. . . Good politics is at the service of peace." bit.ly/2An5Zbo
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POTUS says Nancy Pelosi, as a good Catholic, should support a border wall because "the Vatican has the biggest wall of them all." read.bi/2C0tsiB
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Feast day of Galileo, who died 1/8/1642. He was condemned as a heretic for defending the Copernican theory "which is false and contrary to the Sacred and Divine Scriptures, that the sun is the center of the world...and that the earth moves and is not the center of the world."
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For many years Galileo's ordeal was a blot on the conscience of the church. In 1992 Pope JPII issued a declaration absolving Galileo of heresy and acknowledging errors in the church's judgment--attributed to a deficient understanding of the nature and authority of scripture.
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The question lingers: How many other solemn declarations will one day be subject to reconsideration? There remains a tendency to claim that the church, as it was once said of the earth, cannot move. But as Galileo said: "Nevertheless, it moves." amzn.to/2FiDLBB
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Dr. Lamin Sanneh, legendary figure in religious thought and civil rights, has died at 76 themediaproject.org/news/201…
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From @OrbisBooks, bowing our heads for the passing of a great man. orbisbooks.com/translating-t…
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Latest video based on my reflections on saints, thanks to @SheenCenter and @GiveUsThisDayLP. Blessed Among Us: St. Teresa of Calcutta piped.video/C0hfDJXxZTU via @YouTube
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