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Which is creepier: the fetishizing of "Angel Moms" as special category of victims (apparently quite different from mothers of children who die while seeking asylum, or mothers of children killed in school shootings), or the lurid images of trafficking victims bound in duct tape?
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Learning of the death Fr. Pierre Raphael, a French worker priest, then Little Brother of the Gospel in NYC. He concelebrated Mass at Dorothy Day's funeral, later served as chaplain at Riker's Island. A holy man. Least of all: received me into the Catholic Church 39 years ago.
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Thank you! So glad to hear that. I'll copy it here in case that prompts any more spontaneous conversions!
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And to remember his daughter, Maryknoll Sister Elizabeth Salmon, 94, and honor her years of service among the poor in Nicaragua, and her own witness for peace and the good of the Earth.
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Five @OrbisBooks titles among the 50 Best Spirituality Books of 2018 from Spirituality & Health. bit.ly/2GKseM5 Congratulations to Elizabeth Johnson, Elizabeth Hinson-Hasty, Gerald Arbuckle, John Dear, and the team of Mike Leach, @jamestkeane & Doris Goodnough.
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Creation and the Cross bit.ly/2X5B24V
The Problem of Wealth bit.ly/2DFu1z4
They Will Inherit the Earth bit.ly/2X5awbZ
Loneliness bit.ly/2N7W2Ui
The Way of Kindness bit.ly/2KSEb24
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In the etiology of political violence there are those who handle the bonesaws, those who command those with the bonesaws, those who clean up the mess. And those who call it an unfortunate but necessary step on the path to freedom and democracy. @IlhanMN was right.
Revisionist Central American history coming from US right has been pretty shameful this week. History has proven tragedies like the #ElMozoteMassacre were not caused by "Marxists." Quite the opposite. It was US-trained troops &US-backed. We cannot stay silent about this erasure.
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Thread. Bread and Circuses.
(Thread) Trump’s task as president.
Spoiler: “Rather than governing, the leader produces crisis and spectacle.”*
*quotation from Ilyin, Russian philosopher, whose ideas inspire and guide Putin.
Information in this thread is from Snyder👇
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Therefore torture and crucifixion should be maintained—er, reinstated.
Wyoming state lawmakers killed an attempt to repeal the death penalty with some very ... odd?... takes. This one in particular: Without executions, Jesus couldn’t have died on the cross. trib.com/news/state-and-regi…
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Pope Francis: ""If anybody had said back then that one day the prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith would bring Gutiérrez to concelebrate with the pope, they would be taken as a drunk."
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Or that @OrbisBooks would one day publish a book by the Prefect of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith. orbisbooks.com/on-the-side-o…
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Instead of hating on @JamesMartinSJ why don’t they just encourage their followers to buy more copies of GK Chesterton and help him resume his rightful place as #24.
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Cardinal Newman to be named a saint. @OrbisBooks orbisbooks.com/john-henry-ne…
#PopeFrancis clears the way for renowned English Cardinal John Henry Newman to be canonized. ow.ly/GEzS50liX2g
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@realDonaldTrump very uncharacteristically retweeted a charming picture of a snuggling leopard and panther from my favorite twitter site, @planetepics . Later, the tweet was deleted.
Today’s gospel (Mk 7:14-23): it is not what comes from outside that defiles us but what comes from our hearts. #FaithThatDoesJustice @OrbisBooks
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