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"It is not enough for the American church to decry the sin of racism; we must dare to name the sinner too".The bishops' letter fails to recognize that racism is a white problem ncronline.org/news/bishops-l… via @ncronline
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Frederick Douglass, who died Feb 20 1895, spent his first 20 years in bondage. His masters professed Christianity but he believed this was blasphemy: “Between the Christianity of the land and the Christianity of Christ I recognize the widest possible difference.”
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In 1838 he stole himself away to freedom and went on to become one of the most effective orators and activists in the abolitionist cause. In addition to denouncing the sham of the nation’s professions of liberty he condemned churches that tolerated a system of barbarous cruelty.
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Even without knowing who Andrew McCabe or James Comey are, the third graders on whom he first tested this agreed that it was hilarious.
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Almost every day I walk through the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery. Particularly struck by the elite “neighborhoods” where mausoleums are designed to resemble Greek temples or banks. Here: Leona Helmsley and a Rockefeller.
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The power of one. Becoming Greta: ‘Invisible Girl’ to Global Climate Activist, With Bumps Along the Way via @NYTimes nytimes.com/2019/02/18/clima…
Plus a whole culture of secrecy, shame, and fear of “scandal” that ultimately breeds dysfunction.
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FD Of Blessed Fra Angelico (d 1455), Dominican friar and patron of artists. Many of his great murals painted for his Florentine monastery depict Dominicans and saints in foreground of holy scenes from life of Christ—mirroring the attitude of devotion they were supposed to inspire
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Auxiliary Bishop of Managua kneels at the bedside of Fr Ernesto Cardenal and asks for his blessing.
Hoy visité en el hospital a mi amigo sacerdote, P. Ernesto Cardenal, con quien pude conversar unos minutos. Después de haber orado por él, me arrodillé ante su cama y le pedí su bendición como sacerdote de la Iglesia Católica, a lo cual accedió gozoso. ¡Gracias, Ernesto!
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