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#InternationalWomensDay"There are as many types of saints as there are people. Each offers a glimpse of the face of God, enlarges our moral imagination. To the extent that women's names have been forgotten, their stories untold, those possibilities remain unfulfilled."
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"Traditional accounts of women saints (written by men) emphasize 'feminine virtues' of purity, humble service, obedience or patient endurance. Seldom have women been recognized for questioning authority, defying restrictive codes, for audacity and wit in surmounting obstacles...
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Labels such as "foundress," "virgin, "widow," or "matron" elide the range of functions such women may have performed, whether as theologians, prophets, healers, visionaries, or trailblazers in the spiritual life. amzn.to/2tXjWZG
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“He had devoted his career to normalizing corruption in Washington. By the time he was caught, his extraordinary avarice had become so commonplace, that not even a federal judge could blame him for it.”
The phrase "Otherwise Blameless Life" has me hopping mad. I've made a list of the ways this is not the case. theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv…
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Some people think that if they use a really small font, single spaced, with extra wide margins, we won’t notice the difference.
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"The Passion of Sts. Perpetua and Felicity," recounting the martyrdom of two young Christian mothers in the early 3rd century, competed for popularity with the Gospels in the early N. African church. It remains an extraordinarily powerful document. bit.ly/2VNNd5h
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Depicts the struggle of two women to assert their own identity in Christ against the claims imposed by their society. "For this cause we came willingly unto this, that our liberty might not be obscured. For this cause have we devoted our lives." (Icon by Robert Lentz) #Saints
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Denis Edwards, a great Australian theologian, has died at 75. He was a pioneer in aligning Catholic theology with the spirit of ecology. His final book, "Deep Incarnation," will appear from @OrbisBooks this August. He concludes the book with this quotation from #PopeFrancis:
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"At the end, we will find ourselves face to face with the infinite beauty of God , and be able to read with admiration and happiness the mystery of the universe, which with us will share in unending plenitude….
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—Jean-Pierre de Caussade, SJ, d. March 6 1751.
(A Living Gospel—available in June @OrbisBooks)
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