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Do not fear those who merely break the law and defy the Constitution but can't harm the soul, but rather fear those who break the law, defy the Constitution, and also destroy the soul. (Paraphrasing Matthew10:28)
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His analysis does not reserve one sentence for the destruction of the Amazon, the oppression of it’s inhabitants or the martyrdom of those who defend it. But appalled by imprecise definitions of terms like “Samaritan.”
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“I should much rather feel contrition than know how to define it.”—Thomas a Kempis
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One time Bartolomé de las Casas was recounting to a Spanish bishop the massacre of 7000 children. The bishop became bored and interrupted him to ask, “What is that to me and to the king?” bit.ly/2Ju94rO
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Trump’s supporters need little encouragement to believe that Muslims are not real Americans. Make no mistake: this is a demagogic incitement to violence.
Here's the President of the United States standing before a crowd supporters who are chanting "Send her back!" to a duly elected American congresswoman, who was born in Somalia.
He does nothing to correct them.
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Who are those in our world who “don’t count,” whose humanity does not measure up, whose aspirations and needs are not our concern? How would we respond, how would we organize our lives if we believed our salvation rested on the answer to that question?
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My reflections on Bartolomé de las Casas, who died July 18 1566. bit.ly/2Ju94rO. A Dominican missionary in the New World, he came to reject the legitimacy—not just the excesses of the Conquest. The deeds of the invaders revealed that their true god was gold.
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July 17 Feast of the Carmelite Martyrs of Compiegne, inspiration for Poulenc’s Dialogues Des Carmelites (final scene / Salve Regina) piped.video/Cd9EFJaURmI via @YouTube. They went to the guillotine singing the Salve Regina. Witnesses said, as if going to their wedding.
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“I leave in the Indies Jesus Christ, our God, scourged and afflicted and beaten and crucified not once, but thousands of times.” His message continues to trouble the conscience of all who turn their gaze from the sufferings of the “other.” (Icon: Robert Lentz)
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“Most of you will know what it means when 100 bodies lie together ...or 1000. And . . . to have seen this through and—with the exception of human weakness—to have remained decent, has made us hard and is a page of glory never mentioned and never to be mentioned.” #Himmler 10/4/43
17 July 1942 | SS-Reichsführer Heinrich #Himmler began a two-day inspection of the #Auschwitz camp during which he witnessed the process of murdering Jews in a gas chamber located near the Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp. #history #onthisday #Holocaust
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