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25 years ago on April 7 1994 radio stations in Rwanda transmitted a message: It is time to “cut the tall trees” and “eliminate the cockroaches.” It was a signal for Hutu militia to begin the wholesale extermination of their Tutsi neighbors and moderate Hutus.
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Over the next 100 days nearly a million people were killed—mostly by machetes and other primitive weapons. Many of the massacres occurred in churches where victims had sought refuge. (Today many of these, displaying remains of the victims, have become memorials.)
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That such horror could occur in a strongly Catholic country raised troubling questions. Nuns, priests and catechists were among the victims. (In other cases, shockingly, they collaborated with the killers.) Church leaders were largely mute.
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See the 1981 Academy-Award nominated film, “The Boat is Full”—set during WWII, when “neutral" Switzerland closed its borders to refugees, effectively becoming a conspirator in the Holocaust.
TRUMP: "This is our new statement- the system is full. We can't take you anymore. Whether it's asylum or anything you want - illegal immigration - we can't take you anymore. Our country is full. Our area is full. The sector is full. Can't take you anymore, I'm sorry. Turn around"
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For anyone in the Boston area, I'll be giving the annual "Dorothy Day Lecture" at Emmanuel College, April 28.
events.emmanuel.edu/event/do…
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“What is important is a recognition that our economic and social systems have been massively rigged in favor of whites and that the unrigging is a continuing political responsibility.” washingtonpost.com/opinions/…
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“Hillary wanted to put up wind. Wind. If you―if you have a windmill anywhere near your house, congratulations: Your house just went down 75 percent in value. And they say the noise causes cancer. You tell me that one, OK?”
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Extraordinary recording of ML King, describing the "kitchen table revelation" that I recounted in an earlier tweet today. Such experiences often occur in the lives of saints and prophets: in touching their deepest fears they find the strength to pursue their mission to the end,
This is the most powerful preaching I have ever heard. MLK on his fears and the courage given to him by God.
piped.video/DV7RqizoqJA
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M. l. King Jr: “I live every day with the threat of death, and I came to see...that I couldn’t function if I allowed fear to overcome me. The main thing is not how long I live but how well I have acquitted myself in the discharge of these truths that are high, noble, and good.”
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M. l. King Jr: “I live every day with the threat of death, and I came to see...that I couldn’t function if I allowed fear to overcome me. The main thing is not how long I live but how well I have acquitted myself in the discharge of these truths that are high, noble, and good.”
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A turning point came in 1956, after receiving a vicious death threat, when he sat in his kitchen with a cup of coffee and turned himself over to God. “Almost out of nowhere I heard a voice. ‘Martin Luther...stand up for justice, stand up for truth. And lo, I will be with you...”
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Reaching back:
Bartolome de Las Casas, OP
Roberto de Nobili, SJ
Matteo Ricci, SJ;
Mary Ward;
Vincent Lebbe;
Meister Eckhart, OP;
Jan Hus;
Blaise Pascal;
Erasmus;
Julian of Norwich
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What a gift it has been to work with Mike Leach for the past 20 years. His stories about life with his beloved Vickie appear in his book SOUL SEEKING. orbisbooks.com/soul-seeing.h…
For some time I have been following the beautiful story of my friend Mike Leach, a longtime Catholic publisher and writer, who is caring for his wife, Vickie, who is living with Alzheimer's. Mike writes with passion (and wit) about his life with Vickie. ncronline.org/news/opinion/s…
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I like that she said of herself as a child that she was “neither very good nor very naughty.” Hope for all of us!
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100s of #NotQuiteSaints in my books: ALL SAINTS and BLESSED AMONG US. Interestingly, more than 40 of my "not quite saints" have been beatified or canonized since All Saints was first published. There is hope for Flannery O'Connor and Teilhard de Chardin! amzn.to/2FZjjWs
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