Publisher @OrbisBooks, saint-whisperer @GiveUsThisDayLP. #TolstoysTalesofTrump. #MastersofSocialIsolation. Seeking meaning in the sacred and the absurd.
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On May 1 1933, in a communist rally in New York's Union Square, #DorothyDay and a small team of volunteers distributed the first issue of the #CatholicWorker. She described its purpose in her first editorial, written, along with the rest of the paper, on her kitchen table:
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You would have loved this amazing recent production: transportgroup.org/project/t… all parts played by 3 Asian-American actors.
“At the Day of Judgmemt we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done.”—Thomas a Kempis, d. May 1, 1471
Sobering words for a publisher to consider.
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Has anyone else ever dreamed that as a result of an electoral fluke they were elected mayor of Fort Wayne, Indiana? Interpretations welcome.
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Daniel Berrigan, priest, poet, peacemaker, died 4/28/2016. Ordained a Jesuit priest in 1952 he found his distinctive vocation amidst the horrendous death toll of Vietnam. In 1968, with his brother Phil and seven others, he burned draft files in Catonsville with homemade napalm.
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"I will not examine here O'Connell's tell-all about what happened inside the Sistine Chapel. For that, you need to buy the book. (And you will have to clear your calendar because this book, once started, is hard to put down.)" ncronline.org/news/opinion/d… via @ncronline
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Daniel Berrigan, priest, poet, peacemaker, died 4/28/2016. Ordained a Jesuit priest in 1952 he found his distinctive vocation amidst the horrendous death toll of Vietnam. In 1968, with his brother Phil and seven others, he burned draft files in Catonsville with homemade napalm.
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"Our apologies, good friends, for the fracture of good order, the burning of paper instead of children...We could not, so help us God, do otherwise. For we are sick at heart, our hearts give us no rest for thinking of the Land of Burning Children."
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Less public, his work in a home for terminal cancer patients, and with AIDS patients during the height of the epidemic in the 1980s. "Peacemaking is hard, hard almost as war. The difference being one we can stake life upon, and limb and thought, and love." bit.ly/2vuw8SE
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The publication of the 25th anniversary edition of @DeanKBD Kelly Brown Douglas’s first book, “The Black Christ,” was really s pretext to celebrate the 25th anniversary of our friendship! orbisbooks.com/images/detail… @UnionSeminary
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Pleasure to visit my old friend and teacher, Harvey Cox. Turning 90 next month, talking about his next book. (Maybe his most risqué yet!) Here’s another one: orbisbooks.com/a-harvey-cox-…
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St Paul’s parish church in Cambridge, where I was confirmed 38 years ago. The walls are adorned with images of great doctors of the church. When the church was built not one of these doctors was a woman. Today there are 4.
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Even St Peter was a Harvard man. #TeresaofAvila #CatherineofSiena #ThereseofLisieux #HildegardofBingen
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