Publisher @OrbisBooks, saint-whisperer @GiveUsThisDayLP. #TolstoysTalesofTrump. #MastersofSocialIsolation. Seeking meaning in the sacred and the absurd.
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Feast of St Catherine of Siena, 1 of 4 women Drs of the Church. Still in her 20s she received a divine call to heal the world and the church. She wrote the pope, monarchs, exhorting them to fulfill their duties. In Avignon she rebuked the pope for not returning to Rome.
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After a final vision in which she saw the Church as if a mighty ship placed on her back she collapsed and died soon after at age 33. (Icon by Robert Lentz). “All the way to Heaven is Heaven, because He said ‘I am the Way.’”—(a favorite quote of #DorothyDay)
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Relatively speaking those are a very small number compared to the many books I neither need nor want to read.
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For 3 decades @amywilentz has faithfully chronicled the story of Haiti—through times of hope, despair, and desperate endurance. Here the story of another Notre Dame cathedral tells the story in miniature. theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv…
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Haiti, the First Nation born of a successful slave rebellion, was first to pay $21 billion (current $) to France in reparations. “A new cathedral isn’t all that France owes the Haitians, by any means, but it would be a beginning.”
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Thank you @amywilentz for faithfully chronicling the humanity, hopes, struggles, and fragile beauty of the Haitian people.
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So honored to give the Dorothy Lecture @EmmanuelCollege for the 💯 anniversary of the college.
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How much $$$ is he willing to pay? 😙 seriously, mostly covered in my book coming out next month @OrbisBooks orbisbooks.com/a-living-gosp…
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Thank you! I write about your blessed cousin in my new book, “A Living Gospel,” our next month. He was a great friend and source of inspiration.
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James H. Cone, d. April 28, 2018. “I write because writing is the way I fight. Teaching is the way I resist, doing what I can to subvert white supremacy.”
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The day after POTUS again said there were very fine people among the tiki-torch marching white supremacists who chanted “Jews will not replace us”; the day after another shooting in a synagogue in CA—remembering the birthday of Oskar Schindler, born 111 years ago, 4/28/1908.
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Not anyone’s candidate for a hero: an opportunist and profiteer, member of the Nazi party, a gambler, faithless husband, who made a fortune off slave labor. Yet something impelled him to turn his business into a pretext for saving lives: as many as 1200.
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