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This new film about WWII martyr Franz Jägerstatter has been in the works for years—and yet the story of one man’s refusal to compromise with the idolatrous claims of a nationalist state proves timely. Based on this book from @OrbisBooks
Terrence Malick’s A Hidden Life is not a typical World War II drama vox.com/culture/2019/5/20/18…
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Terrence Malick’s A Hidden Life is not a typical World War II drama vox.com/culture/2019/5/20/18…
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My kind of chapel!
This is our chapel, we pray here at 7:15am every weekday beginning with 20 mins of silent Centering Prayer followed by the Daily Office and then the daily reading from All Saints by @RobertEllsberg.
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When my father @DanielEllsberg, a top nuclear war planner at RAND saw “Dr Strangelove” he thought: “This is a documentary. 55 yrs later we are told all these risks have been contained. Yet, refusing to acknowledge threat of “nuclear winter,” Pentagon fails to recognize that
Almost Everything in “Dr. Strangelove” Was True newyorker.com/news/news-desk… As this administraion prepares for war with Iran, remember this. There must be a GOD. @CardinalBCupich @JamesMartinSJ @MaryknollFrsBrs @PaxChristi @RichardRohrOFM @RobertEllsberg #EndWar
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Feast of St Celestine V (d May 19 1296) the saintly pope who resolved the tensions between the papal office and the call to holiness by abdicating. It is said that Pope Benedict XVI signaled his intention to resign by laying his pallium at the grave of Celestine.
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I”I oversaw the U.S. nuclear power industry. Now I think it should be banned.” washingtonpost.com/outlook/i…
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Wonder how many of them would say that Robert E. Lee was their “favorite general.” Asking for a President.
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Fr Larry Rosebaugh, an Oblate priest, was shot and killed on May 18 2009 by masked gunmen in Guatemala. He had spent his life among people on the margins. Imprisoned for 20 months for destroying draft files in Milwaukee. He lived among the homeless, scrounging in dumpsters for
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his daily bread, scarcely distinguishable from those he served. Arrested in Brazil while ministering to street people. Imprisoned again for broadcasting tapes of Romero to Salvadoran troops training at Ft Benning’s School of the Americas.
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RIP Unita Blackwell. “I don’t think most people today — younger people especially — have any idea of the price that ordinary black Mississippians have paid.” nytimes.com/2019/05/17/obitu… via @NYTimes
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#ThichNhatHanh, zen master, teacher of mindfulness and the way of being peace, home again in Vietnam. I was privileged to know him when I was 16, and 28 yrs later to edit his Essential Writings. Present moment, beautiful moment.
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