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Birthday of Anne Frank, who died of typhoid in Bergen-Belsen camp in March 1945. Witness to a recent time when children were hunted down like vermin. Yet also a witness to a power stronger than her tormentors—the sacred core of a human soul that refuses to yield to darkness.
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Always used by the best people. Other phrases waiting to be reinvented by the administration: “running dogs,” “jackels,” “paper tigers,” “”scurvy knave,” “untermensch.”
Dorothy Day, about to be arrested while picketing with the United Farmworkers in California. She was 75. Contemplation in action. (Photo by a Bob Fitch)
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Do you have access to an image, icon, or symbol of powerful yet peaceful femininity? Where did it come from? How does it enrich your faith? ow.ly/3lZK30oTOf0
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A wonderful profile of Corita Kent, a "joyous revolutionary." In the early 1960s my mother bought one of her seriegraphs that now hangs in my living room. Later she created a print quoting my father: "Wouldn't you go to prison if it would help end a war?"
Kent, especially during the ’60s when she was at her most prolific, used art to protest and comment on the state of the world around her. In both her art and her life, Kent confronted issues such as the Vietnam War, poverty, racial... eyeondesign.aiga.org/K8frH
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Must be awkward for Gov Huckabee to attend commemorations of Martin Luther King day, or to be reminded that it took federal troops to desegregate schools in Little Rock.
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Thank you for an extraordinary presentation at #CTSA19. It needs to be widely heard.
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Refuting him on this basis misses the point—ignoring the history whereby the Dems and GOP flipped positions on race after the Civil Rights acts of 1960s. Today, which is the party that celebrates Confederate monuments to slaveholding? Voter suppression? Etc.
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He is poisoning the well, degrading the common currency of truth and respect for human values that makes democracy and civil discourse possible. Since he thrives on chaos and conflict the challenge is to find a mode of resistance that doesn’t feed his energy.
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By the same token—if we don’t confront the daily avalanche of “Presidential” lies, bullying, and assaults on decency, people might believe that all this is acceptable. So we #resist.
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Congratulations to James Keenan, S.J. on winning the John Courtney Murray Award. #CTSA19 @OrbisBooks
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John Courtney Award winner James Keenan SJ with his @OrbisBooks editor Jill O’Brien. Keenan is the editor of the extraordinary series Catholic Theological Ethics in the World Church. #CTSA2019.
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