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Latest volume in the @OrbisBooks Modern Spiritual Masters Series.
Fifty years after his death in 1918, the Baptist minister Walter Rauschenbusch taught revolution.
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One of the master’s chambermaids reported the time she had come upon a strange room hidden in a secluded wing of the house. Tho she wouldn’t repeat what she had seen, she warned the others: “Be sure never to enter that room.” #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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Recommend “Revolution of the Heart”-/ new documentary about Dorothy Day. Martin Sheen (and others) has a great supporting role.
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@RepAdamSchiff’s closing statement, especially the last 15 minutes about moral courage, will be remembered as one of the great speeches in American history. Unless “nothing matters.”
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“Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world that yields most painfully to change.”—Robert F Kennedy
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This statement was from July 17 2018. Even reading this hostage statement he couldn’t bring himself not to imply that it could also be a lot of other people.
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Like this! @nimperatori @OrbisBooks
This year I want to dedicate World Communications Day to the theme of storytelling. In order not to get lost, we must make the truth of good stories our own. Stories that build up and help us find our roots and the strength to move forward together. vatican.va/content/francesco…
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For years the Crown Prosecutor had been seeking documents proving the master’s corruption. It was a total “witch hunt,” the master said. These so-called “documents” didn’t even exist. “Just ask my fireplace.” #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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Glad to help.
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Ven. Mary Ward is a reminder of all those saints whose lonely struggles failed to surmount the obstacles in their path and whose dreams had to be entrusted to future generations. As a young woman in Elizabethan England (where practice of the Catholic faith was treason)
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she conceived the idea of a female institute, modeled on the Jesuits--living in non-enclosed community, free of episcopal authority, engaging in apostolic work in the world. In Belgium she found a confessor who supported her plan. So she sneaked back to England to find recruits.
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There she was arrested and sentenced to death--though reprieved and sent into exile. Back in Europe she formed her followers into a community and sought approval from Rome. She made initial progress, esp support for her plan for schools for girls, but most bishops opposed her.
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Her institute was mocked as a house of "Lady Jesuits." In 1631 word came that her institute was suppressed; she was taken into custody on the charge of being "a heretic, schismatic, and rebel to the Holy Church." In broken health she returned to England. She died in Jan 1645.
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Feast of St. Marianne Cope (d 1918), a Franciscan sister who volunteered to serve the lepers in Hawaii. On Molokai, where the most serious cases were confined, her first task was to care for St. Damien de Veuster, who had succumbed to the disease during his long years of work.
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