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"What then I saw is more than tongue can say.
Our human speech is dark before the vision.
The ravished memory swoons and falls away.
I saw within Its depth how it conceives
all things in a single volume bound by Love,
of which the universe is the scattered leaves."
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When Steve Biko, leader of the Black Consciousness movement died in custody on 9/12 1977 and when an inquiry found no fault with the S.A. government that transported him naked, shackled, unconscious, 750 miles in a Land Rover, it seemed the day of freedom was impossibly far.
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Fr. Thomas Frederick Price, co-founder of Maryknoll, died 100 years ago today on Sept 12 1919, several months after leading the first team of Maryknoll missioners to China. A man of deep piety who believed himself mystically espoused to St. Bernadette or Lourdes.
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18 years after 9/11 is it still too soon for Americans to confront the questions Jon Sobrino raised in 2002? @OrbisBooks
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Sobrino asks: Whose dates, whose suffering matters? "Our" 9/11--but not 9/11/73, the date of the Chilean coup? Or 12/11/81, when 1000 civilians were murdered in El Mozote? "There are many 9/11s that don't exist because they were never entered on the imperial calendar."
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I admit: I wasn't ready to publish Sobrino's book in 2002 but waited til 2004. Still too soon? "Where is God? Let us begin by saying where God is not: in the empire...He is the God of the victims, the God of Jesus, who was also a victim of the empire."bit.ly/2lLDHmp
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It's not about ethics, it's about how we imagine God ncronline.org/news/opinion/n… via @ncronline
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After the storm, some people said the master should have heeded his manservant's advice and covered the carriage before setting out under heavy clouds. But his manservant strongly denounced these lies: "I FULLY supported your decision!" he proclaimed.--#TolstoysTalesofTrump
That’s Absolutely Right Mr. President. More Fake News! The Dishonest Media never contacted our office before running with this story and if they had, we would have told them I FULLY support your decision.
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Great! Silone actually published a revised edition of "Bread and Wine." He confessed to telling the same story in all his books. "The Seed Beneath the Snow" tells the further story of his priest-revolutionary, Pietro Spina.
A classic work by Milton Mayer. Think about it a lot.
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Congratulations to you both! Sebastian is wonderfully talented—a great addition to your stellar team.
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John Howard Griffin, author of "Black Like Me," died Sept 9, 1980. In darkening his skin and traveling through the Deep South, he explored the effects of dehumanization, both for the perpetrators and the victims of oppression.
"Future historians will be mystified that generations of us could stand in the midst of this sickness and never see it, never really feel how our System distorted and dwarfed human lives because they happened to inhabit bodies encased in a darker skin."
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Today is the birthday of Leo Tolstoy. While visiting Paris in his youth he witnessed a public execution, which affected him deeply: "When I saw the head part from the body and how they thumped separately into the box, I understood, not with my mind but with my whole being...
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...that no theory of the reasonableness of our present progress could justify this deed; and that though everybody from the creation of the world had held it to be necessary, on whatever theory, I knew it to be unnecessary and bad. . .
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