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The Washington Post: Teen activist Greta Thunberg takes her youth climate campaign to Washington washingtonpost.com/climate-e…
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“Can a man love God and hate his brother?”—Birmingham, 1963.
Forget Mueller Report: “For some of the president’s evangelical supporters, Trump’s occasional use of the word “goddamn” is a bridge too far, even for a president whose behavior they’ve grown accustomed to excusing as they fervently support his policies.” washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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Forget Mueller Report: “For some of the president’s evangelical supporters, Trump’s occasional use of the word “goddamn” is a bridge too far, even for a president whose behavior they’ve grown accustomed to excusing as they fervently support his policies.” washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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Remembering the four young girls killed on Sept 15 1963 when white supremacists tossed dynamite into the Sixteenth St Baptist Church in Birmingham, following an intense summer of protests vs segregation—facing dogs and fire hoses—in what was called the Johannesburg of the South.
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My daughter notices things: like a squirrel closing it’s eyes while drinking water. Secret of happiness.
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Ven Marie-Therese de Lamourous d 9/14/1836, carried on the work of the underground church during the French Rev. Dressed as a cleaning woman she would gain access to the committee of supervision, read the lists of those to be arrested and executed, and warn them.
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In the absence of a parish priest she effectively served as pastor, conducting services, teaching catechism, visiting prisoners, hearing deathbed confessions. Later operated a House of Mercy for former prostitutes, founded the lay branch of the Marianists. #WomenHoldUpTheChurch.
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Feast of the Holy Cross: “The lynching tree is the cross in America. When American Christians realize that they can only meet Jesus in the crucified bodies in our midst, they will encounter the real scandal of the cross.”—James Cone
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“The lynching tree frees the cross from the false pieties of well-meaning Christians. When we see the crucifixion as a first century lynching, we are confronted by the re-enactment of Christ’s suffering in the blood-soaked history of African Americans.”
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“Thus the lynching tree reveals the true religious meaning of the cross for American Christians today. The cross needs the lynching tree to remind Americans of the reality of suffering—to keep the cross from becoming a symbol of abstract, sentimental piety.
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Before the spectacle of this cross we are called to more than contemplation and adoration. We are faced with a clear challenge: as Latin American liberation theologian Jon Sobrino has put it, “to take the crucified down from the cross.”
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“Yet the lynching tree also needs the cross, without which it becomes simply an abomination. It is the cross that points in the direction of hope, the confidence that there is a dimension to life beyond the reach of the oppressor.” —James Cone bit.ly/2mgB5gy
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Very moved to discover this artist and to explore her iconography: jonizavitsanos.com
Very excited for tonight’s opening of the @FordhamMuseum exhibit of mixed-media Orthodox art. @FordhamOrthodox
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Thanks to @americamag for publishing this piece on the opposition to Pope Francis. Spanish Jesuit Victor Codina is an important theologian, too little known in the US. bit.ly/2lUw3G4
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Dante Alighieri, died Sept 1321, in exile from his beloved Florence. Committed to social justice, a man of deep faith, a visionary and prophet, who judged the world and the church by the light of the gospel and the radiance of eternity.
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