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Oct 1 FD of St Therese of Lisieux—Dorothy Day’s favorite saint. Here is a video based on my reflections on her life. piped.video/n_Lq73KVVvQ via @YouTube
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This is so great!
One of the highlights of my life. I felt encouraged, consoled and inspired by the Holy Father today. And his time with me, in the middle of a busy day and a busy life, seems a clear sign of his deep pastoral care for LGBT Catholics and LGBT people worldwide. (Foto@VaticanMedia).
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Once upon a time a whistleblower revealed secrets of criminal misconduct. The President called him a traitor and tried to destroy him. Didn’t end well for the President.
The Trump whistleblower is in "personal danger," says Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg cnn.it/2mryzVb
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The master was charmed by a wandering pilgrim who offered to teach him how to pray without ceasing. In return the master gave him his own hat. When he told the story to his sons, he said “What a good man. Unlike the lazy curs who live off my bounty.”—#TolstoysTalesofTrump
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Writing in jail after a protest over nuclear civil defense drills, Dorothy Day thought of the lessons of St Therese and her “Little Way”: “Thinking of war and peace, and the problem of human freedom, and the apathy of great masses of people who believe that nothing can be done...
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The staff knew the old man was going through one of his dark spells when he added Bears to the list of Ukrainians, Social Democrats, Gypsies, and Revenue Collectors who were all out to get him. "Scoundrels and traitors, all of them!" he would mutter.--#TolstoysTalesofTrump
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FD of St. Jerome (d 420) who translated the entire Bible from the original Hebrew and Greek into Latin--much of the work completed in a cave in Bethlehem, where he studied with local rabbis. His two passions were scholarship and controversy--the latter earning him many foes.
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In this pursuit he brought vast rhetorical skills, a capacity for intellectual overkill, and a taste for personal sarcasm. Of one of his enemies he wrote: "If he will only conceal his nose and keep his tongue still he may be taken to be both handsome and learned."
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He wrote proudly: "I have always done my utmost that the enemies of the Church should be also my enemies." Some have questioned his warrants for assuming that those who differed from him were necessarily the church's enemies. (*Butler's Lives*).
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A later pope, observing a painting of Jerome striking his breast with a rock, remarked: "It is a good thing for that stone, or you would not be counted as a saint today." A fitting patron not only for Catholic scholars but for #CatholicTwitter.
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