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Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard d Nov 11 1855. Søren Kierkegaard made no pretense of being a saint. He hardly dared to call himself a Christian. But he claimed to know, with an uncommon clarity, what it means to be a Christian. This knowledge imposed the thankless ...
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Thank you for introducing me to Sister Antona Ebo, who died Nov 11 2017. “I’m here [at Selma] because I’m a Negro, a nun, a Catholic, and because I want to bear witness.” #CiteBlackWomenSunday
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Nov 10 1943, 4 Christians—3 Catholic priests and a Lutheran minister from Lübeck were beheaded by the Nazis on charges of defeatism and favoring the enemy. At a time when ecumenical dialogue was unusual the 4 had formed a deep friendship on their shared opposition to the Nazis.
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Dostoevsky’ Grand Inquisitor: when Christ returns to earth the inquisitor tells him to go back— now we have the church! (Eichenberg woodcut)
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The IWW (Wobblies) used to insert radical sheets in factory bathroom stalls— what they called “Silent Agitators.” Catholic version: 👇
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Thanks to everyone with the Bishop Keane Institute at Immaculate Conception Church in Hampton VA for inviting me to be part of their wonderful lecture series. This fully-solar-powered church, which promotes lay ministry, service, collaborative leadership is an inspiring model.
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Nov 9 1938, the Kristallnacht pogrom, when Nazi storm troopers across Germany unleashed a coordinated assault on the Jewish community. 179 synagogues burned; 7500 Jewish-owned shops destroyed; 20k Jews taken into “protective custody.” Protests in Germany and abroad were muted.
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This atrocity did not occur in 1933, when the Nazis came to power. And, shocking as it was, it was far, far from the worst to come. Yet it followed gradually from small, cumulative acts of cruelty, corruption of the law, the corrosion of decency and the capacity for outrage.
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“I am for those tiny, invisible...moral forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, yet...if you give them time will rend the hardest monuments of man's pride.” Wm James
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The master was asked how his purchase of a portrait of himself constituted evidence of his prodigious charity. “It brings joy to the peasants,” he explained, and inspires noble aspirations. “What I am now you too could be with hard work and frugality.”—#TolstoysTalesofTrump
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What Dorothy Day can teach us about prudence and discernment americamagazine.org/faith/20…
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