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Servant of God Walter Ciszek SJ died Dec 8 1984.
In 1939 Fr Walter Ciszek, a Polish-American Jesuit serving in Poland was swept up by the Red Army and sent to a labor camp in Russia. When his identity was discovered he was arrested as a spy and confined for 5 years of solitary confinement in Moscow: his “school of prayer.”
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Wonderful review in Cistercian Studies Quarterly, which even suggests an idea for my next book! @OrbisBooks orbisbooks.com/a-living-gosp…
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Congratulations to Ursula King for receiving @TheOmegaCenter Achievement Award. She has made such essential contributions to knowledge of Pierre #Teilhard de Chardin. @OrbisBooks. (spoke by Skype)
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Background of the story of Franz Jägerstätter in “A Hidden Life,’ with my own reflections. americamagazine.org/arts-cul…
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One does what one can! Next year 50th anniversary of @OrbisBooks
One thing I have always admired about Orbis books is that you were willing to publish the works of those the CDF so horribly censured under the papacy of JP2. You’ve always “pushed the envelope” even under unrelenting pressure of censorship. Thanks.
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FD of St Ambrose. st Augustine (whom Ambrose baptized) writes of his wonder at coming upon Ambrose silently reading the Bible (It was the custom to read aloud). Was it to avoid the need to explain an obscure passage to a curious passerby? Was he trying to spare his voice?
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Fun to be sponsoring and selling @OrbisBooks titles at the @TheOmegaCenter conference on #Teilhard. Many Orbis authors: Ilia Delio, Sr Kathleen Duffy, John Haught, and a surprisingly large # of relevant titles. The great Ursula King receiving an award.
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The master loved his motherland and the opportunities it afforded a wealthy oligarch with luck and cunning. But he decried the Emancipation of the serfs (“a complete sham and disaster”) and longed for a leader who would make the country great again. #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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The film is based on this @OrbisBooks book. Can’t wait to see it.
Franz is one of my personal heroes too. I first learned about him from @RobertEllsberg book ALL SAINTS (1997 Crossroad Books). Now the Movie:
New film portraying life of Franz Jägerstätter is 'the perfect movie for our moment in time' osvnews.com/2019/11/21/new-f…
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These torture techniques were employed:
a) in Elizabethan prisons against Jesuit priests;
b) in Japanese POW camps;
c) in Stalin’s Lubyanka prison;
d) in CIA “black sites” under legal advice from the White House;
e) All of the above. (Correct answer.)
What did the CIA's torture program look like from the perspective of a victim? These drawings give us a window into these war crimes which the US government has refused to prosecute. trib.al/xLPyFiy
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The master’s agents had big news. For months they had investigated an “interesting theory,” viz. that obscure genealogical records showed he might be heir to the throne of France or even America! Sadly they were arrested before reporting their findings. #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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He decried the loss of messianic hope, replaced with a dangerous triumphalism or “an optimism which is no longer really capable of perceiving radical disruptions….Christianity is not… a doctrine to be preserved in maximum ‘purity’ but a praxis to be lived more radically.”
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"What makes Auschwitz unfathomable is not only the executioners…and not only the silence of God.. . It is the silence of men: the silence of all those who looked on and looked away and thereby handed over this people in its peril of death to an unutterable loneliness."
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"The Christian is not only responsible for what he does or fails to do, but also for what he allows to happen to others.”
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