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Mourning the passing of Paul Crowley, SJ, friend and author. His last book, The Unmoored God: Believing in a Time of Dislocation, began as a textbook, but with his mother’s death and his own diagnosis of cancer, it became a meditation on his own faith in a time of uncertainty.
Remembering Paul Crowley S.J. (d. Aug 7) See ctsa-online.org/Newsfeed/915… to read @SantaClaraUniv's President's tribute. Members may login to comment.
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“Dislocated humanity is met by a God who chooses a divine dislocation in the Incarnation, entering simply and intimately into our own human condition and showing the way, through suffering, toward life. Believing in this unmoored God would look like entering into solidarity...
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...with unmoored humanity, and journeying with those who suffer, just as God did in Jesus.” A heartfelt reflection for all who struggle with belief in God in a time lacking familiar props or sure signposts. RIP my friend. @OrbisBooks
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Feast of St Mary MacKillop, Australia’s first Saint, founder of the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart. Because of her determination to keep her order independent from control by local bishops she had to endure a relentless campaign of harassment and vilification.
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For some time she was even excommunicated by one bishop, though in the end she won support for from the Vatican. She referred to such ordeals as “presents from God.” Innocent suffering, she believed, was an opportunity to shoulder the cross and so to grow closer to God.
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Sending love to my dad and wonderful stepmother Patricia on their 50th wedding anniversary! Seems like yesterday, August 8 1970. @DanielEllsberg
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Zealous to protect it from those who would hurt it or otherwise invoke its mysterious powers, the master kept the Bible in a secure location, removing it only for ceremonial occasions. #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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The handling of this story by @Sojourners was no doubt bungled. But it had nothing to do with "caving to power" or failure to challenge people of faith "to reckon with white supremacy"--as should be obvious to anyone familiar with work of @jimwallis or any issue of Sojourners.
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A beautiful look at Dorothy Day and Staten Island.
New on the blog! David Allen looks at Dorothy Day's life and community on Staten Island: gothamcenter.org/blog/down-h…
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When people (including me) make generalizations about “the bishops”—important to remember and support examples like this.
Thank you @BpStowe for your honesty in speaking up:
ncronline.org/news/people/bi…
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Trump claims Biden will "hurt the Bible, hurt God," he's "against God, ...guns, our kind of energy." Whatever idolatrous cult he is here defending has nothing to do with Jesus. What "hurts God" is injustice, disdain for the poor, contempt for creation, worship of mammon.
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Thank you @Paul_R_Elie, but nothing I have ever done or ever will do in the cause of peace will equal the opportunity to have helped my dad complete his great work “The Doomsday Machine.” Just to read this book today would be a great start for anyone concerned about our future.
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“The truth is that society simply cannot accept the fact of my guilt without at the same time recognizing its own far deeper guilt.” via @NYTimes nytimes.com/2020/08/06/magaz…
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Photographs from Hiroshima. via @NYTimes nytimes.com/2020/08/06/world…
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