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Feast of St Clare of Assisi: “Place your mind before the mirror of eternity! Place your soul in the brilliance of glory! Place your heart in the figure of the divine substance! And transform your whole being into the image of the Godhead Itself through contemplation!”
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Bishop Casaldaliga was a holy prophet of our time. In 1976 one of his priests was killed by the military and died in his arms. I was proud to publish two of his books @OrbisBooks (sadly out of print).
What an epitaph: "He put himself at the service of the great causes of humanity, which led him to fearlessly face every form of power, oppression and death faced by the poor men and women workers of the Amazon." americamagazine.org/faith/20…
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The power may be an illusion, but they certainly feel "affirmed"--and it doesn't seem to matter whether it is actually sincere!
I agree with your last point but I didn’t detect that tone or intent. These folks seemed eager to explain Trump’s appeal to them, despite his not truly reflecting their declared values.
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I’ve been thinking about this question: would these white evangelicals be just as inclined to follow a Pence, who actually shares their beliefs and values? The answer seems to be, to quote FDR on Gen Somoza: Trump “is an SOB but he’s *our* SOB.”
Bears serious study—the appeal of Trump to white evangelicals. “Christianity Will Have Power”- The New York Times nytimes.com/2020/08/09/us/ev…
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Bears serious study—the appeal of Trump to white evangelicals. “Christianity Will Have Power”- The New York Times nytimes.com/2020/08/09/us/ev…
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Two saints and martyrs died on August 9: Edith Stein, Jewish convert, philosopher, Carmelite nun, who was gassed at Auschwitz in 1942; Franz Jägerstätter, farmer and layman, beheaded for refusing to serve in Hitler’s army in 1943. Serving the God of Life vs the Idols of Death.
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My daughter Christina’s reflections on the 75th anniversary of the nuclear age in @NCRonline. ncronline.org/news/earthbeat…
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Three days after dropping the 1st atomic bomb on Hiroshima we dropped a 2nd on Nagasaki, the center of Japanese Catholicism. It has been 75 years since the last nuclear attack on a city on Aug 9 1945. Yet in terms of moral evolution we have not used those years wisely.
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Our nuclear arsenals are vast—6000 warheads each in the US and Russia, mostly 100-1000 x more powerful than “Fat Man,” the 21K plutonium bomb dropped on Nagasaki—tho now we know that smoke in the stratosphere from even dozens of bombs could induce “nuclear winter.”
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Land-based strategic missles remain on “hair-trigger” alert ready to be launched—though nuclear winter means there is no advantage to one side that launches first. We are pointing a gun at our own heads. The Catholic Church has condemned the use of such weapons as a crime against
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“God and humanity.” Is it permitted to threaten what it is immoral to do? The bishops longed hedged on this, as long as serious efforts were made to abolish such weapons. Pope Francis has now said possession of such weapons is itself immoral. Such hellish “weapons” are
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