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Everything the master had achieved had come from heeding the counsel of his gut. Other men might trust the vagueries of conscience, reason, or affection, but they lacked his phenomenal gut. It was always right and wherever it led would be incredible. #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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The passing of a giant. @OrbisBooks
Saddened to learn of the passing of Gayraud S. Wilmore. He was a mentor to me and so many others. It was through his wisdom/research that we came to appreciate the richness and radical truth of Black faith and the centrality of Africa to Christianity. He will be greatly missed!
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An excellent review of “The Outsider”!
The Outsider by @ctrlamb tells an engaging story about Pope Francis's mission to reform the Church and those opposed to him. A highly accessible read, well-researched and fair. Published by @OrbisBooks
wherepeteris.com/the-outside…
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I wrote Sr Wendy about a friend whose prolonged illness left him unable to pray. She replied: "I wish you could convince him that we can always pray. When we are sick we pray in a sick way, in a feeble, hopeless, useless way, which draws the utmost love and compassion ...
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...from Our Blessed Lord. Essentially He is our prayer, praying within us...And in fact when we think we can pray, we may well be getting in His way. Blessed those who have nothing. Oh how often Jesus spoke about this state of interior poverty, of littleness, of powerlessness...
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...and how beautiful it all sounds when we read it or write it or speak of it. How terrible it is when we live it. But here’s where we glorify Him – in that blind cold clinging. I must confess that it is never so with me but I know that is how it is with those very dear to Him...
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150 years before the murder of StThomas Beckett, another Archbishop of Canterbury, the Anglo-Saxon St Alphege was a victim of violence (1070). Abducted by Danish mauraders, he refused to let his people pay an exhorbitant ransom and so was brutally murdered.
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Many people forget that Rosa Parks was arrested on a bus in Montgomery after refusing to give up her assault rifle to a white passenger.
White House economic advisor Stephen Moore says Americans protesting stay-at-home orders are “modern-day Rosa Parks.”
“I call these people the modern-day Rosa Parks — they are protesting against injustice and a loss of liberties.” @WashingtonPost washingtonpost.com/national/…
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One of my projects during this Pause has been to work on editing my correspondence over several years with Sister Wendy Beckett, the hermit, known for her commentaries on art. Today, came across a passage that helped me reflect on a problem that has troubled me in the past year.
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"Can a bad man be a good artist? Surely goodness is essential and I think it follows that it is from this goodness that the wonder of art will spring. But of course sometimes a person is a mixture of goodness and badness--, Caravaggio is the obvious example--...
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It's like, "You mean all along we could have been spending money on things we wanted, like health care, education, infrastructure, clean energy?"
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Read this @Newsweek story on military preparations to address coronavirus crisis in DC along with @nytopinion piece on President’s secret emergency powers. nytimes.com/2020/04/10/opini…
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