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The death penalty is in the death throes washingtonpost.com/opinions/…
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And @Paul_R_Elie synthesizes, better than I could, what I was trying to say!
.@RobertEllsberg captures, better than anyone, why Gomez letter re Biden so rankled: it stressed division on a day of unity, put bishops' prerogatives ahead of nat'l ones, & impiously suggested that inaugural hopes are mere folly bit.ly/2MHhB21
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I struggled hard to express my feelings about the USCCB's letter regarding Biden's inauguration, in light of the past four years and Trump's warning that if he lost the election "You're going to have a very different Catholic Church." Here is what I wrote: sacredheartuniversity.typepa…
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And on the day of the Last Judgment there will be many who say, “Lord, I was allowed to believe things that are not true. Qon? Qnon? I don’t even know how to say it.“
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My interview with @OrbisBooks author David Richo about his new book: Wholeness and Holiness. piped.video/xs5gawSSY78 via @YouTube
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The power of one man or woman who is no longer afraid. Navalny’s speech to the court. nytimes.com/2021/02/03/opini…
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More about the @nytimes misleading story on Neil Sheehan and my father’s role in the Pentagon Papers. Doesn’t address the Times’ 2nd article, or why they declined my 3 efforts to post a comment. Seeing the Pentagon Papers in a New Light propublica.org/article/seein…
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My daughter Catherine's deeply personal and moving account of her connection with "Chariots of Fire." I lived through that story, as well. So grateful that she made it to the other side and is able to write about it.
New today:
"Few film scores have captured so intently the sensation of running, not necessarily what it always is (the pain, the effort), but rather that fleeting moment of euphoria that it promises."
-Catherine Ellsberg on CHARIOTS OF FIRE brightwalldarkroom.com/2021/…
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My conversation with @MirabaiStarr on “Learning from Dorothy Day,” part of the Shift Network’s “Mystics Summit 2021” will stream today at 2pm EST. Register for free to hear this and any of the other talks for 48 hrs. mysticssummit.com/program/41…
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Mother Mary Elizabeth Lange died on Feb 3 1882. An emancipated Haitian slave who arrived in Baltimore in 1791, she founded the Oblate Sisters of Providence—the first religious congregation for women of African descent. They operated schools, orphanages, homes for the elderly.
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