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Sadako Sasaki, who died on 10/25/55, was 2 when she survived the bombing of Hiroshima in 1945. 9 yrs later she was found to have leukemia. Learning of the legend that whoever folds 1000 paper cranes will be granted a wish she devoted her remaining life to this prayer for peace.
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Madame’s “Do Gooder” campaign yielded results on the estate. Spittoons had improved overall hygiene, and arguments were more commonly settled with fists than knives. But there was only so much she could do when the master consistently undermined her work. #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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What was an intra-family argument in Jesus’ time, a warning to Christian followers of the Way, became something else in the context of a gentile church, with all hypocrisy and legalism projected onto “the Jews”—not only promoting anti-Semitism but subverting Jesus’ message.
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Thank you for reprinting this—not only apt for the Gospel reading, but for the storm in Catholic world this week over the Pope’s expression of love for the LGBTQ members of our family.
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I wrote this before this week’s “scandal” provoked by Pope Francis’s words about LGBTQ people. But this is what I had in mind: the capacity of “good religious people” to believe so much in their own command of truth that they cannot heed the “great commandment.” @OrbisBooks
Wonderful Gospel this week: The "Great Commandment" (Mt 22:34-40). I encourage you to read @RobertEllsberg. This is from the book, "Jesus Wasn't Killed by the Jews" amazon.com/Jesus-Wasnt-Kille…
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“I choose not to venerate St Stanislaus,” the master said. “He’s a martyr because he got killed. I like martyrs who had bone spurs but weren’t killed,” he explained. #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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Now on @NetflixFilm—an extraordinary witness to what we have done to our planet—and what we must do if our species is to have a future.
We are thrilled to announce the global premiere of DAVID ATTENBOROUGH: A LIFE ON OUR PLANET on September 28th, followed by an exclusive conversation between Sir Michael Palin and Sir David Attenborough. Find your local cinema at attenborough.film 🌍 #AttenboroughFilm
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When her son was born the master built her a golden dacha and promised he would always be true. But then “shark week” beckoned and he was gone. Those were happy days. But it was better to know the truth. #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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Considered Proust’s Tales of Trump, but would have lost the alliteration and couldn’t fit his sentences, much less his tales into 240 characters
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Each mortal thing does one thing and the same:
Deals out that being indoors each one dwells;
Selves — goes itself; myself it speaks and spells,
Crying Whát I dó is me: for that I came. —Hopkins
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Tho it was not clear how anyone would even be able to see his likeness the master never lost faith in his Field of Greatness. People would come, he said—“in numbers the likes of which no one has never seen”—and feel as if they’d been dipped in magic waters. #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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