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Looking forward to hearing @DeanKBD Kelly Brown Douglas preach at the National Cathedral this morning: 11:15 a.m. cathedral.org/worship/
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The master’s lawyer assured him that their string of courtroom defeats was all part of a strategy he called “rope-a-dope.” But when would they start winning? “Believe me,” his lawyer said, “you’re going to be so tired of winning by the time this is over.” #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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Contemplate this.
#virtualtour of @AuschwitzMuseum
➡️ panorama.auschwitz.org
Over 200 panoramic images of Auschwitz I & Auschwitz II-Birkenau with historical descriptions, survivors' testimonies, archive photographs & artifacts.
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When a wine steward mentioned that his cousin Vinny, a lawyer, had never lost a case, the master asked how long it would take to summon him. #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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As the clock runs down on this Admin, they race the clock to express the purest form of remaining power: to kill people.
BREAKING NEWS: The Trump Administration just announced 3 more federal execution dates in January, before Inauguration Day. It is clear they are going to try to kill as many people as possible while he is still President. Let’s do all we can to stop him. We need all hands on deck.
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Many people recognize the CW for what it does (works of mercy, etc.); others by what it opposes (nuclear weapons, racism, etc.); those who know it best know it also by what it proposes: a different society, culture, values. These 3 themes have and will sustain the movement.
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Last night I was glad to be invited to address a national #CatholicWorker gathering (zoom) to reflect on the values that have sustained the movement (for 87 years). I described three "ingredients" in the CW "soup" (actual CW soup follows no recipe!).
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1. The message of Mt 25: that Christ is present to us in the needs of our neighbors. This is the foundation of the Works of Mercy, the most obvious expression of the CW. This insight is shared by many other religious communities, but the CW adds a 2nd ingredient:
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2. Protesting, resisting a system that gives rise to so much poverty and injustice, as well as the culture and values that underlie such a system. This conjunction of the practice of charity and struggle for justice is a distinctive feature of the CW. But there is a 3rd point:
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3. To point to and try to model an alternative future—an alternative culture, animated by alternative values. Not just shouting loudly about what we are against, but proclaiming the message of what we are for: and trying to live by the values we proclaim.
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As the master felt rising doubts about his attorney, he imagined a “dream team” of history’s toughest and most cunning litigators: Ivan the Terrible, Attila the Hun, Genghis Khan, Napoleon, and the Emperor Nero. Did they have any descendants, he wondered? #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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Once, after I gave a talk at Sing Sing prison about my book on saints, a prisoner asked me if I had ever thought of doing a book that would feature, on one page, a "good saint," and on the facing page an "evil saint." The answer was no. But now I have an idea of what that means.
Man arrested in San Diego on weapons charges had described Poway synagogue shooter as a "saint." (accelerationist white supremacists often refer to extremist mass killers as "saints")
sdjewishworld.com/2020/11/19…
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