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Photographer Mev Puleo died 25 yrs ago of a brain tumor on Jan 12 1996 at age 32. She had dedicated her life to documenting the life, struggles, and humanity of the poor—“to revere the human spirit and bridge the distance between persons.” Thru her contemplative eye she
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penetrated the spiritual essence of things, especially people, in whom she saw the face of God. In her travels in Latin America she documented a new church arising from the faith and struggle of the poor. In the end she became the poor she loved. In college she wrote: “When I
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From his infancy the master had known that everything he said or did was perfect. While he had learned to accept this, others were not so fortunate, seeing flaws or crimes where none existed. He felt sorry for them. #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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How Catholic Leaders Helped Give Rise to Violence at the U.S. Capitol americamagazine.org/faith/20…
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The master's rules for avoiding weakness began with never apologizing, never washing hands or removing your boots in bed. They steadily advanced to never experiencing love and always, on entering a room, knowing who you were ready to sacrifice. #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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By charging her husband a small fee for every lie, profanity, or act of wanton cruelty, Madame had in just one year raised enough to underwrite a tennis pavilion and her whole spring wardrobe. How unfair that she should subjected to salacious gossip. #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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Wisdom from Fr. Bryan Massingale on the spiritual meaning of the attack on the Capitol and how we got here. 🔥 Bears listening several times. @USCCB piped.video/adiJP61vieE via @YouTube
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The master believed he had been treated very unfairly—up to and including betrayal by his manservant Mikhail—and that what had happened to him should never be allowed to happen to another. Thus it was very important that he remain master forever. #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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“Now It Can Be Told” runs the headline on a breathless @nytimes story of how Neal Sheehan got the Pentagon Papers from my father @DanielEllsberg. Sheehan wanted to counter the usual (accurate) narrative that my father gave the papers to the Times. . . nytimes.com/2021/01/07/us/pe…
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9/ Absent a signal of interest from the Times my father continued to seek other outlets for them--a risky undertaking which he would have discontinued immediately had Sheehan told him the truth.
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10/ Since learning the truth, my father has never reproached Sheehan for his deception, since it all turned out so well--in fact, far exceeding his wildest hopes. "You did what I did,” he told Sheehan. (Not as Sheehan renders it: “So you stole it, like I did.”)
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11/ My father never considered that he had stolen anything. Yet that sets up a supposed exchange wherein Sheehan tells him, "No Dan, you didn't steal it and neither did I. Those papers are the property of the people of the US..." (As if my father needed such a reminder.)
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12/ Bottom line: Sheehan and the @nytimes played a heroic role in one of the greatest whistleblowing feats in US history before @xychelsea and @Snowden. Meanwhile my father was arrested and charged with 12 felony counts facing 115 years and the full wrath of the Nixon admin.
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13/ He had willingly faced that risk since the moment he copied the papers in 1969 and he never doubted it was worth it. As he was being arraigned a reporter asked if he was worried about going to jail. His reply: “Wouldn’t you go to jail if it would help end a war?”
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