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Breaking news: beatification of Fr. Rutilio Grande, along with two companions killed with him in 1980, said to be scheduled in El Salvador on Jan 22 2022.
“If Jesus himself came across the border at Chalatenango, they wouldn’t let him in. They would accuse [him] of being a rabble-rouser, a foreign Jew, who confused the people with exotic and foreign ideas,... they would crucify him again.”—Salvadoran martyr Ven. Rutilio Grande SJ
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Also significant in the life of #DorothyDay, who as a young woman befriended ONeill and was moved to hear him recite “The Hound of Heaven.”
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Wisdom from modern spiritual masters, forthcoming from @OrbisBooks. See: view.flipdocs.com/?ID=100273…
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Forthcoming titles on Race Matters from @OrbisBooks Highlights from our Fall catalog.view.flipdocs.com/?ID=100273…
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Sr Mary Luke Tobin died Aug 24 2004: “Go out on a limb, thats where the fruit is!” My reflections today for @GiveUsThisDayLP
Learn about Sr. Mary Luke Tobin blog.giveusthisday.org/?p=13…
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“It will be tempting to accept the narrative that this outcome was a result of President Biden’s choice to withdraw U.S. forces. In reality..., the problem started 20 years ago when American leaders put a smiling face on failure and called it success.” washingtonpost.com/outlook/b…
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The new Fall 2021 @OrbisBooks catalog is 🔥! With #HenriNouwen, @DeanKBD, #RonRolheiser, #ThomasMerton, @pontifex, @joanchittister, #HowardThurman, #Teilhard, #Panikkar, @ProfessorJPRuiz, @gerryorome and more. view.flipdocs.com/?ID=100273…
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Thinking today of all the journalists who feel called to stand with the suffering, and who risk their lives to tell their story. My reflection today in @GiveUsThisDayLP on James Foley, killed by ISIS, Aug 19 2014.
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My father said: "#Cambodia didn’t look all that different.” Kissinger replied: "Cambodia was undertaken for very complicated reasons.” My father: "Henry, there hasn't been a rotten decision in this area for 20 years which wasn't undertaken for very complicated reasons."
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Thinking about this story in light of the end of the war in #Afghanistan, spanning 20 yrs, 4 admins. “Do we really have anything to learn from history?” From the Russians in Afghanistan, the French in Indochina, our own war in #Vietnam? “We make decisions very differently now."
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