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Haunted by the passion and death of Elijah McClain two years ago. Today a grand jury indicted three police officers and two paramedics on 32 counts of assault, manslaughter, and negligent homicide.
On Aug 24 2019, Elijah McClain, 23, was detained and assaulted by Aurora, CO police while walking home with a bottle of ice tea. Within minutes he was dead. The official report reads like an account of a lynching. bit.ly/37DSJQb (art: Wm. McNichols).
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“What frustrates them is that the Jesus of the gospels is absent from the pronouncements and actions of church leaders.”— Fr. Bryan Massingale.
Catholics aren’t disappointed—they’re exasperated uscatholic.org/articles/2021…
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“There is one winner, only one winner, in war. The winner is war itself. Not truth, not justice, not liberty, not morality. These are the vanquished.”--Thomas Merton
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After Afghanistan, War’s Idealists Must Accept Defeat | Inter Press Service ipsnews.net/2021/08/afghanis…
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That was a terrific and inspiring conversation. So glad to join you!
Also, check out the archive of these conversations at prayer w/ a host of great friends like @liztheo, @RichardRohrOFM, @stewartdantec, @bishop_flunder, @d_l_mayfield, @RobertEllsberg, Willie Jennings, Ched Myers & Elaine Enns. piped.video/playlist?list=PL…
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I once told my daughter that Chekhov said if a gun appears in the first act it will go off in the third act. “By itself?” she asked.
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It’s the setup for a new Alanis Morissette song:
“It’s like when you waited your whole damn just life to meet the pope,
and he looks at your name tag and is like, ‘meh, nope.’
And isn’t it c’est la vie? Don’t you think? A little too c’est la vie.”
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“Do I know someone whose soul is ill-served by my deferential fear? In the land of the free, what do I owe people whose lives are endangered by my silence?” americamagazine.org/politics…
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I met the pope yesterday in the Vatican, briefly. I showed him this tweet and we both had a good laugh. “I thought he said he was Benedict Cumberbatch yet his name tag said roddreher. Asi es la vida, no?”
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Peace activist says Afghanistan should cause reevaluation of just war doctrine cruxnow.com/interviews/2021/…
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