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I look forward to joining @RevJohnDear for a program on "The Beatitudes and the Saints" on May 22. Deadline to register, May 17 at beatitudescenter.org
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The master dated the source of his troubles to the moment he let his wife touch his hair. But now, only a few weeks after his humiliation, his hair was growing again, and with that he felt his powers returning. #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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In this new struggle to defend voting rights, remembering the witness and sacrifices of Fannie Lou Hamer (d 3/14/1977), a former sharecropper who rose up from the MS Delta to inspire and guide the struggle for freedom. Arrested and savagely beaten, she faced death for the cause.
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One day on his family estate, the Count was surprised to receive a “cease and desist” letter from the former master, forbidding the of use his name or likeness in any more humorous tales. The Count merely smiled and sharpened his quills. #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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@OlgaMSegura’s book was made for this moment. @OrbisBooks
One year ago today Breonna Taylor was killed in her home by police. I spoke with @OlgaMSegura about her new book, Birth of a Movement: Black Lives Matter and the Catholic Church. @commonwealmag #BreonnaTaylor commonwealmagazine.org/becom…
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Today’s gospel reading (Lk 18:9) begins: “Jesus addressed this parable to those who were convinced of their own righteousness and despised everyone else.” 👀
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He thinks he is “triggering the libs” but no worries about triggering children who saw their classmates and teachers killed by a man carrying a gun like that. Happy Friday, Congressman! 😀
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March 13, birthday of Dominican theologian Yves Congar (1904-1995). “The future is prepared in the waiting when the seed, once deposited, puts forth a shoot and grows. What is essential is to have sown the seed.” @OrbisBooks
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FD of St. Luigi Orione (d 3/12 1940), who engaged in a dizzying array of social ministries, was also a committed anti-fascist. Of Mussolini he said: "If I were not wearing a soutane I would lead an army and unseat that man."
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“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
Finally recognized as a martyr, beatification has been approved for Jesuit Rutilio Grande, whose murder on 3/12/1977 along with an elderly peasant and a teenage boy, marked the opening of a terrible wave of persecution against the church in El Salvador. (Icon Robt Lentz)
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So enjoyed my conversation with author Kathy Coffey about her new book of stories about "hidden women" in the Gospels. @OrbisBooks bit.ly/3bBYnV8
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