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May 24 2015: this is how the sun appeared during the Mass for the Beatification of Oscar Romero in San Salvador.
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Feast of St Oscar Romero. Video based on my entry from @GiveUsThisDayLP Blessed Among Us: St. Oscar Romero piped.video/W3ZW2dz4qdo via @YouTube
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If the 2nd amendment were written today: “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear machine guns, sniper rifles, anti-aircraft weapons, land mines, rocket launchers and bear spray shall not be infringed.”
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...running houses of hospitality or farming groups...I expect that everything we do be attended with human conflicts, and the suffering that goes with it, and that this suffering will water the seed to make it grow in the future. I expect that all our natural love for each other
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...which is so warming and so encouraging and so much a reward of this kind of work and living, will be killed, put to death painfully by gossip, intrigue, suspicion, distrust, etc., and that this painful dying to self and the longing for the love of others will be rewarded...
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...by a tremendous increase of supernatural love amongst us all. I expect the most dangerous of sins cropping up amongst us...but that the struggle will go on...God will not let it hinder the work but that work will go on because that work is our suffering and our sanctification.
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Looking forward to delivering the Commonweal Lecture on April 7 via zoom from Fairfield University. My topic: "Walking with the Saints: My Writing Life." Register here: Fairfield.zoom.us/webinar/re…
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“I never believed human beings could do such things to other human beings,” via @NYTimes nytimes.com/2021/03/18/us/ca…
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The test: is this someone who would cause @SenRonJohnson to feel afraid?
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My new publisher's letter is up at orbisbooks.com/ with free shipping on featured new titles: "The Diary of Jesus Christ" by Jesuit playwright Bill Cain SJ; "Putting on the Mind of God" by James E. Woods; and Donal Dorr's "A Creed for Today."
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Even racist mass murderers get all righteous when people call them racists. As Tucker Carlson would say: "How dare they!"
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Feast of Bd Sibyllina of Pavia, a blind anchoress who spent 65 in solitary prayer. I reflected on her last year, in a series inspired by the pandemic shutdown, #MastersofSocialIsolation.
#MastersofSocialIsolation #6. Blessed Sibyllina Pavia, 14th-cen anchoress. At 12 she went blind, but found a Dominican community that took her in. She delighted in her new life but prayed to St Dominic to recover her sight. One night she had a dream: St D took her hand...
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Question for Bp Barron: When William Barr, after being honored at the Catholic Prayer Breakfast, used his final days in office to engage in a federal killing spree, was he being more of a Platonist or an Aristotelian?
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