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My new publisher’s letter features books by @Prof_Keller, Sister Annabel Laity, and Bro. David Steindl -Rast. Orbisbooks.com Learn about Mindfulness, the 99 Names of God, and the Apocalypse! 🧘🏽☪️🦅
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@kingsbayplow7 for more news and coverage.
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Fr Steve Kelly released from prison after 3 years.
Fr. Steve Kelly kneeling outside the Tacoma, WA federal courthouse being blessed by supporters 11:20 a.m. April 13, 2021
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“Bishops and other church leaders... would do well to listen, learn and consult actual experts — especially transgender persons — before condemning something they clearly do not understand. Otherwise, whole groups of people will continue to be oppressed and more people will die.
"Why the church should fight anti-transgender legislation" ncronline.org/news/opinion/f…
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Replying to @mfjlewis
If the rest of them show up, I will start boarding up the chimney.
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Yes, that seems to be the consensus. I liked to think that I was being visited by an angel unawares.
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Replying to @chickroyale
Very interesting article. Thanks. It was the persistence that was so unsettling.
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No. I tried hanging up stuff that I thought would deter. Made no difference.
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A robin flying into the kitchen door yesterday afternoon, repeated the same hopeless effort every few seconds, despite all efforts to deter him. He continued this for 4 straight hours until dark. And now at dawn he has resumed his quest with even greater persistence. Meaning?
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Update: My wife finally opened the door and welcomed him in. The importunate creature stepped up and looked around, then turned and flew away. His work was done. “Knock and the door will be opened.”
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“How can I find the wounds of Jesus today? I cannot see them as Thomas saw them. I find them in doing works of mercy, in giving to the body...of your injured brethren, for they are hungry, naked, humiliated, in prison, in hospital. These are the wounds of Jesus.”—Pope Francis
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Ramsey Clark at Daniel Berrigan’s funeral. The defense rests.
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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin SJ d. 4/10 1955. The day will come when, after harnessing the ether, the winds, the tides, and gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And, on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.”
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Howard Thurman, preacher, theologian, mystic, d. 40 years ago on April 10 1981. “Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” @OrbisBooks
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During this pandemic year Pope Francis has offered a model of compassionate leadership--standing with the victims, addressing the underlying social inequities, and pointing to the need for widespread change. Fr. Orobator's new @OrbisBooks title, "The Pope and the Pandemic."
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My father, on faith, hope, and moral courage: Daniel Ellsberg at 90 – “It’s Still Possible to Save Humanity” – theAnalysis.news theanalysis.news/interviews/…
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Wherein Tucker Carlson reveals that the source of his racism lies in the childhood anxiety that his parents preferred his younger siblings
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