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Remembering Daniel Berrigan on his 100th birthday at @orbisbooks. orbisbooks.com/daniel-berrig…
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Today is the 100th birthday of Daniel Berrigan, Jesuit priest, poet, peacemaker (b May 9 1921). With his mother.
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"Of course, let us have peace, we cry, but at the same time let us have normalcy, let us lose nothing, let our lives stand intact, let us know neither prison nor ill repute nor disruption of ties . . . There is no peace because there are no peacemakers. . .
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The 100th birthday of Sophie Scholl, b. 5/9/1921, who was beheaded by the Nazis in 1943 for her role as a member of the White Rose, a circle of young people who distributed leaflets denouncing the crimes of the regime. She was 21. She saw and spoke the truth. Her spirit lives.
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Thanks for the suggestion. My Commonweal lecture, "Walking with the Saints: My Writing Life" touched on this, but not specifically on DD.
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45 yrs ago, when Dorothy Day asked me to serve as managing editor of the Catholic Worker, I had no idea she was pointing me toward my life's work and vocation--not just as an editor, but as HER editor. Here is my latest edition of her work. @OrbisBooks Next year: The Seventies.
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It's official now: Four @OrbisBooks titles have won Nautilus Awards: By Arthur Waskow, Jim Forest, Robert Michael Franklin, and Ellen Birx.
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Jim Forest’s latest illustrated biography of one of the great spiritual teachers and peacemakers of our time: Thich Nhat Hanh. An intimate portrait of his life and teachings orbisbooks.com/eyes-of-compa…
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“My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end....” Thomas Merton
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