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Today is the feast of St Celestine V (1296), a simple monk who experienced great tensions between the office of Pope and the call to holiness and resolved them by abdicating after 5 mos. His memory was invoked by the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI in 2013. Less remembered:
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I was honored to have a speaking role in this great documentary! 🌝
Congrats to Martin Doblmeier and @JourneyFilms team recognized with #GabrielAward @CM_Association
First Place in the Special/Documentary category for
Revolution of the Heart: The Dorothy Day Story #DorothyDay @CW_Movement
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Here is the 3rd episode in the "The Whistleblower" podcast about my father @DanielEllsberg's release of the Pentagon Papers. In this episode my sister and I discuss our brief supporting role. It's quite a story! "The Presses Roll" thegroundtruthproject.org/pu…
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This month's Publisher's Letter @OrbisBooks features free shipping on Dorothy Day's "On Pilgrimage: The Sixties," A. E. Orobator's "The Pope and the Pandemic," and Jim Forest's new illustrated portrait of Thich Nhat Hanh, "Eyes of Compassion." orbisbook.com
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Listening to her older records, Joan Baez hears perfection in an ‘unsurpassable’ voice washingtonpost.com/entertain…
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Congratulations to Alexander Fan, a high school junior, for a brilliant evocation of the Pentagon Papers story, channeling @DanielEllsberg, Neil Sheehan, and Richard Nixon! bakersfield.com/news/two-bak… via @Bakersfieldcali
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On Wednesday.
On May 19, I'll be moderating a discussion of many different aspects of Dorothy Day's legacy with @RobertEllsberg, @melissann19, Catholic Workers and folks working on Day's canonization cause.
Join us! ($25/Zoom screen, proceeds to IVCUSA)
ivcusa.org/dorothy-day/
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Pope Francis was in some ways made for the Pandemic crisis. So many of this themes--mercy, global solidarity-- came into play. Here is my interview with Fr. A. E. Orobator SJ about his new book, "The Pope and the Pandemic." @OrbisBooks piped.video/watch?v=_GLGbX0o…
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5 yrs since the publication of Pope Francis's historic encyclical, Laudato Si'. If we address the crisis of climate change it may in part because we heeded this message. If not, it may in part be because US Catholics were led to believe it was not a Catholic priority.@OrbisBooks
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An essential explanation of historical connection between white supremacy, voter suppression, and GOP charges about the "Radical Socialist" agenda = lazy black people will be able to take money from hard-working white people to pay for social benefits. heathercoxrichardson.substac…
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Whatever our image of our country, it must make room for the knowledge that we trained and equipped people who killed 500 children and their parents in a single village and then helped cover up the crime. Remember El Mozote. washingtonpost.com/outlook/2…
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