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Pope Francis calls the Beatitudes a Christian's "identity card." They are a portrait in miniature of Jesus himself, and the saints offer examples of what that means--going against the flow of a culture that prizes Greatness, Power, Status, and the logic of the market.
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I was happy to start this discussion about the "Person, Politics, and Passion of Dorothy Day." Thanks to the Ignatian Volunteer Corps and @DayGuild piped.video/watch?v=rDAA-_aI…
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My father at 90–still leaking after all these years.
50 years ago next month, the NYT began publishing the Pentagon Papers, a seminal moment in the history of the Vietnam War and in leaks of Top Secret information. Its source, Daniel Ellsberg, has made another unauthorized disclosure. /1 nytimes.com/2021/05/22/us/po…
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There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;
And though the last lights off the black West went
Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs—
Because the Holy Ghost over the bent
World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.
—G.M. Hopkins
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So grateful to @RevJohnDear for inviting me to lead a webinar on the Beatitudes and the Saints, and to @helenprejean for joining in to offer her wisdom. Between them we had the Peacemakers and those who Hunger for Righteousness covered. (Link to come.)
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The Baal Shem Tov, founder of Hasidic Judaism, d. May 22 1760. He taught a mysticism of everyday life. The entire world was a prayer house, he said. “A man needs no fixed place to say his prayers, no synagogues; among the trees of the forest, everywhere one can pray.”
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50 years after the Pentagon Papers, my father @DanielEllsberg, with more secrets to tell, is still ready to go to jail. via @NYTimes nytimes.com/2021/05/22/us/po…
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It was our honor to publish this!
Glad & honored to collect and edit @RevJJackson’s sermons and speeches. #keepingHopeAlive
Grateful to @esglaude for the Afterword & #revmossjr for the Foreword.
It was fabulous to work with @RobertEllsberg publisher of @OrbisBooks
@RPCoalition #DNC amazon.com/Keeping-Hope-Aliv…
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Feast of Bd Franz Jagerstatter, who was beheaded by the Nazis in 1943 for refusing to take a military oath of loyalty to Hitler. He was the sole Austrian Catholic to take this stand. A video based on my text: piped.video/watch?v=nMtrwfz6…
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When people ask me who is my "favorite" saint, I often cite Franz. His witness recalls the early martyrs who were charged with blasphemy for refusing to worship the emperor and the gods of Rome. But what do you do when your own priest and bishop urge you to take that oath?
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Franz acted without expectation that his witness would change history or even be remembered by anyone at all. It was almost forgotten. But once you know his story, you can't "unknow" it. His writings published by @OrbisBooks. His story in Terrence Malick's film "A Hidden Life."
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Wonderful and timely new book by @jordandenari (@OrbisBooks). Will be posting my interview with her soon.
It’s publication day for my book, #Islamophobia_WhatChristiansShouldKnow
I hope it can help us breakdown Islamophobia and build up a better world defined by hospitality, justice, and fierce love.
My immense gratitude to those who shared their experiences + expertise with me.
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For saddling the church with Boniface Dante placed Celestine in the vestibule of the Inferno. Italian novelist Ignacio Silone made Celestine the hero of a play in which his story dramatizes the conflict between the spirit of the gospel and the principle of power.
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