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"I will be trying to alert people to the day that I die. I think our nuclear policy is dangerously delusional." Good overview of the significance my father's latest leak. Not Even Past: Dan Ellsberg vs. New Madmen’s Theories of Cold War & Press Suppression original.antiwar.com/danny_s…
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On Memorial Day 1937 police opened fire on striking steelworkers in Chicago, killing 10, injuring 100. Dorothy Day wrote: “The only way to stop such brutality is to arouse a storm of protest against it...One more sin, suffering Christ, worker Yourself, for You to bear.”
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Aussie racehorse Ellsberg is the up-and-coming son of champion Spill the Beans. He is my doppelgänger.
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Feast of the Visitation (Mickey McGrath). The joy of this encounter unclouded by any foreshadowing that the vision evinced in Mary’s Magnificat will one day lead to the death of these leaping babes. For now, the sisterhood of 2 women joined by faith in the God of the Impossible.
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“To be a witness does not consist in engaging in propaganda, nor even in stirring people up, but in being a living mystery. It means to live in such a way that one’s life would not make sense if God did not exist.” —Cardinal Emmanuel Suhard, Archbishop of Paris, d 5/30/1949
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St Therese of Lisieux dressed as St Joan of Arc. Revealing that this was her favorite saint, and the power that underlay her “Little Way.”
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she stood up before princes of the church and state and the most learned authorities of her world and refused to compromise her conscience or deny her special vocation. Patron of holy men and women, vilified in their own time in the hope of eventual vindication.
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Feast of St Joan of Arc (1431), canonized in 1920, who claims the distinction among saints of having previously been condemned by the church as a heretic and burned at the stake. Throughout her ordeal she adamantly refused to renounce the angelic “voices” that guided her mission
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and she refused to give up her male clothing. On this basis she was convicted. 450 years later she was declared a saint. Not wanting to call her a martyr, the church emphasized her piety and purity. Yet the lessons and mystery of Joan continue.
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Read this extraordinary story. 👇 via @NYTOpinion nytimes.com/2021/05/29/opini…
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Today is the feast of St Joan of Arc, fighter for justice, pure of heart, who refused to disavow her voices despite all dangers and adversity. May she guard you and be your champion.
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You neglected to mention that there was no dog in the White House. Otherwise you covered most of the bases.
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Just interviewed Donal Dorr, the great Irish theologian about his new @OrbisBooks title: “A Creed for Today.” Can’t wait to share the link.
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