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Interview with @OrbisBooks author Bishop Edward Braxton about his new book, "The Church and the Racial Divide." ncronline.org/news/politics/… via @NCRonline
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“Believe Women” & other Lessons on the Feast of St. Mary of Magdala (Lectionary) catholicmoraltheology.com/be…
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Met today with Harvey Cox, my friend of 41 yrs, to discuss his forthcoming spring title from @OrbisBooks: “A New Heaven: Death, the Afterlife, and the Kingdom of God.” Accepting suggestions for cover art!
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Those who say Critical Race Theory is incompatible with Catholic Social Teaching should go back and read what John Paul II said about “structures of sin” in Sollicitudo Rei Socialis.
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Liberté, egalité, fraternité. 🇫🇷
French Pres. Emmanuel Macron made civil rights leader Jesse Jackson a commander of the Legion of Honor, France’s highest award, for helping “change the destiny of the United States” and “to change our world for the better.” abcn.ws/3iqFXJj
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My new publisher’s letter features all the recent @OrbisBooks prize winners. Free shipping on the se titles. orbisbooks.com
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“To acknowledge the sins done in the name of our Church, and to model repentance and restitution for this sin, is not a betrayal of the Church. It is our only option for living the Gospel.”
"The odd trait uniting the souls in Dante’s hell is their refusal to accept that they deserve to be there." @second_sailing
The best meditations leave you feeling kinda owned, and this is one.
commonwealmagazine.org/maxim…
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15 yrs ago I had the privilege of transcribing and editing Dorothy Day’s Diaries for publication (“The Duty of Delight”). For the canonical process it is necessary to re-transcribe all the diaries without any editing. magazine.nd.edu/stories/more…
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For this task a team of volunteers stepped forward. This essay describes one volunteer’s experience—and the sense that she was not following Dorothy’s life but Dorothy was following her’s. I can identify. Fun fact: the archives sent me a dozen CDs ...
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Latin was the language of Pontius Pilate and the soldiers who nailed Jesus to a cross. It became the language of the church because it was the language of empire.
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Dominican Bartolomé de Las Casas, “Protector of the Indians” d. July 18, 1566. His story raises the question: Who are those in our world who “don’t count,” whose humanity does not measure up, whose aspirations and needs are not our concern? My reflections: americamagazine.org/issue/la…
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“There is not much to report here on the way to heaven.”
17 July 1944 | Jane #Haining, a @churchscotland missionary in #Budapest perished in the German Nazi #Auschwitz camp. Her last message to friends was a postcard asking for food. She ended her letter with the words: “There is not much to report here on the way to heaven.” 1/2
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