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"The goal of the dominant group in a society is to make hatred respectable."--Howard Thurman
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#VanGogh died on July 29 1890. Yrs ago I tried to get permission to use his letters in a volume for the @OrbisBooks #ModernSpiritualMasters Series. The publisher refused on grounds that Van Gogh “is not a spiritual master.” No matter, Carol Berry made her own translations.
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In my book #AllSaints I wrote about how #VanGogh found in art a way to express his solidarity and compassion with suffering humanity, and to reflect the inner holiness of everything that is.
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This is why @NCRonline is a real newspaper and the Pillar is not.
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Simone Biles has largely been celebrated for the decision to withdraw. But it’s also worth looking at how someone makes a decision like that. americamagazine.org/faith/20…
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July 27, FD orb Blessed Titus Brandsma, Carmelite martyr.
On July 26 1942 Dutch Carmelite Titus Brandsma was executed in Dachau. He was arrested after advising Catholic newspapers why they must refuse to publish Nazi ads and propaganda, and protesting a German edict banning Jewish students from Catholic schools. Beatified in 1985.
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July 27 is FD of my favorite legendary saints—the 7 Sleepers of Ephesus. Last year, in early days of the pandemic, I reflected on their story and wondered whether we would emerge with greater wisdom, greater capacity for solidarity, unselfishness, and compassion. Still wondering.
#MastersofSocialIsolation #8 While awaiting an end to this time of isolation we might envy the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus. Per ancient legend these 7 young Christian men, escaping persecution under the emperor Decius (251), hid in a cavern, where they fell into a miraculous sleep.
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An apology, Dallas police apologize to mother of 12-year-old murdered in 1973 by officer playing Russian roulette washingtonpost.com/nation/20…
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Moral injury. Facing 11 years in prison, a former intel analyst condemns ‘undeniable cruelties’ of Afghanistan drone strikes washingtonpost.com/nation/20…
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Sneak preview of a new book, Dorothy Day's ON PILGRIMAGE: The Seventies, available next spring from @OrbisBooks. Not to be confused with The Sixties, published this spring.
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That is so strange! I didn't type that link--I forwarded it directly from the Commonweal site. They must have fixed it since then. I have deleted and retweeted! Thank you.
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Bob Moses. Rest in Power @NYTimes nytimes.com/2021/07/25/us/bo…
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Listen!! A Lamentation and a Plea After Reading @OlgaMSegura “Birth of a Movement: Black Lives Matter and the Catholic Church” (@OrbisBooks) by Rosalie G. Riegle todaysamericancatholic.org/?…
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