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Sandra Schneiders in her foreword to @Pontifex's The Gospel of Luke (@OrbisBooks): ""More pointedly than his immediate predecessors, Francis seems to have internalized and perhaps privileges, in a certain way, the Lukan portrait of Jesus." FD of St. Luke
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Sister Megan Rice. via @NYTimes nytimes.com/2021/10/17/obitu…
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Thank you. I was amazed to read his letters to the church in Chile on sex abuse. A little known story. @OrbisBooks orbisbooks.com/letters-of-tr…
Has there ever been a pope who spoke like this? Pope Francis’s message to the World Meeting of Popular Movements. vatican.va/content/francesco…
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Posted on the wrong date, but still a great story about a modern lay saint.
Read about St. Joseph Moscati blog.giveusthisday.org/2021/…
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A wonderful excerpt from Danté Stewart’s new. Shows the ongoing power of James Cone’s work. Wish he had lived to see this and so much else. via @NYTOpinion nytimes.com/2021/10/16/opini…
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The master’s lap dogs professed their undying love. But could they be trusted? Might they not, in a driving storm, revert to a pack of ravening wolves? That is why he maintained their loyalty by regular beatings. #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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Dorothy Day: “I am reminded of St. Teresa of Avila who, when she fell off her stumbling mule into the shallow river and cried out to God in protest, heard Him say, “This is the way I treat my friends.”And she flung back at him, “That is why you have so few of them.”
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“Imagine what a difference it would have made if synodal processes like those inspired by Cardinal Dearden’s leadership had been continued.” americamagazine.org/faith/20… via @americamag
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"What a time to be alive."
We are living through a strange, modern-day version of the Dark Ages, where opening one’s body, and the bodies of one’s loved ones and even children up to COVID, while aggressively pushing to spread it to the unwilling, have become a weird right of passage in an American cult.
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A giant. via @NYTimes nytimes.com/2021/10/13/books…
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So inspiring! And so many past, present, and future @OrbisBooks authors!
I followed Black scholars as they gathered for the annual meeting of the @BlackCatholicTS, a space where, among the white, heteronormativity of the U.S. church, Black Catholics gathered for intergenerational worship, fellowship and learning.
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And if the Bahamas didn’t get in his way he would surely have made it all the way to India and changed the world forever!
A selection of her writings here: “Modern Spiritual Masters: Writings in Contemplation and Compassion.” @OrbisBooks
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