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My reflection on John Kavanaugh SJ, who died Nov 5 2012, appears in @GiveUsThisDayLP. At @orbisbooks we published 3 editions of his classic *Following Christ in a Consumer Society*--one every 10 yrs. I imagine a new ed. would have contrasted the models of Trump and Pope Francis.
Read about John Kavanaugh blog.giveusthisday.org/2021/…
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From the 1991 ed.: "Donald Trump may be only the most prominent example of our quandary: the more we try to ground our identities in external possessions or triumphs, the more we plaster our names on everything we can accumulate, the more we cling to surface and style. . .
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..., the less we find underneath...The consuming self, unmasked, reveals a terrible absence. There is no substance to our being, nothing there but the appearances, the 'outside,'...There is a hole underneath it all." See #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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Please, all white people, read these replies—especially those who don’t want their children to be subjected to literature or history lessons that would make them feel “uncomfortable.”👇
Black folks: Please reply to this with how you old you were when you first experienced racism and what happened. Because until this issue is written from that perspective, the framing will continue to be a miss.
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I certainly read the speech. I also edited the volume from which he drew that quote. My point was that he was deploying Dorothy Day for a purpose that was completely contrary to her intentions. She was always eager to seek concordances with those who worked for social justice.
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Thread. 👇
Breakdown of key points and deep problems w/ @ArchbishopGomez address on the “Church and America’s New Religion”. Thread
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When Dorothy Day in 1932 watched Communist-led hunger march in Washington she asked herself why Catholics weren't leading such a march. Rather than bemoan this as a "pseudo religion" or replacement of Xty she prayed to find a way to devote her faith to the cause of the oppressed.
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When Dorothy Day watched a Communist-led hunger march in Washington she asked herself why Catholics weren't leading such a march. Rather than bemoan this as a "pseudo religion" or replacement of Xty she prayed to find a way to devote her faith to the cause of the oppressed.
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Oh dear. Such a departure from the spirit of Pope Francis in his recent address to the “social poets” of the popular movements. And sorry to see Dorothy Day deployed in context of a lament about movements for social justice.
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"Régine Jean-Charles has written a glorious book that offers a deeply moral vision of how to recover a society sick with racism, sexual violence, and mass incarceration..."--@DrSoyica. @OrbisBooks @reineayiti
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Thank you! Not the quite the Yankees, but yes, right field (where I could do the least harm) for my Barrington Park little league team. (I decided not to shoot for the majors.)
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Räissa Maritain d Nov 4 1960. With her husband Jacques, she felt called to live out her contemplative life in the midst of the artistic and intellectual circles in which they were immersed. Thomas Merton called her “perhaps one of the great contemplatives of our time.”
“I love the saints because they are lovable; and the sinners because they are like me.” —Raissa Maritain
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A story about Satchel Paige was about more than it seemed. Great piece by @batear
When @POTUS and @Pontifex spoke of pitcher Satchel Paige, they invoked memories of resistance, resilience, and wisdom born of struggle. Read @batear on the language of sports: buff.ly/3pZe9kJ
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The holy simplicity of artist John August Swanson christiancentury.org/article… via @ChristianCent
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FD of St. Martin de Porres--a living parable of the Reign of God. His care for the sick, the poor, all living creatures, the enslaved, the indigenous, bear witness to God's predilection for the powerless and marginalized, the "offscourings" of an ostentatiously Catholic society.
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So excited by @DeanKBD's new book, her most powerful and personal yet: *Resurrection Hope: A Future Where Black Lives Matter* @OrbisBooks. Endorsements by @CornelWest, @robertpjones @emtownes @PB_Curry @Mebudde @anthony_pinn @bishop_flunder 🔥🔥@UnionSeminary.
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