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Beguine mystic Mechtild of Magdeburg (1282) didn’t pull her punches: “Alas, crown of holy priesthood, you have disappeared, and you have nothing left but your external shape—namely, priestly power—with this you do battle against God and His chosen friends. . . .
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Dorothy Day, b Nov 8 1897. “I have said, sometimes flippantly, that the mass of bourgeois smug Christians who denied Christ in His poor made me turn to Communism, and that it was the Communists and working with them that made me turn to God.” (Photo Richard Avedon)
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Even after her conversion, she continued to see the spirit of Christ in all who worked for social justice and who loved the poor and oppressed, even if they did not know his name. From her book “From Union Square to Rome (@OrbisBooks):
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Social justice movements are a “new religion”; now climate change is a “new religion”. Seeing a pattern?
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If movements for social Justice are a “pseudo religion,” what do we call those who claim that “religion” offers exemption from care for the common good?
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Happy birthday Joni Mitchell! Questions I often ask myself:
“All this talk about holiness now
It must be the start of the latest style
Is it all books and words
Or do you really feel it?
Do you really laugh?
Do you really care?
Do you really smile
When you smile?”
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Prior to WWII the idea of targeting civilian populations was universally regarded as a crime. By the end, it was “just how you win a war.” I sometimes wonder what people would think of the prospect of lining up 40k children and burning them one by one.
1619 Project founder felt 'ashamed' during visit to US atomic bomb site in Japan
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"Any act of war aimed indiscriminately at the destruction of entire cities or of extensive areas along with their population is a crime against God and man himself. It merits unequivocal and unhesitating condemnation" (Gaudium et Spes, Second Vatican Council).
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A good time to remember the 1971 document by the Synod of Bishops on Justice in the World: “Action on behalf of justice and participation in the transformation of the world fully appear to us as a constitutive dimension of the preaching of the Gospel,…
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…or, in other words, of the Church's mission for the redemption of the human race and its liberation from every oppressive situation.” cctwincities.org/wp-content/…
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Little Sister Magdaleine of Jesus founded a congregation based on the witness of Charles de Foucauld: a new kind of contemplative life—not in a cloister—but in the world of the poor and marginalized, based on the hidden years that Jesus spent as a carpenter in Nazareth. d 11/6/89
Little Sister Magdeleine, founder of the Little Sisters of Jesus d 11/6/1989. “As you work, as you come and go..., to be a contemplative will mean simply that you try to turn to Jesus within you and enter into conversation with him, as with the one you love most in the world.”
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An important voice.
let's be clear about what's happening here: the president of the usccb—like a lot of men in our church—used deliberately vague, harmful rhetoric framed as “constructive” to further denigrate the work of organizers and social movements.
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