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Lucretia Mott, Quaker abolitionist and early feminist, d. Nov 11, 1880. She was one of the most vigorous opponents of the "deep sin of slavery," founding the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society--whose meeting were attacked by violent mobs. In 1840 when she and other women
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...were excluded from an antislavery meeting in London she began devoting more energy to the feminist cause. At the Seneca Falls convention in 1848 she read aloud from a manifesto beginning, "We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men *and women* are created equal."
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Beautiful reflection from @OrbisBooks author @batear: "US bishops' Eucharist teaching draft neglects realities on the ground." ncronline.org/news/coronavir… via @NCRonline
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One of the best responses from Pax Christi USA. "Blessed is the one who stays awake" - Our response to criticism of today's movements for social justice paxchristiusa.org/2021/11/09… via @PaxChristiUSA
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My reflection on Catherine McAuley, founder of the Sisters of Mercy. “Each day is a step we make towards eternity and we shall continue thus to step from day to day until we take the last step, which will bring us into the presence of God.” In @GiveUsThisDayLP @SistersofMercy
Read about Venerable Catherine McAuley blog.giveusthisday.org/2021/…
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Over 70 vols in the Modern Spiritual Masters Series so far. Just published: *Ronald Rolheiser* edited by @avonstamwitz
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Yes. Thank you @gloria_purvis for this demystification.
My understanding of social justice, wokeness, id politics, & intersectionality come out of the long standing racial justice movement that began when the 1st enslaved Africans resisted in the colonies. These words have a positive meaning in the context of the Blk experience. 1/
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FD St Eliz. of the Trinity: "We carry our heaven within ourselves, because he who satisfied the saints with the light of vision gives himself to us in faith and in mystery. It's the same thing. I feel I have found heaven on earth, because heaven is God and God is in my soul."
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Wonderful news about my favorite saint, Charles de Foucauld. Also one of Dorothy Day’s. (Photo she gave me with her inscription on the back)
Blessed Charles de Foucauld and six other "blessed"s will be canonized on May 15, 2022.
Read @RobertEllsberg's bio of Foucauld in @americamag: americamagazine.org/faith/20…
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Like Malcolm X and many before her, @mtgreenee has an experience in jail and discovers the Nation of Islam.
10. Louis Farrakhan says that forcing the vaccine is a “declaration of war.”
That is how strongly the Nation of Islam opposes @JoeBiden’s vaccine mandates that force unvaccinated people to lose their jobs.
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“For our Lord speaks thus: I will touch the heart of the pope in Rome with great sadness and in this sadness I will speak to him and lament to him that My shepherds from Jerusalem have become murderers and wolves.” (Icon Wm Hart McNichols)
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