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Bishop Fernand Cheri III, OFM, Aux. Bishop of New Orleans, a prophetic champion of racial justice, joins the ancestors. See his afterword to Ansel Augustine's "Leveling the Praying Field." "Systemic racism is an immoral monster...The immoral monster lives in us, but so does...
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Blessed Clemens August von Galen, died March 22 1946. Anti-fascist bishop. My reflections in @GiveUsThisDayLP
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Peter Maurin, co-founder with Dorothy Day of the Catholic Worker, was once asked why he did not bathe more often. He replied, “So as not to arouse envy.”
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Thrilled to attend the first annual Elizabeth A Johnson CSJ lecture on Theology & the Earth at Fordham (by She Who Is). Note; there will be a new book next year!! @OrbisBooks 🌏
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Note: Sister Wendy Beckett, the hermit and art historian, was born in South Africa but spent the far greater part of her life in England, including the last 48 years, when she lived on the grounds of a Carmelite monastery in Norfolk.
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Franz Jägerstätter, an Austrian farmer who was beheaded by the Nazis in 1943 for refusing to take a military oath to Hitler, was beatified in 2007. The faith and courage of his wife Franziska, who died 3/16/2013, also deserves memory. My reflection in @GiveUsThisDayLP
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Robert Ellsberg, Dearest Sister Wendy cbfblog.com/2023/03/14/rober… via @cbfinfo
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Enjoyed this conversation about my relationship with Sister Wendy Beckett, and the book that followed, *Dearest Sister Wendy*. @OrbisBooks The best parts: how to engage with the world from a contemplative perspective, and how art can train us to see life with eyes of the heart.
Have you ever become pen pals with a South African nun? Check out our conversation with @RobertEllsberg, editor-in-chief @OrbisBooks and author of #DearestSisterWendy, on this week’s Podcast Conversation, sponsored by @iheartchm & BSK.edu:
cbfblog.com/2023/03/14/rober…
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Yes. And I met him before. He used to frame prints of art work to send to Dorothy. Once I was delegated to pick up some of those gifts.
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Fannie Lou Hamer d March 14 1977. My reflection in @GiveUsThisDayLP “If I fall I will fall five-feet-four inches forward in the fight for freedom.”
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I know there will be many more tributes in the future, but this one, from Vietnam anti-war poet W.D. Erhardt is particularly moving. "Dan Ellsberg: A Personal Reflection" laprogressive.com/war-and-pe…
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My own life, among many other things, owes so much to the universe set in motion by Forster's stubborn faithfulness to his principles.
Thoughts stimulated by the Oscars!
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