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Sister Wendy Beckett’s reflections on St Bernadette (from our correspondence, which I am editing).
I asked Sr. Wendy if she had ever been to Lourdes: "I don't want to travel. My love for Bernadette has nothing to do with Lourdes. Although spiritually Lourdes was the greatest event of her life, in spiritual terms a transforming encounter, in worldly terms it was a disaster...
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What if you lived with the knowledge that there was a bullet waiting for you—at any moment, in every routine action, and it didn’t matter what you were doing or how you responded? And all you wanted was to get home safe? @TwoDistantFilm
My latest column is about The brilliant film, Two Distant Strangers' and how it shows just how deeply we’re stuck in a horrendous deja vu cycle of police violence. Written by @Travon, this @netflix film is necessary viewing right now washingtonpost.com/opinions/…
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Here is the first episode of a fantastic new podcast about my father @DanielEllsberg, “The Whistleblower,” for the 50th anniversary of the Pentagon Papers. Features a tape of me playing theme from Batman on the trombone! “The Lying Machine” @GroundTruth thegroundtruthproject.org/th…
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For those interested in the importunate robin at my kitchen door—he never actually stopped. 5 solid days of knocking on the windows every 10 secs. or so from sunrise to sunset, crying “What I do is me; for that I came.” (Hopkins)
A robin flying into the kitchen door yesterday afternoon, repeated the same hopeless effort every few seconds, despite all efforts to deter him. He continued this for 4 straight hours until dark. And now at dawn he has resumed his quest with even greater persistence. Meaning?
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Seven years, a bunch of flights with #PopeFrancis, and an uncountable amount of pizza al taglio later, I'm excited to be taking up a new role for @NCRonline. Hope you got that pizza budget line item increased, @HeidiSchlumpf.
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FD of St Benedict Joseph Labre (4/16/1783), a religious vagabond who wandered Europe visiting shrines. A kind of “holy fool” who never bathed and ate what he could find he was to all appearances a homeless beggar—except to those who bothered to know him. (Icon: Wm Hart McNichols)
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Excellent article: “This is environmental racism’: How a protest in a North Carolina farming town sparked a national movement” washingtonpost.com/climate-e…
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Coming soon @OrbisBooks
The website is up for my forthcoming book on Islamophobia, written for a Christian audience. You can pre-order now and publication day is May 19th!
islamophobiabook.com/
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My Commonweal Lecture, "Walking with the Saints: My Writing Life" is now available on YouTube. Fully illustrated! piped.video/9LSQdRi0ktk via @YouTube
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Five @orbisbooks titles listed among the finalists for the Association of Catholic Publishers "Excellence in Publishing Awards." Congrats to @ctrlamb, @sr_simone, @jhforest1, @MassimoFaggioli,@marcusmescher! Waiting for the good news in June.
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My new publisher’s letter features books by @Prof_Keller, Sister Annabel Laity, and Bro. David Steindl -Rast. Orbisbooks.com Learn about Mindfulness, the 99 Names of God, and the Apocalypse! 🧘🏽☪️🦅
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St Damien de Veuster d, 4/15/1899 volunteered to serve as a priest on the leper colony on the Hawaiian island of Molokai, where he eventually succumbed to the illness.
Here is the latest video based on my reflections on the saints. I think the best so far. Thanks to @SheenCenter and @GiveUsThisDayLP Blessed Among Us: St. Damien of Molokai piped.video/aodvBaFDsfM via @YouTube
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“Bishops and other church leaders... would do well to listen, learn and consult actual experts — especially transgender persons — before condemning something they clearly do not understand. Otherwise, whole groups of people will continue to be oppressed and more people will die.
"Why the church should fight anti-transgender legislation"
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