Publisher @OrbisBooks, saint-whisperer @GiveUsThisDayLP. #TolstoysTalesofTrump. #MastersofSocialIsolation. Seeking meaning in the sacred and the absurd.

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Here is the 3rd episode in the "The Whistleblower" podcast about my father @DanielEllsberg's release of the Pentagon Papers. In this episode my sister and I discuss our brief supporting role. It's quite a story! "The Presses Roll" thegroundtruthproject.org/pu…
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This month's Publisher's Letter @OrbisBooks features free shipping on Dorothy Day's "On Pilgrimage: The Sixties," A. E. Orobator's "The Pope and the Pandemic," and Jim Forest's new illustrated portrait of Thich Nhat Hanh, "Eyes of Compassion." orbisbook.com
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@RobertEllsberg retweeted
#KeepingHopeAlive : Sermons & Speeches of @RevJJackson. Foreword by #DrOtisMossJr & Afterword by @esglaude is in the International Civil Rights Museum’s bookstore. So glad @RevJJackson was able to view it! @RPCoalition @SantitaJ @oberyhendricks #civilrights #DNC #nelsonmandela
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Listening to her older records, Joan Baez hears perfection in an ‘unsurpassable’ voice washingtonpost.com/entertain…
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Congratulations to Alexander Fan, a high school junior, for a brilliant evocation of the Pentagon Papers story, channeling @DanielEllsberg, Neil Sheehan, and Richard Nixon! bakersfield.com/news/two-bak… via @Bakersfieldcali
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On May 19, I'll be moderating a discussion of many different aspects of Dorothy Day's legacy with @RobertEllsberg, @melissann19, Catholic Workers and folks working on Day's canonization cause. Join us! ($25/Zoom screen, proceeds to IVCUSA) ivcusa.org/dorothy-day/
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Pope Francis was in some ways made for the Pandemic crisis. So many of this themes--mercy, global solidarity-- came into play. Here is my interview with Fr. A. E. Orobator SJ about his new book, "The Pope and the Pandemic." @OrbisBooks piped.video/watch?v=_GLGbX0o…
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Btw...how is Fr Orobator doing? He faced a health crisis a couple of years ago that required brain surgery.
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@RobertEllsberg retweeted
"Our apologies, good friends, for the fracture of good order, the burning of paper instead of children . . ." — Father Daniel Berrigan of Catonsville 9 #tdih 1968 they burned draft records with homemade napalm. More info & docs ⬇️#TeachOutsideTextbook zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/…
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It's NOT hoarding, if it's books... #amwriting #amreading
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Until you have to move.
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Great book! I especially enjoyed learning the wisdom of Thoreau.
How wonderful! (Franciscan, Jesuit, Benedictine endorsements are surely imminent. 😉)
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I will count that as an official Jesuit endorsement!
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5 yrs since the publication of Pope Francis's historic encyclical, Laudato Si'. If we address the crisis of climate change it may in part because we heeded this message. If not, it may in part be because US Catholics were led to believe it was not a Catholic priority.@OrbisBooks
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An essential explanation of historical connection between white supremacy, voter suppression, and GOP charges about the "Radical Socialist" agenda = lazy black people will be able to take money from hard-working white people to pay for social benefits. heathercoxrichardson.substac…
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Whatever our image of our country, it must make room for the knowledge that we trained and equipped people who killed 500 children and their parents in a single village and then helped cover up the crime. Remember El Mozote. washingtonpost.com/outlook/2…
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How wonderful! (Franciscan, Jesuit, Benedictine endorsements are surely imminent. 😉)
This is a wonderful book - "The Saints' Guide to Happiness: Practical Lessons in the Life of the Spirit" by @RobertEllsberg Every page is bursting with spiritual nourishment AND there is a very healthy dose of Carmelite wisdom. 😇☺️
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This is a wonderful book - "The Saints' Guide to Happiness: Practical Lessons in the Life of the Spirit" by @RobertEllsberg Every page is bursting with spiritual nourishment AND there is a very healthy dose of Carmelite wisdom. 😇☺️
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Feast of St Brendan (575), one of the great wandering monks of Ireland. According to legend, he sailed across the Atlantic in a skin-covered boat, attended by birds who joined in reciting the psalms, and discovered marvelous islands, which in one case turned out to be a whale.
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Replying to @poorerthandead
Wonderful. Thank you!
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Most of us grow up never knowing anything about our parish patrons. I grew up going to St Alban’s church— never learning that he was a martyr in Roman Britain who was killed after taking the place of a priest fleeing persecution. Why I tell these stories.