Publisher @OrbisBooks, saint-whisperer @GiveUsThisDayLP. #TolstoysTalesofTrump. #MastersofSocialIsolation. Seeking meaning in the sacred and the absurd.
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The master believed strongly that the key to a successful estate and a happy home was “total domination.” He had learned this from his father and also from somewhere in the Bible. #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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To a disciple obsessed with the thought of life after death the Master said, “Why waste a single moment thinking of the hereafter?” “But is it possible not to?” “Yes.” “How?” “By living in heaven here and now.” “And where is this heaven?” “In the here and now.”—Anthony de Mello
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Anthony de Mello, Indian Jesuit and spiritual teacher, died June 2 1987. “In the land of the spirit, you cannot walk by the light of someone else’s lamp. You want to borrow mine. I’d rather teach you how to make your own.” @OrbisBooks
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Another excellent account of how close we came to nuclear war in 1958.
My story at The Grayzone details the efforts by the US military chiefs to get President Eisenhower to agree to a nuclear attack on #China in 1958 -- showing dramatically just how dangerous the chiefs have been to real US security. bit.ly/2QWWxqq
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RIP, Fr. Larry Murphy, the oldest Maryknoll priest at 103. Not likely to be canonized, but certainly a saint by the standard of Pope Francis, "by living our lives with love and by bearing witness in everything we do, wherever we find ourselves.” He did not dwell on the past.
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He was always thinking of the future--how to bear effective witness to God's love for the world. Every month he invited me and friends to dinner to discuss the meaning and challenge of mission in our time. His apostolate of friendship and hospitality left its mark on the world.
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@RobertEllsberg retweeted
In secret, a tiny coterie of generals and affiliated hawks led the United States to the brink of initiating a voluntary nuclear war with China and "very likely" the Soviet Union.
It is shocking that there has not been more attention paid to this story by media—or government.
Top Secret plans and presidential decisions (not yet declassified) to initiate nuclear war against China in defense of Taiwan in 1958 were just revealed by me to the @nytimes. nytimes.com/2021/05/22/us/po…
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"I will be trying to alert people to the day that I die. I think our nuclear policy is dangerously delusional." Good overview of the significance my father's latest leak. Not Even Past: Dan Ellsberg vs. New Madmen’s Theories of Cold War & Press Suppression original.antiwar.com/danny_s…
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On Memorial Day 1937 police opened fire on striking steelworkers in Chicago, killing 10, injuring 100. Dorothy Day wrote: “The only way to stop such brutality is to arouse a storm of protest against it...One more sin, suffering Christ, worker Yourself, for You to bear.”
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Aussie racehorse Ellsberg is the up-and-coming son of champion Spill the Beans. He is my doppelgänger.
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Feast of the Visitation (Mickey McGrath). The joy of this encounter unclouded by any foreshadowing that the vision evinced in Mary’s Magnificat will one day lead to the death of these leaping babes. For now, the sisterhood of 2 women joined by faith in the God of the Impossible.
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Jesuit priest Kakichi Kadowaki demonstrated the finest traditions of the Society of Jesus in his efforts to inculturate the Gospel in the complexity of Japanese culture.
@JesuitsGlobal @civcatt #Japan @PatheosCatholic @WordOnFire
laciviltacattolica.com/kakic…
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“To be a witness does not consist in engaging in propaganda, nor even in stirring people up, but in being a living mystery. It means to live in such a way that one’s life would not make sense if God did not exist.” —Cardinal Emmanuel Suhard, Archbishop of Paris, d 5/30/1949
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Feast of St Joan of Arc (1431), canonized in 1920, who claims the distinction among saints of having previously been condemned by the church as a heretic and burned at the stake. Throughout her ordeal she adamantly refused to renounce the angelic “voices” that guided her mission
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she stood up before princes of the church and state and the most learned authorities of her world and refused to compromise her conscience or deny her special vocation. Patron of holy men and women, vilified in their own time in the hope of eventual vindication.
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At the Cathedral of St Pierre in Lisieux, there is a shrine to St Joan of Arc in the South transept. In the north transept, Bishop Pierre Cauchon, who condemned her to death, is buried in an unmarked grave.
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Here I look at the life of St. Joan of Arc, who died 590 years ago, and some of the artistic and musical inspiration that has been drawn from her story.
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St Therese of Lisieux dressed as St Joan of Arc. Revealing that this was her favorite saint, and the power that underlay her “Little Way.”
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Her piety was not deployed on behalf of the church but on behalf of national liberation. She represents a kind of political holiness—not the mystical rapture of the convent, but the mysticism of a Moses or Harriet Tubman directed toward justice and deliverance.
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Her “purity” was not a matter of safeguarding her “virginity” but her conscience—“le point vierge,” the sacred inner core of the soul, against the all blandishments of the world and the corruptions of power. She represents those blessed “pure of heart.” An illiterate peasant maid
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she stood up before princes of the church and state and the most learned authorities of her world and refused to compromise her conscience or deny her special vocation. Patron of holy men and women, vilified in their own time in the hope of eventual vindication.
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