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Episode 4 of “The Whistleblower,” the terrific podcast about @DanielEllsberg and the Pentagon Papers.” How Nixon’s overreaction laid the seeds of his own downfall. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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Shawn Copeland’s and Bryan Massingale’s #CTSA session on James Cone was 🔥 I was so touched that Bryan used a picture from my last meeting with Cone as an illustration of love. 💕🙏
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Congratulations @ColleenDulle !
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In "Leaking the Pentagon Papers Was an Assault on Democracy" Gabriel Schoenfeld argues that a functioning democracy requires unfettered ability of the executive branch to lie to Congress and the people and to label its lies "Top Secret." Revealing those nytimes.com/2021/06/11/opini…
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lies endangers democracy. Thus, my father @DanielEllsberg deserves condemnation for disrespecting "the fundamental ground rules of a constitutional democracy." Yet which was the greater violation of these ground rules? Protecting lies and secrets, or revealing them?
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My reflections: "Lessons from the Pandemic." Has this crisis enlarged our imaginations and enabled us to believe that another way of writing history is possible?sacredheartuniversity.typepa…
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Fifty years ago, the @nytimes published a secret official history of the Vietnam War called the Pentagon Papers, defying government efforts to suppress a free press. This gripping oral history takes us inside the room a half century later. nytimes.com/interactive/2021…
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4 Honorable Mentions among the 17 @OrbisBooks Book Awards from @CM_Association include: @jonmsweeney "Jesus Was Not Killed by the Jews"; @Pontifex "Blessed Amazonia"; Bruce Epperly "Mystics in Action," and Bro. Joe Hoover, SJ, "O Death, Where Is Thy Sting?" (1 of his 2 awards)
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Book Award winners from the @CM_Association for @OrbisBooks authors included these Third Place Winners: Glenn Sauer for "Points of Contact"; @sr_simone for "Hunger for Hope"; and "The Way of Suffering" (Mike Leach, Doris Goodnough, and @jamestkeane, eds.)
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17 Book Awards for @orbisbooks authors from the @CM_Association. 2nd Place winners: @RevJJackson "Keeping Hope Alive," ed. by @Gracejisunkim; "The Outsider" by @ctrlamb; Frank Butler's memoir "Belonging." And the beautiful Fall 2020 @OrbisBooks Catalog! bit.ly/3wdzG9H
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Congratulations to the great @OrbisBooks authors who won a total of 17 Book awards from the @CM_Association. First prize winners included @Pontifex, @MassimoFaggioli, @jhforest1, Maria Cimperman, Leo Lefebure, and Bro. Joe Hoover, SJ.
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Year after year, the USCCB's Religious Freedom campaign is severely out of touch. Rarely does it even give lip service to the threats to religious freedom faced by non-Christian faith communities, and the same is true this year.
usccb.org/committees/religio…
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@RobertEllsberg retweeted
A compelling reminder that the sins of a half-century ago are still with us. spiritualityandpractice.com/…
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Question: Does the USCCB typically vote on Causes of Canonization? Especially when the candidates have already (in this case) been accepted by Rome?
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.@USCCB announces action items for next week's virtual meeting of Catholic bishops, which will include a vote on whether to draft a formal statement "on the meaning of the Eucharist in the life of the Church."
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There is some question about whether that was technically something that should have occurred earlier.
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Congratulations to @sr_simone for her 3rd Place (tie) award for General Interest book from the Assoc. of Catholic Publishers Excellence in Publishing Awards. Her @OrbisBooks title, "Hunger for Hope." My interview with her here: piped.video/watch?v=PXrGl0Gx…
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Congratulations to Jim Forest for his 1st place (tie) for Biography from the Assoc of Catholic Publishers Excellence in Publishing Awards for his memoir, "Writing Straight with Crooked Lines." @OrbisBooks. My interview with him: piped.video/watch?v=5nBloeGr…
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