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#VanGogh died on July 29 1890. Yrs ago I tried to get permission to use his letters in a volume for the @OrbisBooks #ModernSpiritualMasters Series. The publisher refused on grounds that Van Gogh “is not a spiritual master.” No matter, Carol Berry made her own translations.
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This is why @NCRonline is a real newspaper and the Pillar is not.
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Simone Biles has largely been celebrated for the decision to withdraw. But it’s also worth looking at how someone makes a decision like that. americamagazine.org/faith/20…
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@RobertEllsberg retweeted
Really worth reading - Sentenced to 45 Months in Federal Prison, Former Air Force Intelligence Analyst Daniel Hale Explains Why He Leaked US Drone Secrets | The Sparrow Project sparrowmedia.net/2021/07/for…
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@RobertEllsberg retweeted
Drone program whistleblower Daniel Hale’s statement today is gutting
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Many thanks to the editors of "Messenger of St Anthony," a magazine published at the Basilica of Saint Anthony in Padua, Italy, for this thoughtful review of my biography of #NicholasBlackElk. 📚🙏 @litpress
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July 27, FD orb Blessed Titus Brandsma, Carmelite martyr.
On July 26 1942 Dutch Carmelite Titus Brandsma was executed in Dachau. He was arrested after advising Catholic newspapers why they must refuse to publish Nazi ads and propaganda, and protesting a German edict banning Jewish students from Catholic schools. Beatified in 1985.
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My 10 yr old: “when I grow up I’m going to get a tattoo that says NO REGRETS.
What the what?
Neither myself or my husband have tattoos.
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July 27 is FD of my favorite legendary saints—the 7 Sleepers of Ephesus. Last year, in early days of the pandemic, I reflected on their story and wondered whether we would emerge with greater wisdom, greater capacity for solidarity, unselfishness, and compassion. Still wondering.
#MastersofSocialIsolation #8 While awaiting an end to this time of isolation we might envy the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus. Per ancient legend these 7 young Christian men, escaping persecution under the emperor Decius (251), hid in a cavern, where they fell into a miraculous sleep.
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An apology, Dallas police apologize to mother of 12-year-old murdered in 1973 by officer playing Russian roulette washingtonpost.com/nation/20…
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Moral injury. Facing 11 years in prison, a former intel analyst condemns ‘undeniable cruelties’ of Afghanistan drone strikes washingtonpost.com/nation/20…
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Sneak preview of a new book, Dorothy Day's ON PILGRIMAGE: The Seventies, available next spring from @OrbisBooks. Not to be confused with The Sixties, published this spring.
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Here is the link: commonwealmagazine.org/dalit…. I think you have it spelled “davit” above and that may be the problem?
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That is so strange! I didn't type that link--I forwarded it directly from the Commonweal site. They must have fixed it since then. I have deleted and retweeted! Thank you.
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A powerful account by @JoChopra about the life and death of Fr Stan Swamy SJ, human rights activist and defender of the poor in India. commonwealmagazine.org/dalit…
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Bob Moses. Rest in Power @NYTimes nytimes.com/2021/07/25/us/bo…
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Listen!! A Lamentation and a Plea After Reading @OlgaMSegura “Birth of a Movement: Black Lives Matter and the Catholic Church” (@OrbisBooks) by Rosalie G. Riegle todaysamericancatholic.org/?…
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#EmmettTill would have turned 80 years-old today. Thinking of and praying for his family. Remembering the grief and courage of his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley. Devastating, still.
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