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“Imagine what a difference it would have made if synodal processes like those inspired by Cardinal Dearden’s leadership had been continued.” americamagazine.org/faith/20… via @americamag
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If you live anywhere near Riverwest, Milwaukee please come and freely pick our tasty little tomatoes. We haven’t been able to keep up with them for a month or two.
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"What a time to be alive."
We are living through a strange, modern-day version of the Dark Ages, where opening one’s body, and the bodies of one’s loved ones and even children up to COVID, while aggressively pushing to spread it to the unwilling, have become a weird right of passage in an American cult.
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@RobertEllsberg retweeted
In January of 2019 I gave an #MLK lecture @bostoncollege that I later turned into an op-ed for @americamag afterwards @OrbisBooks invited me to write a book on the topic. I am pleased to share that my second book (& first trade book!) comes out this month.
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A giant. via @NYTimes nytimes.com/2021/10/13/books…
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@RobertEllsberg retweeted
This is deeply sad, Jacquineau Azétsop, was a wonderful priest, theologian and Jesuit. This a loss for the church that will be felt in many countries and in many hearts.
We announce with great sorrow that the death of Fr. Jacquineau Azétsop S.J., has occurred today 13/10/2021. He was Dean and Professor of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Pontifical Grégorian University. Please join us as we mourn and entrust him to the Lord with gratitude.
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So inspiring! And so many past, present, and future @OrbisBooks authors!
I followed Black scholars as they gathered for the annual meeting of the @BlackCatholicTS, a space where, among the white, heteronormativity of the U.S. church, Black Catholics gathered for intergenerational worship, fellowship and learning.
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In 1492 the “consensus” among scientists was that the earth was flat. Christopher Columbus challenged that notion and changed the world forever. #HappyColumbusDay
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Madeleine Delbrel, who died Oct 13 1964, is one of the great spiritual teachers of the twentieth century—like Dorothy Day, a true saint for our time. She embodied the spirit of @Pontifex’s Fratelli Tutti—a life of encounter, solidarity, mercy, and “ordinary” holiness.
Madeleine Delbrel (d 10/13/1964), daughter of a French railroad worker, underwent a deep conversion at 24 and dedicated her life to God--not as a nun, but in the world, in solidarity with the "ordinary people of the streets... This street, this world...is our place of holiness."
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A selection of her writings here: “Modern Spiritual Masters: Writings in Contemplation and Compassion.” @OrbisBooks
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Bishop Braxton: The Catholic Church ‘was largely on the wrong side of history’ on racism
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I had an author who as her submission deadline approached stopped communicating.I'd write & receive no answer.Then I left messages.Finally she calls from the side of a road & says “I've been busy!I'll get you the book when I can but you must be patient!I’m changing a flat tire!”
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Willi Graf, 25, was beheaded on 10/12 1943 for his part in the White Rose, a circle of idealistic youth who tried to awaken fellow Germans to the evils of the Nazi regime. Even as a child Graf, a devout Catholic, had tried to resist his country’s steady moral corruption.
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Thanks to Univ Dayton professor Sandra Yocum for this opportunity to talk about the dialogue between faith and culture, the mission of @OrbisBooks, learning from saints, and finding hope in the message of Pope Francis. My life in 20 mins. ecommons.udayton.edu/faith_c…
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Megan Rice, who crusaded against nuclear weapons, dies at 91 washingtonpost.com/local/obi…
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