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My reflection on John Kavanaugh SJ, who died Nov 5 2012, appears in @GiveUsThisDayLP. At @orbisbooks we published 3 editions of his classic *Following Christ in a Consumer Society*--one every 10 yrs. I imagine a new ed. would have contrasted the models of Trump and Pope Francis.
Read about John Kavanaugh blog.giveusthisday.org/2021/…
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Please, all white people, read these replies—especially those who don’t want their children to be subjected to literature or history lessons that would make them feel “uncomfortable.”👇
Black folks: Please reply to this with how you old you were when you first experienced racism and what happened. Because until this issue is written from that perspective, the framing will continue to be a miss.
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US Catholic bishops' president: "Wokeness" is a new religion that simplifies, dividing the world into two groups, allies and adversaries. US Catholic bishops' president: Society is divided between secular elites with no real attachments, and Christians archbishopgomez.org/blog/ref…
My brothers and sisters, there is a new rival ‘salvation’ narrative that we hear being told in the media and in our institutions by the new social justice movements. It is a powerful and attractive narrative for millions of people in American society. archbishopgomez.org/blog/ref…
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Clearly, you need to read the speech in which he literally cites Dorothy Day as an important witness.
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When Dorothy Day in 1932 watched Communist-led hunger march in Washington she asked herself why Catholics weren't leading such a march. Rather than bemoan this as a "pseudo religion" or replacement of Xty she prayed to find a way to devote her faith to the cause of the oppressed.
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Clearly, you need to read the speech in which he literally cites Dorothy Day as an important witness.
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I certainly read the speech. I also edited the volume from which he drew that quote. My point was that he was deploying Dorothy Day for a purpose that was completely contrary to her intentions. She was always eager to seek concordances with those who worked for social justice.
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I certainly read the speech. I also edited the volume from which he drew that quote. My point was that he was deploying Dorothy Day for a purpose that was completely contrary to her intentions. She was always eager to seek concordances with those who worked for social justice.
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Thread. 👇
Breakdown of key points and deep problems w/ @ArchbishopGomez address on the “Church and America’s New Religion”. Thread
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Perhaps we as the Catholic Church should stop blaming others for creating movements for justice, and start asking how we have failed to live the Gospel call and why the young and those committed to justice find no inspiration among us. Perhaps we might remove our own plank.
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a very important assembly of the US bishops’ conference opens at the end of next week.
I am surprised that the president of the USCCB wants to set the tone in this way
My brothers and sisters, there is a new rival ‘salvation’ narrative that we hear being told in the media and in our institutions by the new social justice movements. It is a powerful and attractive narrative for millions of people in American society. archbishopgomez.org/blog/ref…
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"Régine Jean-Charles has written a glorious book that offers a deeply moral vision of how to recover a society sick with racism, sexual violence, and mass incarceration..."--@DrSoyica. @OrbisBooks @reineayiti
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@RobertEllsberg The more I learn of you, the more fascinating the story becomes. Orbis work. Your dad. Dorothy Day. And now from a fabulous PBS doc on your dad I learned you were helping copy the Pentagon Papers as a teen. Next up I suppose you played shortstop for the Yankees?
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Räissa Maritain d Nov 4 1960. With her husband Jacques, she felt called to live out her contemplative life in the midst of the artistic and intellectual circles in which they were immersed. Thomas Merton called her “perhaps one of the great contemplatives of our time.”
“I love the saints because they are lovable; and the sinners because they are like me.” —Raissa Maritain
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A story about Satchel Paige was about more than it seemed. Great piece by @batear
When @POTUS and @Pontifex spoke of pitcher Satchel Paige, they invoked memories of resistance, resilience, and wisdom born of struggle. Read @batear on the language of sports: buff.ly/3pZe9kJ
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Me and my mother at my father’s funeral.
He wasn’t assassinated because he said he wanted his children to be judged “by the content of their character.”
He was gunned down because he was courageous and strategically working to dismantle racism, poverty and militarism.
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The holy simplicity of artist John August Swanson christiancentury.org/article… via @ChristianCent
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FD of St. Martin de Porres--a living parable of the Reign of God. His care for the sick, the poor, all living creatures, the enslaved, the indigenous, bear witness to God's predilection for the powerless and marginalized, the "offscourings" of an ostentatiously Catholic society.
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So excited by @DeanKBD's new book, her most powerful and personal yet: *Resurrection Hope: A Future Where Black Lives Matter* @OrbisBooks. Endorsements by @CornelWest, @robertpjones @emtownes @PB_Curry @Mebudde @anthony_pinn @bishop_flunder 🔥🔥@UnionSeminary.
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