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Dorothy Day, b Nov 8 1897. “I have said, sometimes flippantly, that the mass of bourgeois smug Christians who denied Christ in His poor made me turn to Communism, and that it was the Communists and working with them that made me turn to God.” (Photo Richard Avedon)
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A lovely tribute to Dorothy Day on her birthday from @AllenGinsbergpoem. I once met Ginsberg at an event for Dan Berrigan. He asked, “What’s a Jewish boy like you doing with the Catholics?” (Judging from my name). I said, “Well, I met Dorothy Day.” “That’s a good way,” he said.
@RobertEllsberg - Remembering today peace activist Dorothy Day - on the Allen Ginsberg Project - allenginsberg.org/2021/11/do…
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I suspect that the representatives of the three main branches of Christianity today - Pope Francis, Patriarch Bartholomew, and Archbishop Welby - would be very surprised to hear that their strong advocacy for climate action constitutes a new religion.
Sen. John Kennedy: "President Biden and Secretary Kerry and the other Trotsky-like 'Wokers', they see climate change as a religion and you can't talk about it unless you follow their dogma. It's much like their new critical race theory."
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Is there any religion that allows for such exemptions? Even Christian Scientists don't. I am sure they will be granted, but this seems to be another instance of religion misused for secular ends.
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Happy birthday Joni Mitchell! Questions I often ask myself:
“All this talk about holiness now
It must be the start of the latest style
Is it all books and words
Or do you really feel it?
Do you really laugh?
Do you really care?
Do you really smile
When you smile?”
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Prior to WWII the idea of targeting civilian populations was universally regarded as a crime. By the end, it was “just how you win a war.” I sometimes wonder what people would think of the prospect of lining up 40k children and burning them one by one.
1619 Project founder felt 'ashamed' during visit to US atomic bomb site in Japan
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"Any act of war aimed indiscriminately at the destruction of entire cities or of extensive areas along with their population is a crime against God and man himself. It merits unequivocal and unhesitating condemnation" (Gaudium et Spes, Second Vatican Council).
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A good time to remember the 1971 document by the Synod of Bishops on Justice in the World: “Action on behalf of justice and participation in the transformation of the world fully appear to us as a constitutive dimension of the preaching of the Gospel,…
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…or, in other words, of the Church's mission for the redemption of the human race and its liberation from every oppressive situation.” cctwincities.org/wp-content/…
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@RobertEllsberg retweeted
“Many are asking what it’ll take for people in power to wake up. But let’s be clear - they’re already awake. They know exactly what they’re doing. They know exactly what priceless values they’re sacrificing to maintain business as usual.”
My speech from today’s march in Glasgow.
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Little Sister Magdaleine of Jesus founded a congregation based on the witness of Charles de Foucauld: a new kind of contemplative life—not in a cloister—but in the world of the poor and marginalized, based on the hidden years that Jesus spent as a carpenter in Nazareth. d 11/6/89
Little Sister Magdeleine, founder of the Little Sisters of Jesus d 11/6/1989. “As you work, as you come and go..., to be a contemplative will mean simply that you try to turn to Jesus within you and enter into conversation with him, as with the one you love most in the world.”
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My latest for @NCRonline
"Fr Bryan Massingale and other Black Catholics told NCR that they were appalled at how Gomez framed today's social justice activism, including the anti-racist movement in the United States..."
ncronline.org/news/justice/b…
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Truth.
Black Catholics respond with dismay as Gomez calls protests 'pseudo-religions' ncronline.org/news/justice/b… via @NCRonline
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An important voice.
let's be clear about what's happening here: the president of the usccb—like a lot of men in our church—used deliberately vague, harmful rhetoric framed as “constructive” to further denigrate the work of organizers and social movements.
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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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My students and I just finished reading this in class and they were flabbergasted that he mentioned Trump all those years ago. This is a book that really makes you reflect on your life; highly recommend to anyone with a class of great students!
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Trump is cited in the book as the epitome of the triumph of appearance over substance. How would Kavanaugh have responded to fact that such a person was elected president? Nothing that followed would have surprised him.
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..., the less we find underneath...The consuming self, unmasked, reveals a terrible absence. There is no substance to our being, nothing there but the appearances, the 'outside,'...There is a hole underneath it all." See #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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