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On my way for the maiden voyage of the new Staten Island ferry, the #DorothyDay. For anyone wondering about the connection: SI is where Dorothy lived with the man she loved, where her daughter was born, where she found herself beginning to pray and decided to become a Catholic.
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And it is there in Resurrection Cemetery that she was buried after her death on Nov 29 1980. Staten Island held deep meaning for her, site of her first beginning and last end and many times in between.
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Later it was the site of a Catholic Worker farm. Later still she kept a small house in the Spanish Camp where she liked to escape for rest and reflection.
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And it is there in Resurrection Cemetery that she was buried after her death on Nov 29 1980. Staten Island held deep meaning for her, site of her first beginning and last end and many times in between.
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One can speculate about what she would think of being named a saint or a “great American” (Pope Francis) but no doubt she would smile at lending her name to a Staten Island ferry.
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One can speculate about what she would think of being named a saint or a “great American” (Pope Francis) but no doubt she would smile at lending her name to a Staten Island ferry.
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Remembering #JamesCone on the fifth anniversary of his death, April 18 2018. “I worked with James Cone for over 30 years. For at least 20 of those years, I am not sure that he really trusted me.” americamagazine.org/arts-cul…
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Five years since the death of my friend and author #JamesCone, “father” of Black Liberation. My reflections in @GiveUsThisDayLP
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@RobertEllsberg retweeted
"His death forced me to face my earlier dismissals of him and his work; it forced me to face myself." buff.ly/3LB6u6l
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Around 30 years ago, my prized copy of this was nicked from the Boole library in UCC. It was out of print even then. Yesterday, in a tiny bookshop in Rouen, herself spied a copy. As I picked it up, I was thinking jesus, this even looks like mine. Well guess what…
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My friend @RobertEllsberg found a lot of his books, stolen after his flat was burgled, at @strandbookstore in NYC. The owner gave them all back to him saying: "I don't want any stolen books here."
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@RobertEllsberg retweeted
Franz Jägerstätter was not a saint because of the sacrifice he made of his life. He was already a saint in his ordinary life, at home hidden from the world, following and showing his good conscience.
--John O'Callaghan
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A wonderful account of the editor who published Dorothy Day, Martin Luther King Jr, Howard Thurman, and so many modern classics. Thanks to @sprothero for a fascinating story. And may this inspire a new genre of bios of the great religion editors! I would read them all.
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My interview with @OrbisBooks author Elizabeth O'Donnell Gandolfo about her new book: ECOMARTYRDOM IN THE AMERICAS: Living and Dying for our Common Home. piped.video/watch?v=ZlrfFGtb…
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@RobertEllsberg retweeted
Dorothee Soelle, who died in 2003, was one of the most creative and prophetic German theologians of the post-war generation whose work was shaped by the memory of war, the Holocaust, and totalitarianism.
#deathdate #dorothysoelle #german #theology #holocaust
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@RobertEllsberg retweeted
All of us face the prospect of death--if not this day, then one day. But most of us would rather defer that thought indefinitely.
These lessons teach us something about how to die. But mostly they show us what it means to truly live
#happybirthday #kerrywalters #death #living
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“If I had a tombstone, I’ve always thought what it would say is: ‘He became a member of the antiwar and anti-nuclear movements,’” he said, wapo.st/3Ndjd0w
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