Kevin Ahern
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In the face of xenophobia and other social sins, we need to organize structures of grace
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In your charity, please say a prayer for my 2 year old daughter Islay who will have a heart procedure done Tuesday to close a small hole.
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I had a student today tell me that it’s because of the work of
@JamesMartinSJ
that they stay in the church
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Every time I meet an amazing student who no longer identifies as Catholic because of the church’s teachings on LGBTQ and/ or women I mourn the loss to me and my community
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My aunt passed away on Friday. Among her belongings, she left a children’s bible for my son with this beauitful note. She was a deeply faithful Catholic who gave her life to the works of mercy. One of the saints next door that Francis so often mentions.
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I think I missed the time time when the bishops denied communion to those Catholic politicians (Including Biden) who voted for the invasion of Iraq, for funding nuclear weapons, who supported slavery and Jim Crow laws, who oversee executions or who funneled money to dictators ..
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At Mass today, my two kids were the only two children in the church. They had to listen to a homily which focused on God’s wrath for the sins of the flesh - nothing about mercy. What are we doing?
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I’m tired of going to parishes where my children are the only ones under 15. I’m tired of lackluster homilies that sound more like Fox News than the Gospel. I’m tired of congregations like seem like “lent without Easter.” I’m tired of feeling angry as we go up to communion.
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It still amazing to me that people on
#CatholicTwitter
can spend hours debating the minutia of Eucharistic theology and remain sinfully silent on the ways structural racism and economies of exclusion desecrate the body of Christ
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Beautiful to see. The development of the Zairian Rite / use is one of the most significant fruits of the Council - too bad it’s unknown by most American Catholics
Chant et danse pour la procession des offrandes lors de la messe pour la communauté congolaise célébrée en rite zaïrois avec le pape François.
👉A suivre en direct :
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Scrambling to get two kids out door to get to Mass - to encounter a depressing (neo-gnostic) homily about how dark and sinful the world is with a lot of offensive commentary thrown in about transgender, eugenics, kids books that speak about demons - where is the joy of gospel?
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As a parent, teacher, pilgrim and theologian, I’m most grateful for the pastoral work of Fr
@JamesMartinSJ
- despite the uncharitable (and disturbingly sinful) attacks by some trolls, he remains a bright light for many of my friends, students and children. Thanks Fr Jim
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As a parent, husband, teacher and theologian- I’m most grateful that the Catholic community has a great priest like
@JamesMartinSJ
- his fortitude and charity in the face of such ugliness is an inspiration to me and I hope my children can be like him. Thanks Fr Jim!
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Every church teaching? Labor justice? Fair wages? Nuclear weapons ? Death penalty ?
This is excellent. It should be in every bulletin in every Catholic Church. To receive Our Lord in a state of mortal sin is sacrilege. Jesus gave His Body & Blood to heal us of our sins not to encourage us to ignore sin & receive Him while making no attempt to repent.
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Dressed as
@springsteen
, the first grader played This Land is Your Land and Let it Be for his school
@OssiningSchools
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I urge all Catholics to contact their pastors tomorrow and urge them to address this at Mass this weekend. While not as loud as it needs to be the
@USCCB
have been clear on the issues at stake here- we need more voices of faith in this critical moment
The
#ICEraids
that President Trump threatened, then put off, are now set to start in the US this weekend, according to a new report.
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Why have so many Catholic theologians been so quiet in the face of online attacks against
@JamesMartinSJ
? - I think it's a crisis of public theology - a post on
@DailyTheo
- constructive thoughts welcome!
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The hatred towards Pope Francis by many American Catholics is so deep and insidious that when he calls them out they both deny it and disparage him at the same time. It’s enough to make one’s head spin.
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“Mainstream Christianity is a colossal failure in terms of standing up for poor people. You get prophetic Christians, Catholic Workers, certain nuns…But for the most part, mainstream C has been concerned with…, success”
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I will never understand the way some people who find comfort in the Latin Mass mock those who find comfort in other forms of the liturgy. I love the Mass of Vatican II but I’d never mock those who don’t. How does being a jerk prepare you for the Holy Sacrifice?
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On this feast of the Holy Family, Beth and I are very happy to share the news of our new daughter born on the 27, Islay Mary- at 10lbs 2oz. Mom and baby are well. We are all super excited for this new member of our community.
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Beth, Finn, Islay and I are thrilled to introduce to the world Kieran Francis Glauber Ahern - born on Saturday - we hope, like St Ciarán of Clonmacnoise, St Francis and
@Pontifex
that he will be inspired by the Gospel to work for peace and justice
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What’s the opposite of evangelization? Because that’s what today’s
#USCCB21
vote will do for many young adults
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As many in the United States look with compassion at those refugees fleeing the horrors of the Ukraine war, let’s recall that we have refugees at our own borders seeking protection. All refugees have a fundamental right to be protected and welcomed
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Just read a final exam by a student who was quiet and kept camera off all term. I was not sure if they were even there. The student skillfully wove together Elizabeth Johnson, Pope Francis, Fanny Lou Hamer and key points I tried to stress in the class. Hard to grade others now
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I’ve asked before, what’s opposite of evangelization because that’s what many US parishes are doing. Pushing people away. What if all the energy, time and money spent on priesthood vocations was spent on outreach to young families? ESP those who don’t show up
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Wearing a tie with the Gospel while defending an anti poor budget - This is why Evangelii Gaudium should be required for all Catholics
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A homily that uses shame to complain about people with children not coming to church may be part of the reason people with children don’t come to church (the example offered was the priests’ niece who spend time to take her son to a autism specialist)
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The fact that some people who claim to follow Christ are more upset about a (misreading) of a prayer in the Vatican gardens than the way migrants are treated is sign of a very deep illness in American Catholicism
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Today Pope Francis called the world to stop the "lords of war"- and the US government dropped a massive weapon of mass destruction-
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Just because a person, a church, a school or a university has a right to do something does not make it moral or ethical to do so.
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Only one of these three flags flew over the bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki- the same one that flies over Guantanamo Bay and the same one that is present at state executions -
A bishop in Worcester, Massachusetts, said a school could no longer identify as Catholic because it flew Black Lives Matter and Pride flags. The school has refused to take them down.
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Those who agree with
@BishopBarron
about the need for Catholics to adopt more intellectual rigor might want to confront the growing number of trads who buy into wacky conspiracy theories from directed-energy weapons & rigged elections to vaccines and the legitimacy of Francis
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Stayed an extra hour at the church after Mass. Been a while since our family has felt so welcome in an ecclesial community. Met another family that also travels 4 parishes away. It’s amazing what a welcoming parish that takes justice seriously can do.
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humbled to share that my colleagues at Manhattan have decided to grant me tenure and promotion to associate professor. Many thanks for all the support by friends for my teaching, activism, and scholarship. Looking forward to celebrate.
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Another Sunday where Mass could have been outside. A Sunday where we would not think twice about taking the kids. (No, we don’t go to stores or restaurants with our kids either) -
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This year
#juneteenth2022
falls on a Sunday, I wonder how many Catholics will hear any reference to it in a homily or in prayers of the faithful. If you go to a Mass today, did it come up at all?
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If Catholic leaders out of basic human dignity and charity can recognize the titles given to non- Catholic religious leaders who don’t have canonical ordinations then we can be respectful of titles non-canonical marriages. Being a jerk is not a way to evangelize.
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watching the
#USCCB21
opening , it's almost as if we have not gone through a major pandemic with 600k deaths, it's almost as if our churches are full of young adults, that racism has been solved or there is no refugee crisis and the only thing we have to worry about is Biden
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If you wanted to support the “dream” you would drastically cut military expenses and boost funding for housing, food, and healthcare for the poor- your budgets do the exact opposite- Stop domesticating the prophet who was
#MartinLutherKingJr
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If the response to the present ecclesial crisis in the church is to double down on culture warriors and divisive rhetoric with little mercy or justice, don’t be surprised if young families (who are inspired by
@Pontifex
) stop showing up to your parishes
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Just a reminder that Catholic Magisterial Teaching stands squarely against the use of capital punishment. catechism 2267 states that “the
#deathpenalty
is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person” -
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Thank you
@OrangeDiocese
for not caving to missionaries of hate -
@FrGregBoyle
is a powerful witness to the Gospel
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Me to 7 year old: do you know what the word
#Jesuit
means?
7 year old: “super duper cool type of priest”
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Do not be confused,
#thisischurch
this is a devout Catholicism
As we come to the end of today, I want to show you briefly the Refugee Camp in Matamoros.There are several groups & individuals joining together as a collaborative doing amazing work to help the families.Together we make a difference in respecting the life of immigrants/refugees
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Many are rightly worried that the the recent
#USCCB21
meeting will lead people to leave the church. For far too many people, they don’t leave the church, the institutional church leaves them.
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One of the biggest challenges of Catholicism in the last forty years has been the rise of orgs from the papacy and religious congregations and new movements to media ministries that are essentially personality cults. This may seem vibrant but it is very fragile
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Once again, wouldn’t it be amazing if the
@KofC
changed their name to Knights of (mother) Cabrini - that would allow them to deeper their Catholic identity and celebrate. real Italian American saint rather than a genocidal myth? her feast day (Nov 13) would be a great holiday
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Happy to welcome into the community of believers today, Islay Mary Glauber Ahern - a New Christian! Thanks to all friends and family who supported us
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We do not have a
#migrantcrisis
we have a humanitarian and a hospitality crisis. Migrants are not the problem, our inability as the most powerful nation in history to offer basic human care is the problem
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Given that many seminaries don’t require courses in Catholic social teaching, social ethics or sociology, should we be surprised when some ordained members act as it social doctrine doesn’t exist or that social movements for racial justice are somehow new?
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I offer a deep prayer with
#dorothyday
for a conversion of hearts, a conversion of our culture and our social structures, a conversion to to a culture of
#nonviolence
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90 years ago today, the
#catholicworker
movement was launched by
#dorothyday
with the distribution of the first issues of this prophetic paper. To quote Dorothy’s grave stone- Deo Gratias
@DayGuild
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Here is a winning trend for evangelization make your parishioners cry in public in front of their children and shame them for not coming to Mass because they don’t feel comfortable and there is still a dispensation
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The questions for church leaders must not be “why do people leave the church” but “why do people even bother to stay?” Evangelii Gaudium offers a path ahead but how many US church leaders take it seriously?
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The American Catholic Church needs to reckon with a faith culture that sees no problem in being “a devout Catholic with a love for guns” -
Who is Jack Teixeira, the 21-year-old airman at the center of the Discord leaks? Our profile of the person friends called a patriotic, libertarian, devout Catholic with a love for guns, who referenced Waco and Ruby Ridge and used slurs for laughs
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Honored and privileged that my colleagues at
@ManhattanEdu
have awarded me an early promotion to full professor. I’m excited to share in Manhattan’s (and the wider
@lasalleorg
) mission of education with a focus on those on the margins.
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Chavez, Coretta King & Dorothy; February 1973; photographer unknown
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In a church….
While campaigning at a church, Kari Lake proudly repeats Trump’s comments calling Mexicans, rapists: “They are bringing drugs, They are bringing crime. They are rapists and that’s who’s coming across our border.”
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Post-modern Catholicism: claiming that the the pope is not really the pope and rejecting the magisterium as Protestant
Thank you to all those involved in the
@Synod_va
who put up with the hateful slander and childish attacks, often by cowardly anonymous sourpusses.
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Beth and I are so proud and honored to Godparent this little angel
This girl is getting baptized tomorrow, so please keep her in your prayers
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I wonder how many of these priests consider how their lack of charity and mercy towards the pope or LGBTQ Catholics and their families, or women, have driven scores of lay people to the verge of throwing it all in.
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I wonder how many of the people who are defending the statue of a King saint riding a battle horse would come to the defense of this statue, - The Nazarene, by
@timothySchmalz
- a prophetic artist for our time..
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I simply don’t understand the special strand of American Catholicism that uplifts at heroes men (like Rush, Donald, Newt) who are vulgar, have multiple public affairs/ divorce and who seem to stand in contrast to the virtues of humility and charity at every level -
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Perhaps the US bishops need an episcopal gap year (or 3 months) to go on pilgrimage, to spend time with working families, in refugee camps, prisons, and hospitals- public and humble actions to address the roots of the crisis are needed now to save any credibility
#USCCB2018
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I’m sick and tired of hearing stories of new priests coming into a parish / campus ministry and destroying the lives of lay people who have given decades in professional ministry or service- we need a new way of being church - clericalism destroys lives
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The front page of today’s
@nytimes
has an article doubting the value of
#humanities
higher education. Every other article on the front page concerns topics one cannot understand without a
#liberalarts
framework
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On the way over to Staten Island for the inaugural ride of the new
#dorothyday
ferry with
@RobertEllsberg
and other great witnesses of faith
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I’m so moved by my friend
@JamesMartinSJ
and his pastoral commitment on this important issue - despite the loud annoying minority of voices on social media.
Dear friends: Today Pope Francis received me for a private 30-minute audience in the Apostolic Palace, where I shared with him the joys and hopes, and the griefs and anxieties, of LGBT Catholics and LGBT people worldwide. I was so grateful to meet with this wonderful pastor.
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Whenever the poor are degraded and dehumanized … it’s a crucifixion. Lord have mercy on us.
The owner of Foster Gwin Gallery displays a lack of emotion as he sprays a desperately poor person with freezing cold water in San Francisco.
Most people are one bad month away from homelessness, & before long it's near impossible to escape.
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This reflects an ignorance about Catholic doctrine, international humanitarian law and the reality of refugees- Erga Migrantes Caritas Christi, which was formally revived by Benedict XVI makes this point crystal clear 1/3
@ccpecknold
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God does not like choose, bless or love one country better than another.
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23,925 human beings died in one American city- nearly 24,000 people in New York City. That number is not far higher because of social distancing requirements. Sometimes loving your neighbor and being prolife means limiting the number of people at indoor gatherings such as Mass
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I pray in gratitude for all the delivery workers who have worked so hard this past year- from food delivery to those working for
@USPS
@UPS
@FedEx
- thanks
@APWUnational
@Teamsters
@transportworker
for coming to us when we could not go out in this pandemic
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It’s Friday after a long week of being both parent, kindergarten teacher, and college professor- I may have just fallen asleep on the floor of my kids room during nighttime prayer- May have also woken up confused with a one year old standing on my head - 2020 must go
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Something is very wrong with a system that would allow this to happen
Catholic school expels student to punish mom | The Kansas City Star
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8 and 4 year old organized (all on their own) a prayer for peace this morning, which involved the Lord’s Prayer, a symbolic laying down and breaking of LEGO swords “this is a time to lay down our weapons” he said, a moment of silence and a Hail Mary :)
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New Map Illustrates Catholic Sexual Abuse in Indian Country - great work Jack Downey and Kathleen Holscher
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I love this! I don’t know if I’ve ever seen an image of Jospeh holding the baby Jesus- most of Mass today I was holding one of our two kids. And giving mom time to rest must be a sure sign of holiness!
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Very happy to see my friend,
@JamesMartinSJ
, get such high praise for his book on prayer by an expert on prayer
Pope Francis recommended Fr. James Martin’s book “Learning to Pray” to Vatican communicators, Nov. 12. “Read it bec it will teach you to pray”, he said. He praised the American Jesuit as “a man of values”+”a communicator who knows how to teach the way to communicate with God”
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One of my students gave me this pencil drawing on the last day of my
#dorothyday
class. It was really moving for me.
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Interesting to note that the song about being raised up on Eagle wings speaks to a feminine image of God- female eagles raise up their young on their wings as they accompany them to learn how to fly (Deuteronomy 32:9-14)
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The experiences of each refugee and migrant at borders or on boats at seas across the world tonight matters far more than the defrocking of a troublesome and disobedient cleric (icon by
@KLICONS
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Over the past 8 months, I’ve been privileged to be able to take a (partly paid) parental leave to care for our 3rd baby. It’s been an amazing experience to be with him and bittersweet to drop him off at daycare today. Everyone should have access to the social good of paid leave!
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The next synod on the family should consist only of parents who have had to
#selfquarantine
with multiple children under 6 while also trying to work two full time jobs - Finding God in meltdowns better be in there
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We are most grateful to the many prayers and good wishes. Things went well and we are waking up in the recovery room. We are so lucky and are thinking about all kids without access to healthcare and those with more complicated situations. In gratitude to God and good people
In your charity, please say a prayer for my 2 year old daughter Islay who will have a heart procedure done Tuesday to close a small hole.
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It’s really scandalous and disgusting that vocal American voices in
#CatholicTwitter
appear more upset over recent appointments to the college of cardinals than the sin of white supremacy that inspired the
#BuffaloMassacre
- this is not new evangelization it’s anti-evangelization
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We need new language to describe passive aggressiveness mixed with subtweeting under the guise of prayer
Walking to the Orthodox Divine Liturgy, and offering some prayers for my beloved brother in Christ Joseph Ratzinger, who is nearby.
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Visiting family, we went to an amazing parish today- a multicultural community full of children that makes clear it’s commitment to the Gospel by signs and actions welcoming refugees, LGBTQ Catholics, and proclaiming a stance against racism. We were struck by three things 1/
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4 year old today at grocery store in shopping cart : can we pretend that this is a Dorothy day truck.
Me: what do you mean?
Him: can we pretend to deliver food to poor people?
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Kindergartner as we drive by big mansion: “Dad, maybe instead of a band, I should run for president and give a speech ‘turn mansions into apartments so poor people like Lazarus have places to live’” - never been prouder
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Takes a lot of acrobatics to turn the readings for today into a homily against inter-religious marriage and not mention the poor even once
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This is an amazing photo - Paul VI watching moon landing
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Lord have mercy on this planet and all the people who live on it - transform this mess into mercy
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