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You don’t need to be Catholic, or Christian, or even religious to enter into the silence and cultivate racial justice as a spiritual practice. ❤️✊🏼

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Does our unjust world weigh heavy on you? I'm leading a "Journey to Justice" retreat at Loyola on the Potomac, June 6-8. Come, rest awhile, and learn how we might move beyond "thoughts and prayers" to help heal what Baldwin called the "death of the heart." loyolaonthepotomac.com/journey-to-j...

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If of interest, please share! I have launched my own sweatshirts, based on my book “The End, It Was All About Love”, and I am giving 10% of profits to International Women* Space, an amazing NGO which advocates for asylum seekers and refugees. More details here: everpress.com/it-was-all-a...

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The 5th & final chapter of #BadCatholicsGoodTrouble webcomic #2 just dropped! Find out what happened after Arthur McFarland led the Black revolution on Notre Dame's campus in 1970. And don't miss the primary sources and learning/praying guides there too. badcatholics-comics.org/charleston20...

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I love this project so so much check it out, y'all! badcatholics-comics.org

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Check out the final installment of @mjcressler.bsky.social'. fantastic #BadCatholicsGoodTrouble webcomic, supported by @xroadproj.bsky.social. Can't wait to see what happens!

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Come hear him speak at the #CollegeTheologySoc #CTS2025 ! collegetheologysociety10.wildapricot.org/Annual-Conve...

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The 5th & final chapter of #BadCatholicsGoodTrouble webcomic #2 just dropped! Find out what happened after Arthur McFarland led the Black revolution on Notre Dame's campus in 1970. And don't miss the primary sources and learning/praying guides there too. badcatholics-comics.org/charleston20...

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This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Know Your Rights training via call & response chant: -if ICE comes to your door? -KEEP THE DOOR CLOSED! -if ICE comes to your car? -STAY IN THE CAR! -if ICE asks you questions? -SHUT THE FUCK UP! The little kids near me were beside themselves with glee. Welcome to the resistance, comrades.

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This student was disappeared off the streets of the town where I used to live. For writing an op-ed in a student paper. This is callous and cruel and evil. And we need to see it for what it is and name it as such. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/u...

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‘No Way to Please Everyone’ Says Only University Where Students Are Regularly Kidnapped

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I finally updated my personal website (so it doesn't look like I made it in 1998). Please clap. matthewjcressler.com

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"So I preached from Luke, chapter eighteen, verses one through eight: the parable of the importunate widow. It's one I've always liked... "Moral: the weak can overcome the strong if the weak persist. Persisting isn't always safe, but it's often necessary." Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower

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This is a great opinion piece by my friend @henrykarlson.bsky.social . “I fear Barron represents the majority of the clergy in the United States. They want to continue the culture war efforts….instead of dealing with the real threat which lies before us.” #CatholicChurch #Resistance

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One of the deepest lessons of Parable of the Sower is that change is inevitable and at any given time, we are never going back to the time before. MAGA is very literally about denying that essential truth, and unfortunately the same sort of denial has been animating Dems since at least 2020

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BREAKING: Immigration officials arrest a second person who participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations at Columbia University.

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She doesn't mention cloture specifically. But I think it's clear what Pelosi is saying here. And I think her saying it is a pretty big deal.

submitted 21 days ago • 368 comments

the swamp of despair (from 2018)

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There was a lot of #AcademicFreedom, good scholarship, and independent thought in German universities before Hitler. After Hitler had risen to power, many academics fled the country. Some resisted the Nazi regime and were persecuted. Most adapted to a new situation. Here are some examples. 1/n

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conservative evangelicals spent a quarter century explicitly tying their religious identity to the most extreme and jingoistic forms of american nationalism up to and including embracing one of the worst degenerates this country has ever produced and they refuse to take responsibility for it

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Long piece about how conservative Christians believe American society has turned hostile to Christianity with only a late, sophistic wave—secular liberals made them do it!—at how conservative Christians have embraced complete moral degeneracy for political power www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/u...

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A large group of clergy have gathered in front of the Supreme Court, calling on Congress to pass a “moral budget” and particularly protesting proposed cuts of Medicaid.

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“Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen…

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“Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen…

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Your friendly reminder that when people talk of #Daredevil as a “Catholic comicbook character,” they mean a particular kind of Catholic.

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Dauntless is launching our next crowdfunding season, ushering in a new chapter for independent storytelling! We're excited to start our 2025 run with talented established & newfound creators in a bold new format. Click below & follow this thread 🧵to learn more! www.kickstarter.com/projects/dau...

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www.kickstarter.com/projects/dau... Here's the kickstarter prelaunch for Rangers of the divide and a few other series! Follow it to stay in the know! Shares are not necessary but appreciated 😉

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"Francis’s health crisis has taken place at a fraught time for the Church and world." @profdanrober.bsky.social on the Church's passage into an unknown future: www.commonwealmagazine.org/francis-papa...

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I go to Baldwin the way some might go to the Bible. Let this paragraph open something in your soul this morning…

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I agree that it's basic appeal is transgression. But wasn't that, in many ways, the basic appeal of Nazism? Not some coherent ideology, but permission to shed conventional morality and be as bad as you secretly desire to be?

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As we anxiously await the rebirth of #Daredevil, just wanted to say that the Matt Murdock of Religious Studies is at the ready with thoughts and opinions… | muse.jhu.edu/article/8624...

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"A common and superficial critique of Thomas is that he’s in the pocket of billionaires. But, as we know, all those private jet rides, luxury vacations, and cash payments pale in significance when weighed against the true character of the man who is graciously accepting them."

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A poem my heart needed, this morning. | www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Good night, folks. Be courageous. Have hope. Imitate Jesus.

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NEW: Speaking on a panel at Georgetown tonight, Bishop Mark Seitz of the Catholic Diocese of El Paso, who chairs the USCCB's Committee on Migration, was asked about Vice President JD Vance’s argument invoking ordo amoris to justify Trump’s immigration policies. Seitz offered an impassioned rebuke:

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Roger Stone is promoting Prospera, a “Freedom City” (per Stone) in Honduras backed by Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen (who once tweeted that “anti-colonialism has been economically catastrophic for the Indian people…”) & Balaji Srinivasan (author of The Network State: How to Build a New Country). 1/

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"Cruelty this truly is, with no other apparent motive than to demean others and to save what amounts to a paltry sum in federal spending. For those of us in the Catholic community, cruelty should be especially alarming. And a call to action." www.ncronline.org/opinion/edit...

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“The rightly formed conscience cannot fail to make a critical judgment and express its disagreement with any measure that tacitly or explicitly identifies the illegal status of some migrants with criminality.”

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