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The chapel veil lends itself to a million unintended interpretations. Chief among them is that, by wearing the veil, I demonstrate that I am a particularly holy and devout person. This is far from the case. @eclaire082
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My black mantilla is gorgeous, as is the thought behind it. "It will be perfect for Holy Week," I observed when I unwrapped it. "And the [...]
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If obedience to death, the kind of obedience Christ modeled in his passion, doesn’t preclude questioning God, then it sure as heaven doesn’t preclude questioning the Church. https://t.co/B9dfUPZ0ce
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[Christ Jesus] humbled himself, becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross (Phil. 2:8). This Easter will mark my twenty-fifth year as [...]
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In the latter part of 1918, Padre Pio was bedridden between September and December due to the Spanish flu. Though he did not experience the worst effects of the illness, it caused him tremendous suffering as it affected many people close to him. https://t.co/cLwMN2gSYo
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White supremacists commit most of the terrorist acts in the United States, but for some reason we’re very skittish about naming them. We shouldn’t be. This is not a problem that’s going to go away by calling it something else. @mary_pezzulo
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There has been another horrendous mass shooting. This one happened last night, in and around Atlanta. A young white man by the name of Robert Aaron Long [...]
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Not all Christian men wanted to ignore the power and influence of women in the faith. Some, thankfully, stood with them and worked with them and promoted them and their memory. @HenryKarlsonIII
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In ancient Christian history, women did not find that they had to sit back in silence, but often had positions of authority in the church.
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I guarantee that if you got your wish and all the LGBTQ people in the Catholic Church disappeared overnight, leaving only the straight people, you would lose regular easy access to the sacraments. @mary_pezzulo
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I have a message for the Catholics around me who responded to the Vatican statement on not blessing same sex unions yesterday, and to other such [...]
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Your Excellency, just, what!? Have you read anything King wrote besides “Letter From Birmingham City Jail” and some quotes from “I Have a Dream”? The man was a socialist! https://t.co/ygodxQ4ekJ
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Yesterday on Twitter was an incredible shit show for reasons I’m not going into here (though I will recommend Chris Damian’s excellent piece on the [...]
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Theater as we know it will return. Audiences will pack themselves into theaters. Actors will stand onstage. We will see sweat and spittle again. If the past year has taught us anything, it’s that there is no substitute for this experience. @eclaire082
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Last Saturday was the one-year anniversary of the Broadway shut down. Performers took to the streets in Times Square for impromptu performances, promising [...]
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Hitting theaters March 13-15 as a Fathom Event, the faith-based Church People has some very familiar faces but took me to a world that I, as a Catholic, don’t really understand. @KateOHareWrites
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Hitting theaters March 13-15, 'Church People' has some very familiar faces but took me to a world that I, as a Catholic, don't really understand.
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Social Justice aims to alleviate the suffering of the poor and marginalized , the oppressed and persecuted, the forsaken and the forgotten. One of our lenten goals is to give alms and help the less fortunate. https://t.co/VVxJKX2TLp
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I was going to include these news stories in this weeks CB WIRE, but it got to be long enough, it deserved its own post. When one looks at the reality of [...]
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True freedom is had only when those who have been abused by society are lifted up with proper reparations for what they have suffered. @HenryKarlsonIII
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Politicians should realize their role in government should be to make sure government realizes its proper end, which is the common good..
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People tell me that they’re “speaking the truth in love” when they tell LGBTQ people that we are disgusting, sinful, dirty, untrustworthy, that we mustn’t be listened to on any topic, that we have to be kept away from children @mary_pezzulo
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Tonight I am so sad. A friend, a Catholic who is gay, tweeted about a mutual friend of ours who has decided to leave the Catholic Church because they [...]
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Abusers, especially when they are members of a privileged demographic, anticipate that the public will defend them, if a victim decides to speak out. And survivors know this too. @Prof_RBW
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Duchess or not, wealthy or not, Meghan Markle’s story is one of being the target of intersecting forces of oppression, both racism and misogyny.
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Supporters of a “traditional” female ideal often share vintage paintings and advertisements of smiling, aproned middle-class white women in sweet dresses. https://t.co/uA258BTMba
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In the past decade, many Catholics have been looking back to generations long-gone for guidance on how to navigate the present.
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"From this place, where faith was born, from the land of our father Abraham, let us affirm that God is merciful and that the greatest blasphemy is to profane his name by hating our brothers and sisters." @FrMatthewLC
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I remember with great clarity the debates leading up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq by the US. Pope John Paul II voiced strong opposition to the invasion. https://t.co/3Qj87DJE5L
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After fifteen months of no travel, Pope Francis made history by flying four and a half hours east from Rome to Baghdad, Iraq for the first Apostolic [...]
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Are you interested in defending institutions and beliefs? Or are you interested in defending persons, made in the image of God? @Prof_RBW
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Do you feel that the work people are doing to recover from religious trauma is an attack on you because you enjoy your religion just fine, or have simply [...]
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Morally, we should generally prefer the other two options available so far, but this one is not morally forbidden. The Johnson & Johnson vaccine can be used if it is the only option or only way to seek some other good. @FrMatthewLC
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Recently, the FDA approved the Johnson & Johnson COVID vaccine (emergency use authorization). This brings up the ethics of it for many Catholics. This [...]
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They repeat the standard conservative scare tactics against LGBTQ people and especially my brothers and sisters who are transgender. @mary_pezzulo
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I want to say a few words about The Equality Act, and about the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ reaction to it. The Equality Act is a [...]
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Conservative Christians are fine with tacky golden idols now– or if they’re not, they haven’t exactly made their voices heard. @mary_pezzulo
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Everybody’s talking about the Golden Calf today. This all started because, for some reason, the people at the Conservative Political Action Conference [...]
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