As I mourn the death of a remarkable pope, I must recommend my friend Matt Ashley's recent book exploring the Ignatian spirituality that shaped Francis as a Jesuit. It's the best study of his intellectual journey that I've read.

A Uganda Martyrs Day shout out to Kampala’s JPII Center for Justice and Peace! Prize-winning Uganda center pursues justice in spirit of Pope John Paul II

Many thanks to @americamag and Michael O’Brien for this article on my recent book with @MattHoven and all are most welcome to hybrid event at @CWCIT_DePaul tonight!

Terrific to see @Georgempanga publish this groundbreaking new book with @ChinaScherz !

Grateful for the chance to speak @CWCIT_DePaul during Super Bowl week on sport and Pope Francis's culture of encounter.

It was an honor to be with you at Kyambogo on Friday! Thank you also for the rich conversation and Q/A after the lecture. I hope we can collaborate again in the future.

Looking forward to this dialogue tomorrow with @KannamwangiDK and others at Kyambogo University. Thank you for the invitation!

And you thought Catholic polarization was bad today!

So grateful to Universite Notre Dame de Tshumbe and their president Sr Rebecca Walo and Dean Dr Jacob Onyumbe for hosting my lecture last week…and further connecting Creighton to Congo! ⁦@Creighton⁩ ⁦@CreightonCAS⁩

Murakoze cyane to all of our Rwandan hosts and speakers last week - embodying JPII’s and P.H. Kolvenbach SJ’s notion that solidarity is learned through contact, not concepts.

"Now more than ever, our intention is to serve people as such and not only Catholics; to defend above all the rights of the human person...it is not the Gospel that changes; it is we who begin to understand it better." Happy feast day St. John XXIII, and happy 60th Vatican II!

Happy to announce my new book On the Eighth Day: A Catholic Theology of Sport, where @MattHoven, Max Engel & I delve into what sport reveals about God, humanity, & Christian faith & ethics. Promo code 8Day40 for a 40% discount on @wipfandstock site.

Thanks to @AllisonIsidore1 and @NewBooksCath for this stimulating conversation on @JonathonLEarle and my new book!

Grateful to ⁦@americamag⁩ and ⁦@paddygilgersj⁩ for connecting my new book to broader tradition of Catholic social teaching.

Here's the scene at Kololo airstrip on 28 Jan. 1971, when Idi Amin freed 55 men and women detained by Milton Obote. Among those released: Benedicto Kiwanuka; Cuthbert Obwangor; Grace Ibingira; 'Jolly Joe' Kiwanuka; & the Nalinya Mpologoma, sister to the late Kabaka. 1/

Grateful to see @africasacountry's review of Contesting Catholics, offered by @Unseen_Archive: "This is the singular achievement of Earle & @jamesjaycarney's book: showing that UG’s local histories were never local, highlighting the cosmopolitan sources of inspiration w/ 1/2

"There is a movement...to reverse the awful centrifugal force of alienation, brokenness, division, hostility, and disharmony. God has set in motion a centripetal process, a moving toward the center, toward unity, harmony, goodness, peace, and justice." RIP Arch. Desmond Tutu!

Check out Chris Tounsel's article as well as his terrific new book, Chosen Peoples: Christianity and Political Imagination in South Sudan.

Hi this is @jamesjaycarney from @Creighton with the second thread of Day 1 of our Twitter takeover of the @Journal_RH account, focusing on JRH's 2020 special edition on Christianity and Politics in 20th-Century Africa. @WileyHumanities @AARWeb @JAfricanaRelig @AASReligions