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by bcadmin | Sep 10, 2022 | Books, carivaggio, covid, Features, George Floyd, Gerard Manley Hopkins, News, Paul Mariani, Plato, Poetry, riots, Robert Service, St. Augustine, Winslow Homer | 0 |
The poet, literary biographer, and Catholic spiritual writer, Paul Mariani published his last book of poems, Ordinary Time, in 2019. Much of it written in the aftermath of his recovery from a brain tumor, the […]
Read MoreImprisoned and in chains, St. Paul writes to his young companion Timothy, “I have competed well; I have finished the race; I have kept the faith” (2 Tm 4:7). Indeed, the Acts of the Apostles and his letters recount the hardships Paul had to endure — “beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors, vigils, fasts” (2 Cor 6:5) — as he traveled the Mediterranean world spreading the good news of Christianity.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 14, 2021 | Abortion, David French, Joe Biden, News, President Donald Trump, riots, The Dispatch | 0 |
With searing images of mob violence at the U.S. Capitol fresh in memory, Joe Biden comes to the presidency as a potential healer of divisions and binder up of wounds. Yet his own prior commitments […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 28, 2020 | Archbishop Alexander Sample, Chapel Chats, News, Portland, Protests, riots, U.S. & World News, Violence | 0 |
As the national spotlight landed on his city and its ongoing protests, Portland Archbishop Alexander K. Sample July 24 made a plea for citizens to leave violence behind and return to a campaign for racial justice.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 3, 2020 | 2020, Antifa, BLM, Capitalists disunite!, civil unrest, Columns, David Warren, News, riots, The Catholic Thing, unsociable social media, “collective” responsibility is garbage | 0 |
David Warren: Society “advances” through the cultivation of wisdom in its members. Responsibility is inculcated, not collectively, but one person at a time.
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 15, 2020 | 2020, Antifa, Aragon, Black Lives Matter, Cardinal Robert Sarah, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, G.K. Chesterton, News, public discourse, riots, Robert Royal, The Catholic Thing, Today Is Not That Day, Tolkien’s Return of the King, unconscious “racism”, vitriol, wimpy “wokeness” | 0 |
Robert Royal: Is it a delusion to seek a different way than the anathemas and name-calling that have become the default way of public speaking?
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 11, 2020 | 2020, African-American, Are These Not My People?, black, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, George Floyd, identity politics, individualism, News, Open Wide Our Hearts, Police, Racial justice, Racism, repentance of Nineveh, riots, sin of Cain, Stephen P. White, The Catholic Thing, USCCB | 0 |
Stephen White: A problem with dialog about race is that we want to have things both ways: to heal as one without accepting any responsibility for a whole.
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 3, 2020 | Charleston, Daughters of St. Paul, George Floyd, King Street, Looting, News, riots, U.S. & World News | 0 |
The four Daughters of St. Paul who live and work on Charleston’s King Street closed up their books and media store like normal May 30.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 31, 2020 | Basilica of St. Mary, Local News, Minneapolis, News, riots | 0 |
The nation’s first basilica sustained fire damage amid the Minneapolis riots that have crippled the city after the death of George Floyd, a black man who was killed by a police officer May 25.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 29, 2020 | Father Joseph Williams, George Floyd, Latino Catholic, Local News, News, Ponce-Sanchez, riots, South Minneapolis | 0 |
“It’s not OK police did that,” Ponce-Sanchez said of Floyd’s death. “That wasn’t the right thing to do. He was begging for breathing. (Chauvin) should have listened. Policemen are meant to save lives.”
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