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I don't often recommend books here but this new one by William A. Barry, SJ, a Jesuit spiritual master, is fantastic. All of us need to make retreats but not all of us have the time. So Fr. Barry has written this "personal retreat" for you. @loyolapress loyolapress.com/products/books…
It recognizes the need for retreats and people's limitations (time, money, health) in making them, and so it guides you through a retreat that you can do on your own. Bill Barry is one of my favorite spiritual writers ("God and You" changed my life) and this is a terrific book.
PS Neither Bill nor @loyolapress asked me to promote this book. It's just such a great book (and such a great idea) that I wanted as many people to know about it as possible.
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Writing an introduction to a new book about my friend Cardinal Avery Dulles, whose 100th anniversary we celebrate this year, I came upon this interview with him, done after he was named a cardinal. What an amazing person. (Note his comments on division.)
americamagazine.org/issue/338/arti…
"We have to listen to one another and sit down and talk together in a civil spirit. I regret the way in which some go off in a sectarian way within the church and make their own little home in one wing or the other..."
"...and become either liberal Catholic reformist types or truly adamant conservatives."
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Dear friends: I don't often recommend films but last night I saw the extraordinary "Happy as Lazzaro," on @netflix. A combination of an Italian neo-realist film and a parable, it hints at the stories of Jesus, St. Francis of Assisi and of course Lazarus.
It is an exquisitely made film, at once moving and challenging, clear and confusing, consoling and shocking. The religious themes, Catholic and otherwise, are throughout what I would say is close to a masterpiece.
It's one of the most profoundly religious films you will ever see.
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Brief PRO Social Justice thread. This only seems out of character, but is not. I have a long history of work on prejudice, stereotypes, and expectations as sources of bias and barriers and inequality. 1/n
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I finished Climate - A New Story, by Charles Eisenstein. It is a very powerful look at all the ways in which the systems of our life are destroying our home and only planet.
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Don't dare talk about 'civility' and 'dangerous rhetoric.'
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