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Aug 4, 2020 3 tweets 2 min read Read on X
TIL I learned that @NipseyHussle's maternal grandmother is a #BlackCatholic.

Apparently she said so on TV after he died, noting that she forgave and prays for his murderer. 😶

(H/T @henokeliyahu, who—at the request of Nip's dad's Eritrean Orthodox parish—served at his funeral.)
#RIPNip!!

Pray for him and his family, please. And the entire South LA community.
(Oh, and here's Henok's blog about the funeral! medium.com/@henokelias/ni…)

#EasternChristianity #Tewahedo #Eritrea

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Nov 11, 2021
So apparently Archbishop Sample of Portland is basically trying to give a "dispensation" from a major requirement of Traditionis Custodes. Lol Image
Source and full document: facebook.com/story.php?stor…
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The cardinal is live here in DC at @PressClubDC.

Tune in on C-SPAN, NPR Radio, or YouTube.
Q&A session has begun, beginning with a dialogue on COVID-19.

Cardinal Gregory says those Catholics opposing vaccines are on "shaky" ground, since both living popes are vaccinated.
Cardinal Gregory now recalls the day of his elevation to the cardinalate.

Says he's "still trying to figure out" what it means that he's the first African-American red hat.
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Also, @XULA1925 is kinda goated for their Daily Mass game (where I ran into Br Herman)...

The chapel is dumb nice—complete with my flavor of modernist architecture, a MASSIVE #BlackJesus above the altar, and Afrocentric stations of the Cross in the side windows. (pics soon!)
Plus we sing at Daily Mass, which = life.

That seems to be a fairly common thing at Black parishes, but this is the only place I've seen full-on 4-hymn sandwich Monday-Friday.

👏🏾Love.👏🏾To.👏🏾See.👏🏾 It.

(Also doesn't hurt that the pianist is amazing and has a beautiful voice.)
Last but not least, they apparently are staffed (at least partially) by @TheJosephites, which is the cherry on top.

While it's literally their job to serve African-Americans, and we're the only Catholic HBCU, it's still cool to see young priests showing out #fortheculture.
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Sep 27, 2020
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Also, who knew "free negroes" ≠ "free people of color"? Apparently the former were those born in slavery, while the latter were those born free. (Gives a lil color to the current "people of color" terminology debate! 😁)

Also, "free negroes" as an academic term makes me giggle.
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Sep 24, 2020
Josephites wiki is coming right along, by the way! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_o…

Used the Jesuits wiki as a model—for obvious reasons. They're the world's biggest religious order, we're the world's best, and our postnominal (SSJ) is basically the "super" version of theirs (SJ) anyway.
Check out the updated infobox up top (complete with the full list of founders and the official heraldry), the much-expanded history section (used to be one small section), and the brand-new Superior General table (used to just be a list, and of only the guys since like 1988).
Hoping this'll blossom into individual pages—and sources (😁)—for major figures/topics, and eventually into a Wiki "series" on Black Catholicism. (There's series for other Catholic topics, and I tend to envy with stuff like this. 👀)

Excited to learn how to put it all together!
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Sep 24, 2020
I don't mean to rag on Bishop Barron so much—this has been a spicy week for me—but I can't help but feel like this is an answer about young White people posing as an answer about all young people. americamagazine.org/faith/2020/09/…
While I can't speak for everyone and it might even be a reach, I have it on good sources that young Black people—men included—are actually doing fairly well on theism, the problem of evil, relativism, and even sexual ethics to an extent.

But hey.
He's talking about Reddit, after all, so I imagine the scene skews White, but does he—or anyone—notice? Care?

I get that he wants to respond to the person in front of him, but he shepherds *Los Angeles*. Reddit AMAs are fun (esp Catholic ones), but MAN.

Alas, no dice:
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