Catholic journalist since 1982; former: director/ eic @CatholicNewsSvc, prez @SIGNIS NA, prez @CatholicPressAssociation, Vatican consultor, Vanderbilt exec
Nashville, TN
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Tony Spence🇺🇦 retweeted
The left needs to focus less on race, gender, and sexuality and much more on class. In other words, it needs to get back to its social democratic roots. Otherwise it’s giving ammunition to the right.
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Today, we honor the life, resolve, and leadership of the late #JohnLewis. His legacy of practicing #Nonviolence as a means to dismantle injustice continues to fuel our commitment to, and belief in, the #BelovedCommunity.
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Unless every student in the program is going into cloistered religious life, sooner or later, they will be confronted with the realities of digital media. When they do, they may find that they are unprepared for life in the modern age. ncronline.org/opinion/ncr-vo… via @NCRonline
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An interesting article by @gillianmobrien in the @IrishTimes: 'Overlooking nuns’ contribution to Ireland erases women from our history – yet again'.
irishtimes.com/opinion/2023/…
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Happy belated "Pacem in Terris" anniversary! Here's Francis taking the next step on nuclear weapons a few years back ...
Nuclear disarmament now a ‘moral imperative’ as Pope Francis rejects deterrence americamagazine.org/politics…
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“It should be us choosing who we want, not the Republicans.”
@NBCNews explains how Republican-rigged election maps — drawn to reduce Black representation — led to the unconstitutional expulsion of two Black Democrats. #TennesseeThree
nbcnews.com/politics/politic… – at Nashville, TN
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BREAKING: Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is hit with bad news as over a dozen Senate Democrats launch a bill that will slash the Supreme Court’s funding if it doesn’t implement a strict ethics code for all Supreme Court Justices.
Justice Thomas is afraid to death of this bill… because it would force him to recuse himself from cases he’s personally tied to — and put an end to his shameless grifting. RT if you support this bill!
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It is truly unfortunate and disappointing that our governor has been MIA this far. Whatever the reason, Tennessee deserves leadership and courage from its executive. There is still time to do
what’s right and badly needed. nytimes.com/2023/03/29/opini… – at Nashville, TN
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Today is the 55th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s final sermon, which he delivered in Memphis in support of striking sanitation workers.
“Somewhere I read that the greatness of America is the right to protest for right.”
teapawt.net/MichaelSkolnik/status/… – at Nashville, TN
I think swamp gas is really getting to the Floridians. hyperallergic.com/811443/flo…
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Want to know how far the Republican Party has drifted on its interpretation the 2nd Amendment? Here's what Republican Supreme Court Justice Warren Burger-appointed by President Nixon-had to say about the NRA:
"The Gun Lobby’s interpretation of the Second Amendment is one of the greatest pieces of fraud, I repeat the word fraud, on the American People by special interest groups that I have ever seen in my lifetime. The real purpose of the Second Amendment was to ensure that state armies – the militia – would be maintained for the defense of the state. The very language of the Second Amendment refutes any argument that it was intended to guarantee every citizen an unfettered right to any kind of weapon he or she desires."
Make sure everyone sees this.
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Tom Roberts: “It is no exaggeration to say that among issues for which U.S. Catholics might have special responsibility, none has been more insistently pursued by successive papacies… than world peace and the arms race.”
ncronline.org/node/237781
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Uvalde: AR-15
Buffalo: AR-15
Boulder: AR-15
Orlando: AR-15
Parkland: AR-15
Las Vegas: AR-15
Sandy Hook: AR-15
San Bernardino: AR-15
Midland/Odessa: AR-15
Colorado Springs: AR-15
Poway synagogue: AR-15
Sutherland Springs: AR-15
Tree of Life Synagogue: AR-15
Nashville: AR-15
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Just a reminder that this should not be a partisan issue and that Republicans like @bfrist can speak up. Now is the time for leaders of both parties to lead. With courage. For our children. For our families. #Nashville #GunSense #TeamJRC – at Nashville, TN
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⚡️HAPPENING NOW in NASHVILLE — a rally calling for action on gun safety legislation in the wake of the #CovenantSchool tragedy. #HowManyMore 🇺🇸 @GovBillLee @CSexton25 @SenJohnson
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I’ve discovered that these tweets are generated by Putin-Viganò AI bots. No humans are involved in their production. Hence the Latin handles and strange verbiage. – at Wales, United Kingdom
