Feast of #Jesuit St John Francis Regis. When certain aristocrats didn’t care for his spending so much attention on those at the margins he replied: “So much the better: we are doubly blest if we relieve a poor brother at the expense of our dignity.” (Icon: Wm Hart McNichols)
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I appreciate this memorial about my father by @ggrenwald above any I have read today--for his comprehensive review of his bio & history, for his attention to themes generally overlooked about his post-Vietnam life, but particularly for deep appreciation of his human qualities.🙏
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Here's my @RollingStone article on Daniel Ellsberg, the heroic Pentagon Papers leaker who died today at 92:
"We’re Told Never to Meet Our Childhood Heroes. Knowing Daniel Ellsberg Proved That Wrong"
rollingstone.com/politics/polit
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