Joan of Arc (feast May 30) represents the confrontation between purity and the corruptions of power. A peasant girl, a “nobody,” she heeded a call to save her country when all the “somebodies” of her time proved unwilling or unable to meet the challenge. (Art: Fritz Eichenberg)
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Joan stood up before the authorities of her world and refused to compromise her conscience or deny her special vocation. She inspires us to heed the voices of our own angels and to respond with equal ardor and faith.
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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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