Feast of St Ignatius, founder of the Jesuits. He began life as a vain courtier and soldier. The turning point came while he was recovering from a war injury and was given a book of lives of saints. As he read he thought: “What if I should do as St Francis or St Dominic did?”
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We are shaped by what we pay attention to and admire. Our culture floods us with things unworthy of our attention or models who make us feel powerless. Why I write about saints, not just canonized, but who expand our moral imagination and make us think, what if I lived like that?
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In the spirit of St. Francis and others, Ignatius truly lived by loving, more than being loved, by consoling, more than being consoled. As a clerical abuse survivor, born 400 years after his death, I am grateful to many Jesuits who, in Christ, embraced my wounds giving me hope.
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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"
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