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@RobertEllsberg

@RobertEllsberg

My reflection on John Kavanaugh SJ, who died Nov 5 2012, appears in

@GiveUsThisDayLP

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we published 3 editions of his classic *Following Christ in a Consumer Society*--one every 10 yrs. I imagine a new ed. would have contrasted the models of Trump and Pope Francis.

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Read about John Kavanaugh blog.giveusthisday.org/2021/11/05/joh

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@RobertEllsberg

@RobertEllsberg

From the 1991 ed.: "Donald Trump may be only the most prominent example of our quandary: the more we try to ground our identities in external possessions or triumphs, the more we plaster our names on everything we can accumulate, the more we cling to surface and style. . .

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@RobertEllsberg

@RobertEllsberg

..., the less we find underneath...The consuming self, unmasked, reveals a terrible absence. There is no substance to our being, nothing there but the appearances, the 'outside,'...There is a hole underneath it all." See #TolstoysTalesofTrump

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