Speaking out on deaths of Renee Good and Geraldo Luna Campos and ICE actions across country, Bishop Mark J. Seitz urges administration to pull back from edge and individual agents to obey conscience: 'No one can be compelled to obey an immoral order.' docs.google.com/document/d/1vQ…

“Realities impervious to the question ‘Why?’ may release their secret when asked ‘What for?’” --Erik Varden, Toward Dawn, 102.

“Thinking about one’s own thoughts is a two-person job” (Agnes Callard, Open Socrates, 199).

“Anyone who loves God in the depths of his heart has already been loved by God. In fact, the measure of a man’s love for God depends upon how deeply aware he is of God’s love for him.” —Diadochus of Photice

Jeremy AI is unlocking the minds that should be kept locked

Fulfilling the apostolic mandate:

"In every work of God, viewed at its primary source, there appears mercy. In all that follows, the power of mercy remains, and works indeed with even greater force." ST I q. 21 a. 4

"Neighborliness is not a quality in other people, it is simply their claim on ourselves." --Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Discipleship, ch. 2.

Wow.

Pope Leo at Angelus: “The Beatitudes remain a paradox only for those who believe that God is other than how Christ reveals him. Those who expect the arrogant to always rule the earth are surprised by the Lord’s words. Those who are accustomed to thinking that happiness belongs to

"What's wonderful is that God gives gifts. Whether he gives them to me or to you is not terribly interesting." --Timothy Radcliffe OP

"Humans never created a greater altar to Molech than the centralized state. The modern state's hunger for human sacrifice is insatiable." Moshe Halbertal, On Sacrifice, 105.

“[The Church] manages, by harmonic genius, to fathom the violent cries of ‘Crucify!’ and the angelic ‘Hosanna!’ in a single chord that rises out of dissonance toward unheard beauty” --Erik Varden, The Shattering of Loneliness, 9.

“Words are forms of life; and life, to be spoken of well, requires critical, deliberate, humane articulation.” -- Erik Varden

"In Israel’s God-given Law, the stranger, designated oxymoronically a 'resident alien,' appears intrinsic to the nation, lodged within it, we might say, as a providential irritant." --Erik Varden