And thus the Lord said unto thee: Touch Grass

Morning gospel by @cunningpscott.bsky.social

Cope and seethe

“The threat of destroying a whole civilization and the intentional targeting of civilian infrastructure cannot be morally justified. There are other ways to resolve conflict between peoples. I call on President Trump to step back … for the sake of peace and before more lives are lost”

Happy Easter!

Pope Leo at Easter Urbi et Orbi: “Let those who have weapons lay them down! Let those who have the power to unleash wars choose peace! Not a peace imposed by force, but through dialogue! Not with the desire to dominate others, but to encounter them!” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

BREAKING: Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service The headquarters is going to Utah. Every regional office is being shuttered. The research program is being destroyed.

If you're wondering what's happening with the US Forest Service and why it matters, read this:

Michael Collins, the chap who took this photograph, remains the only person on earth to have taken a photo that had everyone in shot aside himself.

If Artemis is going up then it gives me an excuse to once again post this photo, the only one to contain every human being in the universe but one.

LAUNCH! ARTEMIS II LAUNCHES WITH A CREW OF 4 TOWARDS THE MOON

Pope Leo says God rejects prayers of leaders who wage wars Pope Leo said on Sunday that God rejects the ‌prayers of leaders who start wars and have "hands full of blood", in unusually forceful remarks as the Iran war entered its second month.

Pope Leo says God rejects prayers of leaders who wage wars reut.rs/4rZIThC

Current mood.

A sign says: “I just want to say if you are trans and reading this I love you & so do all my mates”

Sign in a window, Bethnal Green.

Why is this treated like a debate? “Boots on the ground” isn’t just a saying. Whether or not actual physical boots attached to the actual physical feet of American troops are touching the actual physical Iranian soil is an empirical question.

You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’

But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you.

— Matthew 5:43-44 (NKJV)

So much of academic work is being the guy who actually read a thing

Against Bloodshed and Violence Can followers of Jesus use violence in the face of evil and injustice?

“We believe in the peace of the kingdom that God will bring and institute on this earth. This faith is not a matter of playing with a future shape of things that exists only in our imaginations. No, the same God who will bring about this future gives us his heart & his Spirit today.”—Eberhard Arnold

These warmongers can't read the gospel because they know it contradicts everything they do and say. Matthew 5:38–42.

Very good that Cupich is saying these things (particularly as someone close to Leo):

A good overview of the incompetent and nonsensical (but not unexpected) way DOGE ripped apart the NEH last spring, leading to hundreds of cancelled grants for petty reasons. I'm grateful to @historians.org and co-plantiffs for challenging these actions in federal court.

Truth, Consequences, and the Hopes of My Father: Daniel Ellsberg | Common Dreams In light of what was at stake, the chance of making a difference justified the risk, and at the end of the day, my father believed, that was a good way to use your life.

Truth, Consequences, and the Hopes of My Father: Daniel Ellsberg www.commondreams.org/opinion/dani...

How is this not war?

Starting my lent a little early. I will be away from this account for a few weeks <3

The homepage for the Canadian letters and images project. It shows soldiers posing for a photograph and there is a search bar in the centre. In the about section below, which cannot be seen in this image, it provides this information: The Canadian Letters and Images Project, created in 2000, is an online digital archive of the Canadian war experience, both home front and battlefront, from any conflict in which Canadians have participated. The focus of the project is on the personal materials of participants, such as letters and photographs, which permit us to experience the war through their eyes and their words. These are very often the stories of ordinary Canadians, largely forgotten and overlooked. Our mission is to digitally preserve and continue to make freely accessible this important part of Canada’s heritage for this generation and future generations. The vision of the project is to continue to expand this repository of Canadian archival materials by collaborating with Canadians to preserve and share the individual and collective stories that have shaped our past Accessibility to the past is key to understanding who we are as a nation. We are committed to free access for everyone to the materials of the project.

PLEASE REPOST 🥺🙏

The Canadian Letters & Images Project is an online digital archive of Canadians’ experience during wartime at home & in battle. It contains thousands of personal letters & photos that reveal people’s experience through their own words & eyes.
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A doodled face in coming out of text in a manuscript.

A doodled face in coming out of text in a manuscript.

How is Tuesday going for you? These folk found in MS. B.2.25 have been waiting for a tea break since the 14th century. mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/B...

Epstein files reveal ties to Catholic conservatives' anti-Francis campaign VATICAN CITY (RNS) — The newly released Epstein files show that Jeffrey Epstein and Steve Bannon discussed opposition to Pope Francis, including a move that Bannon claimed would ‘take down Francis.’

The Epstein angle adds color to what we already knew: opposition to Francis was craven and opportunistic, and almost universally cashed out to support for Trump.

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Somewhat amazing levels of incompetence.

Can Grendel be Redeemed? Hwæt!

Contemplating Grendel and Dante today!

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I would like to march in protests too, but I can’t because I have arthritis in my knees. So I want my words to do my marching for me. Like everybody else, I am an inhabitant of this planet; and I am a member of many other smaller communities too. I am an American citizen, for example. I was made a citizen from birth retroactively by the US government after World War II when babies born to US servicemen and German women were declared citizens from birth. My German mother came with me to the US as an immigrant without English when I was four years old and had no English either. Now I am a philosopher and a Christian -- a Catholic, actually. I identify as a woman. And so on. I grieve the overwhelming evil that is impossible to ignore in every one of these communities. The sight of the suffering of desperate people trying to be immigrants to the US is unbearable. The inhumanity of separating their children from them, the viciousness of incarcerating small children alone, is unspeakable. And the cruelty we see on the daily news obscures but cannot hide the accelerating harm we are doing to the earth. The people who should take the lead in governing us are vile, and so many of those who vote relish the vileness. That group includes some prominent Christians. Christians are meant to be salt and light for the world; their lives are meant to help other people taste and see the goodness of God. These people make the God they worship seem so hateful. And so, like many other people, I mourn. But my mourning is without despondency, without the inward collapse of despair. The baseness of injustice highlights the majesty of justice, whose power to call to people cannot be defeated by evil. The cruelty of those who rule, their indifference to the cry of the poor, illuminates by contrast the splendor of goodness and love. The growing dread at the increasing destruction of the planet testifies to its beauty. There would be less distress over [...]

From the prominent Catholic philosopher Eleonore Stump.

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