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Vince Miller @millervincent.bsky.social · 5d

I'm struck by Leo's amazing, low key, comprehensive history of Catholic Social Doctrine in Dilexi Te... a kind of forceful rhetoric of the breadth and unity of tradition.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 5d

"A Chicago Heights Catholic priest began a 50-day pilgrimage in support of immigrant children, from Pope Leo’s boyhood home in Dolton, IL to New York ...

'This is not only a physical act of endurance, but a spiritual act of solidarity, a prayer in motion'..."

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/06/c...

Chicago Heights priest begins walk for immigrant children from Pope Leo’s childhood home in Dolton

Gary Graf, a Chicago Heights Catholic priest, began a 50-day justice walk from Pope Leo’s boyhood home in Dolton to New York.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Vince Miller @millervincent.bsky.social · 6d

#LeoXIV treatment of Catholic Social Doctrine in Ch4 #DilexiTe reveals his voice: direct, detailed, comprehensive. He cites laity and religious, papal magisterium, Vatican II, Medellin, the CDF. Leo speaks loudly, not by emphasizing his own voice but by showing the deep consensus of Church teaching.

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Vince Miller @millervincent.bsky.social · 6d

*Leo XIV

Vince Miller @millervincent.bsky.social · 6d

Pope #LeoXIV #DilexiTe on the deep theological reasons why the Church must welcome migrants and refugees:

Vince Miller @millervincent.bsky.social · 6d

Those looking to understand Leo in #DilexiTe need to grasp the theological root of his teaching. Powerful statements about migrants and structural injustice are rooted in faith in Jesus "the Poor Messiah" & the call to be a "Church of the Poor." Border closing indifference is a spiritual failure.

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Vince Miller @millervincent.bsky.social · 6d

Amazing historical detail on Jesus' class from the Gospels in #DilexiTe from Leo XVI. So much of the exhortation has his quiet, comprehensive, even encyclopedic grasp of the tradition.

Vince Miller @millervincent.bsky.social · 6d

In #DilexiTe Leo XVI, stresses the fundamental spiritual link between Christ and the poor; concerned that many Christians have "succumbed to attitudes shaped by secular ideologies or political and economic approaches" that replace the Gospel "with the wisdom of the world."

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Zeke Hausfather @hausfath.bsky.social · 7d

Hydroelectricity remains the largest source of renewable generation, though virtually all of the growth in renewables over the past five years has come from solar and wind.

Solar has grown particularly fast and on track to surpass wind generation in the next year.

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Zeke Hausfather @hausfath.bsky.social · 7d

Renewables (primarily solar and wind) have grown dramatically over the past five years while other electricity sources have been relatively flat. Renewables are on track to generate more electricity than coal in 2025 (and already have over H1 of the year):

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WatchYourRepsSC @watchyourrepssc.bsky.social · 7d

Wisdom all of us should follow.

Your "yes" to God requires your "no" to all injustice, to all evil, to all lies, to all oppression and violation of the weak and poor..."
Dietrich Bonhoeffer - German pastor, theologian, author, and anti-Nazi dissident 1906-1945

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 8d

Asked while leaving Castel Gandolfo about the statement from the Israeli Embassy attacking Cardinal Parolin for his interview with Vatican media that could risk undermining peace efforts, the Pope says: “the cardinal expressed the Holy See's opinion very well.”

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 11d

@triofrancos.bsky.social on the astonishing biodiversity in the Atacama Salt Flat and the environmental cost of green capitalism.

What Mining for Water in the Andean Desert Reveals About “Green” Capitalism

A high-altitude desert plateau traverses Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile. I am on the Chilean side, in the passenger seat of a Jeep, along with two other researchers. The afternoon air is thin and b…

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Vince Miller @millervincent.bsky.social · 12d

Gerard Manley Hopkins knew...
Glory be to God for dappled things –
For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim...

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Vince Miller @millervincent.bsky.social · 12d

Female Chinook building her redd; moving silt, sand and basalt with ragged flesh and fin. She knows both meanings of arduum: difficulty and ardor, as she pours out all of her energy flaying flesh against stone to build a home for children she will never see.

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Vince Miller @millervincent.bsky.social · 12d

Photos from my trip to the McKenzie River in Oregon to write about Salmon and Aquinas's understanding of hope as an animal passion.

So much to learn about hope as "bonum futurum arduum" from these beings of flesh and flow.

You can hear their sound in this photo.

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Vince Miller @millervincent.bsky.social · 12d

Old friends sharpened and tuned for dovetails -- a skill at which I've grown rusty, alas.

A row of wood chisels arranged in order of size, of mixed ages and makes.

Vince Miller @millervincent.bsky.social · 12d

Profound writing by @ellenws.bsky.social.
Immediately added to the sacrament section of my Religion and Care for the Earth course. I can't wait for students to read it.

Commonweal @commonweal.bsky.social · 18d

"There is no more visceral way to experience the fact of our shared flesh than to come face-to-face with the physical vulnerability of the other’s body."

Ellen Wayland-Smith on Communion and human bodily vulnerability:
www.commonwealmagazine.org/corpus-chris...

Corpus Christi

Understanding the Eucharist literally can help us understand the deeper truth of our own broken one-ness.

www.commonwealmagazine.org

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Climate Desk @climatedesk.org · 13d

"Humans are not exempt from extinction."

Listen to Jane Goodall’s final — and urgent — message

Her final interviews are essential listening for everyone.

www.vox.com

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Vince Miller @millervincent.bsky.social · 21d

Looking forward to reading this!

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American Museum of Natural History @amnh.org · Sep 8

OTD in 1936, the last known thylacine—a wolf-like marsupial known as the Tasmanian tiger—died at the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania. The animal’s passing marked the extinction of its species & underscores the need to protect our planet’s wildlife.
Photo: Tasmanian Archives, PD, Wikimedia Commons

A black and white archival photo of a captive Thylacine. The animal resembles a dog but has pronounced stripes on its hindquarters.

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Anthony Edwards @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social · Sep 4

Smoky skies across Washington this morning after several fires went pyrocumulonimbus yesterday. #WAwx

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amy brown (spooky edition) @amybrown.xyz · Aug 22

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me?
Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · Aug 22

On the time the star of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" taught me the meaning of life: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/my-friend-...

My 1999 interview with Gunnar Hansen and more: https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/my-friend-leatherface

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Vince Miller @millervincent.bsky.social · Aug 14

It will be sometime this fall. Not sure which issue yet.

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