Gerald Schlabach

As seen in Madrid.

The US press will make a lot of him being the first American pope, but the global body of cardinals wouldn’t have elected him if he didn’t have a Global South worldview. What he brings from the US are the tools to resist the Christian nationalism that has infected too many US bishops.

Okay, but why isn't the Void answering my screams? 🤨

Hubris is the worse kind of dumb. — St. Augustine, paraphrased.

Nos escuchó: Un testimonio maya sobre el beato Stanley “Apla’s” Rother. Por Juan Ajtzip tal como se lo relató a Gerald Schlabach (Spanish Edition) Nos escuchó: Un testimonio maya sobre el beato Stanley “Apla’s” Rother. Por Juan Ajtzip tal como se lo relató a Gerald Schlabach (Spanish Edition) [Ajtzip, Juan, Schlabach, Gerald, Ramazzini Imeri, Cardenal Álvaro Leonel] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Nos escuchó: Un testimonio maya sobre el beato Stanley “Apla’s” Rother. Por Juan Ajtzip tal como se lo relató a Gerald Schlabach (Spanish Edition)

To order in the US and globally:
www.amazon.com/Nos-escuch%C...
(I know many friends are avoiding Amazon, but for now that is the only option. Please consider making an exception.)

To order in Guatemala:
www.fygeditores.com/FGNE97899939...

We met outside the church in Santiago Atitlán to open the box, then went into the chapel where Rother was martyred, and quietly dedicated the book to Rother's own continuing witness to the Gospel.

Cover of book in Spanish: Nos Escuchó: Un Testimonio Maya Sobre el Beato Stanley "Apla´s" Rother, by Juan Ajtzip and Gerald Schlabach

It's here! Yesterday, Juan Ajtzip and I got our first copies of _Nos Escuchó: Un Testimonio Maya Sobre El Beato Stanley "Apla's" Rother_ [He Listened to Us: A Mayan Witness to Blessed Stanley "Apla's Rother.] (Links to order the book both in Guatemala and internationally to follow below).

It worked for Gandalf.

So I know you?

Becoming a Catholic Peace Church: A Conversation with Gerald Schlabach Podcast Episode · What Matters Most · 01/30/2025 · 1h 32m

In which my old friend and former colleague John Martens interviews me especially about my book _A Pilgrim People: Becoming a Catholic Peace Church_, but also about how Central America has shaped my life and vocation, and my continuing work in Guatemala.

DJT has been in office 24+ hours now. Is the war in Ukraine over? He promised it would be by now. I can’t find that in my news feed. Help me out folks.

Pope appoints Trump critic to be archbishop of Washington, DC | CNN Pope Francis has appointed Cardinal Robert McElroy, a vocal defender of migrants and critic of Donald Trump’s first administration, as the next archbishop of Washington, DC.

Huge news!

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour How the Jan. 6 Capitol attack unfolded

Never forget. Never whitewash.

Sorry, but I have to wonder if you read much more than the headline.

Putting Lent Back into Christmas - Collegeville Institute Here’s a modest proposal to rescue the Christmas season from sentimentality on commercially peddled steroids: Let’s put the “Lent” back into Christmas.

It seems a good year to bring this essay back. Nothing has changed except the short list of wars, and that by addition not subtraction

Peak bothsidesism has been reached.

I can’t get too excited about the pardon. “Above the law?” It’s in the constitution and limitless. It may or may not have been wise. But the power of pardon IS the law.

In Defense of White Flags Just-war theory means that surrender can never be off the table—not despite the justice of one’s cause, but because of it.

My latest in Commonweal:

Massive away win for the little fella.

I’m looking for an opportunity to do just that.

In case you’re wondering, one Gaetz = 8/11 of a Scaramucci.

This is what I'm (mostly) working on these days. The Guatemalan edition should be out early in 2025, published by F&G Editores (www.fygeditores.com). Currently looking for a US publisher of the English translation.

Note that my current banner is taken from the cover of the book -- a photo of a cross-border mass a few years ago, which reflects what "Christian identity" really should be, and resists false and nationalistic versions.

If Christian Nationalism is wrong, what is right? Here is my considered answer to that question: The Church should recognize itself as a people that lives in diaspora, crossing borders, captive to no one nation-state, but all the freer to serve the common good of every nation and culture.

Folks are (re)introducing themselves as they get started on BlueSky. I'm going to do that by posting a couple of things that reflect my work, past and present.

Bread & Circuses One is obliged to hope for wise and prudent governance from the next administration, but that’s not why people voted for Trump.

"Trump will end the war in Ukraine by abandoning it to Putin."
William T. Cavanaugh on what to expect over the next four years:
www.commonwealmagazine.org/bread-circuses