Tom Murphy

I’m not sure we’ve properly addressed how profoundly disturbing it is that America can largely shrug at the stashing of human beings in giant warehouses.

The cover of Prelude to a Porcupine by Sandra Simonds, a chapbook published by theeconomypress.com .

This little book of poems made my morning.

Ghost Branches it’s possible that I should have used

Ghost Branches

So Long to Cheap Books You Could Fit in Your Pocket

"Physical books still account for about 75 percent of book sales, according to the Association of American Publishers. But mass market paperbacks have been a casualty."

California Bishops: Deportation Alone is Not an Immigration Strategy The Catholic Bishops of California, via the California Catholic Conference: At a moment when people are exercising their First Amendment rights to protest and seek accountability, violence only dee…

"The actions of many who give orders and follow orders no longer reflect the values upon which our society is based, and certainly not the Christian command to love one’s neighbor as oneself."

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I've got nothing.

Pope Leo: “Sadly, the same logic of dominion and disregard for human life also fuels the scourge of human trafficking. Geopolitical instability and armed conflicts create fertile ground for traffickers to exploit the most vulnerable, especially displaced persons, migrants and refugees.”

The anti-life administration There is a deep responsibility to unveil the cloud of falsehoods falling over government actions that disrespect life. The United States is in crisis. To quote President Trump's March for Life video m...

"It is an infection of violence that appears to have overtaken the federal conscience, at every level. And it is anything but pro-life."

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
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Her Painting impure abstraction some pages of dreamy murk

Her Painting

Today's ONE WORD from Friars Jack and Greg...

YouTube video by Hannah Arendt Instituut Meet the Thinker: Timothy Snyder | Bozar Brussels

A good thing.

How Martin Parr’s defining photobook made a splash 40 years ago ‘The Last Resort’, which will be republished later this year, is the subject of a new show at the late photographer’s foundation

" ...after returning from the West of Ireland with his wife, Susie, he began developing a new visual language that embraced colour and was less nostalgic about British quirks."

The moment of truth for congressional Democrats. February 4, 2026

"In this moment, 'bi-partisanship' is a code-word for “capitulation.” There is nothing bipartisan about allowing ICE to continue public executions. ... There is nothing bipartisan about jailing children."

"China and the United States were all less free than 20 years ago, and 72% of the world's population was now living under autocracy."

February 3, 2026 Yesterday, the day before Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s termination of Haiti’s Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designation, U.S.

"The impact on their lives would also affect their families, friends, and employers. Also at stake, though, is Trump administration officials’ rejection of both facts and the rule of law on which the United States was founded in order to advance their white nationalist ideology."

Lund Cathedral

📷 Olympus OM-1
🎞️ Kentmere 200 @ 400

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"We are all responsible."

Spread widely. This is important.

This is how my new book on the religious experiences of Francis of Assisi begins. I hope you will ask your local public library to get one for you...

On Following One's Conscience-and Suffering the Consequences - New Ways Ministry Of the scores and scores of people I've met who have had to make a conscience decision that opposed dominant thought and practice, not one, no matter what the price, was ever sorry they did so.

“But the call to conscience will not come to everyone in dramatic ways. But more times than not, that call will come with some sort of price.”

Rogue Empire I think I've seen this film before, and I didn't like the ending

"Our empire is not firing indiscriminately into crowds. At least not yet. But we have chosen more and more the path of debility. Our government asserts again and again the sovereign right to maim: to maim our communities, to maim our children, to maim our sense of hope itself."

A Note there you go with the figures smarty

A Note

Is it Really So Much Better Now? Thoughts on the machines and food delivery, while stuck in a McDonald's (Again),

"It is why so many feel trapped by the machines, rather than freed by them from the hard drudgery of life, because we are trying to make machines do something they shouldn’t be doing. You can’t, and shouldn’t, efficiency away the human touch."

A single chair tucked away in a corner beneath a shelf lined with books and vessels of flowers. A reproduction black and white diamond grid pattern hexagon tile floor lies underneath.

A really nice vintage reproduction at Copper Club Restaurant.