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Anna Rowlands

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4 years

Nice news. I am v honoured to be appointed by Pope Francis as a Member of the Dicastery for Integral Human Development, (& migrant & refugee section). This is NOT a new job to be clear! But these are v rare roles for women. Thank you @pontifex ! I look forward to being of service.

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3 years

Priti Patel just blamed refugees who cannot find a ‘legal’ route into the U.K. for ‘playing into the hands of people traffickers’ & therefore somehow forfeiting a moral right to permanent asylum even if absolutely clear refugees. The inhumanity of this just beggars belief.

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Anna Rowlands

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11 months

In the Synod plenary sessions we are sitting together - clergy and laity and consecrated religious and ecumenical delegates - around tables, facilitated by various bits of tech to enable interventions and voting. A first! A view from my seat this morning.

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And so, we are begun… #Synod . I will share just this one moment from tonight - a single male voice singing St Francis’ Laudato si’ whilst a man from Aleppo & woman from Columbia laid flowers and a life jacket in front of a specially made San Damiano cross replica.

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3 years

It finally arrived!! 🎉🎉🎉

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Anna Rowlands

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11 months

I am very, very honoured to be chosen by the Ratzinger Foundation & the Expanded Reason project for this award for my CST book, award day next week! Thanks so much to them “Expanded Reason” Awards 2023: 7 academics to be honored at Vatican - Vatican News

“Expanded Reason” Awards 2023: 7 academics to be honored at Vatican - Vatican News

The Joseph Ratzinger-Benedict XVI Vatican Foundation will hold the 6th edition of the “Expanded Reason” Awards on 17 October, honoring 7 academics for ...

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Anna Rowlands

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1 year

Really grateful to my university @durham_uni for enabling me to spend time for next 2 yrs offering assistance to the important work of @pontifex Synod on Synodality and to assist in work for the Dicastery for Integral Human Development. A busy, challenging, stimulating time ahead

Durham University

@durham_uni

1 year

Congratulations to @AnnaRowlands1 in our Dept of Theology & Religion and @CCSDham on her secondment to the global Synod process that will help shape the future of the Catholic Church. Find out more 👉

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Anna Rowlands

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5 years

Me: ‘I’m disappointed you had the tattoo without my permission...’ Son ‘but i own my body...’ Me: ‘a self relation rooted in the idea of property ownership is not a good idea really...’ Son: ‘MUM, literally NOONE I know discusses philosophy at the dinner table Me: incomprehension

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Anna Rowlands

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1 year

If you would like to be reminded that sometimes people are just kind, today I had a flight nightmare. Instead of being in Rome I am in London, housed for the night by complete strangers in same flight predicament who decided I looked trustworthy and took me home with them… 🙏❤️

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Anna Rowlands

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4 years

This morning Pope Francis will launch #FratelliTutti , a new social encyclical on universal sisterhood & brotherhood & the need to build social friendships to transform a wounded world. I am honoured to be speaking at the launch, & to try to address Francis’ urgent call to action

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Anna Rowlands

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11 months

Today’s photo is of the beautiful replica of the San Damiano Cross (the real one is in Assisi!) that stands by the entrance to the main Synod meeting room. A good focal point as we move about our work here.

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Anna Rowlands

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2 years

All of us are welcome, Lucy. & none of us should expect to feel too comfortable …Unlike a political party, the church is not meant to represent our views, or exist for our comfort, but to gather us together in our very divisions through the body of the one who overcomes them all

Lucy Allan

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2 years

When the Church takes a strong political stance, it forgets that many of its congregation, who do not share its view, will feel alienated and unwelcome. Is a Conservative welcome @JustinWelby in the Church of England?

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Anna Rowlands

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3 years

Happy feast of Mary Magdalene. Someone shared a thought yesterday (inspired by Soren Kierkegaard)on Mary M: that for a moment she was the sole person who knew the truth and had witnessed it. There was a solitude in her knowing, a truth known alone, & then carried forth to others.

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Anna Rowlands

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2 years

For those of you who pray, could you pray tonight for a soul - a holy & good soul who has given her life for the care of others - who is making her final journey in these hours/days. People are her source of energy & I think she would find comfort in being held now in prayer. 🙏

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Anna Rowlands

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1 year

A lovely (big) surprise to win the Joseph Ratzinger Foundation and @RazonAbierta Expanded Reason Award for my book Towards a Politics of Communion. I am very grateful and honoured to be a recipient of this award. Thanks to both organisations @BloomsburyBooks @durham_uni @CCSDham

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1 year

La #UFV y la Fundación Joseph Ratzinger/Benedicto XVI anuncian los ganadores de la VI Edición de los Premios @RazonAbierta a aquellos investigadores y profesores universitarios que dialogan desde su #ciencia con la #filosof ía y/o #teolog ía

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Anna Rowlands

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10 months

We women attending the Synod, kindly hosted and photographed by @uisg_superiors last week.

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Anna Rowlands

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4 years

So, the isolation of over 70’s moment is when we realise how much that age group do to keep religious groups, foodbanks, volunteering, work-places, governance, childcare, spiritual care running and the list goes on..? Blocking the ‘publicness’ of this group is major social act

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Anna Rowlands

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11 months

St Peter’s crowned by last of morning mist as we arrived for the opening Mass of the Synod this morning. Pray for us!

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Anna Rowlands

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4 years

It is not ‘cancelling Christmas’ - it is celebrating it as best we can within limits we didn’t choose. With some humility. And fine to be sad and cross. We have remembered that the First Christmas didn’t look entirely ideal on paper either though right? No room at the Inn etc...

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Anna Rowlands

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3 years

Started planning the new book yesterday evening: Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil & Gillian Rose read as an alternative route through 20th Century political theology. Between Judaism & Christianity, philosophy & political thought, theology & social theory, politics & academy. Excited!

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Anna Rowlands

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3 years

Well, I have just finished the last paragraph of my final draft of my book ‘Towards a Politics of Communion: Catholic Social Teaching in Dark Times’. It will hopefully be in print in November with Bloomsbury. I won’t tell you how many years I have been writing it for. Too many.

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Anna Rowlands

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3 years

Exciting news (if you are me…) my CST book has a cover!!

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Anna Rowlands

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2 years

This prayer for Ukraine prayed aloud by @pontifex and composed by an Italian bishop is worth reading and praying …

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Anna Rowlands

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4 years

UNSPEAKABLY foolish tweet. Poor mean-spirited anti-humanism. Perhaps because ‘religious staff’ will be giving care, including last rites, burying dead, providing social care, risking own health alongside health workers, some ARE front line health workers. An undignified tweet.

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1 year

One reason (amongst many) to teach political theology… 😳😳😳

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Anna Rowlands

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4 years

LOOK what finally arrived!! Our Reader in Political Theology now in print...

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Anna Rowlands

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3 months

Rest in peace, Jurgen Moltmann. To grapple with what theology might still mean after the manufactured devastation of mid 20th C, & to feed & sustain human love for the divine through his labour for an adult lifetime, is an extraordinary way of having lived his and our times well

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1 year

Happy 10th anniversary @Pontifex 🙏🎂 for myself, other than the whole being a light in dark times thing, a champion for the planet etc, a witness to the Gospel, I recall the humiliation of being *mocked* by the man himself for being a Man Utd fan. 😂 I kid you not.

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Anna Rowlands

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1 year

This is deeply disturbing. I was heavily involved in the campaign & policy review on ending the detention of children and families in 2010/11. The idea that the small, imperfect but real progress we made then will be completely reversed is deeply alarming.

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Anna Rowlands

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3 months

The statement of the Benedictine sisters who support the liberal arts institution at which the commencement speech so widely retweeted this week was given. The sisters’ statement is well worth your time to read.

Home - Mount St. Scholastica

Recent Updates Reflection for the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul Read More June 29, 2024 Reflection for the Feast of John the Baptist Read More June 24, 2024 No need to fear the fire within No need...

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Anna Rowlands

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5 years

Gosh, what a piece of news for Good Friday. May the prayers of the Church surround him, he who has learnt and taught so much about how to accompany others in this life. May we - and Christ - accompany him now.

Commonweal Magazine

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5 years

We're sad to learn that Jean Vanier, founder of L'Arche, has entered palliative care. From our archives, a long piece on his life and teaching of "tenderness."

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Anna Rowlands

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11 months

Final bits for flight back to Rome for #Synod Taking the Bible that belonged to Sr Pat Robb CJ that she left me when she died. Carried throughout her global journeys & well prayed… Now it makes another journey. One I think she will be encouraging us in from heaven. Pray for us!

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Anna Rowlands

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10 months

So, this was today - the v grateful winners of the Expanded Reason / Ratzinger Foundation Awards were presented to @pontifex at today’s audience. Lovely moment with colleagues & fellow winners. First time this award been given since death of Pope Benedict, so a happy-sad moment.

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Anna Rowlands

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2 years

I’m not shocked by Johnson’s conduct. But I am head in hands depressed by organised messaging of front & back bench MPs ‘get over it, move on, he’s great, we need him’. That feels like gaslighting a nation. ‘It’s nothing, don’t make such a fuss’. That’s breathtakingly bad call.

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Anna Rowlands

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3 years

Today is 130th anniversary of publication of Rerum Novarum, the 1st modern papal social encyclical. It teaches priority of people / Labour over capital / profit, it teaches an enabling state, it calls for organised communities. It believes social crises are also spiritual ones.

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1 month

I have a special intention to ask people who pray to pray for tonight. If you are the praying kind, even if you’d don’t usually, someone would really appreciate knowing they are being prayed for tonight 🙏🙏

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2 years

Congrats to my lovely Mum and Dad on 50 years of marriage, a lovely blessing for them in their parish at the end of Mass this morning. DG.

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Anna Rowlands

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3 years

Just recorded first interview based on the new book! Suddenly seems v real that the book is out in less than 3 weeks time! #argh #lastminutenerves Too late to take it all back now😳

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Anna Rowlands

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10 months

Sun sets on this part of the Synod journey. A little bit of normal life beckons from tomorrow & maybe even sleep... Grateful and glad for all those i have had privilege of walking with & listening to & praying with for the last month 🙏

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Anna Rowlands

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2 years

With great sadness I’m letting those of you knew her know that the indefatigable, fierce, beautiful Sr Pat Robb died peacefully last night. Those who responded to my asking for prayers for a dying soul might like to know it’s her you prayed for. May she rise & dance in glory

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3 years

So, this morning I headed to York to give a copy of the book to Sr Pat Rob, to whom it is dedicated. A bit emotional. The 1st thing she asked me was ‘So, who will disagree with you, and what will they say?’ That’s one of many reasons to love Pat. Here she is.

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Anna Rowlands

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5 years

On a London bus and just watched a bus driver deal v kindly and sensitively with a man who seemed to be struggling with dementia. Second time this month I’ve seen this on a bus & been deeply impressed by public service.

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Anna Rowlands

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3 years

Telegraph headline on churches ‘gaming’ asylum system is also problem because it seems to have forgotten what the church is. Here’s a quick reminder: 1. It is mandated by an authority that is not the state. 2. It’s life is one of worship, prayer, fellowship & works of care 1/3

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Anna Rowlands

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2 years

When BBC does this it really is a problem - you cannot be an ‘illegal asylum seeker’. It’s is a right under international law to present to a state a claim for asylum. It is the right of a state to - through fair, dignified and just process - judge the veracity of that claim.

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2 years

BBC News channel now describing the Rwanda thing as gov's plan to "send illegal asylum seekers" there. This is messed-up language.

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11 months

This morning we had the privilege of participating in a beautiful Mass in the form of the Eastern Catholic Rite. It was spectacularly beautiful and moving. DG.

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3 years

Hi @Humanists_UK , latest Alice Roberts tweets have really made me wonder about state of humanist - religious discussion. Serious challenge & engagement re worldviews is critical. I feel sad that current engagement feels like series of playground taunts. Grown up debate welcome?

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3 years

One of things that struck me reading outpouring of anger/grief/fear from women following Sarah Everard’s murder is that we routinely manage our sense of risk/fear/hyper responsibility for our safety without even mentioning what we do even to those closest to us. It is just tacit.

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3 years

So an amazing friend (the phenomenal Claire Bodanis) had an amazing cake maker make a completely edible CAKE version of MY BOOK. Book and chocolate cake in one form… mind blown.

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Anna Rowlands

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6 years

Posting one of my fav Epiphany images again: happy feast.

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Anna Rowlands

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2 years

Very sad to hear of the death of Ann Loades. A fierce scholar, a major figure for those of us studying theology in these islands, including but not limited to feminist theology, and someone who was encouraging and kind to me personally. May she rest in peace and rise in glory.

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Anna Rowlands

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3 years

Ok, so you can now order my NEW book in the U.K. & US direct from Bloomsbury. The link is here if you’d like to order! Copies will be landing on doorsteps end of Nov / start of Dec with exciting launch events in January in Rome/London - online & in person

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Anna Rowlands

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1 year

I’m thinking about Primo Levi writing about the way a hostile regime creates structures & barriers that leave people with less than human choices, & then point to them, having partly created the conditions of their diminishment, & say: see, look, they are not like or worthy of us

LBC

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1 year

Home Secretary Suella Braverman tells @NickFerrariLBC migrants who come to the UK in small boats "possess values which are at odds with our country" with "heightened levels of criminality."

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Anna Rowlands

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11 months

A little pre-Synod pilgrimage to pray at the tombs of Ss Francis and Clare 🙏

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10 months

The sculpture in St Peter’s Square that focuses on the evils of war, displacement, persecution and forced migration, now and in our past.

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Anna Rowlands

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2 years

I have to say I find the use of mobile phone cameras during a funeral - by the clergy - somewhat jarring. I can’t help but think Benedict would have to… Are we really not able to just participate in something without re-producing it constantly?

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Anna Rowlands

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11 months

Sad to know that wonderful Philip Endean SJ has died. I owe much to him as interviewed me & gave me a theology MA place without a theology undergrad degree. He believed in me & took a chance… More importantly I learnt v much from him. May the angels come to greet you, Philip 🙏

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Anna Rowlands

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10 months

With my three women ‘expert’ colleagues and friends. With gratitude for them.

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Anna Rowlands

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4 years

Maundy Thursday. No public liturgy to start these 3 days. But the ‘washing of feet’ through so many domestic & institutional acts of love, care & service, tending each other’s needs, aware of what it means to build a life of care together seems raw, immediate, truly collective.

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Anna Rowlands

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3 years

Really excited to see the full jacket of the new book today and massively grateful for the very very kind endorsements from Bill Cavanaugh, @theosnick @DrClarkM1 @austeni (& one just in from @JustinWelby ) - thank you all!!! 8 weeks and the real thing will be on the desk!

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Anna Rowlands

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4 years

Watch this if you do only one thing today. Warning - it is extremely hard watching. But we should know how we are living in this moment.

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Anna Rowlands

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1 year

Much admiration and gratitude to the Anglican bishops in the Lords who have worked *tirelessly* to oppose the re-introduction of the detention of children in new and grotesque and impractical asylum bill. @BishopPaulB @BishManchester amongst them 🙏🙏

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Anna Rowlands

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7 years

My fav epiphany image. Happy Epiphany all.

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Anna Rowlands

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5 years

A scene that should never have been. But given that it is a scene that now is, in its awfulness & beauty it seems hard not to view this picture as a defining image of Holy Week, and of our moment.

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Anna Rowlands

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5 years

To book a single OFF PEAK train ticket London to Durham with three days notice: £165 one way. To book a plane to Rome for work for two weeks time: £30. Go figure. Completely screwed up travel system.

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Anna Rowlands

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3 years

First sighting of my CST book in the wild… in real life… as a 3D object. I don’t have a copy myself yet and official publication day is TOMORROW. *8* stupidly long & much interrupted years of work… Nervous & excited. Thanks to @Flo_Taylor for the photo evidence!

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Anna Rowlands

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4 years

Mr Raab, taking the knee is what many people do as sign of humility, dignity, awe, respect, in prayer, when honoured, proposing, receiving a sacrament, & with BLM as Eric Reid said ‘as a respectful gesture..thinking our posture was like a flag flown at halfmast to mark a tragedy’

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Anna Rowlands

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6 years

This is an incredibly moving image. I cannot look at it without weeping.

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6 years

A truly moving mum & daughter reunion this week. They fled Iran in 2017 but became separated in Greece. The daughter, 14, made her own way to Calais where we found her. It took us 9 months to reunite them The daughter is desperate to restart school🏫, we wish them both well ❤️

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2 years

Orthodox Clerics Call For Stop To War In Ukraine In Rare Challenge To Russian Government

In an unusual move, dozens of Russian Orthodox clerics have called for an immediate stop to the ongoing war in Ukraine in an open letter issued on March 1.

www.rferl.org

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4 years

Notes on Christmas (the severe version): it involves a heavily pregnant woman forced to make a long journey, poor accommodation, a death plot, & ends with forced exile. In middle of all that comes joy: a child, sent to set us free from all fear & anxiety & enmity, for love.

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2 years

The other thought that won’t go away about the Rwanda deal is that it is a kind of awful high point of the neoliberal state: it is quite simply a trade deal in people, people who ‘belong’ to neither nation who is trading them. In the name of lessening the exploitation of people?

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1 year

Happy Easter. May the joy and love of Jesus Christ who is Risen, be ours today, for all our days and for the days of those generations still to come. May we cast off all that binds us in chains, and live renewed and made unafraid by the splendid light of this day.

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5 years

To make someone stateless is to collude with a culture of death and refuse to play our part in a culture of life.

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Anna Rowlands

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10 months

Giving thanks for all the saints at the shrine of St Cuthbert and St Bede and giving thanks to St Hilda for our time in Synod. ⁦ @durhamcathedral ⁩

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3 years

You see, this is the kind of tweet I’m here for...

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3 years

I love this time of year when the popes are in full bloom

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10 months

If you are looking for the final English language version of the Synod synthesis report it is now available online A SYNODAL CHURCH IN MISSION

A SYNODAL CHURCH IN MISSION

www.synod.va

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7 years

Well, folks. I have a new job. From Sept I will be St Hilda Associate Professor of Catholic Social Thought & Practice, still @durham_uni :)

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4 years

Morning run. Moon still out over St Peters.

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2 years

It is not, as well they know, merely descriptive. It is moral language that implies intention (to take what is not yours, to use force, to overwhelm, to be hostile) It also implies morality on our side: these are unwanted unpleasant people. All this is deliberate moral messaging.

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2 years

Jenrick defends the use of the word ‘invasion’. Characterises it as merely descriptive.

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5 years

Sitting on a train working & eating double kit Kat and drinking tea. A uniquely pleasurable combo imv... woman opposite talks loudly to son about the kind of people who view chocolate as food, and why she never eats chocolate. Don’t rain on my parade, lady.

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6 years

Listening to BBC coverage of channel crossings & feeling VERY sweary. Idea a) mode of entry should affect whether asylum claim ‘genuine’ b) that refugees should sit & wait for yrs for slow & tiny resettlement schemes & are queue jumping is oddly inhuman & politically narcissistic

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Anna Rowlands

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5 years

Congrats to the completely brilliant @andrewgrinnell who passed his PhD viva today with flying colours..: so much hard work and determination went into this thesis and I’m a VERY fortunate supervisor to work with such inspiring theologian-practitioners!

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10 months

Some of our Synod members/experts are returning to parts of the world even more subject to violence, suffering, turbulence & slaughter than when they left a month ago. I return to safety (although not innocence). My prayers today are for their journeys and our common futures. 🙏

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Good Friday in Assisi with the hauntingly beautiful procession of the Dead Christ and the morning stillness of Holy Saturday. Prayers for all, and for the Church from the tomb of St Francis this morning 🙏

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4 years

I would like to announce that I ran my normal run in UNDER 7 mins per k av pace this evening. Everything else is heartbreak. But this is the tiny victory of my week! Note sweaty joyous face! We need all the tiny wins we can get right now. It’s that or drinking disinfectant right?

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3 years

Final proofs of the book…

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5 years

I saw for the first time this year, in Cookham, Stanley Spencer’s Last Supper. I loved it. So that’s my image for praying Maundy Thursday this year.

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4 years

Thinking with sadness & gratitude about friend & mentor of so many of us Nicholas Lash, intellectually brilliant, cutting, no-fools-suffering, funny. The only person to fall asleep briefly during a paper I gave & still ask the best question. May the angels come to greet him.

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3 years

This is why it’s tricky to communicate the kind of thing Catholic social teaching is … basically, it doesn’t obey the categories of liberalism in the following ways: 1. It views involvement in political life as part of a shared human task/nature/a responsibility/duty of all. 1/3

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3 years

Where's the tweet by a left-wing Catholic saying, "You know, I agree with the pope on substance, but it really isn't appropriate for the Holy Father to talk about complex matters of politics and economics like he's an activist leading a street protest"?

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2 years

Every mainland European station I have been through so far has a meeting and welcome point for Ukrainians, well staffed, with seating, food, maps to locate local services etc. I have to say I just feel ashamed of our response. Again. Puts into perspective my own train trotting

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5 years

How did this piece get past a decent editor? Just read it for its use of language - it’s not edgy or informative just mean and deeply unpleasant.

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4 years

Hard to read Jean Vanier news & avoid parallels with other abusers who used theology/spiritual direction as sexual control. (Incl Yoder & mennonites) Not just priests. Not just Catholics. Task of rooting abuse out is deeper, more theological & undone than most will acknowledge

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Happen to be trawling through every statement of the Catholic Church on migration since 1950 (more than 2,000 pages of documents). To do so as the new U.K. migration bill is passed is confronting to say the least. Below a thread with just a few of the most apposite.:: 1/a few

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Anna Rowlands

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3 years

First year I can use our Reader in Political Theology with my students!! Plenty of other material to supplement, but after all this time & work am excited to use it!!

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Anna Rowlands

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5 years

There is something so overwhelmingly sad and beautiful and powerful and fitting about the churches of Paris ringing their bells in prayer and vigil as Notre Dame burns.

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Anna Rowlands

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2 years

New term. New office. Fabulous view. No excuses now.

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Anna Rowlands

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2 years

Very touched by a gift from one of my PhD students from Hong Kong: a beautifully painted tea cup with the words sung by protesters in Hong Kong written through the design ‘Sing Hallelujah’. Some political theology to drink my tea from, she said…

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The much smaller scale migration sculpture given to the Vatican by the artist, & the basis of the larger scale (slightly different version) now in St Peter’s Square. Quoting Hebrews 13, do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers for some have entertained angels unawares

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Anna Rowlands

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4 years

Happy birthday Rowan

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Anna Rowlands

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4 years

For international women’s day... as the holder of a rare academic chair named after a pretty fabulous woman ... I give you ... St Hilda of Whitby (put a word in for us, would you?!) (photo pinched from a friend)

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Anna Rowlands

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2 years

Idea that Thatcherite policies will fix the broken mess that is 2022 economic, social, ecological reality in UK is beyond belief. Or rather can be little other than an ideological belief system divorced from all reality. Makes for surreal listening when living in the North East

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