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orbisbooks.bsky.social @orbisbooks.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Henri Nouwen’s voice still resonates—and we’re proud to be part of that legacy. 📚 ✨Robert Ellsberg & Orbis Books featured in Publishers Weekly. Read more: www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/... @publisherswkly.bsky.social #henrinouwen @robertellsberg.bsky.social

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Robert Ellsberg @robertellsberg.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

This symposium on #DorothyDay at the Gregorian University in Rome will be livestreamed on Nov 26. Looking forward to being there.

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Robert Ellsberg @robertellsberg.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Some celebrate the Feast of All Saints on November 1. Others every day.

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Robert Ellsberg @robertellsberg.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

My new book BLESSED AMONG US Vol 2, with over 700 entries drawn from my daily reflections in @giveusthisdaylp.bsky.social @litpress.bsky.social litpress.org/Products/017...

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Liturgical Press @litpress.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

EXCITING NEWS! Robert Ellsberg's BLESSED AMONG US; VOLUME 2 has arrived and will be sent out shortly to those who’ve preordered! The book features hundreds of reflections on individuals who give witness to the myriad ways of holiness. litpress.org/Products/017... @robertellsberg.bsky.social

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Robert Ellsberg @robertellsberg.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Very much looking forward to receiving my copies. Thanks to @litpress.bsky.social and @giveusthisdaylp.bsky.social. This and Vol 1 are drawn from my more than 1400 reflections written over the past 14 years.

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Hans E. Offerdal @hofferdal.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Yes! A lot of interesting titles from stellar publisher @orbisbooks.bsky.social in the pipeline now. As @robertellsberg.bsky.social says: "A World of Books that Matter." 👇8 that seems very intriguing (dets in alt text). @maryknoll.bsky.social @commonweal.bsky.social @csmonitor.bsky.social

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Bratten Weiss, Rebecca. The Books That Made Us: Deconstructing the Modern Christian Classics. Orbis Books, 2025.

De La Torre, Miguel A., and Mitri Raheb, editors. Tear down These Walls: Decolonial Approaches to Barriers and Liberation. Orbis Books, 2025. Ethics and Intersectionality.

Dorrien, Gary J., et al., editors. Organizing Visions: Social Ethics and Broad-Based Solidarity Activism. Orbis Books, 2025. Ethics and Intersectionality.

Douglass, James W. Martyrs to the Unspeakable: The Assassinations of JFK, Malcolm, Martin, and RFK. Orbis Books, 2025.

Feddon, Dustin. More than Half Way Home: A Story of Accompaniment in the Shadows of Incarceration. Orbis Books, 2025.

Ilo, Stan Chu. Where Is God?: An African Theology of Suffering and Smiling. Orbis Books, 2025.

Munayer, John S., and Samuel S. Munayer, editors. The Cross and the Olive Tree: Cultivating Palestinian Theology amid Gaza. Orbis Books, 2025.

Vink, Andrew T. Common Evil: Political Economy and the Ethics of Liberation. Orbis Books, 2025.

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Robert Ellsberg @robertellsberg.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

So enjoyed this conversation with Joyce Rupp about her new book, “Years of Ripening: Reflections on Aging for the Later Years.” @orbisbooks.bsky.social youtu.be/hxjMPtUiz7Q?...

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Joyce Rupp, One On One Interview | Orbis Books

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Robert Ellsberg @robertellsberg.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Is it too much to say in this time, in America, that we are on a train bound for hell? If that seems extreme, can we at least ask the question: Where is this train headed? My latest reflection: "A Big Beautiful Train." sacredheartuniversity.typepad.com/go_rebuild_my_…

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Robert Ellsberg @robertellsberg.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

"My mission of being in the heart of the people is not just a part of my life or a badge I can take off. Instead, it is something I cannot uproot from my being without destroying my very self. I am a mission on this earth; that is the reason I am here in this world."--Pope Francis

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National Catholic Reporter @ncronline.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

There is every indication that Pope Leo XIV could follow Pope Francis’ embrace of liberation theology, a politically tinged movement that emerged in the 1970s and championed the liberation from social, political and economic oppression as a path to salvation.

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Liberation theologians in Latin America express hope for Pope Leo

"What we do know," said Brazilian-born theologian Leonardo Boff, "is that he's a North American with a Latin American soul."

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Robert Ellsberg @robertellsberg.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Very honored to be named as one of three Authors of the Year by the Catholic Media Association. (For publishing 5 prize-winning books in the past five years. All published @orbisbooks.bsky.social

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Robert Ellsberg @robertellsberg.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

It was a privilege to interview a living saint, Maggy Barankitse, along with David Toole, the author of her biography, "Love Made Me an Inventor." @OrbisBooks Her internet connection was unstable. Just means you have to listen harder: youtu.be/qBlah0PzCpc?...

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David O'Toole, One On One Interview | Orbis Books

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Commonweal @commonwealmagazine.org · 19/06/2025

Can a Catholic be a Hindu? Jesuit Francis X. Clooney has sought to learn from both traditions with real devotion. www.commonwealmagazine.org/hovering-edge

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Hovering on the Edge

Can a Catholic be a Hindu? Jesuit Francis X. Clooney has sought to learn from both traditions with real devotion.

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Robert Ellsberg @robertellsberg.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Roger Haight, SJ died today. At @orbisbooks.bsky.social we published 9 of his books, beginning with his controversial "Jesus Symbol of God." Our final meeting was last year when I presented him with a copy of his final book, "FACING RACE." Appropriately, he died on Juneteenth. RIP.

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Robert Ellsberg @robertellsberg.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

10 years ago on June 17 2015, a young white supremacist, hoping to “ignite a race war,” opened fire at a prayer service at Mother Emmanuel Church in Charleston SC, killing the pastor and eight other members of the African American congregation. My reflection in @giveusthisdaylp.bsky.social

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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 16/06/2025

In 2023, FPF honored our dear friend by carrying the torch for two of the causes he championed most — reform of the U.S. government’s secrecy system and unconstitutional abuse of the Espionage Act — through the creation of the Daniel Ellsberg chair on government secrecy.

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The Classifieds

Freedom of the Press Foundation’s project to fight overclassification and advocate for reforms to the secrecy system.

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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 16/06/2025

Today marks the second anniversary of the passing of legendary whistleblower, anti-war hero, and FPF co-founder Daniel Ellsberg. His courageous decision to leak the Pentagon Papers to the press in 1971 led to the most important Supreme Court case for press freedom in the century.

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Robert Ellsberg @robertellsberg.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Fr Steve Bevans SVD has won the highest honor of the Catholic Theological Society of America: the John Courtney Murray Award. Very proud of our author @orbisbooks.bsky.social

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Robert Ellsberg @robertellsberg.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

My lecture on "The Long Pilgrimage of Dorothy Day" no posted online. www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4ak... Starts at 12:30 mins.

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The Long Pilgrimage of Dorothy Day

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U.S. Catholic magazine @uscatholic.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

'Dorothy Day: Spiritual Writings,' edited by @robertellsberg.bsky.social focuses on themes central to Day’s life and work—prayer, community, nonviolence, and the works of mercy—and offers a deeper understanding of the spiritual principles that drove her transformative work. @orbisbooks.bsky.social

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Robert Ellsberg @robertellsberg.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

The feast of the Visitation, celebrating the sisterhood of two women joined by faith in the God of the Impossible. My reflection in @giveusthisdaylp.bsky.social

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Robert Ellsberg @robertellsberg.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

My fascinating conversation with Diarmuid O'Murchu, a visionary Irish priest and theologian, about his latest book, "Divine Radiance in Human Evolution." www.youtube.com/live/mS9hPRl...

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Diarmuid O’Murchu, One On One Interview | Orbis Books

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Robert Ellsberg @robertellsberg.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Lay theologian Rosemary Haughton died a year ago today, May 9. My reflection in @giveusthisdaylp.bsky.social

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Robert Ellsberg @robertellsberg.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

“I want to see the church so far forward that my successor will not be able to turn back.”—Pope Leo XIII, the previous Leo. Apart from introducing modern Catholic Social Teaching One of his first steps was to make Newman a cardinal. My reflection in @giveusthisdaylp.bsky.social

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Robert Ellsberg @robertellsberg.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

My reflection on Henry David Thoreau in @giveusthisdaylp.bsky.social “How does it become a man to behave toward this American government today? I answer that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.”

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Robert Ellsberg @robertellsberg.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Makes sense if the cardinals opt to revive the era of Borgia popes.

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Robert Ellsberg @robertellsberg.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Venerable Juana de la Cruz. My reflection in @giveusthisdaylp.bsky.social To the nonbinary God of Love.

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Robert Ellsberg @robertellsberg.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

So happy to talk with my friend Kelly Brown Douglas about the publication of the 25th anniv edition of her book “Sexuality and the Black Christ,” and the whole trajectory of her writing career, which for us goes back over 30 years. @orbisbooks.bsky.social youtu.be/mGL39SwIIrY?...

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Kelly Brown Douglas, One on One Interview | Orbis Books

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Robert Ellsberg @robertellsberg.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

May issue of @giveusthisdaylp.bsky.social My “Blessed Among Us” include Thoreau, Rosemary Haughton, Walker Percy, Julian of Norwich, Emily Dickinson, Franz Jägerstätter, Jane Addams, and many more.

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Robert Ellsberg @robertellsberg.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Perhaps even in death Pope Francis is working for peace.

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Robert Ellsberg @robertellsberg.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

My Publisher's Letter from @OrbisBooks, reflecting on the vision and agenda of Pope Francis, reflected in the more-than 20 vols of his writing we published. For the original with hyperlinks: orbisbooks.com/pages/our-be...

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Our beloved Pope Francis has died

Dear Friends, Our beloved Pope Francis has died. In his very first act as pope he made history in the choice of his name, becoming the first pope to align himself with the memory of St. Francis of A...

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Robert Ellsberg @robertellsberg.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Pope Francis, in his focus on migrants and refugees as a defining theme of his papacy, found his opposite counterpart in Donald Trump. From the intro to Pope Francis, "A Stranger and You Welcomed Me." @orbisbooks.bsky.social www.ncronline.org/vatican/book...

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Robert Ellsberg @robertellsberg.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

For the last 12 years my faith and vocation were sustained by the witness of Pope Francis. At @OrbisBooks we worked to promote and amplify his voice. Over the years I regularly wrote him letters of support, with no expectation of hearing back, though twice I did. This was my last.

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Robert Ellsberg @robertellsberg.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

In a message of great love, sincerity and affection. Herod asked the disciples where he might find the risen Christ so he too could worship him.

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Robert Ellsberg @robertellsberg.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

A wonderful Easter meditation: My interview with Kathleen Deignan about her new book: THOMAS BERRY: A Book of Hours. @orbisbooks.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/2zxgn5q...

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Kathleen Deignan, One On One Interview | Orbis Books

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