Gerald Schlabach
@geraldschlabach.bsky.social
Retired professor of Christian Ethics, Catholic Social Teaching, Peace Studies. I alternate between the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and Santiago Atitlán, Guatemala. I watch soccer, play mandolin, and paddle a canoe when I can (not with the mandolin).
Universes merge as Galadriel meets Peter and gives him an elvish bracelet of power.
Actress CATE Blanchett ‘GIVES’ her UNHCR bracelet to POPE Leo XIV -VIDEO
YouTube video by ROME REPORTS in English
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November 15, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Universes merge as Galadriel meets Peter and gives him an elvish bracelet of power.
As seen in Madrid.
July 7, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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.
May 8, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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.
Reposted by Gerald Schlabach
Okay, but why isn't the Void answering my screams? 🤨
April 8, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Okay, but why isn't the Void answering my screams? 🤨
Hubris is the worse kind of dumb. — St. Augustine, paraphrased.
April 4, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Hubris is the worse kind of dumb. — St. Augustine, paraphrased.
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).
March 13, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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).
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.
Becoming a Catholic Peace Church: A Conversation with Gerald Schlabach
Podcast Episode · What Matters Most · 01/30/2025 · 1h 32m
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January 31, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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.
January 21, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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.
Huge news!
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.
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January 6, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Huge news!
Never forget. Never whitewash.
How the Jan. 6 Capitol attack unfolded
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
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January 6, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Never forget. Never whitewash.
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
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.
collegevilleinstitute.org
December 9, 2024 at 6:06 PM
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
Reposted by Gerald Schlabach
Peak bothsidesism has been reached.
December 4, 2024 at 12:02 AM
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.
December 4, 2024 at 2:46 AM
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.
My latest in Commonweal:
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.
www.commonwealmagazine.org
December 3, 2024 at 2:31 PM
My latest in Commonweal:
Reposted by Gerald Schlabach
Massive away win for the little fella.
December 2, 2024 at 1:38 PM
Massive away win for the little fella.
In case you’re wondering, one Gaetz = 8/11 of a Scaramucci.
November 21, 2024 at 11:28 PM
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.
A Mayan Witness to Blessed Stanley Rother
mayanwitness.org
November 19, 2024 at 5:14 PM
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.
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.
A Pilgrim People
2020 Catholic Press Association honorable mention award for future churchRecent decades have seen a steady trend in Roman Catholic teaching toward a commitment to active nonviolence that could qualify...
litpress.org
November 19, 2024 at 5:04 PM
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.
November 19, 2024 at 4:58 PM
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.
Reposted by Gerald Schlabach
"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
William T. Cavanaugh on what to expect over the next four years:
www.commonwealmagazine.org/bread-circuses
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.
www.commonwealmagazine.org
November 15, 2024 at 6:25 PM
"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
William T. Cavanaugh on what to expect over the next four years:
www.commonwealmagazine.org/bread-circuses