Brody McCurdy

Linguist, aspiring playwright, mediocre banjo player, saver of dance floors

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

“I receive letters from children in war zones every day. They tell of the pain and sorrow of war, while grown-ups boast of its effects.

“We must instead listen to the children.” — Pope Leo XIV

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

Not in our name. Not in the name of our God.

[Brody McCurdy @BrodyMcCurdy]

STOP VOTING FOR ANDYYYY #DWTS

[Tim Duffy™ @TimDuffy]

RIP Brian Wilson. Literally moments ago finished @NifMuhammad’s beautiful book There’s Always This Year, which features this passage.

[The Liberation Theology Podcast @LibTheoPodcast]

"The wealth of nations originates from no other source than from the labor of workers." 
--Pope Leo XIII

[matt @mattybtweets69]

Reports coming in that the swimsuit portion of the conclave has just concluded and that the talent portion is now under way

[Jason Blakely @jasonwblakely]

I've seen many bad takes on the selection of the next Pope, but the @washingtonpost op-ed on a major criterion of selection being whether the See of Peter is appropriately affirmative of free markets (an office that antedates capitalism by 17 centuries) is perhaps the worst.

[Paul Joseph @pjfahey]

On the feast of St. Joseph the Worker and May Day, remember that the Church teaches that workers have a right to

-unionize

-a wage sufficient for families, savings, and leisure

-that labor takes priority over capital

-and not paying a just wage is a sin that cries to heaven

[john milbank @johnmilbank3]

Of course Francis is open to criticism on various fronts, but in the end American Catholics opposed to him and his official writings were against him because of his strong opposition to an unqualified capitalist economic global order.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Pope Francis: “As long as the problems of the poor are not radically resolved by rejecting the absolute autonomy of markets & financial speculation and by attacking the structural causes of inequality, no solution will be found for the world’s problems or to any problems.”

[barry pierce @BarryPierce]

we’re getting papal conclave discourse from people who couldn’t name a single station of the cross

[Ash Presto 💜 @sosyolohija]

Pope Francis made being Catholic less morally suffocating. This is heartbreaking news for the faithful, and for those like me who only slowly found their way to faith because someone at the helm reminded us that the Church could also be a place to breathe.

[Tony Annett @tonyannett]

I devastated by the news from Rome. Pope Francis was the only moral bulwark against the rise of nationalism and xenophobia and now we are left rudderless.

[Harvard University @Harvard]

The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights. Neither Harvard nor any other private university can allow itself to be taken over by the federal government. https://t.co/5k5t9RYYC2

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

We must abolish the death penalty.

[John B. Holbein @JohnHolbein1]

timeless

[🏳️‍🌈 the Quack! 🏳️‍🌈 @theQuack_zine]

Exciting news! We are now open to submissions for our Winter Issue: "A Weary World Rejoices"...🧵

[America Magazine @americamag]

Pope Francis allows blessing same-sex relationships

https://t.co/ZpSGsBQq4h

[Brody McCurdy @BrodyMcCurdy]

Still trying to put all of my thoughts about this amazing trip into words, but here’s a start!

[Outreach @OutrchCatholic]

Brody McCurdy, a queer Catholic, and his friend Rev. Grace Woodward, a Presbyterian minister, discuss their experience traveling to Rome for an ecumenical prayer vigil.

https://t.co/zLLBoOlBbm

[Brody McCurdy @BrodyMcCurdy]

Really excited to share my first academic publication!! Check out my paper “Y’all Means All: The Changing Indexicality of a Southernism” (for free) here: https://t.co/XteUKXcVcC