Mary Gratton

Theology and education, moral formation, religious development, ethics, adolescence

[Tracy Vanilla Haven @TracyVanilla86]

When Calls The Heart Christmas Special this year too please! #Hearties #AllInForSeason10 #WhenCallsTheHeart

[Keenan @LearningwithKL]

We often talk about the mental health of others, but what about the mental health of teachers during #Covid_19? Can we normalize having a conversation around the mental health of teachers? Are we ready for that conversation? #MentalHealthMatters #edutwitter

[Cris Tovani @ctovani]

Today, Congress may have more sympathy for teachers & children who have also been trapped, threatened, and killed by domestic terrorists. Will Congress now practice active shooter drills? Will it enact better gun laws and afford schools the same protection & safety they want?

[John Gehring @gehringdc]

Catholic apologists for Trump, including more than a few bishops who touted his “pro-life” record, will denounce the mob violence at the Capitol. Empty rhetoric. You cozied up to an immoral authoritarian who stoked the fires of white supremacy. The chickens came home to roost.

[Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnson]

Kids get it.

[Tommy Vietor @TVietor08]

The only explanation for @realDonaldTrump's refusal to denounce this or call for an end to this coup attempt is that he wants it to happen. That's it. No more excuses. No more spin and bullshit from assholes like @tedcruz and @HawleyMO. You are complicit.

[melissa kelly 💙 @_mlktea]

terrorists storming the capitol vs one black woman in a cute dress

can you spot the difference, kids?

[Mary Gratton @marygratton]

@lindseynestor13 Chastity pledges are the worst and should never be done...for so many reasons. Ugh

[Penn State Men’s Hockey @PennStateMHKY]

"Everyday walking into Pegula Ice Arena is like you're coming to paradise. I love playing at Penn State because we have the greatest fans in college hockey," - sophomore forward @gratton_tyler.

#WeAre #HockeyValley

[Arlen Parsa @arlenparsa]

This is one of the most famous paintings in American history: Declaration of Independence.

I decided to put red dots on all the men who held slaves.

Next time someone puts them on a pedestal and says we can't question their judgement on guns or whatever, show them this image.

[Penn State Men’s Hockey @PennStateMHKY]

🚨 NEW NUMBER ALERT 🚨

@gratton_tyler #WeAre #HockeyValley

[Porter C. Taylor @PorterCTaylor]

I think pastoral care is a dying ministry in many churches and a neglected component in most seminaries/ordination processes. We focus on forming clergy theologically, but what about pastorally? Clinical Pastoral Education is being required less & less and it shows. We need more.

[Cardinal Cupich @CardinalBCupich]

“The less people concentrate on their own sins, the more interested they become in the sins of others...Unable to excuse themselves, they are ready to accuse others.” — St. Augustine of Hippo

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor. It must be demanded by the oppressed.”

-Martin Luther King, Jr.

#Happy4thofJuly #IndependenceDay

[Pete Cajka @petecajka]

Renkl relates a story that I have encountered many times as I’ve researched how Catholic laypeople received and learned about the rights of conscience in the 1960s and 1970s:

[Marcus Mescher @marcusmescher]

How can Christians worship Jesus — who as a child fled to Egypt to save his life — and then blame the parents of 10,000 children detained in inhumane conditions even as the parents made the same desperate choice as Mary & Joseph?

“Flight into Egypt” by Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1907

[Marcus Mescher @marcusmescher]

We need more humility, repentance, transparency, and accountability from #USCCB19.

(And less Jordan Peterson.)

More of an acknowledgement of the betrayal caused by @USCCB’s sins of commission and omission expressed so well here:

https://t.co/XYaQKzNwLF

[TRINITYPREZ @TRINITYPREZ]

The bishops need to have no other statements until such time as they have a clear and unequivocal action to atone for the horror of clergy child abuse and their own enabling behaviors....

[Michael J. O'Loughlin @MikeOLoughlin]

Speaking to LGBT Catholics, three points came across: 1. Insensitive of Vatican to release this during Pride Month 2. Appears authors did not consult trans people, despite calls for dialogue 3. Who are bishops to criticize others when they can’t get their own house in order?