"This past Wednesday, I took advantage of the general audience at the Vatican to instead visit Saint Mary Major, where Pope Francis is buried. I had hoped to spend a few moments in prayer before his tomb, but the Vatican gendarmes kept instructing us to keep moving." www.ucanews.com/news/wednesd...
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My first "Letter from Rome" since ending my year-long sabbatical.
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“Even assuming the Administration now wishes to take back its litany of breathtakingly intrusive demands,” Harvard told The Washington Post in a statement, “it appears to have doubled down on those demands through its deeds in recent days”
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Connecting the dots. Ideological subversion: "to change the perception of reality of every American to such an extent that despite an abundance of information, no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interest of defending themselves, their families, their community, and their country.”
What price Vatican-approved sainthood?
BREAKING: On Friday, the federal government issued new demands of Harvard University. The university's lawyers just responded: back off.
Brooks is right twice a year, unfailingly. But this one counts for four.
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what Ross Douthat is doing with Trump now - trying to rationalize everything he and Vance do - puts in perspective what he did with Pope Francis.
Biggest insider trading market manipulation scheme in history.
They aren't even bothering to hide it.
A bunch pf clowns. Cruel, clueless, and DANGEROUS clowns.
RIP dear Ladislas
“This is how democracy dies. Everybody just gets scared,” the Connecticut senator Chris Murphy tells David Remnick. “You make a few examples, and everyone else just decides to comply.”
Let’s hope this is the end.
With global attention fixed on the war on Gaza, Israel is rapidly redrawing the map of the occupied West Bank through intensified assaults, paving the way for full annexation.
On Palestine Land Day, we map out what is happening ⤵️
More of us MUST speak up and speak out! History will be our judge.
Those who know me know Gillcrist's move isn't quite my style but he's done us all a big favor. This acct plays like a Passion narrative in a way that should seize you as Holy Week approaches. It's an indictment of a country and a Church who are a little too Roman.
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Trump today: “We need Greenland for international safety and security. We need it. We have to have it. I hate to put it that way, but we're going to have to have it."
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😳 In che senso "vuol dire che sta bene"? Perché ha fatto un "drive by"? Non è neanche sceso dalla macchina. Il papa sta ancora male, e si vede. Necessita 2 MESI di convalescenza, caro cardinale. Preghiamo per Papa Francesco ora più che mai.
There’s no word for this other than evil.
