They have been www.thecatholictelegraph.com/popes-pro-li... can't recall the specifics in terms of the 'just war', but they've definitely been actively speaking out about the death penalty and war, which were part of the original project life movement.
A minority of Yanks gave us a bad name

It also looks a lot less dizzingly high than the bridge near Booterstown Ave .... Surprising that the Galway plan doesn't include bridges, given the number of bridges on Dublin roads built when, I think, we had less money.

Algorithms don't know better, but I'm getting some nasty posts about my faith in the discovery feed. The left is no better than the right. The Right wants to incapsulate and control my faith for its own power, the Left just wants to mock it for cheap karma points.

Nephews and nieces doing the offertory like everyone else would have spoken volumes, and touched so many... representative of the funerals in 2020 and 2021 when circumstances meant it couldn't happen, and the value of extended family.

"Afterwards, I thought: Who does that? What world leader thanks someone for a challenging conversation? For me, that small gesture says a great deal about Pope Francis’s humility, openness and freedom, as well his willingness to listen and learn...."

Wealthy, often (mostly) evil people have always existed but unlike noble families in the Renaissance patronising artists or robber barons in the Gilded Age funding medical research, libraries & universities, today’s oligarchs have little to none lasting positive cultural or philanthropic legacy

3 The report mentions mother's going in a holiday while their children were looked after in the hostel. The attitude to mothers and babies was seen as an example of how to treat people with dignity and respect that other homes could follow. Physical conditions should have been better, clearly.

2 Mothers are quoted as preferring it because they were free to be themselves, have a smoke, make a cup of tea. Children were happy - some accidents recorded occurred because children were allowed to be children in a place where boiling water and cooking could be an issue.

1 The Legion of Mary wanted to provide for mothers and their children, ensure they could raise them. The report rightly highlighted criticism of Frank Duff's stubborn fixation on volunteerism casting problems for the provision of consistent health care and quarantining, proper funding and buildings

I must confess to needing to resist the temptation to try the doll thing - just keep reminding myself of all the water energy used.

Interesting that there's no dyslexia epidemic

What?!?! They deserve to have actual humans look at their work!!!!

We don't recover. We learn to hide, often behind substance use and abuse.

diagnosis of autism as woman who does not meet the stereotypes, commentary like this added to my sense of maybe being a fraud. But it is on a societal level, this will impact people's support and acceptance of ND people, when there is still a fight for just a basic level of understanding

Small corner of set-asise on the family farm at the edge of the old bog that was easy to get to.....fast forward a couple of years, it's very difficult to get past the birch

Part of repentance includes taking responsibility and making amends, if you can, doing the work of penance, which isn't limited to reaching out beyond the self, reflection and chanting/saying your three Hail Marys, and attempting to do better.

While the fathers continue as they are, unaware that they themselves share their children's traits.... In some cases, at least

This is an advert for a runaway slave that James Hoban placed in a Charleston newspaper (1789). "Peter" must have been captured for he appears in the list of Hoban's slaves that worked on building the White House in 1792.

Remarks by Taoiseach Micheál Martin at White House Shamrock Ceremony: "Irish labourers came to help build the new Republic, the beacon on the hill. They even built this beautiful White House."

Runaway slave advert placed by slave-owning Irish immigrant and architect of the White House, James Hoban:

I taught in an autism class, in a school with 4 classes for 3 years, about 19 years ago, we had access to an SLT, had a rhyme for speech. Last 10 years as a Mum wondering why advice in support for autistic or dyspraxic students is so limited, doesn't even mention tongue twisters, or other methods

Progressive Piety Progress How’s it coming along?Is the female form finally free?And all the human forms, those forms where personhood and physicality and  embodiment are not what appearances suggest…

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The breakthrough tech reducing greenhouse gas emissions Manure from the cows owned by dairy farmer Raymond Goggin produces about 1,000 tonnes of slurry every winter, and this year's supply contains more nutrients than ever before.

A non-invasive new breakthrough technology is capable of slashing greenhouse gas emissions from manure by more than 80%, writes George Lee.

Support includes mindset - even those with 'support' may struggle if it is inappropriate, if they are underestimated, if they are micromanaged, if they are misunderstood, if mutual understanding between peers is not facilitated, and it may take a very long time for them to be OK if this happen

Autocrats Are Bad, Actually The obvious, non-obvious, mundane and controversial statement is this: autocratic governments are bad.

The obvious, non-obvious, mundane and controversial statement is this: autocratic governments are bad.
It’s bad to live under an autocrat. You shouldn’t want that. It’s no fun, it hurts all but a tiny few, and it gets a whole lot of people killed.
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What If They're Not Concentration Camps? Once we accept that treatment we wouldn't want visited on our own children is all right for somebody else's children-- that's what we've decided to do, to somebody. The question of how many somebodies...

It started with the notion that some human beings are more worthy of life than others– and that some evils are tolerable in the interest of safety and prosperity for the right people.

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What Is Spiritual Abuse? A community that won't work against abuse becomes an abusive community. This is inevitable. There's nowhere else to go once you've made the decision to cover things up, ignore them or blame the victim...

A community that won’t work against abuse becomes an abusive community. This is inevitable. There’s nowhere else to go once you’ve made the decision to cover things up, ignore them or blame the victim.
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Five Ways To Spot Spiritual Abuse Many years ago now, I went on retreat for the weekend with my FUS "faith household." A faith household is an institution unique to Franciscan

I’ve been pondering why it took so long to realize we were being abused, and that it was spiritual abuse.

Why is it so hard to notice when we’re being spiritually abused?

Why is spiritual abuse so hard to name?
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The Price Of An Onion There was a knock at the door. I could tell it was Jimmy because he's a bit short, so all I could see through the pane on the door was a

I could tell it was Jimmy because he’s a bit short, so all I could see through the pane on the door was a messy blond man bun. I knew his boy was with him because his boy always tags along, when Jimmy does his neighborhood rounds.
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Fruit Is Expensive Where It Grows I have a friend who lives in rural Mexico. We don't get to talk often because the wifi isn't good there. Nothing is terribly good there. Scorpions

“Partly because the good ones all go to the United States,” she added.

My heart sank.

“Raspberries are the worst.”
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I Am Not Used To The Living Between a dirt path and a paved sidewalk, there is a gulf like the one between Heaven and Hell.

The life of human cities is not the life of biomes, and the decay of human cities is a different decay than that of trees. Here in this abandoned and dying steel mill town, life does not give way to more life but to dust and rust and ash.
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When The World Is Returning To Life Once I went with her and a group of friends on a hike at Raccoon Creek State Park, in March, when the world is returning to life.

“You should have kept him on the leash!” I scolded. “What would you have said if he’d drowned?”

“At least he went out with a splash?” joked the girl who was raised in a cult.

On the way back to Steubenville, the girl revealed she was homeless.
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