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Asked an old man in a white house for directions: “You take a sharp right—or left—then drive about 40 miles, or 20–or in some cases five, then back up because you went too far. Then make a u turn, if you can believe that, then keep going until you’re there. Got it?”
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A beautiful tribute: “He was a model of how doing good in small ways leads, over time, to being great.”
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“What about us?
What about all the times you said you had the answers?
So what about us?
What about all the broken happy ever afters?
Oh, what about us?
What about all the plans that ended in disaster?
Oh, what about love? What about trust?
What about us?”
—Pink
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“Before you stood a large statue—an enormous, dazzling statue, awesome in appearance. The head of the statue was made of pure gold, its chest and arms of silver, its belly and thighs of bronze, its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of baked clay.” Daniel 2:31-33
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“The pale flowers of the dogwood outside this window are saints. The lakes hidden among the hills are saints, and the sea too is a saint who praises God without interruption in her majestic dance.”— Thomas Merton
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What about love
Don't you want someone to care about you
What about love
Don't let it slip away
What about love
I only want to share it with you
You might need it someday.
—Heart
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Elliot Abrams aided and abetted terrorism and genocide (the UN’s term) in Central America and pleaded guilty to lying to Congress, so sure, why wouldn’t he be an excellent choice for promoting human rights in Venezuela.
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Kennedy, King, Malcolm X relatives and scholars seek new assassination probes washingtonpost.com/history/2…
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Anyone who reads this book will recognize the questions that need investigation. orbisbooks.com/jfk-and-the-u…
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Dorothy Day: "Young people say, 'What good can one person do? What is the sense of our small effort?' They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time: we can be responsible only for the action of the present moment...
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As World Youth Day gets underway in Panama, here is a collection I edited of Pope Francis’ addresses to young people: The Courage to Be Happy. orbisbooks.com/the-courage-t…
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Pope Francis prays at the tomb of Bishop Samuel Ruiz of Chiapas, Mexico, who died Jan 25, 2011. A courageous champion of the poor and marginalized: "Justice means bringing down from their throne those who are privileged and elevating those who are humble to the same heights."
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"It astonishes me that any students participating in a pro-life activity . . . could be wearing apparel sporting the slogans of a president who denigrates the lives of immigrants, refugees and people from countries that he describes with indecent words..." Bishop John Stowe
Op-ed from CCA’s Episcopal Adviser, Bishop John Stowe of Lexington, KY. kentucky.com/opinion/op-ed/a…
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