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Thank you @mfjlewis. This article describes a very sad state of affairs. I remember when I realized that my enthusiasm for Pope Francis was not shared by all Catholics.
This was a very difficult piece to write. But my experience is not unique, and the divisions caused by the war against Pope Francis are real, and personal.
americamagazine.org/faith/20…
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So sorry, Mike. There are are very dark spirits loose in the world. Please keep the faith. Your work is so much appreciated.
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The master aspired to live by three rules: to see no evil, hear no evil, and say no evil. But like the rule of doing no evil, these were mostly honored in the breach. #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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75 years ago on Aug 15 1945, the Japanese surrender marked the end of WWII. Five years later in 1950 Pope Pius XII declared the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary on this date. (Statue of Mary that survived the bombing of the Urakami Cathedral in Nagasaki).
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Right! Let's get real. Not even half that many people speak English. And if half again as many believe in the existence of a higher being, then we're only talking 1 billion potential readers.
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Following the Civil War there were 30k homeless children in NYC. Many infants were abandoned. Sr Mary Irene Fitzgibbon, a Sister of Charity, rented a house, placed a crib in front with the sign The Home for Foundlings—and waited. That night the first baby was left in the crib.
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On Aug 14 1941 St Maximilian Kolbe died in a starvation bunker in Auschwitz where he had been consigned for weeks with 9 others as punishment for another prisoner’s escape. Kolbe, a Franciscan priest, had volunteered to take the place of another prisoner with a wife and children.
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Wow, @NewYorker features John Hershey’s historic 31k-word story on “Hiroshima” from 1946–still one of the most important accounts of the bomb ever published.
A hundred thousand people were killed by the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima in 1945. Six survivors recount their experiences of the bombing and its aftermath, wondering why they lived when so many others died.
nyer.cm/lpyasJ8
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Bd Jakob Gapp, d. August 13, 1943. Standing up to Nazis.
On this day 75 years ago, Bd Jakob Gapp, Marianist priest was beheaded by the Nazis on charges of treason. He had instructed his students to love all people. "God, not Adolf Hitler, is your God," he proclaimed. With help from friends he escaped to Spain...
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The master was proud of his extraordinary 96% approval rating among his children. Of course the number went down if one counted those he had disowned or who had changed their names. #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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