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This is not reassuring! Exclusive: As Washington DC faces coronavirus spike, a secret military task force prepares to secure the capital newsweek.com/exclusive-washi…
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Brilliant essay: "When the term is understood as 'unveiling,' we can then ask the right questions: What does this pandemic unveil?" Is this an Apocalypse? We hope so abc.net.au/religion/catherin…
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Thanks. Interesting, though I don't have access to a library. That is surely the only place where my name appears in the same paragraph with some of those luminaries.
! Dulles was invariably kind and showed surprising interest in me--possibly as a fellow convert from Harvard with an unlikely family background. I reprinted his Models of Revelation and was later astonished to learn that he had proposed my name on a list of possible biographers.
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Another fun fact: One time Dulles--who had a distinctive, gravelly voice--called me on the phone and said "This is Cardinal Dulles." I burst out laughing and said, "Yeah, right!" He protested: "It really is Cardinal Dulles." "Oh my gosh," I said, "I thought it was Jim Martin!"
“We cannot love God unless we love each other and to love we must know each other. We know Him in the breaking of bread, and we know each other in the breaking of bread, and we are not alone anymore. Heaven is a banquet and life is a banquet...where there is companionship.”—D Day
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The master’s staff struggled to implement his almost daily decrees: that July and August cannot be too hot; a legal limit to the snow; that winter is forbidden till December and exits March the second on the dot; that summer lingers through September, etc. #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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St Damien de Veuster d, 4/15/1899 volunteered to serve as a priest on the leper colony on the Hawaiian island of Molokai, where he eventually succumbed to the illness.
Here is the latest video based on my reflections on the saints. I think the best so far. Thanks to @SheenCenter and @GiveUsThisDayLP Blessed Among Us: St. Damien of Molokai piped.video/aodvBaFDsfM via @YouTube
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One of my all-time fav's is "A Face in the Crowd" where Andy Griffiths plays Larry "Lonesome" Rhodes, a small-town drifter who gets a radio show and becomes a huge success with demagogic appeal--until he is caught on a live mic revealing his actual contempt for his fans.
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John Henry Newman’s hymn--one of Gandhi's favorites--takes on new meaning for today: “Lead Kindly Light, amidst the encircling gloom / Lead Thou me on! / … Keep Thou my feet; I do not ask to see / The distant scene; one step enough for me.”
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Though the peasants warned that frost was still on the ground, the master believed that winter had lasted long enough; it was time to start planting and get on with spring. “As master, I have to be able to say when enough is enough,” he insisted. #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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“Glendower: I can call the spirits from the vasty deep.
Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man;
But will they come, when you do call for them?”
― William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part 1
—@kaitlancollins to Trump: "You said when someone is President of the United States, their authority is total. That is not true. Who told you that?"
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