Pini Dunner: In the secular world, a day begins at midnight, a rather strange notion, dating back to the Romans, who insisted on calculating their days using noon as the main reference point. Midnight is exactly halfway between one noon and the next, so it became the start of the day.
JORGE MARIO BERGOGLIO: In defense of the unity of the Body of Christ, I am constrained to revoke the faculty granted by my Predecessors.
"For the poor shall never cease from the Earth" (Deuteronomy 15:11).
JewishHistory.com: When the emperor became a Christian it meant that the empire became Christian. Constantine cleansed the Roman bureaucracy of pagans and replaced them with Christians.
JewishHistory.com: Christianity at that time also appealed to the intellectual element that could no longer believe in the nonsense of paganism and Roman mythology.
JORGE MARIO BERGOGLIO: There are a lot of reasons to be worried about the Radio, L’Osservatore, but one that touches my heart: How many people listen to the Radio? How many people read L’Osservatore Romano?
By Msgr. Charles Pope/National Catholic Register: As the Apostles began the work of preaching and proclaiming Christ, they proclaimed a message that was rather basic and simple. More extended teaching or instruction would come later, after baptism. But the initial proclamation of Christ was simple and to the point. This is especially the case when we are, in effect, starting from scratch with many people today. For in some sense, the current times are like the pagan world in which the Apostles first proclaimed the Gospel of Jesus Christ. 🎃
LUKE HAMPTON: Rome fell and so could America
‘Not a good look’: US Embassy in Vatican flies LGBT pride flag, offending Catholics
— RT (@RT_com) June 1, 2021
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I’m definitely in the camp of defending rioting & looting as a legitimate, politically-informed response to state violence. I’ve tweeted on this topic many times & I’m always willing to engage people in good faith discussion of why I hold that position.
— DEFUND & ABOLISH POLICE (@BreeNewsome) April 13, 2021
A large oil spill off the southern California coast left fish dead, birds mired in petroleum and wetlands contaminated, prompting local officials to call it an environmental catastrophe.#OilSpill | #ClimateCrisis | #Californiahttps://t.co/U52vHMDOiS
— The Jerusalem Post (@Jerusalem_Post) October 4, 2021
Thousands of gallons of crude oil have reportedly spilled from a storage tank at Marathon’s refinery in Texas City, north of Galveston
— RT (@RT_com) October 7, 2021
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PUEBLO SIN FRONTERAS: We recognize the importance of the incoming Government of the United States having shown a strong commitment to migrants and asylum seekers, which presents an opportunity for the governments of Mexico and Central America to develop policies and a migration management that respect and promote the human rights of the population in mobility,,,
Ángel Rodríguez Luño: ,,,As a Priest, my duty is not to Public Health. My obligation, as an instrument of Christ, is to forgive, if the conditions to forgive exist.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches in paragraph 1467: Given the delicacy and greatness of this ministry and the respect due to persons, the Church declares that every priest who hears confessions is bound under very severe penalties to keep absolute secrecy regarding the sins that his penitents have confessed to him. He can make no use of knowledge that confession gives him about penitents' lives. This secret, which admits of no exceptions, is called the "sacramental seal", because what the penitent has made known to the priest remains "sealed" by the sacrament.
MAUREEN FIEDLER: My friend and spiritual mentor Bill Callahan was a Jesuit with four ecclesial vows (poverty, chastity, obedience and that special vow of obedience to the pope), but he added a fifth: "to live a life of faith dedicated to the works of justice."
Jeffrey Mackey: What bothers me the most about the cavalier leaving of the Rockland campus is the lack of a theology of space - how many prayers are in heaven from those halls? And since those structures were mostly dedicated to God when opened, were they deconsecrated before they were vacated? No theology of space...
POSTFUN: They go into downtown Los Angeles several times a week which can sometimes turn into 5 to 6 hour-long roundtrip drives. Although this may sound brutal, it’s the name of the game, and they’ve learned to deal with it.
