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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.

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"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...."

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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

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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:

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@messengerpubs.bsky.social @bishopfintan.bsky.social @coraofarrell.bsky.social @kohsj.bsky.social @catholicyouthmi.bsky.social @catholicbishops.bsky.social @fr-martin-homilies.bsky.social @tonymgt.bsky.social To keepers if the kingdom reflectiveweaver.wordpress.com/2025/03/05/p...

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

submitted 59 days ago • 3 comments

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. www.patheos.com/blogs/steelm...

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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. www.patheos.com/blogs/steelm...

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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. www.patheos.com/blogs/steelm...

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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? www.patheos.com/blogs/steelm...

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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. www.patheos.com/blogs/steelm...

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“Partly because the good ones all go to the United States,” she added. My heart sank. “Raspberries are the worst.” www.patheos.com/blogs/steelm...

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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. www.patheos.com/blogs/steelm...

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“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. www.patheos.com/blogs/steelm...

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I think of the people I was supposed to be, standing in the presence of God. They are legion. They are easy to call to mind. I think about them all the time, after all, because I’m constantly ashamed that I didn’t become what they are. www.patheos.com/blogs/steelm...

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Catholic Traditionalist: A good Catholic woman needs to dress exactly like the Virgin Mary in a long skirt and blouse with a scarf or she is committing a mortal sin. This has always been the rule. Saint Joan of Arc: Merde. www.patheos.com/blogs/steelm...

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The other night, Adrienne and I were reminiscing about the dollhouse and all the wonderful fantasies we acted out with the Japanese action figures and the G. I. Joes, who are much better than Barbies in a Barbie Dreamhouse because they can bend their knees and sit. www.patheos.com/blogs/steelm...

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Such a fun game to play on a warm summer evening, two and a half decades ago, when I believed that all the Nazis were dead and gone. I’ve had that memory bouncing in my head for days. It feels so different now. www.patheos.com/blogs/steelm...

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I remember seeing Pope Francis giving an awkward wave from the balcony that very first day so many years ago, and being charmed by his bemused expression. I remember kneeling in my living room when he blessed the whole world during the COVID pandemic. www.patheos.com/blogs/steelm...

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The Catholic Church has declared that in vitro fertilization is a mortal sin. You’re only allowed to make a baby in the strict sense if you’re also making a baby in the colloquial sense, with your lawful wedded wife. www.patheos.com/blogs/steelm...

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The grotto itself was curtained away from the rest of the world by a roodscreen of icicles at least ten feet long. www.patheos.com/blogs/steelm...

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However tired you are of seeing the boilerplate, I'm twice as tired of busking. But we had to swipe the bank card for the water bill, which means there will be fees again or worse, and we mailed rent just hoping it would be there. www.patheos.com/blogs/steelm...

submitted 71 days ago • 1 comment

Communities of women religious have established relationships with Native tribes whose ancestral lands the sisters currently own, and consider what land justice could look like under their care. www.globalsistersreport.org/social-justi...

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