These are the only thoughts on Pope Francis I feel capable of writing publicly with any confidence.
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From “An Honest Conversation About Dishonesty”: So again, you say I’ve changed. But I would submit I haven’t. You have. (Or people like you — not truly knowing your past, I’m using you as a stand-in for a type I encounter with great frequency.) I’m still against all the horrible ideas I used to be against. But the terrain changed on me, …
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Now that I have been doing it, I can talk about it. My New Year’s resolution was to read the Complete Works of Wm. Shakespeare. A play a week, 38 weeks into 2025.
I’m on schedule! 16 on finishing Merchant today.
Do I recommend it? Yes, yes I do. I honestly find myself choosing to lap up another scene or two of bloodshed or invective rather than scrolling through the glamour of Insta.
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I spent the morning teaching, but I’m watching the playback of the funeral now. Church history is long, and there will be many centuries to determine the legacy of Francis, but now we lay the Holy Father, the successor of St Peter, to rest and there is only prayer and hope in the resurrection. May God bless him and let His light shine upon him, and may He welcome him into the kingdom. Ora pro eo.
I love that quote "Idolizing a politician is like believing the stripper really likes you." There is a class of people that love status, money and authority. It is all-consuming to them, the end all, be all. These type of folks are drawn to politics, because you don't actually have to be competent (they are also drawn to leadership high leadership in other organizations). Once you understand that they really are all about power, you know to listen to everything they say with that bias. It's …
Italian Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano calls these elite pols “courtesans of power” which I think is a great descriptive phrase. The elites like Nancy Pelosi are the ultimate—she’s a real gutter politician from a corrupted family, the D’Alesandros of Baltimore. Both her father and brother were mayors of Balto, so try watching “The Wire” with her legacy in mind. It’s why she went all the way to California to escape local memories cuz Baltimore was pretty much destroyed by her family. She’s really…
They really don’t believe that the peons are human
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