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Best piece I’ve read on the tariffs so far.
The first movie on this list should be better known. (It’s an indispensable part of our domestic Holy Week liturgy, viewed in three installments over Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday.)
“As we abandon our belief in the religious substructure that holds up the scaffolding of our minds, things like goodness, truth, and beauty become irrelevant…We adopt the postmodern idea that your truth is your truth, mine is my own, and that these contradictions can coexist…”
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With Holy Week approaching, I was thinking of sharing a short daily meditation from St. Thomas Aquinas. Nothing from me—just his wisdom—but I’d do my best to walk you through it and help you understand it. Would that interest you?
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The Catholic Vs Protestant debate is as old as time. Yet the venom can be very unpleasant to deal with. Many of us seem to ignore what Christ commanded us to do.
We often write here about Trump as if he were a solo act but I think we're all aware, even if we sometimes forget, that Trump himself is not too bright, knew nothing about US or world history when he became POTUS, made no effort to enlighten himself and in fact surrounded himself with advisors like Kushner who disdained history as HCR indicated in her previous letter about the middle east. The scariest thing to me about Trump being the 45th was that he was the puppet of some very dangerous thinking people (Stephen Miller, Steve Bannon, and their ilk). The reality that they couldn't completely control his personality and temperment and tweets only seemed to make him more popular among his base. As you say, Janice, truly frightening that there may well be a future candidate who embodies the puppet master minds with a much more eloquent mouth. Such a person could bring a lot of Republicans currently with a bad taste in their mouths about Trump back into the fold.