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“The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural cure for suffering, but a supernatural use for it.'“
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Blessed Holy Week to all—
Let me just say that this legal strategy is deeply abhorrent to my Catholic faith.
Let future bishop aspire to be nothing more than a simple parish priest. Let him have accepted Holy Orders with a fear and trembling overcome only by faith in his vocation.
Let no man ever be ordained who desires priesthood as a means to higher stature. Firs…
Republican senator Dave McCormick condemns the arson against Governor Shapiro’s home: “We must call out the radical rhetoric and political violence that we have all witnessed over the course of this decade.”
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They knew that Rumeysa Ozturk had done nothing wrong. They sent masked men to grab and detain her anyway.
They knew Abrego Garcia had a protection order from deportation. They sent him to a foreign jail anyway.
They know the Supreme Court has told them that Abrego Garcia must be returned. They don’t care.
There is no debate any more. This president is a direct threat to the Constitution of the United States.
Dear Decent Human Beings in the Military and Law Enforcement,
If you are ordered to violate the Constitution by this president, please disobey.
The millions who served, suffered, and died before you deserve your courage now.
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This is insightful. As a Catholic — a cradle Catholic, but an intellectual one — I spent a long time jumping, like Qoheleth, from one pursuit to another in order to find meaning, to “prove” myself, as it were. That included a lot of intellectual pursuits and attempts to master Catholic theology.
Like many who attended Steubenville — defi…
Chasten and I are relieved that Governor Shapiro and his family are safe. While we wait to learn more, this much is clear: the targeting of a public official and his family - especially a prominent Jewish official on a major Jewish holiday - is unconscionable and has no place in our country.
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“Books are not to teach us how to live (that is the sad task of lesson-givers), but to make us want to live, to live differently: to find in ourselves the possibility of life, its principle.”
--Frédéric Gros, "A Philosophy of Walking"
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 Gospel is tragedy, comedy, and fairy tale.” — Frederick Buechner
I met Frederick Buechner later than I should have—through a friend who handed me Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy, and Fairy Tale with the casualness of someone passing you a cup of coffee, not a grenade. Inside, I found Pontius Pilate chain-smoking as he contemplated crucifying Jesus. I found Abraham—with soup on his tie and a glint in his eye—and Sarah laughing their way into the maternity ward, Medicare card…
RFK Jr. Podcast: Small Farms Healthy Food with Joel Salatin Farmer (11/16/24, podcast 51 min)
Anyone who likes to eat, garden, or farm will find this discussion quite interesting (even if you are a vegetarian).
Farmer Joel Salatin discusses the solutions to making farming provide more food at a higher nutritional density. How governmental and BigAg roadblocks could drum American small farms out of existence — just as governments have in the even worse Northern European countries like Denmark and Holland. And how to solve problems such as drought, fertilizer shortages, and more.
About Joel Salatin’s Polyface Farms:
In 1961, William and Lucille Salatin moved their young family to Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, purchasing the most worn-out, eroded, abused farm in the area near Staunton. Using nature as a pattern, they and their children began the healing and innovation that now supports three generations. Disregarding conventional wisdom, the Salatins planted trees, built huge compost piles, dug ponds, moved cows daily with portable electric fencing, and invented portable sheltering systems to produce all their animals on perennial prairie polycultures.
Today the farm arguably represents America’s premier non-industrial food production oasis. Believing that the Creator’s design is still the best pattern for the biological world, the Salatin family invites like-minded folks to join in the farm’s mission: to develop emotionally, economically, environmentally enhancing agricultural enterprises and facilitate their duplication throughout the world. The Salatins continue to refine their models to push environmentally-friendly farming practices toward new levels of expertise.
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Joel Salatin’s Polyface Farms website: polyfacefarms.com
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