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Someone recently asked me how they could help given my current rough state of mind.

Pray.

Pray that I can secure a few displays for The Project. Because no matter what is going on in my life. Serving the Lord is the best way to help. It allows me to focus on following Christ and I can turn what I’m doing into an active prayer.

Pray that parishes reach out to me about doing displays. This is the major source of my frustration. I’m living in a time where parishes don’t want to make the kind of com…

Jonathan V. Last's avatar

It’s not just about tariffs. Trump and Republicans are pursuing a coordinated suite of policies designed to cause economic meltdown.

And it’s working.

Behold: The Glorious Trumpcession Is Here
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today in “things you might not guess high-school sophomores need to be told”:

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Donald Trump, an All-Powerful President With No Power at All
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Saint John of the Cross reminds us that union with God doesn’t come from effort or achievement, but from surrender.

The Path of Humility

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Fr. Scott Bailey, C.Ss.R.'s avatar

It is said that Napoleon Bonaparte once threatened a Catholic Cardinal by saying: “Your Eminence, are you not aware that I have the power to destroy the Catholic Church?” To which the cardinal replied: “Your Majesty, we Catholic clergy have done our best to destroy the Church for the last eighteen hundred years. We have not succeeded, and neither will you.”

Whether true or not this anecdote reminds us that Hell has infiltrated the Catholic Church and has never won. Hell was utterly defeated on t…

Naomi's avatar

I don't believe President Trump had a "private stash." Baloney. This is just an excuse for the abuse and misuse of the FBI.

Ranked choice voting is awful. It can be easily manipulated. The worst candidate can end up as the winner. Closed primaries are the best way to go. You get, in theory, two competing ways of approaching government. The conservative side chooses their candidate and the liberal side chooses theirs. Then there is a face off.

With ranked choice voting what happens is t…

The problem here isn't ranked choice voting - which is flawed and not the best single-winner-election voting system but is arguably better than the single-vote system - it's the "open primary" procedure which can lead to the kind of results you state. From my investigations the best system is a combination of Approval Voting and Ranked Choice Voting which I call Multichoice Elimination Voting - at MEVoting.com - although I'm in the process of preparing an update changing the "fine print" rules I had recommended with regard to the interplay of the two aspects of the system. I'm looking for someone to help, if anyone is interested.

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