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Saint Mary of Jesus Crucified shares a heartfelt cry to Mary, the Mother who never abandoned her.
The Mother I Forgot
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Still feeling pretty rough. Though I seem to be a bit calmer than I was yesterday.
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What God asks is almost disappointingly simple: faithful attendance at ordinary Masses, small kindnesses to difficult people, and the courage to sit in silence with your own heart. 💙
The saints aren’t spiritual overachievers. They are ordinary people who consistently say yes in unremarkable moments.
Pray the Rosary every single day
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I hope John Fetterman resigns from the Senate and gets the help he needs. No job is worth the risk that you won’t be there for your kids as they grow up.
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My phone just reminded me that 9 years ago today I was quite excitedly sending my then-fiancé (now husband) a pic of the new book I picked up for a paper I was writing at my evangelical bible college…he also happened to be reading this book for a class at his Protestant divinity school. Spoiler alert, we became Catholic a year and half later so I’d say this picture has aged extremely well 😊🙏🏻
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This week: Conclave prayers and whisperings, Open Letter to Cardinals, Francis's funeral, more on the Bergoglian legacy, monarchy, veiling, and more!
Urgent Prayers for the Conclave & Weekly Roundup, May 2, 2025
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At the beginning of the Salve Regina, I saw the Mother of God descend with a great multitude of angels and sit in the prioress’s choir stall where there was a statue of our Lady.
— Saint Teresa of Avila
You can rewrite Flaubert’s Dictionary of Received Ideas just by tweaking transcripts of NPR stories:
NPR Should Be Axed Because it's Anti-Thought, Not Anti-Trump
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I dunno, maybe I’ve just gotten to the point where “baseline competence” feels like a win for the MCU. But it kind of is?
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Had a great time joining on his podcast The Popecast to discuss the Conclave process and the Papal Interregnum!
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[The Popecast] How the Conclave REALLY Works (w/ Donald Paul Maddox)
About model distillation: I saw this article a few weeks back about issues with feeding the synthetic data back to a generative AI
And a paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2307.0185…
As per the article, “it turns out, when you feed synthetic content back to a generative AI model, strange things start to happen. Think of it like data inbreeding, leading to increasingly mangled, bland, and all-around bad outputs. (Back in February, Monash University data researcher Jathan Sadowski described it as "Habsburg AI," or "a system that is so heavily trained on the outputs of other generative AI's that it becomes an inbred mutant, likely with exaggerated, grotesque features.")”
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Almost every major country in Europe now seems possessed by a burning desire to destroy their democratic legitimacy and even drive their societies into civil conflict as fast as humanly possible.
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A Truly life changing Article. I have been left questioning everything I know since.
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