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A personal prayer request, and then my top three positive moments of Pope Francis’s pontificate, and how they each in their different wayswitnessed to the Gospel.

Three Things I've Loved About Pope Francis
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This week on Across the Movie Aisle,

and I are joined by , who is sitting in for the on-vacation Alyssa, to talk SINNERS. It's a good movie! And a good episode.

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Trying to develop a disclaimer for syllabi, Substack posts, etc... how's this?

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The world's greatest negotiator just blinked. Again.

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Great news! Musk just announced he’s stepping back from DOGE, because even someone as inhuman as him has a pain threshold. And Tesla profits dropping 71 percent in one quarter apparently crosses it for him. Good job, America and Europe! Thanks for pulling together to remind Elon that he’s become a horrible person! Now if he could just quit ketamine, international fascism, insanity, and siring tons of babies out of wedlock, he might be able to approximate being a responsible citizen again. We’r…

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It's not a devotion that appeals to me, but the hostility towards it is baffling.

No, the Divine Mercy Devotion Is Not Heretical

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In the Wake of Pope Francis
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Not in a good place mentally today. The fall out from the news yesterday along with some other issues. Praying for a level of peace I just do not have today.

With the faith of Christ in my heart. Here are the intentions for the day. Please keep these issues in prayer:

For my mom, Mary, and the various health issues. Wisdom of the doctors and for over all healing.

For Dar (Kat’s mom) on going knee issues. Healing so she can do what she needs to.

Healing for my anxiety and over all exhaustion.

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The Free Press snags an exclusive interview with Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State who is using a McCarthy era 1952 law to seize and deport any foreign student with views strongly hostile to Israel’s war in Gaza.

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Arches National Park in Utah 😍

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Help. Please talk me out of this immediately. My library is hiring. 15 bucks an hour for a circulation clerk, only a high school diploma needed. Only 10 hours a week!!!!! My kids will all be in school next year! Do I do something absolutely bananas?!

EDITED TO ADD: lmao. me: “talk me out of this.” all of you: “it will be the greatest decision of your life.” you all belong in federal prison, enablers!!!!

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Updated this post to include the spiritual testament of Pope Francis, now that it’s been officially released by the Vatican:

“Throughout my life, and during my ministry as a priest and bishop, I have always entrusted myself to the Mother of Our Lord, the Blessed Virgin Mary. For this reason, I ask that my mortal remains rest — awaiting t…

The spiritual testaments of the last 7 popes (now including Pope Francis)

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‘We Know Donald Trump Wants the Story to Die’
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9 years ago, my best friend died. I had the opportunity to visit him a few days before he died, and I continue to draw grace from having been with him at the end.

Grace From a Dying Friend

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the answer is a bit muddled AS YOU WOULD EXPECT

Are popes hit on the head when they die?
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