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Every time I see another hot take about how Palm Sunday is a protest (?) and Jesus was there to free the Jews from the Romans (please stop) I’m going to reshare this—sorry!

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The Pillar Podcast
Ep. 207: Living the faith with no political power
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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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I just got back from teaching my class and every word of it this is true, this is no exaggeration. He is writing from an American university but it is exactly the same in Canada.

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Again, so much of my long personal history is brot up here. From the late 1960s with “Not a Crook” Richard Nixon keeping dossiers on political opponents. It was a bragging point if you were in one and it even went beyond J. Edgar Hoover’s liking who kept tabs on Martin Luther King Jr. and Sammy Davis Jr. for their defiance of the racial status quo. And from that paranoid time we have gone back to “a rogue counterintelligence operation over the past few years, collecting information on hundre…

Now when rogue groups and regimes have nothing better to do, they target and down civilian aircraft passing overhead for "practice" or whatever using the ground to air missiles that the arms industry still finds a way to supply them. They are not necessarily all Russian, Chinese or "home-made" à la Hamas. Time to make these governments "a little more careful"for fear of the consequences.

Well said. Controversial aside, the US military participated as well. TWA Flight 800 out of Kennedy in NYC (the old Idyllwild) heading to Europe.

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