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Very nice essay. Thank you focusing on the importance of hope. Indeed hope is the antidote to despair -- and as Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI explains hope tempers and orders progress. He addresses some of the themes of your essay in Spe Salvi 24-26
"24. Let us ask once again: what may we hope? And what may we not hope? First of all, we m…
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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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