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US Bishops further clarify Church’s position on Covid-19 vaccine - Vatican NewsThe US Catholic bishops rightly state that choosing to be vaccinated serves the common good and is an act
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@joe_pescespada's important observation here leads me to make this thread.Another priest has recently committed suicide. I'd like to say a few words about that.https://twitter.com/joe_pescespada/status/1338929162388709377 [I am not
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Inspired by this week's (great) Drinking with Historians on evangelicalism with @varsha_venkat_ & @prof_gabriele, I want to share what my homeschooling US history textbook looked like & how Trump's current
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Inspired by this tweet from @JacalynLeake, I went down a bit of a rabbit hole to simpler presidential times, and thought I'd thread it here for anyone interested in Kennedy
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When it comes to debates about the nature of the Lord's Supper, there's a curious hermeneutical tactic employed by the crowd that insists Jesus was speaking symbolically by saying, "dO
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The way England treats teachers and nurses like the scum of the earth will never not be a reoccurring moment of cultural shock. In Ireland, whilst either may not be
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After Emancipation, many objected to the journalistic analysis and legal advocacy for African Americans, it was seen as unnecessary and divisive, ever as lynch laws and Jim Crow expanded its
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Southerners wrote songs about Warrington, formed peace movements because of IRA violence - but I can’t point to any mainstream effort to oppose/understand who the glenane gang, or Shankill butchers
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I want to be up front that what I'm saying is mostly speculation and that I do not have any definitive proof on this, but....I do want to add something
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1. One of the reasons people β€œleave God” when they leave toxic churches is b/c toxic churches teach prayer as primarily abt petition and not communion. When prayer is about
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So! My book!The elevator pitch: looking at English Catholics abroad and trying to move beyond labelling the people themselves as 'exiles' (which has the danger of reducing their entire identity
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If you're friends with Catholics, you may have seen posts about #nfpweek. If you know me at all, you probably know that I'm not strictly anti-birth control and I struggle
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Some addendums & post-script notes to this...https://twitter.com/NightErrantry/status/1133471715172859904?s=19 Gabriel SΓ‘nchez -who more or less has retired from online discourse & CathSocial Teaching debate- was one of the builder
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The Spanish monarchy was deposed and a Leftist Republic was formed in 1931. Over the years social tensions, political assassinations and a failed coup evolved into a full blown Civil
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A short about Ursula von der Leyen - not least in response to critique of me labelling her a "second rate" politician earlier"Second rate" is not quite right. Perhaps
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The Irish were never slaves lads. We have a profound history of oppression. But we were never considered property across generations. It just didn’t happen. Please don’t spread that Myth,
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