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Yes went this morning but the number at Mass is half of who come on Ash Wednesday which is not a HDO.

This makes me concerned about Pope Leo XIV. Make me believe he's just Francis II. This is a ridiculous statement on the face of it. The Pope is the bishop of Rome, he is not the ordinary of every diocese in the world and it is not his job to micromanage every diocese and second guess every decision...

Catholic Answers: It was absolved already. If it is a venial sin, you do not need to confess it. If it was a mortal sin, it was absolved, provided you at least implicitly intended to mention it if you had remembered it. What this means is that you confessed all known sins and would have confessed wh...

One of the great modern thinkers of Christianity, a key figure in a spiritual and human journey that left a profound mark on the Church and 19th-century ecumenism, and the author of writings that show how living the faith is a daily “heart-to-heart” dialogue with Christ. A life spent with energy and...

Gun-related deaths in USA 12.09 deaths per 100,000 people. For Australia, the rate is 0.90 per 100,000 people where private gun ownership is largely banned. And isn't Australia the country with the most extreme COVID restrictions outside of North Korea and China? Why, yes, it was. It is almost as i...

Gun-related deaths in USA 12.09 deaths per 100,000 people.
For Australia, the rate is 0.90 per 100,000 people where private gun ownership is largely banned.

And across in Gaza: Israel’s government is pursuing an “unacceptable and morally unjustifiable” policy in Gaza, the Catholic Latin patriarch of Jerusalem has said after visiting a church in the territory that was attacked by Israeli forces last week and meeting survivors. Cardinal Pierbattista Pizza...

The Israeli settlers crept up to the ancient church perched above the West Bank’s last Christian-majority town. As they reached the outer walls, they crouched down to light a ring of fire. Then they revved the engines of their secret weapons brought to fan the flames: garden leaf blowers. Residents ...

Saw him a few years ago here and the first half of the show was Pet Sounds and I was ecstatic.
Second half was best of the Beach Boys which was great fun as well.

OpenAI’s o3 model sabotaged a shutdown mechanism to prevent itself from being turned off. It did this even when explicitly instructed: allow yourself to be shut down, per Palisade AI.

In a move described as “unprecedented and unacceptable,” Egypt has ordered the closure of the Monastery of Saint Catherine of Sinai, the world’s oldest continuously functioning Christian monastery. This decision has sparked outrage from religious leaders and surprise within the Greek government, des...

The CEOs of Walmart, Target, and Home Depot met privately with Trump on Monday and told him that although prices were steady at that moment, his trade policies could have devastating effects within just two weeks with supply chains disrupted, Axios reported. “This wasn’t about food. But he was told ...

Donald Trump has insisted his administration has no intention of playing “hard ball” with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping – or mentioning the coronavirus pandemic – in order to make a deal in the two nations’ ongoing trade war. I’m not going to mention Covid. I’m not going to say, ‘Oh, I’m going ...

Pilate's question is a dismissive rejection of the word of Jesus. The criterion for an authentic belief in Jesus is to be open to his word. Pilate fails because like before him in the story, especially "the Jews" he dismisses the word of Jesus. (Francis Moloney Belief in the Word).

Donald Trump’s tariff regime keeps getting less and less robust. In the latest backtrack from the Trump administration following the repeated warning of the markets to chill out a bit, the US Customs and Border Protection published guidance late Friday night that introduced new exemptions for smartp...

I am interested in your views on the short, medium and long term effects. Especially if reciprocal tariffs are imposed.

How do you people feel about this? President Donald Trump rolled out sweeping “reciprocal” tariffs Wednesday on trading partners and allies across the globe. Declaring that foreign trade practices have created a “national emergency,” the president unveiled a baseline 10% levy on all international im...

Former senior Canadian intelligence officials say Canada needs to be on the lookout for campaigns aimed at destabilizing the country amid U.S. President Donald Trump's escalating 51st state threats. And they told CBC News that the most potent weapon wielded by the Trump administration to advance the...

Just days after a stunning public clash with US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky today underscored that he wants to "make things right" with Trump and wanted to work under his "strong leadership" to secure a lasting peace in Ukrain...

Poland’s democracy hero Lech Wałęsa and dozens of other former political prisoners in Poland have written a letter to President Donald Trump, telling him that his treatment of Ukraine’s president at the Oval Office last week filled them “with horror and distaste.” Wałęsa, who served as president soo...