Christian Pipe Smokers

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Who will it be?
:confusion-questionmarks:
What will happen to the Catholic Church?
The same thing that always happens to the Catholic Church, viz., getting both coopted and blamed.
Are you exited about new leadership?
It's like opening an Xmas present.
And after he is elected ...

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Jocasta Nu

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After 3 long years, I'm finally out of the Hegel–Marx dialectical maze. It's been a long, strange trip. Always difficult (often brutally so), though well worth the effort. Always interesting, though rarely fun.

And now, on to the grim, stoic twilight of German Idealism …

On the Fourfold ...

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I wonder who is next in line and where he is from, and how long it will take for the choice to be made.

One (who's not taken the pulse of the Catholic church) wonders if the church, like the US and a few European countries, will swing back towards conservatism after it's experiment with ...

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Title: Pope, Vance have unusual Easter tête-à-tête at the Vatican
Source: Crux
Link: cruxnow DOT com/vatican/2025/04/pope-vance-have-unusual-easter-tete-a-tete-at-the-vatican

The Money-Quotes:

ROME — In a series of unusual events, Pope Francis and United States Vice President JD Vance ...

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Requiem aeternam dona ei, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat ei.



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Santo Subito!

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Wesley Crusher

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Happy Easter, y'all!

Χριστὸς ἀνέστη!

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Gromit

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Title: JD Vance's Easter visit to Vatican could help resurrect his Catholic credentials
Source: National Catholic Reporter
Link: ncronline DOT org/vatican/vatican-news/vances-easter-visit-vatican-could-help-resurrect-his-catholic-credentials


It's cute that National Catholic Reporter ...