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I mentioned in the previous post on this topic that I had seen something somewhere comparing speeches made by Francis on his recent visit to some made by John Paul II and Benedict XVI. Whatever it was I saw, I couldn’t find it again. So I compared speeches made by all three at the U.N.…
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You won't like this. I shouldn't have posted it. But I find the rueful disintegrating last-days-of-the-West feel very effective: "Our hist'ry dies with Europe…"
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I discern a pattern in my reactions to popes in the news. I'm so irritated by the political weaponizing of everything he says or does that I pretty much have to ignore the hullabaloo while it's in progress. I've been told that his speech to Congress today was good, but I think I'll wait at…
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This is semi-metal, so be warned. I just really like the chorus: Every season, every storm A painful wish to be reborn
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Last night I watched The Silence for the second time. The first time was somewhere between five and ten years ago, and I thought I had discussed it here at least briefly, but if I did I can't find the post now. At any rate, what I remember thinking is that I didn't like at as…
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…And they, since theyWere not the one dead, turned to their affairs. That's Frost, from "Out, Out—", a poem you may know, and should know if you don't. It's one of his masterpieces. You can read it online at the Poetry Foundation. It's been on my mind for the past couple of days. I got word…
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