Catholics are called to care for creation without compromising the truth about the human person. The answer isn't secular activism, it's a Christ-centered approach.

As we reflect in the Easter and Pentecost seasons on the glory in Christ’s resurrection and ascension, we remember that His redemption reconciled us not only to God and to our fellow men, but to all of creation. Many Catholics ignore or forget that third reconciliation.

Today, we must reclaim it.

It is not that faithful Catholics lack zeal for God's creation. We rightly pour our energy into defending life from abortion and IVF, and into recognizing the dignity of the poor. But on ecological teaching, many have gone silent — and the secular left has rushed to fill the void.

Those who shout loudest about the Earth often treat humanity with contempt, parroting anti-natalist rhetoric that frames human life as the enemy of nature. The absence of action has come at a cost.

We need a theologically grounded, pro-human, thoroughly Catholic approach to the environment—one that recognizes the dangers of left-wing environmentalism while still upholding our God-given mission to care for the Earth.

This is personal for me. A few months ago, I started a Catholic organization called Vita et Terra, Latin for “Life and Earth,” to help awaken authentic environmental consciousness among Catholics so that, together, we can become true stewards of God’s creation.

Ultimately, our duty to creation as Catholics is grounded in three principles: life, stewardship, and conservation.​

1) Life​

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ROME — The researchers in Ireland looked at their computer screen, marveling at a medieval book tracked down in a Roman library. They flipped through its digitized pages and found their sought-after treasure: The oldest surviving English poem.

“We were extremely surprised. We were speechless. We couldn’t believe our eyes when we first saw that,” Elisabetta Magnanti, a visiting research fellow at Trinity College Dublin’s school of English, told The Associated Press.



What’s more, she said, the poem was within the main body of Latin text: “It was extraordinary.”

Composed in Old English by a Northumbrian agricultural worker in the 7th century, “Caedmon’s Hymn” appears within some copies of the “Ecclesiastical History of the English People,” written in Latin by a monk and saint known as the Venerable Bede. His history is one of the most widely reproduced texts from the Middle Ages, with almost 200 manuscripts, according to Magnanti’s colleague Mark Faulkner, an associate professor of medieval literature at Trinity.

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A Eurovision performance has reignited debate about Europe’s Christian heritage, Ottoman history, and the enduring cultural tensions surrounding Islamic expansion.

Eurovision ‘Drops the Mic’​

There’s an old saying that nearly everyone has heard, but people always need to be reminded of. It simply says, “If you don’t learn from the mistakes of history, then you’re bound to repeat them.” This year’s Eurovision Song Contest, of all things, has provided one of the most stunning reminders of all regarding the historic threat of Islamicinvasion.

I’ve honestly never appreciated most of the music which comes out of Eurovision, but for the first time in I can’t remember, this particular song by Lelek just hit different. And I didn’t even know what they were singing about! But as the following video makes clear, it’s a clarion call for the West to wake up to the ever-present threat of Islamic invasion by how Christian parents in Europe used to tattoo their children to make them less desirable to Muslim invaders at the time of the Ottoman Empire.

The historic practice of tattooing religious patterns on one’s body is known as sicanje or bocanje, and is a fascinating piece of Balkan history. While it was most popularly practised by Catholic Croats living in Bosnia and Herzegovina—especially during Ottoman rule—it extended into other parts of Europe and, in particular, Croatia as well.

While the tattoos were occasionally placed on the forehead, they were more often inscribed on the hands, wrists, forearms, and chest. This unique religious custom became a vital strategy of cultural survival and completely undermined the Ottoman Empire’s colonialist goals

Ancient Tattoos as Christian Resistance​

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Johannes Schelhas: Why the Church must rediscover baptism




Jesuit-trained Father Schelhas

The Eucharist is considered the pinnacle of Christian life. The theologian Johannes Schelhas, however, calls for a shift in perspective: not the Eucharist, but baptism must be placed at the center – with far-reaching consequences for the Church, its ministries, and parish life.


The Eucharist is the "source and pinnacle" of Christian life. In your latest publication, "Sacrament in Growth and Decline," you speak of the "primacy of baptism over the Eucharist." Is this a theological provocation – or a pastoral necessity?

Johannes Schelhas*: It is a provocation and at the same time a necessity. Simultaneously, it is an idea that has accompanied the Christian faith from the very beginning, but which has faded into the background over the centuries. The Reformation movements of the late Middle Ages and the modern era already took up this idea again. The stronger emphasis on baptism is not directed against the Eucharist. The Second Vatican Council redeveloped the meaning of the Eucharist—especially in light of the concept of Christ's presence among the people of God. The title of my book alludes to various aspects of living, understanding, and celebrating the sacraments.

"In this way, Christian witness becomes visible, and faith gains radiance."

What consequences would it have for our understanding of the Church if Baptism were rediscovered as the fundamental act of ecclesial existence?

Schelhas: Then, above all, the close connection between the three sacraments of initiation—Baptism, Confirmation, and Eucharist—would have to be re-examined. These three belong together and form the foundation of Christian life—personally and communally. What God communicates to believers in them establishes the so-called ecclesial existence of baptized people, through which they participate in the Church and society and fulfill the tasks of the Kingdom of God in school, work, and leisure, as well as in interpersonal relationships. In this way, Christian witness becomes visible, and faith gains radiance.

Is your primacy of baptism an answer to the shortage of priests?

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Heresy pure. A modernist lays out their plans to destroy the Mass and the priesthood

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Thousands of years ago, a herder from Mesopotamia came to a land called Canaan where the “god of the high mountain,” a jealous God who demanded exclusivity, announced Himself. Abraham and his descendants experienced a singular relationship with a forgiving, loving Father who cared for His prodigal sons and daughters as they confessed, pleaded, and surrendered in love over and again. Thus, the Old Testament, the story of the Hebrews and their God, is a love story.

ASCENDING VS. DESCENDING LOVE​

Tradition holds that the first five books of the Old Testament, the Pentateuch, were written by Moses, who on Mt. Horeb had a vision of Yahweh (YHWH), the creator of all things. In Genesis, God proclaimed His creation of all things, including humans, good. Then comes the story of the Fall from the Garden of Eden, a place of freedom. Freedom came up against a boundary, the choice of the other. There must be a boundary to keep humans from absolute freedom, which is complete love of self, or narcissism. Yahweh calls humans to a freedom that includes self-knowledge yet is not completely inner-focused, one that extends beyond the self into relationship with God.

Our first article in this series on the History of Love was on the Greeks, who were all too familiar with the narcissistic kind of love that Adam and Eve sought. The Roman poet Ovid tells the story of the beautiful Narcissus who was so in love with himself that he could not move from the spot in which he beheld his lover, himself, and was metamorphosed into a flower. Greek literature is filled with this kind of love, the love of Eros, which Pope Benedict XVI in his encyclical Deus Caritas est called “ascending love,” as opposed to “descending love,” agape.

The story of the Hebrews and God is a love story just as complicated as that of Eros and Psyche, Jason and Medea, Aeneas and Dido. It involves a people struggling to love and obey a parent, constantly regressing in their duty and affection for their maker and deliverer. At least the Hebrews had the wisdom to realize, in the words of the Wisdom of Solomon:

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From a reader…

QUAERITUR:

Is it a sin to attend Sunday Mass and be irritated during bad homilies or take a 15 minute leave during the terrible homily?

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Probably not. However, you can usually tease out some good point from a bad sermon, if you want to.

That said, this “terrible” is pretty open ended. What is “terrible”? Decent content, but terrible/bad delivery? We’ve all had classes/courses from profs who have great material, but are bad teachers/deliverers.

It is bad because of the content? Is there heresy? Is it just plain stupid or irrelevant?

Is it bad because it cannot be heard or understood? Bad sound system? Accent to strong?

Again, you can usually tease out some good point from a bad sermon, if you want to. Sometimes, as Augustine points out in De doctrina christiana, the holiness of the preacher teaches something.

Art Deco Mourners​

Sculptures by Luis Perlotti in the entrance to the Municipal Cemetery, Lujan, Argentina. c. 1930.





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Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, on safeguarding the human person in the time of artificial intelligence, begins with the Tower of Babel (Gen. 11:1–9). Babel represents the grandiosity of our technological age, of attempting to surpass our creaturely nature and thereby preclude communion with God. Limitations are integral to human dignity; they are to be cherished and protected, not wished away. There is thus an inherent grandeur to being human, and particularly to organic, human intelligence.

The natural capacities with which we are endowed as creatures of God are relational, and therefore moral and spiritual. Unlike the machine, we have conscience, we experience love and loss, we acquire wisdom, we exercise compassion and undergo suffering for others. Crucially, such things are indispensable for communion with God in Christ. Hence, Magnifica Humanitas declares, “We must lovingly safeguard the grandeur of humanity bestowed upon us and revealed in its fullness in Christ, the splendor of which no machine can ever replace.”

Today’s Babel, Leo writes, is the “technocratic paradigm” within which technology becomes “the standard by which everything is judged,” and all is reduced to the logic of “efficiency, control and profit.” Then, “the fullness of life is equated with having more, reducing weakness, eliminating uncertainty and exerting total control.” Even our own lives are treated as machines we can code as we will, seeing ourselves “as a project to be optimized rather than as persons called to relationship and communion.” (If anyone doubts this, I’d happily direct them to the contents of my social media algorithm.)

On the societal level, the technocratic paradigm results in a “culture of power.” This is when the logic of the machine runs wild, there is a limitless arms race to develop the most sophisticated AI, shadowy non-state actors exert unrestrained transnational influences, technology provides ever new forms of weaponry, and multipolar geopolitics increasingly degenerates into war.

Cherishing the grandeur of creaturely limits, by contrast, brings the promise of a “civilization of love.” This will arise, says Leo, not “from a single or spectacular gesture, but from the sum total of small and steadfast acts of fidelity that serve as a bulwark against dehumanization.” We’re encouraged by the pope to use technology for building a civilization of love. The point is to apply a “spiritual, ethical and political framework” to questions of whether, how, and when technological developments should be utilized.

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Well, consider: the last sixty years have seen a liberal onslaught against the Church, both from within and without. There has been a numbing litany of heinous scandals and abuses, as well as jaw-dropping corruption and incompetence. But battered as she may be, the Church has survived.

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While I think the women may or may not have criminal charges to answer for, I think the Australian authorities took far too long to accept their children. They were still Australian citizens.

Thousands of years ago, a herder from Mesopotamia came to a land called Canaan where the “god of the high mountain,” a jealous God who demanded exclusivity, announced Himself. Abraham and his descendants experienced a singular relationship with a forgiving, loving Father who cared for His prodigal sons and daughters as they confessed, pleaded, and surrendered in love over and again. Thus, the Old Testament, the story of the Hebrews and their God, is a love story.

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Acts 8:1-8 NKJV


Persecution of Christ Followers

Saul (who later became the apostle Paul after our Lord transformed his heart and mind and he became a follower of Jesus Christ) had just approved of the stoning and death of the deacon Stephen, a man of God who had just spoken truth to the people. And now a great persecution against the church arose, and most of the believers in Jesus Christ were scattered. And Saul was a central figure in the persecution of Christ’s followers, i.e. the church.

But I love what this says next. Therefore, those who were scattered went everywhere preaching the word. Amen! Praise Jesus! Those who were Christ followers did not let persecution and the real possibility of death keep them from sharing the message of the gospel with the people of the world. And that is a sign of real biblical faith in action, when we care more about the salvation of the people than we do about how we are treated in return.

And when Philip went down to the city of Samaria preaching Christ to them, multitudes with one accord heeded the things spoken by Philip, and many people were healed of infirmities, and many people were delivered from unclean spirits. Praise Jesus! Sometimes what is truly bad can have a good result. Although tragedy and death are horrible, if that is what it takes to produce spiritual life in people by faith in Jesus, then God be praised.

Last Days

I believe we are living in the last days before the return of Christ, and that the kinds of things which were happening to the Christ followers at the time of Stephen’s death are happening today, only more widespread, and at the hands of the wealthy and powerful of this world who are the ones truly running the world we live in. And this includes at the hands of the president of the USA and his counterpart in the political nation called “Israel.”

I read something today, apparently spoken by the US president, where he said, “Therefore, I am mandatorily requesting that all Countries immediately sign the Abraham Accords, and that, if Iran signs its Agreement with me, as President of the United States of America, it would be an Honor to have them also be a part of this unparalleled World Coalition.” Now, this is sounding to me more like the one world order of the beast of Revelation.

Whether or not this is worldwide or just confined to a small set of world countries, this is not a good thing. And this is about one or two world countries dominating the other countries of the world and forcing them into some kind of “unparalleled World Coalition,” which sounds a whole lot like the mark of the beast and his one world order. And the political nation called “Israel” is party to this and/or they are the ones actually initiating it.

The Future

I am not God, and I am not some kind of magician with a “crystal ball” to tell me what is going to happen next. But I am a follower of Jesus Christ by faith in the Lord Jesus. And I am a student of the Scriptures. And I believe there are very obvious signs that we are living in the very last days before the return of Christ, and that the beast of Revelation is rising, and it is taking over the nations of the world, which we can see evidence of.

And sadly, it appears that the president of my nation is definitely doing and speaking what appears to fit with the prophesies of Scripture about the beast, and about the antichrist, and about the events of these last days. More and more it appears that we are moving quickly ahead to that mark of the beast and us not being able to buy or sell unless we take the mark (influence, character, nature) of the beast upon our own lives.

And let me state here that the physical and political nation called “Israel” is not biblical Israel. They are not the Israel of God, for, as a nation, they have denied Jesus as the Christ, which makes them antichrist (1 John 2:22). All who believe in Jesus Christ, who have died with him to sin, and who are following our Lord in obedience to his commands are biblical Israel, whether Jew or Gentile. So don’t worship the political nation of Israel, as many do.

[Genesis 17:7-9; Genesis 18:19; Matthew 21:43; John 8:18-19,38-47; John 10:16; Romans 2:28-29; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Romans 9:4-8,25-28; Romans 11:1-36; 1 Corinthians 3:16-17; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; 2 Corinthians 6:14-18; Galatians 3:16,26-29; Galatians 4:22-31; Ephesians 2:11-22; Ephesians 3:1-6; Colossians 3:12-15; Titus 2:14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-16; Hebrews 8:6-13; 1 Peter 2:9-10,24; 1 John 2:22; Jude 1:5; Revelation 2:9; Revelation 3:9]

Tick Tock

An Original Work / May 1, 2011
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Tick tock, tick tock, time is a passing.
The time on the clock keeps ticking
While the church is fast a-sleeping.
Satan’s on a rampage
‘Cause his time is running out.
Will you worship God the Father,
God the Son and Holy Spirit?
Will you obey all of His
Commands for you today?
Jesus died to pay your ransom,
So that you could be forgiven.
Won’t you come to Him in truth
And penitently pray to Him?

Tick tock, tick tock, time is a wasting.
The cross of our Lord awaits you.
Won’t you come and share His table,
Drink the cup and eat the bread
In memory of Him?
Take a heart examination,
And accept our God’s salvation.
Humbly bow in adoration
And proclaim His name.
He wants for you to believe in
Him who interceded for you
When He died for your sins
And He rose from death in victory.

Tick tock, tick tock, time’s end is nearing.
How He longs to take and keep you,
In His arms He wants to hold you,
If you will but come to Him
And call on Him today.
His desire is that you please Him
In all of your life’s ambitions;
Be a living sacrifice
And be transformed today.
Let Christ’s love and grace sustain you,
And His promises prepare you
For His soon return to earth
To gather all His saints to Him.

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An Unparalleled World Coalition?
An Original Work / May 26, 2026
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

SHAVUOT/PENTECOST

This is the time of year when the day, called "Pentecost," is celebrated. In the Hebrew language, the day was called “Shavuot.” In the New Testament, it is known as“Pentecost,” which most churches recognize. The word "Shavuot" means "Weeks" (7 weeks to be precise), and the next day, day 50, this festivity was celebrated. In Greek, the word "Pente" means 50. In Acts 2, we all remember the day of “Pentecost” as when the “Ruach HaKodesh” (The Holy Spirit) fell upon all the believers who were gathered in Jerusalem to celebrate this "Feast of Weeks."

Yet the “Feast of Weeks” (Shavuot) had been celebrated yearly for the past thousand years, ever since the day that Fire fell on Mt. Sinai. That was the very first “Shavuot”. When Moses and the People of Israel received the Torah from God at Sinai in the form of two tablets of stone,

It really goes back to Egypt when the Israelites were still slaves. YHVH made some promises to His people, and we remember those promises in the form of the 4 cups of wine during Passover.

1. “I am YHVH, I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians

2. “I will deliver you from their bondage..

3. will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great judgments.

4. “I will take you for MY PEOPLE, and I will be YOUR GOD.

The first three were accomplished in Egypt, then, at Sinai, on the day of Shavuot, the 4th promise was fulfilled. YHVH took the 12 tribes of Israel and united them as a NATION. God came upon Mt. Sinai with fire and smoke amidst the blasts of the shofar in Exodus 19:18,19. This was the day that God married the bride "Israel," and we, as born-again believers, are part of that bride being grafted into his beloved family

In Leviticus, we see the commandment to celebrate Shavuot in chapter 23:15-22. “7” sabbaths (49 days), were to be counted, and then the next day (day 50), would be celebrated. This time was harvest time. During the time of Passover, the barley harvest was ready, then 50 days later, the wheat harvest.

Two loaves of wheat bread were to be made and “waved” before YHVH (up towards heaven, down towards the earth, then to the North, South, East, and West) Blessing and thinking Adonai for the blessings from heaven (the rain that falls from Heaven down to the earth) blessing all the lands of the earth, those lands that are in the North, the South, the East, and the West. When it rains, the seeds come up, grow, and mature, then are harvested.

One thing to note, God said, “when you enter the land which I am going to give you and reap the harvest…) So, this was not done while the Israelites were in the wilderness, but when they entered Canaan! And settled that land.

The two loaves of bread were to be baked with leaven. We think of leaven as related to sin, but it is also a good thing; leaven is also related to teaching and instruction. Yes, we are all “leavened” with the “sin nature,” yet we are also “leavened” by God’s Word, His Torah, which should “grow” inside of us. So just as bread swells up and grows through leaven, so we grow through the “leaven” of God’s Word.

Together with the two loaves, 7 yearling lambs were offered, also a bullock, two rams, and a drink offering were presented as burnt offerings. The lambs symbolize “Yeshua,” who is the “lamb of God.” The number 7 symbolizes perfection. The bullock symbolizes the “strength” of Adonai, the two rams remind us of the substitute ram which took Isaac’s place on Mt. Moriah. Two rams, perhaps one for the Jews and the other for the Gentiles, with the understanding that Yeshua was the substitute and redeemer for both Israel and for the rest of the nations (HaGoyim). The drink offering was wine, which symbolizes the blood of Yeshua.

One can wonder why 2 loaves? One can only guess. One idea is that the number 2 in Hebrew can symbolize “union and division”. It takes 2 entities to make a covenant. In our case, Yeshua and us! Through his death, we are “united” in Him when we trust Him as our LORD and Savior, and we are “divided” from the lost world of perdition.

We can look at the number 2 as in the loaves of bread as things that come in pairs; 2 tablets of the commandments, transformation and resurrection, cleansing and purification, death and life illustrated by the believer’s baptism, but it also symbolizes the Jews and Gentiles.

We can also see parallels in Sinai and Yerushalayim; Fire came down on Sinai, and it also came down at Jerusalem. The fire at Sinai did not touch the people, and the fire during Jerusalem’s Pentecost DID touch each believer! At Sinai, the “Ruach Elohim” (Spirit of God) rested on Moshe; at Pentecost, it INDWELTED in every believer. At Sinai, the Torah was written on tablets of Stone and read to the people; at Jerusalem, the Torah was written on the tablets of the heart of believers. Both events took place on Shavuot, and both events were accompanied by languages. At Sinai, in Hebrew, at Jerusalem, in Hebrew, PLUS many, many other languages (some believe 70)

At Sinai, there was a mixed multitude (Israelites, Egyptians, and perhaps Nubians) at Jerusalem, people from all over the then-populated world. The Torah is the teaching, the Holy Spirit is the “teacher.” Pentecost at Jerusalem also fulfills Isaiah’s prophecy: “For out of Zion shall come forth the Torah and the WORD of Adonai, from Jerusalem” (Isaiah 2:3)

At Sinai, the people were kept away; at Jerusalem, the people were touched by God, and the glory of God came to each believer. In Old Testament times, the Spirit of God rested on only certain individuals, such as the Prophets. At Pentecost, it filled ALL BELIEVERS just as today, when a person receives Yeshua as LORD and Savior, the Holy Spirit comes to dwell inside of that person.

Another note: the Hebrew word KOLOT means both “voices” and “thunder”. At Sinai, the people heard “voices,” both thunder and the voice of God. At Jerusalem, the people heard the “voices” of those who were gifted with the different languages to preach God’s WORD.

The first fruits of the harvest can symbolize “Yeshua” and the “harvest” itself, ALL BELIEVERS who are part of it. Today, there is still much “fruit” to harvest, so we must get busy and teach the word and share the gospel with those who have an ear to hear and a heart to accept the same.

John 14:15 states the reason why the Holy Spirit was sent:

If you love me, you will keep my commandments, and I will ask the Father, and he will give you another comforter like me, the Spirit of Truth (HaRuach HaEmet) to be with you forever." (The Complete Jewish Study Bible)

Yeshua also stated in John 16:7, "But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I go away; for if I don't go away, the comforting counselor will not come to you. However, if I do go, I will send him to you.

That is exactly what happened in Acts 2. The Spirit of God was sent! The pious Jews from all over the "then known world" were all gathered together at the Temple, all in prayer, reading Exodus when God came down in fire upon Mt. Sinai, and probably reading Ezekiel 26:36 and 37;

"A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. 27 And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them."

The Jews in the times of the Old Testament never imagined that the Spirit of God would live inside them personally. Yes, the Spirit came upon certain individuals, such as Moses, Aaron, the prophets of old, King David, and King Solomon, and probably other righteous kings, but never as a whole upon ALL people. Acts 2 changed everything.

The Spirit came down as "tongues of fire," and the disciples witnessed to all around them speaking in "foreign tongues" or "languages," miraculously through the Holy Spirit. Thus, all pious Jews received God's Word in their own languages.

Today, as soon as a person receives Yeshua as LORD and Savior, being "born again," he or she receives the Holy Spirit that will indwell in that believer's body, as the promised"comforter." The Spirit will comfort, teach, and convict, and will assure each believer of salvation. Yes, we can grieve the Holy Spirit through disobedience, and at times, we might feel that the Spirit of God has left us, yet the Spirit of God is still within us, beckoning us to repent and get back into fellowship.

So, we should all look forward to each "Pentecost Day" that commemorates that glorious day when God's Spirit was sent to indwell in EVERY BELIEVER. This year, according to the Jewish calendar, it came on May 22. Many churches celebrate Pentecost on the following Sunday. The Messianic congregations celebrate it on that Shabbat.

So, dear readers, you are not alone; God is with you all the time. Don't trust your feelings, feelings might change, trust in the promises of God, trust in HIS Word! Shalom to all.

Antisemitism is so totally wrong, especially when found in the Church. However, criticism of Isreal's government and its slaughter of innocents is equally wrong and to say so, is not antisemitism.

Michie said:

Pope Leo XIV issues a broad call to rethink what it means to educate people in the use of artificial intelligence and its implications, especially for young people.

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You don’t have to worry about AI taking over, I’m using ChatGPT and it’s incredibly stupid

Michie said:

One does not have to be super aware or super sensitive to realize that antisemitism is growing in the West in general and in America in particular. This development is particularly shocking to millions of Americans, including me, who grew up in what has been the least antisemitic country in the Western world.

As someone who was born in 1946 and thus grew up in a post-World War II America, I found it difficult to understand how the most educationally, medically and scientifically advanced country in the world (Germany) could have produced the Holocaust, the genocide of at least 6 million Jews. For many of us, the nightmarish reality of the Holocaust was reinforced by meeting and coming to know Jewish victims of the concentration camps with numbers tattooed on their arms and World War II veterans turned youth league coaches who had liberated death camps as teenagers and had been forever changed by the experience.

Honestly, most of us thought such virulent, unreasoning hatred could never take deep root in America. Shockingly, however, it has. We have witnessed physical and verbal violence against our Jewish citizens increase exponentially in the past decade. Frankly, if I had not witnessed it, I would not have believed what has happened on too many American university campuses and in too many American cities could have happened at the scale it has.

As Americans, we must speak out against this lethal and Satanic prejudice.

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How many cures for cancer did the world lose in the Holocaust?

How many Einsteins and Salks would the six million have produced

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Indeed. The holocaust/shoah is one of the worst events in human history. Countless lives were lost.

May he rest in peace.

Yarddog said:

Part of the problem is the pro-life doesn't describe Republicans properly. Antiabortion fits better. If they would take a true pro-life position, abortion rates would decrease when they were in power.

We need to help women afford to raise their children. It starts with compassion.

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Absolutely!

I can never understand how a grown adult could be attracted to children. It makes me sick to my stomach. ugh

Love her! I ask for her prayers often! Thanks for sharing!

May he rest in peace and rise to glory!

Revelation

How odd.

Lord, have mercy on the Dutch faithful and bishops Sadly, I'm not surprised.