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Taken down Christmas decorations?
- One Bread, One Body - Catholic
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We had a really dry tree this year that was losing all its needles. It was out of the house January 2 nd. Way too early.When did you all take down your Christmas decorations? Most of ours was taken down after New Years a day or so before Epiphany, but we still have our small tree up downstairs.
Only ask because the Candlemass just passed
You?
Peace
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4 crazy posts on the new Reddit-style platform for AI agents: ‘Power doesn't announce itself'
What if a human posed as a bot and secretly joined up?It's not quite the AI apocalypse, but a new Reddit-style platform designed exclusively for AI agents is already raising questions about where the technology is headed.
Launched this month by entrepreneur Matt Schlicht, Moltbook — which is still in beta testing mode — is described as a “social network for AI agents where AI agents share, discuss, and upvote.” Much like Reddit, it’s an internet forum built for "agentic AI," which utilizes autonomous systems to make operational decisions and perform tasks without human intervention.
Not unlike other social media platforms such as Facebook and X, Moltbook, billed as the “front page of the agent internet,” allows its non-human users to rant and rave about all things AI, from website coding errors, best practices and other related topics.
While human users are not allowed to post on Moltbook, they are “welcome to observe,” according to the site.
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It s not quite the AI apocalypse, but a new Reddit-style platform designed exclusively for AI agents is already raising questions about where the technology is headedwww.christianpost.com
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The Making of the Christian Man By Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap.
- By Michie
- One Bread, One Body - Catholic
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We live at a hard time for young men in our country. It’s a time that too often seems to feed the worst male instincts, from weakling drone to selfish bully. Becoming a mature Christian man can be a demanding task. But history can be a useful teacher.
Some 900 years ago, in A.D. 1118–19, a small group of men came together in Jerusalem to form a religious community. They were pilgrims. The First Crusade had retaken the city from Muslim rule in 1099. The men, who were all from Europe’s knightly order, had come looking for a life of common prayer and service. They got both, but not in the way they intended.
Having trained as warriors, the men had certain skills. As knights, they came from respected families with important connections. At the time, the roads leading to Jerusalem and other holy sites were infested with brigands and Muslim raiders that would rob, rape, murder, or abduct many of those making the journey. The Christian rulers of the city needed help in protecting the travelers. The men had taken vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience to the Patriarch of Jerusalem. And their first task, under obedience, was to patrol the roads.
They began that work with nine men too poor to afford anything more than the clothes they were given by pilgrims. Twenty years later, the Holy See approved the rule of their religious community, the Poor Brothers of the Order of the Temple of Solomon—the Knights Templar. The Templars went on to become the most effective Christian fighting force in the Holy Land for nearly 200 years.
A lot of nonsense has been written about the Templars. If you want facts, read Malcolm Barber’s The New Knighthood: A History of the Order of the Temple, or the work of serious historians like Jonathan Riley-Smith or Thomas Madden. Or read St. Bernard of Clairvaux’s great reflection on the Templars, “In Praise of the New Knighthood.” But we need to pay special attention to that expression “the new knighthood.”
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Some 900 years ago, in A.D. 1118–19, a small group of men came together in Jerusalem to form a religious community. They were pilgrims. The First Crusade had retaken the city from Muslim rule in 1099. The men, who were all from Europe’s knightly order, had come looking for a life of common prayer and service. They got both, but not in the way they intended.
Having trained as warriors, the men had certain skills. As knights, they came from respected families with important connections. At the time, the roads leading to Jerusalem and other holy sites were infested with brigands and Muslim raiders that would rob, rape, murder, or abduct many of those making the journey. The Christian rulers of the city needed help in protecting the travelers. The men had taken vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience to the Patriarch of Jerusalem. And their first task, under obedience, was to patrol the roads.
They began that work with nine men too poor to afford anything more than the clothes they were given by pilgrims. Twenty years later, the Holy See approved the rule of their religious community, the Poor Brothers of the Order of the Temple of Solomon—the Knights Templar. The Templars went on to become the most effective Christian fighting force in the Holy Land for nearly 200 years.
A lot of nonsense has been written about the Templars. If you want facts, read Malcolm Barber’s The New Knighthood: A History of the Order of the Temple, or the work of serious historians like Jonathan Riley-Smith or Thomas Madden. Or read St. Bernard of Clairvaux’s great reflection on the Templars, “In Praise of the New Knighthood.” But we need to pay special attention to that expression “the new knighthood.”
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The Making of the Christian Man
Archbishop Charles Chaput turns to the Knights Templar for a masculine code
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What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Cardinal Fernandez to Meet with the SSPX
- By Michie
- One Bread, One Body - Catholic
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Will he give the SSPX leadership autographed copies of his books?
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Morale is plummeting among ICE agents over long hours, quotas and public hatred: reports
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Well yes...
Trump posts 124 times in five-and-a-half hours as he unleashes fury from 'Newscum' rage to full-blown Canada tantrum
Some of that on the left...
At least, I think she's a leftist. But no one in the democratic leadership. Which matters, I think.
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‘Nothing Short of Demonic’—Shane Pruitt Responds To Topless Grammys Red Carpet Moment
- By RileyG
Sadly, he isn't wrong 
Modesty has sadly been thrown out the window in the last several decades. sigh.
Modesty has sadly been thrown out the window in the last several decades. sigh.
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Church under threat’: Armenian archbishop’s message from prison to IRF Summit
- By RileyG
May the Lord have mercy on the Armenian faithful and protect them! 
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