One supposes His Excellency also blames Trump for the September 11th attacks, the Beiruit barracks bombings, and the Soviet conquest of the Baltic states.

On the evening of January 2, Archbishop Garcia-Siller returned to X, tweeting (8:59 PM), "Narcissism should NOT be celebrated. Humility, kindness & respect should be our identity. Forget about greatness, lies and stupidness. We should search for truth, honesty, and what is good and right. We don’t find this in our Government. One person does not represent who we are."

I think His Excellency may have forgotten who is running the government at the moment. Later he literally does blame the attacks on The Donald's campaign.

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Some commentary from Cardinal Zenari about developments in Syria and HTS meeting with local leaders. Hopefully the guarantees of religious freedom are respected.

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Woke up a few days to smoke in my office, no visible source of flames. After a lot of digging, found a computer with a funny smelling power supply that was rebooting a bunch ... needless to say that computer is no longer in service. I'm now looking at various fire suppression systems like The Cloud and Automatic Fire Stop to have something handy just in case. If I find the perfect product I'll update here, but probably will buy a few for redundancy.

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Happy New Year - just looking at this individual who traveled around the whole country attending Mass. Fascinating stuff.

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If you want to read (si volas legere) the bull opening the Jubilee year in Latin (or any language), link is above.

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"During the Holy Year", the Pope has prayed, "may the light of Christian hope illumine every man and woman, as a message of God’s love addressed to all! And may the Church bear faithful witness to this message in every part of the world!"

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If I have one of my kids with me, I let them pick something out, so they feel more involved. Then, when we go to Mass the next day, I drop the goods off in one of the collection boxes — or, ideally, I ask one of the kids to drop it off, so they continue having a hands-on familiarity with this basic work of charity.

And that’s it. Simple, important, undemanding and effective. Free parking for Catholics.

Keep the food pantry full with your own hands, it's a great practice.

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In my day this was a religious goods store in the also defunc White Plains Mall. I had occasion to go to the new location in Elmsford of both this and the Franklin Clock Shop and while the clock shop is still in business, the religious goods store is out of business. I bought a lot of Augustine in there, and if you were a priest, there were vestments galore. Amazing story behind the family running it as well. Looks like they sold out to Michigan Church Supply in 2022 based on this Chamber of Commerce listing.

Alan May on Google - Oct 26th, 2022 - So sad that it is closing. Gerry has been a great resource. I hope he enjoys his retirement.

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Not so surprising when you consider that adults can consent to delegate their authority.

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