And, on cue, TX Gov. Greg Abbott announced he is investigating our school district because the school police officer walked with my kid & her peers the 1.3 miles from the school to the Capitol to ensure they were safe while exercising their constitutional rights. 🙃
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the role of a moral leader
I think there is something to be said of a moral leader standing up and acknowledging that morality flows through all different aspects of life, “sacred” or “secular”. The way many people in our society treat undocumented immigrants would lead outside observers to question their human dignity. The United States, for better or worse and…
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martin luther king jr. day – making it a reality
In the past, I have celebrated MLK Day by, well, doing much of nothing. Since I’ve started college, classes have started on the Tuesday following so I had no homework to catch up. Nothing at the UCC really picked up yet, so nothing was the agenda of the day. However, as I listen to Busted…
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china’s oldest bishop dies
AsiaNews reported that Bishop Joseph Meng Ziwen of Nanning (Guangxi) died Sunday at 103. I couldn’t find him on Catholic Hierarchy, possibly due to spelling differences, but the oldest living bishop, again according to Catholic Hierarchy, is now Bishop Antoine Nguyên Van Thien, Emeritus of Vinh Long, Viêt Nam who is 100 years old.
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sidney or sydney
CNN carried a story today about a 21-year old German guy who wanted to visit his girlfriend in Sydney, Australia but typed “Sidney” into a travel website instead. The guy found himself in Sidney, Montana. “”I did wonder but I didn’t want to say anything,” the gentleman told a newspaper. “I thought to myself, you…
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when the sun rises
“When the sun rises in the morning sky, you will see the King of kings coming forth from the Father like a radiant bridegroom from the bridal chamber.” Gospel Antiphon from EP 1 of Christmas I just made my way back home after Midnight Mass and the customary IHOP breakfast. With the new pastor and…
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proclamation of the birth of christ
The Roman Martyrology for Christmas has a formal annoucement of the birth of Christ. The annoucement, as follows, can be found in the Sacramentary Supplement: Today, the twenty-fifth day of December, unknown ages from the time when God created the heavens and the earth and then formed man and woman in his own image. Several…