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I'd be surprised if it came to military directly against Maduro. Unfortunately, the general Venezuelan doesn't have many options to rise up - hopefully that will change somehow and that country might be restored to something like its former successful self. In the meantime, I'm plenty content with t...

hmmm, the website clearly lists (Author) next to most and (Translator) next to some.

wow, what a list! And if I counted right, authored songs in 16 or so languages?

Highlander wrote: ↑Wed Oct 22, 2025 12:14 am A thought is that, with all the above going on, some parts and some people in Europe would benefit from Catholic missionaries.

absolutely!

law breakers must be dealt with appropriately. If you are in the country illegally, you need to get out (or be removed). Feel free to try to come back legally. Surely this isn't difficult for you to understand?!?

The plan must include armed people in the churches.

not super relevant to the post but even though I was young (and clueless) a the time (late 70s, early 80s), I distinctly remember a priest at the parish I (mostly) grew up in sitting on a chair in the middle of the church, playing classical guitar and singing a John Denver song in the middle of Mass...

H E R O. And his wife did indeed (as if you need me saying so) gave a beautiful speech. Marco nailed it as well.

aussie_aussie_oi_oi wrote: ↑Sun Aug 31, 2025 5:58 pm You could check our NASA but as they faked the moon landings..

I once was invited to the set where the filming was done. Pretty cool!

I thought the Sungenis books to be terrific when I was really looking into apologetics many years ago.

I hear y'all a lot where I live. Along with 'you guys'. I don't choose to use it except in specific circumstances. I wouldn't attach anything to it at all except good old southern 'laidbackness'.

anawim wrote: ↑Sat Jun 28, 2025 7:56 pm The only people who seem to obsess with Vat. II, are the people who didn't live through it.

Even though I was born a few years after, that seems about right.

peregrinator wrote: ↑Wed Jun 18, 2025 5:54 pm

Tired wrote: ↑Wed Sep 11, 2024 10:03 pm Guilty pleasure... I'm reading Jurassic Park and Ender's Game again (it's fun to read them a chapter at a time and then switch to the other book).

Have you read Speaker for the Dead? Very powerful.

I need to. still haven't. I did enjoy Ender's Shadow.

We have the Glory and Praise hymnal at the parish I normally attend.

https://hymnary.org/hymnal/GAP2015#google_vignette

Riverboat wrote: ↑Tue May 06, 2025 10:33 am Better than halfway finished with The Mill on the Floss by Victorian writer Eliot. Interesting section in which the heroine Maggie Tulliver encounters Thomas a Kempis and the virtue of silence in suffering:

It's been years since I read this but I recall enjoying it.

I have no problem nor qualms about saying the Washington governor is an idiot. He knows this isn't anything that can survive a court challenge. gaslightiing at its finest.

not sure I have a direct answer as I haven't been in that situation. But the whole 'transgenderism' thing is unquestionably the greatest mental illness of our time. I do like mia.s direction. What is your hope, in the end?

Thank you for your posts. Informative, as usual.

Apologies in advance for my laziness in doing research. Just one of those days. In the Good Friday readings (maybe Palm Sunday as well), Pilate has a few lines. One is 'what is truth?' which seems to just be left hanging. The story continues, never explicitly getting back to that question. So why is...

I am absolutely for reciprocal tariffs. Not sure really why people are opposed. And I absolutely do not agree that tariffs will cost an average family anywhere near that amount (in the short term). But I guess we'll see. I also absolutely believe in the long term, the cost will be negative, not posi...