Pope

THE BRICKBAT BRIGADES… (are always there ready to disrupt any of our collective ceremonial events) It’s a sad commentary on how much our –America the Beautiful- has declined in terms of general public civility and behavior when participating in important

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WHEN IDEOLOGICAL RIGIDITY OVER RIDES FLEXIBLE COMMON SENSE… (…it just screws up effective governance for anything else) At the peak of all the pomp and circumstance for almost concurrent state visits by the Pope and the President of Communist China,

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FRANCIS THE FIRST (…achieving a Jesuit apotheosis?) Catholics have a new pope, and he has chosen to be named – Francis 1st -. It is an interesting and intriguing choice because, given his Jesuit background, his choice of that name

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