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State Power is Neither Holy Nor Angelic

On news that the FBI has not only been spying on and infiltrating Catholic parishes, but lying about it: When I studied to be a priest/religious as a Dominican, we were assigned to read through the Constitutions of the Order of Preachers; many of the notions and clauses date back all the way to the…
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Flattening the Curve is Today’s WMD

18 years ago.101 years ago. Same problem, but not without solutions. And, no, illegally quarantining people is not one of them. There is so much relevant historical perspective here, even if at first peering through the looking glass of history it does not seem as such. Almost a score ago, the Bush administration, run by…
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