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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and JeremyBloom. Alumni editors include (but not limited to)...
by annetteboardman
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on Fri Mar 29, 2024 at 09:32 PM PDT
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and JeremyBloom. Alumni editors include (but not limited to)...
by annetteboardman
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on Fri Feb 09, 2024 at 09:01 PM PST
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____________________________________________________________ How many of your state’s lawmakers are women? If you live in the Southeast, it could be just 1 in 5. ___________________________________________________________ They’re all young. They’re all...
by mettle fatigue
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on Sat Jan 13, 2024 at 04:30 PM PST
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Until 2018, Cardinal Angelo Becciu was the Substitute for General Affairs at the Vatican’s Secretariat of State. In plain English, he was at the apex of the Catholic Church’s bureaucratic hierarchy. From 2018 to 2020, he was head of the Dicastery for...
by TheCriticalMind
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on Sat Dec 16, 2023 at 03:42 PM PST
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and ...
by annetteboardman
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on Fri Sep 01, 2023 at 09:15 PM PDT
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and JeremyBloom. Alumni editors include (but not limited to)...
by annetteboardman
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on Fri Dec 15, 2023 at 09:59 PM PST
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In 1992, � Sinéad O’Connor � destroyed a photo of Pope John Paul II on U.S. national television. The pushback was swift, turning the � late Irish singer-songwriter’s � protest of sex abuse in ...
by Associated Press
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on Thu Jul 27, 2023 at 01:41 PM PDT
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and ...
by annetteboardman
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on Fri May 26, 2023 at 08:55 PM PDT
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While the world awaits Ukraine’s spring battlefield offensive, its leader, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has launched a diplomatic one. In the span of a week, he's dashed to Italy, the Vatican, Germany, France and Britain to shore up support for defending his...
by Associated Press
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on Fri May 19, 2023 at 10:35 AM PDT
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Pope Francis just repudiated the Vatican’s 15th century Doctrine of Discovery. Entire nations still use this doctrine as the legal basis for the occupation of stolen indigenous land.
Now all that ...
by annieli
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on Sun Apr 02, 2023 at 06:00 AM PDT
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I’d include a picture of the mountain view from here, but it is obscured by the constant snow and the few times we’ve had a break it’s been cloudy, so not as pretty as this!
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by annetteboardman
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on Fri Mar 31, 2023 at 09:00 PM PDT
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From the Associate Press apnews.com/... VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican on Thursday responded to Indigenous demands and formally repudiated the “Doctrine of Discovery,” the theories backed by 15th-century “papal bulls” that legitimized the colonial-era...
by vera esq
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on Thu Mar 30, 2023 at 02:31 PM PDT
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, annetteboardman, jck, Rise above the swamp, and Besame. Alumni editors include (but are not limited to) Man Oh...
by annetteboardman
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on Fri Oct 07, 2022 at 09:32 PM PDT
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame and jck. Alumni ...
by Chitown Kev
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on Tue Sep 06, 2022 at 08:59 PM PDT
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I want to preface this story with a caveat for people who know me IRL that I am not cross-posting it to any of my social media accounts and ask that this story not be shared on Facebook. My identity on Twitter is less known, so I may tweet a link to...
by boofdah
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on Sun Jun 26, 2022 at 07:06 PM PDT
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Yesterday, Andrea Tornielli, the Vatican’s editorial director wrote, “Being for life, always, also means defending it against the threat of firearms, which unfortunately have become a leading cause of death of children and adolescents in the US.” After...
by NHBred
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on Sun Jun 26, 2022 at 05:50 PM PDT
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, current leader Neon Vincent, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, Interceptor7, Magnifico, ...
by annetteboardman
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on Fri Jun 03, 2022 at 08:54 PM PDT
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Orthodoxy is the Catholic Church’s cross. Even a Pope with relatively liberal leanings finds it impossible to change the Church’s dogma. He may say some pretty things, but the Church remains clear on its position vis-à-vis same-sex relationships. They...
by TheCriticalMind
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on Mon May 10, 2021 at 09:23 AM PDT
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After World War II, 3 in 4 Americans declared themselves to be members of a church, a synagogue, or a mosque. It was the time of the Red Scare, and Americans feared the bombs and immorality of godless communism. A decade was spent hunting down pinkos...
by TheCriticalMind
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on Tue Apr 06, 2021 at 09:22 AM PDT
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, current leader Neon Vincent, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, Interceptor7, Magnifico, annetteboardman, jck, and Besame. Alumni editors include (but...
by annetteboardman
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on Fri Mar 26, 2021 at 08:51 PM PDT
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