Something to cheer @PaulinusOfTrier
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Absolutely stunning essay by @DouglasKMurray about the crisis in France. It includes this quote.
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Has someone been appointed to the BBC to promote the Defund campaign?
Who needs this patronising waffle?
Your child wasn't invited to the party - here's how to handle the disappointment bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr86…
My fave email sign-off ever has to be when I was working at Cambridge University Press, temporarily looking after the Sociology list. I was sorting out picture permissions for a book on Bob Marley and one of the contributors signed off every email:
One love
Given how fascinated and triggered you are by the one true church, I wonder how long it'll be before you convert. Or maybe you're just too proud, or not curious enough?
Anyway, one thing we can agree on is that we're all sinners. See you in Purgatory!
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JUST IN: Pope Leo's surgery was completed successfully, the Vatican says.
It was on schedule & Leo is now back in his room.
More information will follow shortly
This reminds me of my daughter who thought that because she was four and had a forehead, mine was called a forty-four-head
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Vatican says that Pope Leo XIV has now been admitted to the Agostino Gemelli University Hospital.
His surgery will take place this afternoon, with the thoracic surgery team being led by Professor Stefano Margaritora.
Updates will come this evening after surgery
The Vatican says that all of Pope Leo's audiences will be cancelled until October 20.
This is due to his hospitalisation on Oct 13 & subsequent recovery after the operation.
Re the Amoris Laetitia mtg – due to his absence the final document from the mtg will not be made public until he has read it after his convalescence is over: Cardinal Farrell & Cdl Grech confirmed such this afternoon.
A kind RT from dear @BattlementClare and a handy link to my article about home education.
It takes a village!
A heartwarming story of a family journey through home ed told beautifully by my dear friend @LibbyMag
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Dear friends, during some recent medical examinations, the doctors found a small, localized nodule in my lung. It was detected at a very early stage and is well-localized. The doctors believe that it is best to intervene, so, following their advice, I have decided to undergo surgery to remove it. The operation is already scheduled to take place in the coming days. I thank you for your spiritual closeness and entrust myself to your prayers.
My article in the Sunday Times today... and my life's work.
Shared with you by a Times subscriber.
Enjoy this article for free.
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Found this in the back catalogue. One for @ExcelsiorOrBust
The UNHCR warns against providing formula milk in these situations. It can do more harm than good.
unhcr.org/uk/sites/uk/files/…
I travelled on the underground yesterday. No graffiti on the train, no annoying announcements. A woman sat down beside me and started watching Instagram out loud. I said, “Can you use headphones please?” She said, “OK”. I said “Thankyou.”
London is not uniformly terrible!
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It's been some time since we last had any religious education but this quote is unfamiliar.
One for @tomough
When reading English off the cuff
It isn’t hard to think ‘Enough! -
The problem’s not with me and you
That -ough confuses through and through."
If you’ve been trained to read, you ought
To have no issues, you’d have thought.
But then you hesitate, for how
Can ‘slough it off’ not rhyme with “Slough”?
And then there’s cough, and bough, and through,
And dough, and lots of others too.
Perhaps in time of mental drought
I’ll write a poem to spell it out.