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Lisa Moretti's avatar

This was so refreshing.

Now if we can just figure out what to do about Goebbels reincarnated. It is a short poem and we are starting to run out of lines.

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Sheryl Breault's avatar

Talking about Stephen Miller?

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Lisa Moretti's avatar

yep. He's a domestic terrorist in my books.

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Lydia Sugarman's avatar

I disagree nearly 100% with Charlotte's opening observations about the election of Pope Leo. I think people are not giving the Curia enough credit for this extremely shrewd election. C'mon! It only took two days!

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Kelly Boogher's avatar

These Evangelicals that support Shitler are traitors to their own faith and to everything Jesus ever stood for , so the outrage is just them showing us who they really are.

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Fran Gibson's avatar

Hello!!

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Lynne Bentley's avatar

As one who is not Catholic, but maybe married at a Mission, a subject is the Cardinal in SF who wants to go back to Latin mass and tried to get amazing Nancy Pelosi barred from communion. Glad he’s not our Pope.

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Sheryl Breault's avatar

Hello to you both. I understand the new pope doesn’t like trump!

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Sheila Pickard's avatar

Hello to you both!

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Jessica Josephson's avatar

Has anyone done a list/analysis of all of Trump's Executive Orders? It would be great if you or one of your colleagues would create this. What I envision is the text of the EO and then an analysis/description of how it is illegitimate.

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Liz Hunt's avatar

I'm a 64 year old Catholic lesbian, married for 20+ years. I live in a tiny town of about 3,000 on the Maine- New Hampshire border and we're pretty much the token, resident lesbians. We've been fortunate to belong to a fairly welcoming parish as well as being embraced by our community in a purple state. Our former parish in Massachusetts was very welcoming and clear about this with us. Our current, new parish of about 1 year is still trying to figure us out but we have a young priest who's learning to love us and we're slowly winning hearts and minds here. I'm cautiously optimistic that Pope Leo will at least uphold some of the bold statements and changes initiated by Pope Francis, who I think was a total bad-ass, btw. Time will tell but we plan to keep showing up, being visible and present and trying to be the change we wish to see in the world. Even in these scary times of the orange shitgibbon’s administration.

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joe alter's avatar

https://randoliberal.substack.com/p/we-are-not-at-war-with-venezuela?r=u47dz

We are not at war with Venezuela, President Trump is at war with the Constitution

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Kelly Boogher's avatar

I am a Christian who has always been a Never Trumper, never bought into the bullshit that he was a "baby Christian ", have always seen him for the amoral piece of shit he is. I also am not bigoted like too many Christians are.

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Kiki Figster's avatar

Great discussion!

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Susan DeMaio Smutny's avatar

In Papacy, the first ‘a’ is pronounced with a long a (e.g. ape), not pap like in pap smear 🙂

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judyth Watson-Remy's avatar

Hello Allison and Charlotte from Brooklyn.

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Claire's avatar

I was afraid the cardinals were going to elect the guy from Hungary (I forgot his name) who is known as a rather hard conservative.

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Claire's avatar

Hi AG! This is my first time here watching your podcast, and is very informative. I was a bit disappointed Pope Leo (Provost) was elected, I was hoping for Matteo Zuppi, but I do wish our new Pope all the best and blessings.

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