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This may be one of the best explanations of male depression that I’ve ever heard. This is explains why guys are suicidal and their friends, parents, and/or wives don’t even know it. This is also why a man can be married with kids, great job, etc. & feel lonely & depressed.
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Esta mañana fui a tramitar la renovación de mi pasaporte en la oficina de Coyoacán.
A la hora de la fotografía y los datos biométricos el joven que me atendió me dijo que no me podía tomar la fotografía con el traje eclesiástico, que debía quitármelo. Le dije que no lo iba a hacer y, siempre con respeto, me dijo que lo notificaría a una supervisora. Llegó la citada supervisora, igualmente con deferencia, diciendo que no podían hacerme la fotografía con traje eclesiástico. Igualmente le dije que era mi derecho venir de la forma de acuerdo a mi estado de vida mientras mi rostro fuera perfectamente visible, incluso le dije que recientemente se había promovido una ley para que las mujeres islámicas pudieras salir en sus identificaciones oficiales con el hijab. Me dijo que consultaría con su siguiente autoridad. Luego de un rato dijo que no había problema. Me tomaron la foto y los datos biométricos y me invitaron a pasar al lugar donde se espera para que entreguen el documento. Luego me llamaron a una oficina. Una señora que no se presentó ni por nombre ni por cargo y con una actitud hostil desde el principio, me dijo tajantemente que no me iban a tramitar el pasaporte con la fotografía con traje eclesiástico, que debía quitármelo. Yo le pedí por escrito la ley que lo mandaba y me enseñó una hoja de un reglamento interno de la secretaría donde dice que no se pueden tomar fotografías con símbolos religiosos. Yo sé que la Suprema Corte ha fallado en favor del derecho que tenemos las personas religiosas a vestir, y por lo tanto, a ser identificados con nuestro atuendo religioso amparados en el derecho fundamental a la libertad religiosa. (Constitución arts. 1 y 24) y que se puede armonizar con las medidas de seguridad e identificación, permitiendo el atuendo religioso siempre que el rostro sea visible con claridad.
Los sacerdotes católicos somos ciudadanos de segunda que, a causa de nuestra opción de fe, tenemos libertades y derechos restringidos. Esto es una expresión más de que no somos iguales ante la ley.
La mujer que, de forma autoritaria y apoyada por un policía que estaba atrás de ella, en clara actitud de intimidación, me obligó a despojarme de mi ropa eclesiástica, naturalmente no me dijo que no me darían el pasaporte, pero era claro, o eso o nada, incluso me “regañó” porque era “el primero” de los sacerdotes que se negaba a tal medida.
El reglamento interno de ninguna secretaría puede estar por encima ni de la Constitución ni de los derechos que tenemos y que se llaman humanos.
Hoy fui objeto de #discriminación se vulneraron mis #DerechosHumanos y fui humillado por claras expresiones #anticlericales y de #cristianofobia
Con muy pocas esperanzas de ser atendido, como una expresión más de la indefensión de los ciudadanos comunes, y más los de segunda clase, quedo atento a su respuesta.
-Padre Alberto Medel.
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Muslim raider just destroyed the skeleton of the actual St. Nick.
BONES attributed to Saint Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, kept since 1098 in Saint-Nicolas-de-Port, in Meurthe-et-Moselle, were STOLEN from their reliquary inside the basilica, then DESTROYED.
The suspect, arrested at his home, admitted to SMASHING the display case protecting the reliquary, then stealing its contents, BURNING the bones and CRUSHING them out of a “desire to destroy.”
(Source: L'Est Républicain)
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Pope Leo XIV at Mass in Uruguay, delivers a magnificent reflection to parents whose children no longer practice the faith despite their best efforts:
“When we wonder and ask, where our faith comes from, the name of a specific woman often comes to mind; a mother, a grandmother, a godmother, a religious sister, or a catechist.
We may not remember every word they said to us, but we do remember how they prayed, how they spoke to how they spoke of the Lord snd with what conviction they lived out, what they taught us.
Today, I would like to thank all of those women. Thank you for having believed, and for having kept open a path to God in so many families.
Some were able to do so, supported by a long standing family tradition, others had to sustain that faith with greater effort, perhaps without always finding understanding or support within their own homes.
I know that many of you carry a very specific sorrow; you taught your children to pray, and today, they no longer do so.
You used to attend Mass together, and it has been years since they entered the church. You spoke to your grandchildren about God, and now you do not know if those words left a mark. Sometimes you wonder if you did something wrong. Or if it was all future.
Allow me to recall St. Monica here, who knew that pain well. She prayed for years for a son who seemed to be drifting further and further from God. But she never stopped trusting in His grace.
Therefore, do not consider what you have sown to be lost. The Lord Himself taught us that the seed can grow without the sower, knowing how.
Mothers and grandmothers never tire of passing on the faith. Preach with your lives, as well as with your words. Insist on prayer, love and hope. Insist on them, in seasoning and out of season.
Do so with patience, without harshness or discouragement, even if your loved ones seem far from God continue to place them before Him. Do not stop blessing them, accompanying them, and simply reminding them of what they once received. There are doors that you cannot open, but God can.
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In this abbey in France, nuns have been restoring old books for over 70 years.
The Benedictine sisters of Maumont Abbey run a full workshop and their craft is bookbinding, gilding and restoration. Centuries-old books arrive damaged, torn and crumbling, and they restore them all by hand to last another hundred years.
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Thomas Aquinas College is the new Harvard.
We were concerned that the SAT has become a less reliable measure of student preparedness for a rigorous college curriculum.
So, we commissioned a study from Johns Hopkins University. What does this study tell us about the state of higher education?
The results are shocking. thaq.co/4iLThZ0
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The Nazi guards never heard the baby crying inside her toolbox. If they had, 2,500 children would have died.
In 1942, a 32-year-old Polish social worker named Irena Sendler walked into the Warsaw Ghetto carrying a simple toolbox. She had a permit to check for typhus outbreaks. The guards waved her through. Hidden beneath the wrenches and rags was a six-month-old baby. She walked past armed soldiers and handed the child to a Polish family waiting outside the walls. The next morning she walked back in and did it again.
For three years Irena smuggled approximately 2,500 Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto. She hid infants in toolboxes, sedated children and smuggled them in coffins, concealed them in ambulances under stretchers, and used sewer pipes. Every child received a new Polish name. Irena recorded everything—real names, new names, locations—on tissue paper sealed in glass jars and buried in a friend’s garden.
By October 1943 the Gestapo caught her. They tortured her, broke both her legs and both her feet, and beat her unconscious. She gave them nothing. After months they sentenced her to death. The night before her execution, the underground bribed a guard. He led her out and recorded her as “executed.”
She went immediately back to work and continued until the war ended. When the war ended she dug up the jars and spent months trying to reunite children with families. Most parents had died in the camps.
For decades almost no one knew about her. Then in 1999 four teenage girls in Kansas found a brief mention of a woman who had saved 2,500 children. They researched and wrote a play. At age 89 Irena Sendler became famous. She was honored by Pope John Paul II and nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. She died in 2008 at age 98.
One estimate suggests those 2,500 rescued children produced approximately 6,000 descendants. She was a social worker with a permit and a toolbox. She walked into hell every day for three years and walked out carrying children. The Nazis broke her legs. They couldn’t break her will.
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주인이 들어 오라고 해도 안들어옴 ㅋㅋㅋ
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Cuando el funcionario nazi Adolf Eichmann comentó con desprecio que no estaba acostumbrado a tratar con mujeres, Geertruida Wijsmuller, de cuarenta y dos años, no se inmutó.
Respondió con sequedad que lo sentía, pero que había olvidado traer a su marido, así que él tendría que entenderse simplemente con ella.
Eichmann, quien supervisaba la emigración forzosa de judíos en la Viena de 1938, le tendió una trampa que él consideraba imposible: le concedió permiso para sacar a 600 niños judíos de la Austria ocupada por los nazis, a condición de que organizara su evacuación completa en tan solo cinco días.
Esperaba que la burocracia y el miedo la doblegaran. Subestimó a «Tante Truus» (tía Truus).
Geertruida, una ama de casa neerlandesa sin cargos políticos ni poder militar, se negó a dejarse intimidar. En un plazo de 120 horas, consiguió fondos de emergencia, requisó trenes y llevó a 600 niños aterrorizados a través de la frontera hacia un lugar seguro, logrando aparecer en los titulares de *The New York Times*.
Aquel primer rescate audaz no fue un triunfo aislado, sino el modelo para una campaña que duró dieciocho meses.
Cruzando fronteras hostiles varias veces por semana, Geertruida organizó cuarenta y nueve expediciones —en tren, barco y avión— para sacar clandestinamente a niños de Alemania, Austria y Checoslovaquia hacia refugios en Inglaterra, Suecia y los Países Bajos.
Cuando Alemania invadió los Países Bajos en mayo de 1940, ella supervisó personalmente la partida del último barco de rescate; cedió su propio lugar para quedarse junto a su marido y continuar con las labores de la resistencia clandestina durante toda la guerra.
Reconocida como «Justa entre las Naciones» antes de su fallecimiento en 1978, la «Madre de 10 001 niños» logró salvar, en total, más de 10 000 vidas jóvenes de la Shoa
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I shall withhold judgment on Gerwig’s Narnia until I see it, but it’s hard to imagine any adaptation surpassing the BBC television series.
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At the Nordhausen concentration camp, an American soldier named Lee Davis found a prisoner so thin that he could not lift his head. The man blinked, barely alive. Davis knelt down, broke off a piece of his chocolate ration, and gently stuffed it into his mouth.
The man burst into tears, unable to chew, but holding the chocolate as if it were gold. "He hadn't spoken in weeks," another soldier said, "but he whispered 'thank you,' in English." Private Davis remained by his side all night. The man survived. For years, he wrote to Davis, calling him "the man who brought flavor back to the world."
It's always good to be good.
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Czesława Kwoka (1928–1943) was a 14-year-old Polish Catholic girl who became a widely recognized victim of Nazi German atrocities during WWII. Her registration photographs taken at the Auschwitz concentration camp are among the most famous and haunting visual records of the Holocaust...
In the photo, you can see a small cut on her lip and a haunting fear in her eyes. Just moments before this picture was taken, a guard had whipped her across the face with a stick. Czesława did not understand why she was being hit. She did not understand why she was in a place called Auschwitz. She was just a child, and she was terrified.
Czesława was born in a small Polish village called Wólka Złojecka. She was a Catholic girl who lived a simple life until the horror of the Holocaust reached her home. In late 1942, she and her mother were deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp. Her mother died just a month after they arrived. Czesława was left all alone in a world of striped uniforms and barbed wire.
The man behind the camera was Wilhelm Brasse. He was not a Nazi soldier. He was a fellow prisoner, a professional photographer from Poland who had been arrested because he refused to swear allegiance to Hitler.
The Nazis forced him to take identification photos of every person who entered the camp. He took over 40,000 of these "mugshots," capturing the faces of men, women, and children who were marked for death.
Brasse never forgot the day Czesława walked into his studio. He remembered her beauty and her absolute innocence. He watched as a female guard, a Kapo, lost her temper and struck the girl. Brasse recalled the moment vividly in a later documentary.
He said: "She was so young and so terrified. The girl didn't understand why she was there and what they were saying to her. Then a female Kapo took a stick and hit her in the face."
He watched the young girl cry. He saw her use her hand to wipe the blood and tears from her face before he had to click the shutter. Brasse wanted to help her, but he knew that any movement or word of protest would mean his own death.
"To tell the truth, I felt as though I had been hit myself, but I couldn't intervene," he admitted. "It would have been fatal. You couldn't say absolutely anything."
Czesława was murdered on March 12, 1943. She was one of 230,000 children and adolescents who were sent to Auschwitz. Most of them did not survive.
When the war was ending and the Soviet army was approaching, the Nazis ordered Brasse to burn all the photographs. They wanted to destroy the evidence of their crimes.
However, Brasse chose to risk his life one last time. He and another prisoner managed to hide thousands of negatives in the barracks. Because of his bravery,
Czesława’s face was not erased from history. Her eyes still stare at us today, demanding that we acknowledge what happened to her.
After the war, Wilhelm Brasse returned to his hometown. He tried to go back to his old life, but he found that he could no longer take pictures. The faces of the victims were burned into his mind.
"Despite having a Kodak camera, I couldn't bring myself to photograph again; I had a repulsion to it," he explained. He spent the rest of his life working in a deli, carrying the weight of those 40,000 faces until he died in 2012.
When we look at Czesława, we are not looking at a statistic; we are looking at a human being who deserved a future. History is made of individual lives, and it is our duty to protect the humanity of every person, especially when the world around us turns to darkness.
#archaeohistories
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Bandits are still terrorizing Nigeria.
Kidnapping and killing innocent civilians 💔💔
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🔴🇳🇬 𝗔𝗟𝗘𝗥𝗧𝗘 — Âgée de seulement 30 ans, Lydia Nwankwo, chrétienne et bénévole de la Croix-Rouge, a été TUÉE PAR BALLE sur une route de l'État de Sokoto, au Nigeria, lors d'une attaque djihadiste.
Son équipe, composée de 5 personnes, a essuyé des tirs lors d'une EMBUSCADE alors qu'elle revenait d'une mission de terrain visant à aider les personnes touchées par des attentats terroristes. (Premier Christian News)
