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(This is also why CS Lewis understood final impenitence rather more acutely than Hans Urs von Balthasar.
Ordinary people just don't undo who they spent a lifetime becoming - Just not how human psychology usually works).
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Trump is, well unique, but part of his impenitence here is really common with older people.
You won't repent on your deathbed, you won't suddenly forgive all you should, the lifetime you spent becoming will make that impossible for you.
So do it *now* - While you still can.
🚨 Q: You're entering the next life [before God], all you have to do to enter paradise is feel love and forgiveness for James Comey, Nancy Pelosi, etc...can you do it?
TRUMP: Then I wouldn't be real, would I? The easy answer is, yes, I could forgive. They are extremely dishonest people, bad people, I love our country far more...the answer is no. I want to be honest.
Q: In judgement before God?
TRUMP: I do hate some of my enemies. Look what they put me through.
REPORTER: You had the most charmed and remarkable life of any American in my entire lifetime, and you can't find it in your heart to forgive some of your enemies?
TRUMP: All I have to do is say yes, I can. Can I be honest? I probably cannot do that. Because I do hate some of my enemies — and I always will.
Never heard Trump get asked such a deep question like that before.
He COULD just say "yes" and get out of the question, but he didn't
One thing you have to admit is this man is brutally honest.
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Oh, it takes me back. As a very small child I remember we'd be 'entertained' by Bunny Carr on 'Going Strong'. Then it would be a half hour of Czech communist cartoon, that had obviously been bought by Eoghan Harris.
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The weirdest thing about the misery gulag version of 20th c Ireland was that it needed to be false in order to gain wide currency.
"I know 80s Ireland was a repressive poverty stricken hell hole because Pat Kenny told me this on the car radio every day on my way home from work."
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What an odd way to say Israeli authorities killed a child by depriving him of food while illegally imprisoning him
Israel to release body of Palestinian teen who died malnourished in prison haaretz.com/west-bank/2026-1…
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When being just and honest comes at a price, pay it. When forgiving seems like a defeat, forgive. When everyone tells you to think of yourselves first, do not be afraid to put yourselves in the last place. Be willing to give up time, money, comfort and plans to serve others. May those who see you find themselves asking: “Why do they live in this way? Where do they get this freedom? Why do they love one another so much?” #ApostolicJourney #Uruguay
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Awful news. My beloved cameraman Owen Scurfield died last week. Hé was 57. We worked together for 25 years. Hé shot most of my films. The best art cameraman in Britain. And a lovely, gentle, warm man. We had so much fun on shoots. Farewell my wonderful friend. Life’s a bitch.
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Big difference between west Donegal, east Donegal and south Donegal English.
East Donegal just like neighbouring Derry City and Tyrone.
West is still pure Ulster but different.
South Donegal is like northern Connacht.
Went to a (Catholic) funeral in East Donegal this weekend, had my daughter greeted in pure Scots with "Och, the wee hen." It struck me, given the extreme politicisation of all language stuff in NI, that just over the border Scots is an unremarkable and cross-community aspect of ordinary spoken Hiberno-English, and probably the first form of "English" acquired by local Irish-speakers
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In FG gombo land, bashing the native unemployed is the ultimate safe edgy patter.
"Well sure lookit, ishn't it great to hear them latchykos called out - they're bleeding the takshpayers! Now I'd love to chat, but I'm off to lodge this $900k payment for me IPAS converted hotel."
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In 'Mau-Mauing The Flak Catchers', Tom Wolfe wrote that the smart race hustlers in late 1960s San Francisco, didn't aspire to get jobs from the minority job programmes, but jobs *administering* these programmes. This is the template Ebun Ribena & co now operate in Ireland.
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So let me get this straight? The Unionists used to foam at the mouth because SF didn’t attend the Remembrance Day service.
Now that they do, to respect the traditions of Unionists, the DUP has prevented the FM from attending.
How bloody stupid is that?
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A preview, I suspect, of Pope Leo's upcoming document on the family to replace Amoris laetitia.
Pope Leo XIV tells the young people of Uruguay to get married and have a family, or hear God's call to the Sacred Priesthood:
"Young friends, dare to take the step of marriage and starting a family. Do not be afraid of the word "forever"! Married couples, open your homes to new life, even when the world tells you that a child is a burden.
If any of you feel that Christ is calling you to leave everything behind to follow Him in the priesthood or consecrated life, do not ignore that voice out of fear of losing other possibilities. When being just and honest comes at a price, pay it. When forgiving feels like a defeat, forgive anyway. When everyone tells you to think of yourselves first, do not be afraid to place yourselves last; be willing to give of your time, money, comfort, and plans to serve others. May those who look at you wonder: "Why do they live this way? Where does this freedom come from? Why do they love each other so much?"
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Ferguson shifting with the wind again I see
"Niall Ferguson and the emptying of the right-wing mind" As we witness the overdue collapse of the MAGA movement, here is a piece of mine on how supposedly civilised British conservatives rushed to endorse the corrupt leader of a hostile foreign power
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Do they have anything to say about the billions wasted on the IPAS racket every year? Of course not, Fine Gael are a literal plague on this country.
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The late John Healy, supposedly a scourge of Dublin 4, faithfully recited its anti-Irish script by blaming the bombings on PIRA violence. ApparentIly at the time, only two public figures, Major Vivion de Valera & the great Hugh Munro, called out the state class's shoneen frenzy.
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On Remembrance Sunday, we remember all those who have been killed by war.
Every year, I am reminded of the words of Wilfred Owen: “What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns.”
Today, let us vow to build a world of peace for all.
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Sad but true
A importância da visita do Santo Padre é justamente tirar da clandestinidade os católicos uruguaios, que vivem em um dos países mais autoritariamente pagãos, um lugar que suprime até os nomes da Semana Santa e do Natal. Além de jogar na cara dos ateus a feiura da alma deles. Esse choro que está rolando aqui no site revela que eles ficaram incomodados. E a mudança nasce justamente dos incômodos. Que dê frutos.
