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When I was 14 I decided to watch all the films recommended by the Vatican. Some of my favourite films ever come from that list: Monsieur Vincent and A Man for All Seasons (few works have influenced me as much as this movie), among others.
Vatican needs to make a new version.
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Also those earnest messages about tackling the ‘national epidemic of male violence against women and girls’ are just an obscene joke on us all aren’t they?
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Today I discovered not only that there is such a thing as a quokka but also that my whole life I've been missing a quokka.
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What kind of person thinks a rape victim wanting a female-only support service is "fear-mongering and vitriol"?
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Polite notice to those urging me to show blind tribal allegiance to a party that's screwed over female nurses who want to change in a female-only space, female prisoners housed with male sex offenders and female rape survivors who want an all-female support service: nope.
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Like pretty much everything @Docstockk writes, this is challenging, coherent, and brilliantly argued. Don't balk away from the subject because you *assume* you will disagree. Give it a read: unherd.com/2025/11/what-prog…
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"Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, "Do it again"; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony.
It is possible that God says every morning, "Do it again" to the sun; and every evening, "Do it again" to the moon. It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them.
It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we."
G.K. Chesterton, 'Orthodoxy'
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I'm already missing @intel_lady's Angela Rayner,
but I'm here for ALL the spoofs🤣
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there’s an election for Cat Mayor currently happening in Somerville, Mass. and every cat deserves to win
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Journalist Amanda Ferguson discusses the global ‘Brave’ movement and interviews a panel of childhood sexual abuse victims and survivors – Michelle Duffy, Amanda Brown, Nikella Holmes and Haileigh Ashton Lamont – who are campaigning for people with lived experience to be centred in policy and decision-making.
This event is part of Féile an Phobail 2025.
Please visit our site to learn more: linenhall.com/event/we-need-…
#LinenHall #OpeningMinds #Belfast
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Seeing a lot of hot takes of people trying to figure out if the pope is conservative or not because he's pro-life but he's also pro-immigration and care for the poor.
Idk, guys. Call me crazy, but I think the pope might be Catholic.
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Humanity really needed this sweet story today.
Pope Francis was giving his regular papal service when this little girl with Down Syndrome got up and walked toward him. Security quickly went to bring the child back to her mother but Francis stopped them and asked the little girl to come sit by him. So she climbed up next to him and held his hand while he continued his homily.
