Posted in Culture, Ethics, Philosophy, politics on Apr 18th, 2008
[pt. 1 is here]
From the Compassion Forum, last Sunday, at a college in a small town in Pennsylvania:
CLINTON: So maybe . . . this impoverishment of body and soul is what we are expected to be spending our time responding to, and so few of us do.
Even those who are doing wonderful work [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 17th, 2008
From the Compassion Forum, last Sunday, at a college in a small town in Pennsylvania:
CLINTON: . . . [W]hat that means to me is that in the face of suffering, there is no doubt in my mind that God calls us to respond. . . .
. . . [I]n my Judeo-Christian faith tradition . . [...]
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Posted in Culture, life, religion on Apr 14th, 2008
The Wife and I just returned from CUA’s campus, where we were doing some final tax printing/mailing, and it’s fascinating to see the preparations for the Pope’s arrival. CUA is a pontifical institution (which means, unlike all the other Catholic universities in America, we [whoever "we" are] answer directly to the Vatican), so it’s an [...]
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Posted in life, politics on Apr 11th, 2008
My reaction to this is . . . I don’t know:
Clinton and Obama, in back-to-back interviews, will field questions from CNN’s Campbell Brown and Newsweek’s Jon Meacham as well as prominent members from the faith community. The Compassion Forum, sponsored by Faith in Public Life, will air at 8 p.m. ET on April 13.
The forum [...]
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