Giussani
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Tarnishing the Splendor of Truth
The eccentric French footballer Nicolas Anelka— once of Arsenal, Real Madrid, Chelsea etc., now of West West Bromwich Albion– celebrated one of his goals against West Ham the other day by performing la quenelle, a quasi-nazi salute invented by French comedian Dieudonné M’bala M’bala. Politically correct journalists are now suggesting that he should be hounded out of the game… Continue reading
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Gaudium et Spes, with a little bit of Luctus et Angor
In the first draft of the Second Vatican Council’s Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World the famous first words, “gaudium et spes, luctus et angor,” (joy and hope, grief and anguish) were ordered differently: “luctus et angor, gaudium et spes.” But the Council father’s decided that entitling the document “Luctus et Angor” would not… Continue reading
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My Father and the Holy Father…
* … both contributed chapters to a book on Fr. Luigi Giussani, the founder of the movement Communion and Liberation: Continue reading
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