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Claretian archbishop and founder. Anthony was born in Salient in Catalonia, Spain, in 1807, the son of a weaver. He took up weaving but then studied for the priesthood, desiring to be a Jesuit. Ill health prevented his entering the Order, and he served as a secular priest. In 1849, he founded the ...
Lord Acton: Libertarian Hero [Originally published April 4, 2006, at LewRockwell.com] “You would spare these criminals, for some mysterious reason. I would hang them higher than Haman, for reasons of quite obvious justice; still more, still higher, for the sake of historical science.”1 Thus ends a long passage of a letter from John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, First Lord Acton (1834–1902) in which appears his famous aphorism regarding power’s tendency to corrupt its possessor. In a few words to a fellow historian, who regarded his critic as the “most learned Englishman now alive,...
Letter #13, 2021, Tues., April 6: Hans Küng Letter #13, 2021, Tues., April 6: Hans Küng I write today with the sad news of the death at the age of 93 of one of the more important and controversial Catholic theologians of our time, Hans Küng. I met Küng, who was Swiss, just briefly, in the 1970s, when I was a college student at Harvard, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and he was invited by the Harvard Divinity School to give a lecture there. I was struck then by Küng’s confident presence and manner. He presented his rather progressive, modernist views in a self-ass...
Back in 1992. another member, congresswoman brethrecongressbre service. she said aretha franklin loved the sorority's ideals and her life was an inspiration. pope francis talking about the abuse in the church. he made his first vatican appearance and a some shell report accusing him of covering up accusations of sexual misconduct against an excardinal. the pope mentioned church officials' lack of response to abuse in ireland, but he did not mention the abuse accusations in the united states at all. our chief religion correspondent lauren green has the news now. lauren? >> help, shep, as you kn...
Is like arizona without the grand canyon. more tributes from that memorial service just ahead. and pope francis making his first comments since the former vatican insider accused him of a sex abuse coverup and called for the pope to resign. but, first, tens of millions of people sweating it out on the final days of august in tiny town today. feels like, i don't know, 105 or something. our meteorologist adam klotz live in the fox extreme weather center. hi, adam. >> hi there, shep. it is incredibly hot across the country. as you are looking at spots the entire eastern half of the country in the...