Mark Pattison

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@SABRSouthernMI @CodyStavenhagen Hey! Post the version with the answers!

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@DetroitRedWings Reminds me of the Pistons' Tayshaun Prince denying the Pacers' Reggie Miller on a fast-break would-have-been backbreaker bucket.

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@niawag1 This was months ago.

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@jonmsweeney Well, we all know which way Brother Henry was leaning.

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@CatholicHerald A smooth criminal he. I reviewed a two-CD set of "Beat" music for the quarterly family history journal in Quebec. Much of it is music mocking the beats. Sheesh. I'm awaiting delivery of a new-edition Kerouac bio.

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@studio_gal Actually, he was celibate.

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@carolmaczim But don't drop the Communion!

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@tigersMLreport @Greg_Gania "Former Tigers great"?

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@ktumulty Are you kin to Joseph Tumulty, President Wilson's secretary who tried to broker a sale of the Washington Post to Sen. James Couzens, D-Mich., circa 1924?

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@pcooleybeck @TigersHistory @P_Sebastian_Ozz The Mayo Smith Society salutes you! https://t.co/oYEelIhOsR

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@JPosnanski Saw you were in DC last week to plug Houdini. Can you come back to DC Sat. Feb 1 to address the largest SABR chapter in US? We're having a daylong forum; we hope it's something you can't escape! Non-Twitter: [email protected]

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At #usccb19: A tie vote between Bishop George Murry and Archbihsop Thomas Wenski for chair of the USCCB Committee for Religious Liberty. Age has its privileges; Bishp Murry is older, and so wins the chairmanship.

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@CardinalSean giving an update on the Vatican investigation into former Cardinal McCarrick. @usccb19
Says the investigation was meant to have been sent to bishops by now but was more far-reaching than they expected, going into different U.S. dioceses.

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Breaking: Added to #usccb19 agenda: An oral report of the Vatican investigation of defrocked Cardinal Theodore McCarrick.

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Breaking: Holy See moves jurisdiction of Archdiocese of Fairbanks, Alaska, from the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples to the Congregation for Bishops.
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The morning prayer is over, and the USCCB fall general meeting is now called to order!

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USCCB meeting almost officially over. The bishops go into executive session now. Oh, to be a fly on the wall!

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More applause from the U.S. bishops! Why? Says Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, USCCB president: "We're ahead of schedule."

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USCCB gives fond farewell to HR official Regina Grunert, slated for retirement after 42 years of service, with standing ovation.

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Bishops OK remote voting from Rome for 2019 fall meeting as some bishops will be on assignment. 206-4 the vote; 180 was needed to pass.