🇺🇳 Utopian who’d love to be a polymath but knows as much as Socrates & Jon Snow. Fascinated with literature, art, law theory, faith, nature, games with agency
These dark times a new publication seems almost irrelevant. But in this piece, I argue that the arts -including literature- can expose the inhumane ways in which authority and the law are instrumentalized, and highlight the need for empathy & solidarity https://t.co/c8QPyU53eq
This is a plausible hypothesis. If true, I doubt pope Leo XIV or the Holy See will take credit.
Since, in any case, the most important thing is that there is a respite & effective ceasefire and that innocents be safe.
And hopefully, that this unjust war of aggression is soon over
UNBELIEVABLE!
Pope Leo personally called Putin and Zelenskyy, pushing for a ceasefire in Ukraine.
Now the Trump White House is trying to give MELANIA TRUMP the credit, completely ignoring the Pope’s efforts!
These people will do absolutely ANYTHING to steal the spotlight and rewrite the narrative.
The shamelessness is OFF THE CHARTS!
This is an example of how vile and problematic it is for religion to be captured by a state or group carrying out nefarious actions and for the faith to become a mouthpiece subservient to and legitimizing those abuses -a war of aggression and conquest killing innocents, no less
This seems to put politics & support Putin's war over good theology.
There is no reason to rebaptize any Orthodox, any Catholic, or most Protestants.
“I have said… that the mass of bourgeois smug Christians who denied Christ in His poor made me turn to Communism, and it was the Communists and working with them that made me turn to God.”
- Dorothy Day
By the thesis that law's necessary features can be stated without moral concepts my writing does not belong to the legal positivist tradition, since it ascribes the moral concept of legitimate authority to law as an essential feature.
-- Joseph Raz
🎥The High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission Kaja Kallas visited the #ICC. #BuildingSupport@kajakallas@EU_Commission
“Everything was done remotely.”...The effects on the ground were gruesome and bloody, but the technology at the disposal of airforce and intelligence units meant that many involved—unlike their compatriots patrolling the West Bank—were increasingly shielded from its effects"
Pope Leo XIV received His Beatitude Sviatoslav Shevchuk, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, in a private audience at the Vatican Apostolic Palace on October 23. The meeting comes as Ukraine continues to suffer from war, and the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church provides spiritual and humanitarian support to those affected.
Sí, celebré con entusiasmo el Nobel de Anne Carson. Pero ningún ganador me ha conmovido tanto como Karl Deisseroth. Aunque vengan de mundos distintos, ambos comparten algo esencial: una profunda devoción por las palabras y el asombro permanente que nace de leer ficción y escribir
In March 2003 Pope John Paul II sent his envoy, Archbishop Laghi, to the Oval Office to implore Pres Bush not to invade Iraq. Bush put the letter aside w/o reading it and asked +Laghi to pray with him.
+Laghi responded: "I prayed before I came here."
The Independent's Washington Correspondent Andrew Feinberg has been banned from President Donald Trump's press pool after a tense encounter in the Oval Office on Tuesday (20 October).
The Israeli army opened the iron gate in the West Bank to let an Israeli settler pass, then shut it again, leaving Palestinians stranded.
One group is allowed through while another is not. What do you call a system like that?
“Within me, there is a world that only silence understands.”
Albert Camus reminds us of the quiet conversations we have with ourselves, the questions we never ask aloud, and the truths we discover within.
A little philosophy, a little solitude, and a lot of self reflection.
Council members launching Expert Group are Bahrain, Colombia, DRC, Denmark, France, Greece, Latvia, Liberia, Panama, UK.
While being convened by those members "the Group remains open to current...members wishing to join."
Not yet engaged are China, Pakistan, Russia, Somalia, US.
The US government panicking over the Myanmar ICJ ruling before it’s even released says everything. The anxiety isn't about legal interpretation - it's about the implications of holding a state accountable for genocide.
Racist, chauvinist,
revisionist, and imperialist aggression that has caused many victims. If Putin thinks Ukrainians are related, why spill their innocent blood?
We humans are all related, and have the same dignity. But Putin’s Russia’s actions act as if not all humans did. Awful