In our time of mounting global tensions and conflicts, #Hiroshima and #Nagasaki stand as symbols of memory that urge us to reject the illusion of security founded on mutually assured destruction. Instead, we must forge a global ethic rooted in justice, fraternity and the common good. It is thus my prayer that this anniversary will serve as an invitation to the international community to renew its commitment to pursuing lasting peace for our whole human family, a peace that is unarmed and disarming.
This is Miyamoto. I am pleased to announce that for the live-action film of The Legend of Zelda, Zelda will be played by Bo Bragason-san, and Link by Benjamin Evan Ainsworth-san. I am very much looking forward to seeing both of them on the big screen. (1/2)
A rather silly article appeared in the Sunday edition of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune concerning my participation in the President’s Religious Liberty Commission. The author, Karen Tolkkinen, claimed that I “advocate erasing the boundaries between church and state.” This is a gross mischaracterization of my position.
The first amendment to the Constitution does indeed say that Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, and I completely support this. But the amendment contains a second clause in regard to religion, namely, that Congress shall make no law “prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” Though there can never be an official American religion, there can indeed be expressions of religion in the public space and in civic life. The relegation of faith to the private sphere, which has been encouraged by some of the regrettable jurisprudence of the last seventy-five years, is happily being overturned by a number of recent decisions of our Supreme Court. It is no accident, in fact, that freedom of religion is the first liberty guaranteed in the Bill of Rights. For if the capacity to express one’s deepest moral convictions in public is denied, all of the other freedoms can and will, in time, be denied.
Ms. Tolkkinen represents the elite liberal class that, unfortunately, controls many of the institutions of our society. What she and her colleagues fear the most are confident and assertive religious people who refuse to stay sequestered in private. So I say: fight hard against any formal establishment of religion, but fight just as hard for the right to exercise religion in the public space.
Church historian in 2500:
The zuchetto was originally a skullcap. The first American pope Leo XIV modified the zuchetto to include a large front brim, and this style became adopted by subsequent popes. The stylized SOX means "Successor of Christ" (the X from the Greek Xristos)."
Some guy who stopped going to Mass at 15: A key part of being catholic is feeling shame
History's greatest theologian, Aquinas: when you're sad, try napping and taking a bath
Pope Leo XIV affirms the family is founded on the “stable union between a man and a woman,” and that the unborn have inherent dignity as God’s creatures, articulating Catholic teaching on marriage and abortion at the start of his pontificate. https://t.co/38hmBpruIW
THE SUPREME COURT IS NOT A LEGISLATIVE BRANCH
Their job is to interpret the law that is already there, not pass new ones in line with an agenda. That’s for the LEGISLATIVE BRANCH
JUDICIAL COUP!
President Trump is trying to save our country and the judges are trying to destroy our country.
All of Trump’s SCOTUS nominees turned on him.