Donald Hilliard, Jr.

Sr. Pastor; Cathedral International, Professor: Hilliard-Jones Fellows, Abstract Artist, Author; “Papa”, Honored Son of the late Donald&Alease❤️

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My hope is that every father had a wonderful, and HAPPY FATHERS DAY! You deserve it!
#fathersday

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@BarackObama Amen

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IT IS CONVOCATION TIME!
Back in the day, Convocation was 5 nights straight, and we got out of church at 10pm-and showed up the next night expecting another move of God. Times changed, folk got married, went back to school, ..LIFE!
One night &Sunday.
YOU DON’T WANT TO MISS IT!

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Press your way to the Cathedral tomorrow, any one of the 4 Locations. The Lord will be present!

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A MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT!
ANNOUNCING-ANNOUNCING-ANNOUNCING!!!

Please pass the word, and get your tickets NOW

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The Cathedral International, All locations, remembers Juneteenth. While we celebrate our freedom, we remember the atrocities, and darkness of slavery. “Stoney the road we trod, bitter the chastening rod”, is our reality. Yet, WE ARE STILL HERE!
Black people have endured it all!

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@BarackObama Amen! YES!!!👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽

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@hacjr00 Excellent!!!

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@BarackObama @MichelleObama @ObamaFoundation Wonderful!!!!

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@Pontifex Amen

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Rest In Peace Deacon Diane Crawford.
You’ve served your family , your church, and your City well. Take your deserved Rest!
Praying for her deeply grieving family.
#cathedral
#funeral

A beautiful Service

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We need our brothers to continue to cover, protect, defend, and stand with our sisters!
Cathedral brothers…..Thank You for being present, and caring men.
I appreciate all of our people…and how every age, and every person-is embraced….”where they are!”

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“The wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it!”
(Proverbs 2:22)

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We gathered in Harlem this afternoon for THE PEOPLE’S FILM FESTIVAL, where Destiny, supported by Joseph, and Leah, premiered SILENT ECHOES: THE INVISIBLE WOMEN. It was truly a profound production! There were representatives from both sides of the family, and friends. Well Done!

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“The Lord will give strength to His people, The Lord will bless His people with peace.”
(Psalm 29:11)

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With all that is going on economically, PLEASE avail yourself to this FREE ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT EVENT. Spread the word. It’s free. Make the time to have “your face in the place!”

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Congratulations to my daughter Destiny on your documentary being selected in THE PEOPLE’S FILM FESTIVAL.
She told me to not “go on, and on”…so I will stop here. But Daddy is SO proud of his children!

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@CatholicSat Amen

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@OccupyDemocrats Amen

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BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV enrages MAGA by formally apologizing for the Church's role in legitimizing slavery and for failing to condemn it for centuries, calling it a "wound in Christian memory."

This is truly historic and Republicans are furious...

“It is impossible not to feel deep sorrow when contemplating the immense suffering and humiliation endured by so many in stark contrast to their immeasurable dignity as persons infinitely loved by the Lord. For this, in the name of the church, I sincerely ask for pardon," Leo wrote in “Magnifica Humanitas,” his much-anticipated first encyclical.

While previous popes have apologized for the Christian involvement in the trans-Atlantic slave trade, none has ever delivered such a direct apology for the broader role that the Church played in the survival of that deeply evil institution.

The Vatican at times gave European monarchs express permission to colonize and enslave foreign peoples, slathering their brutal crimes against humanity in a veneer of Christian piety. In the 15th century, Pope Nicholas V went so far as to give the Portugese throne authority to subjugate and rob “Saracens, and pagans, and other infidels, and enemies of the name of Christ” as well as "reduce their persons to perpetual slavery.”

Leo took that history on head-first—

"Already in the early modern period, the Apostolic See of Rome, responding to the requests of sovereigns, intervened several times in order to regulate and legitimize forms of subjugation, and, in certain cases, including the enslavement of ‘infidels,'" he wrote.

"In the development of her doctrine, the Church has gradually come to a deeper awareness of the gravity of these issues," Leo stated. "It is true that past events cannot be judged anachronistically, as though the moral criteria that matured over time had always been available. Yet neither can we deny or diminish the delay with which both society and the Church came to denounce the scourge of slavery."

He added that it "took eighteen centuries" for the Church to "explicitly" recognize its "full incompatibility with slavery."

“This constitutes a wound in Christian memory, one from which we cannot consider ourselves detached,” Leo added.

The pronouncement has already been met with outrage from many members of the online right, who believe that the Western world should never apologize for anything it's done, not even slavery. Social media is aflurry with MAGA accusations that Leo has succumbed to "suicidal empathy" and "white guilt." These are the same people who believe that the Civil War was fought for "states' rights" and that the Confederacy was an admirable endeavor.

“For descendants of enslaved persons, this is once again a much needed apology from the pope,” said Anthea Butler, senior fellow at Oxford University's Koch History Center. She added that the apology empowers Leo to “speak to the current issues of technological enslavement.”

The Pope's slavery apology was part of a much lengthier document whose title translates to "Magnificent Humanity." It's largely focused on humanity's roles and responsibilities as artificial intelligence reshapes the world around us. Leo connected the topic to slavery by warning that these emergent technologies are leading to new forms of human exploitation and debasement, as neocolonialist labor practices are implemented to provide the rare minerals necessary to build AI chips.

The situation in the Congo is particularly dire, with untold masses of men, women, and children being paid next to nothing — and in some cases nothing at all — to work in inhumane, unhealthy conditions mining cobalt.

While so many of our world leaders are failing to confront the challenges and evils of the modern world, Pope Leo is boldly leading the way.

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