Hey friends, come say hello to me at The Italian Heritage Society of Indiana next month. Here are the details -- I'll be there on July 19 talking about Francis of Assisi:
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There are two things I particularly love about Guillaume Marcel’s wildly popular vade-mecum for the armchair historian. First, the spine is at the bottom, not the side of the book. Second, you go through it in one direction, then turn it over and go back the other way.
Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone (Saint Francis of Assisi; c.1181/2-October 3, 1226.) Patron Saint of animals, ecology, and Italy.
This charcoal tribute inspired by my friend and artist @StephenBWhatley from studies he made from life on his first visit to America in 2010. 🕊️βλ
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SCP meeting today: Mass followed by a talk on Assisi and the life and spirituality of St Francis (we ran out of time for st Clare, tbc!).
Here’s the San Damiano cross, plus favourite words which I prayed before celebrating Mass for the first time 10 years ago.
There are many deeply concerning aspects of AI.
Pope Leo highlights one: “If technology becomes the ultimate criterion, the human person risks being reduced to data, a cog in a machine or a commodity.”
Bottom line: AI must benefit ALL of humanity, not just Big Tech oligarchs.
https://t.co/dE2r5PgqoF via @journalsentinel
"Former Milwaukeean Sweeney, who has often written about the saint that even many atheists love, suggests three dozen ways, some wildly surprising, to be a little more Franciscan.”
I bought a book while I was there. It isn't a book that I was searching for. I sort of discovered it while looking around with curiosity.
Then I handed cash to a bookseller, and walked out the door with my purchase in hand.