🇮🇹 BREAKING: Italy shifts stance
Italian PM Giorgia Meloni reportedly cancels defense deal with Israel and declares support for the Pope over Trump, sparking global debate.
Umberto Eco, who owned 50,000 books, had this to say about home libraries:
“It is foolish to think that you have to read all the books you buy, as it is foolish to criticize those who buy more books than they will ever be able to read. It would be like saying that you should use all the cutlery or glasses or screwdrivers or drill bits you bought before buying new ones.
“There are things in life that we need to always have plenty of supplies, even if we will only use a small portion.
“If, for example, we consider books as medicine, we understand that it is good to have many at home rather than a few: when you want to feel better, then you go to the ‘medicine closet’ and choose a book. Not a random one, but the right book for that moment. That’s why you should always have a nutrition choice!
“Those who buy only one book, read only that one and then get rid of it. They simply apply the consumer mentality to books, that is, they consider them a consumer product, a good. Those who love books know that a book is anything but a commodity.”
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Trump ataca al Papa Leo XIV — y recibe una respuesta contundente que no olvidará
Donald Trump pensó que podía ganar puntos políticos fáciles al llamar al Papa Leo XIV “un insulto a Jesús”, argumentando que el pontífice, conocido por expresar sus opiniones, estaba “demasiado influenciado por lo woke” y creía que Dios no discrimina por género. Pero, desafortunadamente para “Dementia Don”, eligió a la persona equivocada. Frente a una audiencia llena, el Papa Leo XIV no solo respondió — ofreció una poderosa reflexión moral.
“El Presidente de los Estados Unidos acaba de decir que yo insulté a Jesús”, comenzó el Papa Leo XIV. “¿Quieren saber qué insulta a Jesús? Quitarle la atención médica a los enfermos mientras se reducen los impuestos a los multimillonarios.”
Y eso fue solo el comienzo.
“¿Saben qué insulta a Jesús?”, continuó. “Deportar al extranjero y separar a los bebés de sus madres.”
Luego fue aún más allá — señalando la guerra, la corrupción y la hipocresía.
“¿Saben qué insulta a Jesús? Bombardear a niños inocentes en Irán y enviar a nuestros valientes hombres y mujeres a morir en otra guerra interminable… Encubrir los archivos de Epstein y luego negarse a procesar a una sola persona involucrada.”
Esto no era política como de costumbre. Era una acusación moral directa. El Papa Leo XIV — quien ha hablado frecuentemente sobre temas sociales y éticos — cambió completamente el enfoque. En lugar de retroceder, fundamentó su mensaje en las mismas enseñanzas que Trump intentó usar en su contra.
“No soy un cristiano perfecto”, dijo. “Solo ha habido un cristiano perfecto, y fue crucificado en una cruz hace 2.000 años.”
Y luego llegó la frase que más impactó:
“Jesús nos enseñó a amar a nuestro prójimo como a nosotros mismos… ¿Podemos imaginar guerra en el cielo? ¿Podemos imaginar intolerancia en el cielo? ¿Podemos imaginar pobreza en el cielo? Entonces, ¿por qué toleramos estas cosas en la tierra?”
Así es como se responde. No con insultos. No con miedo. Sino con claridad — y convicción. Trump intentó desacreditarlo. En cambio, el Papa Leo XIV ofreció un mensaje que ahora resuena mucho más allá de esa sala.
BREAKING: Pope Leo appoints a Black vocal Trump critic to be a new bishop for Washington in a clear message to the President, his racist regime and his warmongering!
Trump and Pete Hegseth are going to HATE this…
The Holy Father announced that Rev. Robert Boxie III would become the youngest bishop in the United States, appointing him to be an auxiliary bishop to the Archdiocese of Washington.
Rev. Boxie has previously been very critical of the Trump administration’s crusade against DEI and eliminating Black people from employment in the federal government.
In an interview with Catholic Review, Boxie said that “It’s really frustrating — especially this moment that we’re living in. The attacks on ‘DEI’ — I don’t even know what that means anymore. It’s a term that’s been hijacked. It means a lot of things to a lot of different people.”
“I think at its core, it’s what America is all about. We are a diverse nation with people from all over the world. Diversity is a good thing. Diversity is of God.”
“And the fact that it’s been turned into something negative — or something that should be avoided or not talked about — just flies in the face of who we are as Americans.”
“So much of our history has been exclusive, especially when it comes to race. And it’s just un-American; it’s un-Christian; it’s anti-Catholic.”
He couldn’t be more right. The reason that DEI programs exist is because racial discrimination and white supremacy are hardcoded into American society and all American institutions.
We saw this first-hand just this week when the Supreme Court gutted Section II of the Voting Rights Act and every red state began foaming at the mouth to strip political representation away from Black voters.
Our history and our present is exclusive, and the anti-DEI campaigns of the right-wing show that we were correct to have them and need to redouble our efforts once we’re back in power.
Rev. Boxie certainly has the resume to be an auxiliary bishop and well-deserves the role; but his placement in Washington feels like it carries a symbolic weight to it that matters greatly in this era of ignorance and contempt.
Congratulations, Rev. Boxie!
Pope Leo's pick to be bishop of West Virginia is a formerly undocumented immigrant who was smuggled into the U.S. in a car trunk.
Bishop Evelio Menjivar-Ayala has called for Catholics to speak out against President Trump’s treatment of immigrants. https://t.co/mbCbdug0Fk
Absolute humiliation for the White House. A prominent US Senator reveals the Trump administration completely dismantled the State Department, replacing expert diplomats with two unqualified real estate developers. Their arrogant amateur diplomacy has yielded absolutely nothing.
Minneapolis women banded together to use Tinder to honeytrap ICE agents into giving information about their hotels, raids, videos of raids, future raids, confessions of bad acts, strategies, and so on. Those men couldn’t wait to betray their team to impress a woman.
A failed dem candidate, Will Stancil, stupidly gave away the operation to try to take credit for organizing it, probably to impress a woman.
The honey trappers took the compiled Tinder chats and sent them to the ICE agent's spouses.
The violent lawlessness Netanyahu's government is fomenting in the West Bank has lethal consequences for innocent people. This month, 14-year-old Aws al-Naasan and 32-year-old Jihad Abu Naim were killed in an attack on a school in the village of al-Mughayyir. We owe it to them to pursue accountability, peace and dramatic changes to this untenable situation. https://t.co/ACQ2xF0Xvv
🚨BREAKING: Newly obtained documents show a clear paper trail of Trump administration officials planning to share sensitive voter data with an outside political group trying to overturn elections, as part of a secret agreement. https://t.co/ehhCCzys1D
🩸🩸🩸 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x POS convicted felon who incites political violence, adjudicated rapist & pedophile Trump did on J6 🩸🩸🩸
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