This is the story the Boston Globe did on pedophile priests that published in 2002 and exposed the culture of pedophilia in the Catholic Church nation- and worldwide. I’ve read some history and I have a lot of time spent in Ireland where the Church behaved even worse to its members (see the Ryan and…
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From Atlas Obscura.
I open the gallery door, walk in with that sinking feeling I always have in galleries. It’s the carpets that do it to me, the hush, the sanctimoniousness of it all: galleries are too much like churches, there’s too much reverence, you feel there should be some genuflecting going on. Also I don’t like it…
“Attempt no landing there. Use them together. Use them in peace.”
Thou waitest for the spark from heaven! and we, Light half-believers of our casual creeds, Who never deeply felt, nor clearly will’d, Whose insight never has borne fruit in deeds, Whose vague resolves never have been fulfill’d; For whom each year we see Breeds new beginnings, disappointments new; Who hesitate and falter life away, And…
Found in a gift shop at the Grand Canyon. As it happens, I bought two Navajo rugs recently, which currently take pride of place in front of the stove and the sink in my kitchen. And there is zero whining over how much they cost. Apropos of which, Marian of my knitting group recently ran…
[Alba] did not understand the state of civil war, nor did she realize that war is the soldiers’ work of art, the culmination of all their training, the gold medal of their profession. Soldiers are not made to shine in times of peace. The coup gave them a chance to put into practice what they…
And here’s where I’ll be: See you there!
Benn posits the existence of recently declassified files that reveal a mission Billy Boyle, Ike’s personal investigator, undertook in the Pacific theater of World War II between the second and third novels in the series. At the behest (read “royal command”) of Joe Kennedy Sr., delivered by arrogant shit Joe Kennedy Jr., Billy and Kaz…
And see what we can see?
