Daily Archives: 16 October 2020

To Cast A Free Ballot, 1977

Posted on 16 October 2020 by catholicsensibility

Lots of proposed rules on voter registration. Things like identification. Signatures. Maybe these are not bad things. But if they involve any cost to a citizen, any direct cost at all, they are un-American. It wasn’t just a 1977 USPS … Continue reading →

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Fratelli Tutti 13: Forgetting History? Perhaps Not

Posted on 16 October 2020 by catholicsensibility

Sections 13 and 14 of Fratelli Tutti are titled, “The end of historical consciousness.” Have human beings ever had a colnsciousness of history? If so, it’s partial and something recent in history. I’m not sure I totally agree with Pope … Continue reading →

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Call Some New Holidays

Posted on 16 October 2020 by catholicsensibility

The annual hang-wringing over Christopher Columbus now mostly completed, my thinking is that we need a few new federal holidays right now. Not as replacements, but as additions. Other countries get nice things like more vacation than US Americans. We already … Continue reading →

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