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The future of #ArtificialIntelligence is not pre-determined. As a technology developed by human beings, its future depends on the choices we make. We therefore have the responsibility to guide, change and, when necessary, reject its applications. A reliable system that serves the human person is of greater value than one that is exceptionally powerful but whose consequences cannot be adequately foreseen or controlled.
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BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV has requested a mail-in ballot for the U.S. midterm elections, potentially becoming the first pope in 2,000 years to vote in a secular election.
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On October 28, the Church celebrates the Feast of Sts. Simon and Jude! St. Jude is venerated as the patron saint of hopeless causes. Here in the Diocese of Honolulu, St. Jude Catholic Church in Makakilo, Oʻahu, is dedicated to his patronage.
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Well, another Cardinal has come out with a, shall we say, puzzling take on evangelization.
A few years ago, Cardinal Américo Aguiar, at the time auxiliary bishop of Lisbon, said that he and the other organizers of World Youth Day in his hometown had no interest in converting anyone to Christ.
Now Cardinal Jean-Paul Vesco of Algeria has opined that “the Church is not there to convert” and “Christians should approach other religions through fraternity rather than seeking conversions.”
Excuse me, but…what?
Last time I checked, the Founder said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.” Sure sounds like conversion to me.
When St. Paul came to Corinth or Athens or Thessalonica, his purpose was not to listen or to form a discussion group but rather to declare an unnerving message: the euangelion (glad tidings) that Jesus Christ is risen from the dead.
So impassioned is he for this work that he says, “I have become all things to all people, that I might by all means save some. I do it all for the sake of the gospel” (1 Cor. 9:22); and “If I proclaim the gospel, this gives me no ground for boasting, for an obligation is laid on me, and woe to me if I do not proclaim the gospel” (1 Cor. 9:16)!
Moreover, the entire thrust of the Second Vatican Council was toward bringing the Light of Christ to the peoples of the world (Lumen Gentium). And this missionary élan has given rise in the last few decades to the idea of a “new evangelization,” which is to say, a fresh declaration of the Lordship of Christ.
Quite obviously, no one thinks that this work of evangelization should be done in a brow-beating, overbearing, or disrespectful manner (proselytization), but for God’s sake, let’s not throw the baby out with the bathwater.
If I really thought that the Church does not exist to bring people to Christ, then I would resign and get an honest job.
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Watch out for the Catholic vote this election cycle 👀
If the last five presidential elections proved anything, it’s that Catholic voters have the power to decide the most critical races in the country.
Catholics, get out and vote!
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Faith can be embodied in all cultures, because it does not identify itself with any of them in a specific one. It dwells within them, shaping them from within according to the “form” of Jesus Christ; that is, through charity, service and the filial recognition of God’s fatherhood. In this way, the Church draws from the various cultures all that is good, beautiful and true, in order to embody and transmit the message of the Gospel. #GeneralAudience
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The most influencial Woman in history:
100 Most influential Women in History 👧
1. 🇪🇬 Cleopatra
2. 🇫🇷 Joan of Arc
3. 🇬🇧 Queen Elizabeth I
4. 🇬🇧 Queen Victoria
5. 🇬🇧 Queen Elizabeth II
6. 🇫🇷 Marie Curie
7. 🇬🇧 Florence Nightingale
8. 🇺🇸 Rosa Parks
9. 🇺🇸 Harriet Tubman
10. 🇮🇳 Indira Gandhi
11. 🇵🇰 Benazir Bhutto
12. 🇨🇳 Wu Zetian
13. 🇮🇳 Rani Lakshmibai
14. 🇮🇳 Mother Teresa
15. 🇵🇰 Malala Yousafzai
16. 🇬🇧 Margaret Thatcher
17. 🇩🇪 Angela Merkel
18. 🇺🇸 Eleanor Roosevelt
19. 🇺🇸 Michelle Obama
20. 🇺🇸 Oprah Winfrey
21. 🇺🇸 Amelia Earhart
22. 🇷🇺 Valentina Tereshkova
23. 🇺🇸 Sally Ride
24. 🇺🇸 Ruth Bader Ginsburg
25. 🇬🇧 Mary Wollstonecraft
26. 🇬🇧 Ada Lovelace
27. 🇺🇸 Katherine Johnson
28. 🇺🇸 Helen Keller
29. 🇺🇸 Susan B. Anthony
30. 🇬🇧 Emmeline Pankhurst
31. 🇺🇸 Sojourner Truth
32. 🇺🇸 Gloria Steinem
33. 🇺🇸 Betty Friedan
34. 🇺🇸 Sandra Day O’Connor
35. 🇺🇸 Shirley Chisholm
36. 🇺🇸 Madeleine Albright
37. 🇳🇿 Jacinda Ardern
38. 🇮🇱 Golda Meir
39. 🇫🇷 Simone de Beauvoir
40. 🇫🇷 Coco Chanel
41. 🇲🇽 Frida Kahlo
42. 🇮🇹 Artemisia Gentileschi
43. 🇬🇧 Jane Austen
44. 🇺🇸 Maya Angelou
45. 🇺🇸 Toni Morrison
46. 🇬🇧 Virginia Woolf
47. 🇯🇵 Murasaki Shikibu
48. 🇨🇳 Ban Zhao
49. 🇪🇬 Hatshepsut
50. 🇪🇬 Nefertiti
51. 🇬🇧 Boudica
52. 🇬🇷 Sappho
53. 🇬🇷 Hypatia
54. 🇪🇺 Catherine the Great
55. 🇮🇹 Catherine de’ Medici
56. 🇪🇸 Isabella I of Castile
57. 🇵🇱 Irena Sendler
58. 🇺🇦 Lesya Ukrainka
59. 🇩🇪 Sophie Scholl
60. 🇰🇪 Wangari Maathai
61. 🇪🇹 Empress Taytu Betul
62. 🇬🇧 Mary Seacole
63. 🇺🇸 Rosalind Franklin
64. 🇺🇸 Grace Hopper
65. 🇺🇸 Elizabeth Blackwell
66. 🇺🇸 Nellie Bly
67. 🇺🇸 Madam C. J. Walker
68. 🇯🇵 Queen Seondeok
69. 🇵🇭 Corazon Aquino
70. 🇵🇭 Gabriela Silang
71. 🇮🇷 Shirin Ebadi
72. 🇮🇷 Simin Behbahani
73. 🇪🇬 Huda Sha’arawi
74. 🇲🇽 Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
75. 🇧🇷 Maria da Penha
76. 🇸🇪 Greta Thunberg
77. 🇺🇸 Katharine Graham
78. 🇺🇸 Billie Jean King
79. 🇺🇸 Emily Dickinson
80. 🇬🇧 Anne Frank
81. 🇨🇳 Soong Ching-ling
82. 🇯🇵 Sadako Sasaki
83. 🇨🇭 Helen Bamber
84. 🇬🇭 Yaa Asantewaa
85. 🇿🇦 Winnie Mandela
86. 🇺🇸 Barbara Jordan
87. 🇨🇦 Viola Desmond
88. 🇺🇸 Patsy Mink
89. 🇺🇸 Rachel Carson
90. 🇺🇸 Jane Goodall
91. 🇳🇴 Gro Harlem Brundtland
92. 🇹🇷 Halide Edib Adivar
93. 🇧🇩 Begum Rokeya
94. 🇮🇳 Savitribai Phule
95. 🇧🇦 Queen Katarina Kosača
96. 🇵🇹 Amália Rodrigues
97. 🇨🇳 Wu Yi
98. 🇭🇰 Anson Chan
99. 🇺🇸 Ida B. Wells
100. 🇮🇳 Sarojini Naidu
Source: Compiled from Britannica, TIME & BBC
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The journey begun in #Assisi as a shared quest for #peace is, first and foremost, the path of prayer. Prayer may seem weak in the face of the powers of the world, but it is the humble strength of believers. Let us turn to God, the giver of peace, that He may touch the hearts of those who seek war and terrorism. Let us not forget that prayer is never in vain! vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/e…
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Friends, St. Bernard of Clairvaux said that the goal of the spiritual life is to love God alone for the sake of God alone.
What does he mean by this?
He means we’re loving God not because we’re afraid of what might happen if we don’t, or because we’re trying to get something out of him. Rather—like the love between two spouses—we’re loving him for himself alone. We are lost in the wonder and the beauty and the majesty of God.
That’s the highest kind of love.
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🚨 HOLY CRAP! It's been revealed that the other Latin American rulers who "extended voting hours" like Brazil's Lula did last night to Bolsonaro to steal the election include:
- Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela (Socialist)
- Hugo Chavez, Venezuela (Socialist)
- Castro Regime and Miguel Diaz-Canel, Cuba (Communist)
- Daniel Ortega, Nicaragua (Socialist)
I am spotting a trend here.
THROW OUT THE RESULT!
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>be Lula
>get convicted of corruption
>get sentenced to 12 years
>get released by the STF on procedural errors
>never actually acquitted lmao
>beat Jair Bolsonaro in 2022
>Jair gets thrown into jail over an alleged coup attempt
>Congress votes to cut his sentence
>Lula vetoes it
>four years later, face his son
>during a debate, threaten to also lock him up if he loses the election
>election day
>former private lawyer, now STF judge, extends voting by 2 hours nationwide
>request came from Lula's own coalition
>win by 4 million votes in a runoff with no paper trail
>next day, Moraes orders the losing candidate to surrender his passports
>victory speech: "we're going to regulate social media"
>"democracy" lmao
>RIP Brazil
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