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You [Lord] who have imbued us with unalienable rights that we may serve you in freedom … we ask your blessing upon us now. Conscious that unless you build the house those who build it labor in vain and unless you watch over the city we keep vigil in vain, we ask you first to
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When men make themselves gods, they make themselves demons. The last hundred years bear out this assertion. Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and other dictators wielded the power of life and death over millions of people. Those who blessed these tyrants or venerated them had more favorable chances of survival and success. Those who cursed these tyrants
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From the new church, which sits in the quiet countryside on this soft spring afternoon, the bells ring. A bagpiper, a cardinal, a bishop, a platoon of priests, and several altar servers slowly walk up the hill from the old church to the new and enter through the double doors, over which is inscribed, “HAEC
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Right now, just as I’m writing these words, I’m coming off two hours of revelations that have left me reeling. The phrase mind-blowing is a gross understatement of what has shaken my world to the core. One cause of this interior earthquake is a poem, “What It Means to Be an American.” Here are the
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