(That's 28 billion parsecs if you are Luke Skywalker.)
The size of the Universe, and all that it contains:
Copyright 2012. Magnifying the Universe by Number Sleuth.
Presumably they meet on Wednesdays
Vatican Insider, 6th May 2012
The response sent to the Vatican on 17 April by Bishop Bernard Fellay will be examined in the next few days by the cardinal and bishop members in Ordinary Session of the Congregation of the Doctrine for the Faith, commonly known as Feria Quarta.So much more exciting to use a mysterious Latin name.
Living first and foremost as the beneficiary of a bounty
Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Introduction to Christianity, Ignatius (2004).
Part Two: Jesus Christ, Excursus: Christian Structures
4, The law of excess or superfluity, (p. 260).
4, The law of excess or superfluity, (p. 260).
…he who is always calculating how much he must do to be just adequate and to be able to regard himself, after a few casuistical flicks, as a man with a nice, white shirtfront, is still no Christian. And similarly, he who tries to reckon where duty ends and where he can gain a little extra merit by an opus superogatorium is a Pharisee, not a Christian. Being a Christian does not mean duly making a certain obligatory contribution and perhaps, as an especially perfect person, even going a little further than is required for the fulfillment of the obligation. On the contrary, a Christian is someone who knows that in any case he lives first and foremost as the beneficiary of a bounty and that, consequently, all righteousness can only consist in being himself a donor, like the beggar who is grateful for what he receives and generously passes part of it on to others.
We are all Americans now
(And not in a good way.)
From Vatican Insider:
Did anyone tell this "First Lady"?She could have been Britain’s First Lady but she chose to become a Benedictine nun. 44 year old Laura Adshead dated British Prime Minister, David Cameron, from spring 1990 to summer 1991. In 2008, after seeing her life slip more and more deeply into a spiral of gossip, alcohol and drugs, the dazzling blond decided to take her vows as a Benedictine nun, becoming Sister John Mary.
I do not think it means what you think it means
Returning
Why do I keep deleting the Safari icon from the dock? Perhaps my subsconscious is trying to tell me something. Or perhaps it is because it is directly below where I pinch the corner of excessively large windows to shrink them.