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‘Maga Catholics’ Are Gaining Ground In The US. Now Their Sight Is Set On The Vatican

The Guardian ✏ written by J Oliver Conroy. Recommended by Christy Walsh.Conservative US Catholics like Steve Bannon look to win ‘war that lasts decades’ with pope antithetical to Francis.Once the papal conclave starts, the cardinals choosing Pope Francis’s successor will be strictly shut off from the world until a new pope is named. But the coming days before the conclave begins on 7 May

Mohamed Salah ⚽ A Bridge Between Worlds In Liverpool

Irish Examiner ⚽ Written by Jonathan Liew. Recommended by Barry Gilheany.The Egyptian is more than simply a role model in his adopted home, he speaks to the city’s broader mythology.There are occasional sightings of him around the city. A face is glimpsed; perhaps climbing out of a car, perhaps stepping into a mosque.A phone is surreptitiously brandished. The rumour spreads like fire. Pretty

News From Ukraine 💣 Bulletin 140

A Digest of News ✊ from Ukrainian Sources ⚔ 31-March-2025. In this week’s bulletin⬤ Occupied territories report.⬤  Deportations study.⬤  Crimea: 11 years of repression.⬤  Resistance, not rearmament plans.⬤ For free, united Ukraine/ Russia’s ‘Azov trial’.⬤ Occupiers’ citizenship ultimatum.News from the territories occupied by RussiaZMINA participated in

A Morning Thought @ 2590

A Morning Thought @ 2589

Technology And Society ☀ How Not To Use Karl Marx

People And Nature ☭ Understanding the tumultuous processes that might move us away from capitalism, and away from climate-wrecking fossil fuels, is hard work, Simon Pirani writes. So is understanding the interaction between social change and technological change.25-April-2025Marx’s profound insights about capital, as a social relation – a fundamentally exploitative and alienating

Easter Passion Plays ⚽ Leeds United Return To The Promised Land

Barry Gilheany ⚽ In the end it was so painless.Leeds United swept Stoke City away 6-0 at an ecstatic Elland Road on Easter Monday. It remained for Burnley with whom we were tied together at the top of the Championship on ninety-one points before the start of play to defeat or at least draw with our nearest automatic promotion competitors, Sheffield United at Turf Moor. Our trust that

Lynx By Ten To The Power Of One Thousand Six Hundred And Thirty Nine

Ten links to a diverse range of opinion that might be of interest to TPQ readers. They are selected not to invite agreement but curiosity. Readers can submit links to pieces they find thought provoking.Before We Conform, Or Condemn, Let Us At Least Be CuriousBigBoard Silences Czech Women's Reproductive Rights Campaign: Corporate Power Aligns with Anti-Choice AgendaAtheist Ireland writes

A Morning Thought @ 2588

A Morning Thought @ 2587