Chair of Theology & Latin, Holy Spirit Preparatory School, @HolySpiritPrep, Atlanta, GA, USA. DRE @ FSSP ATL. KY Colonel & AR Traveler.
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The full closure is due to the I-285 Westside Rebuild concrete slab reconstruction and rehabilitation project currently ongoing from Collier Drive in Fulton County to Paces Ferry Road in Cobb County, GDOT officials said.
DETAILS: 👉 wsbradio.com/news/local/gdot…
On this day in 1975: the loss of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.
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Raphael's The Meeting between Leo the Great and Attila, depicting Pope Leo the Great, escorted by Saint Peter and Saint Paul, meeting with the Hun king outside Rome.
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After the Spanish governor of Pensacola, Mateo González Manrique, refused to surrender, General Andrew Jackson and his troops charged into the city and overwhelmed the British battery, forcing them to retreat during the Battle of Pensacola, which ended #OnThisDay November 9, 1814. battlefields.org/learn/war-1…
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Photos from my visit to San Giovanni in Laterano 🇮🇹
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Jon Ossoff won Georgia by 18 points, but carried just 7 of its 14 congressional districts
Bottoms (D+8.6) and House Democrats each carried 5
Ossoff won GA-1 and GA-12, which both elected Republicans, and came within 3 points in GA-7, GA-10 and GA-11
per @DecisionDeskHQ
Happy feast of the Dedication of the Basilica of St. John Lateran in Rome!
On this day in 1996, my family and I were received into the Roman Catholic Church. Thirty years ago! Te Deum laudamus!
Image: The façade of St. John Lateran in a photo I took on 18 May 2026.
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Alright America, it’s time for us to fly back home to Germany. 🇺🇸🇩🇪
We can’t lie, we’re really, really sad to leave. What an incredible trip this has been.
So many new experiences, so many places we’ve visited and so many amazing people we’ve met along the way. We’re just incredibly thankful that we even had the opportunity to do something like this. We know that being able to travel for this long is far from normal and we don’t take any of it for granted.
This entire trip turned out to be even better than we could have ever imagined.
We’ve been talking about how much we’d love to just keep traveling. Another few weeks on the road, Christmas in America, going to the College Football Playoffs. If we could, we’d do it without thinking twice.
A few people have asked us whether it ever gets tiring. Driving for hours almost every day, constantly changing hotels and always being on the move.
And the answer is: Not at all.
Even after all these weeks, we were still just as excited about exploring this country as we were on day one. There wasn’t a single point where we felt like we’d had enough. We genuinely enjoyed every part of this adventure.
We also really hope you guys enjoyed following along as much as we enjoyed sharing everything with you. Meeting so many of you at stadiums, on campuses and in random places across the country made this trip even more special. Those are memories we’ll never forget.
And then there’s college football. What started as something we were simply curious about has turned into a sport we’ve completely fallen in love with. My two travel buddies are even seriously considering joining an American football team back in Hamburg now. One wants to become a kicker, the other a cornerback and start intercepting passes, haha. We’ll see how that goes.
I don’t really know what else to say. These past weeks have just been incredible and I wish we could do it all over again.
Thank you to everyone who welcomed us, helped us, showed us around, gave us recommendations or simply followed our journey. You made this trip even better than we could have ever imagined.
Until next time, America! 🇺🇸❤️
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Pope Leo XIV in Argentina defends the unborn, the elderly and the disabled:
“Before asking ourselves what kind of world we will leave our children, we must first recognise their dignity.
Our responsibility toward future generations begins with welcoming life from its very first moments and safeguarding it until it's natural end.
That same dignity requires that particular concern be shown for those affected by illness, dependency, and disability. Here too, we have a duty to care for others. To alleviate suffering, to accompany them and to ensure that every person feels that his or her life always retains a value that no circumstance can diminish.”
Happy Sunday!
Dicit Dóminus: Ego cógito cogitatiónes pacis, et non afflictiónis: invocábitis me, et ego exáudiam vos.
The Lord says: “I think thoughts of peace, and not of affliction. You shall call upon Me, and I will hear you."
Image: My photo in St. Giovanni in Laterano, Roma.
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Eamon Duffy’s The Stripping of the Altars, published in 1992, radically reshaped historians’ understanding of the English Reformation. Before Duffy’s landmark study, the prevailing academic consensus held that the late medieval Catholic Church in England was corrupt, spiritually dry, and in terminal decline.
Drawing on parish records, wills and church art, Duffy portrays a vibrant Catholic culture that royal policies dismantled: monasteries suppressed, altars and religious images removed, and church interiors whitewashed...
Read more in the November 2026 issue of our Divine Worship Newsletter: archdpdx.org/news/reassessme…
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Now that all the funded accounts are passing around "the chart," here's a more complete view that shows you what has happened.
Democrats got near 2024 turnout (mirroring special election and primary turnout). Republicans did not.
And Independents, while down, swung massively against Republicans. And to top it off, Republicans defected more than normal.
Doesn't look like fraud now, does it?
The chaplain at my school recently ran a 100-mile trail run - and wrote some reflections on the experience. Enjoy! regnumchristi.com/en/running…
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Prayers, indeed.
As this community begins its recovery from this week’s catastrophic flooding, Marty, the girls, and I are praying for all those impacted, and especially this family experiencing a tragic loss.
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