America
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Since Memorial Day, patriotism has been on my mind. I am old enough to remember the American Bicentennial. I was seven, and I remember TV specials, local parades, and especially a traveling exhibit on America’s first 200 years that criss-crossed the country by Amtrak. I think I saw it a couple of different times, but…
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Apparently, Pope Francis is coming to the United States. Because this pope has been so surprising, so candid, and so open, just about everyone has some sort of expectation of what he will do and say – in his unprecedented address to Congress, in his White House visit, in his time in Philadelphia coinciding with…
Reading Francis 