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Comment · 5 months ago
While the Vatican does have walls, anyone can pretty much just walk on through them with perhaps a trip through a metal detector, so not sure what you mean.

The Catholic Church also does not teach that there cannot be restrictions on immigration, it simply says that we should treat people with dignity while enforcing such restrictions.

Comment · 8 months ago
In Catholicism the homily is not the main point of Mass, it takes a far secondary role to the Eucharist. Bad homilies definitely show up, but from the Catholic perspective that does not diminish or detract from the purpose of the Mass as a whole.
Comment · 8 months ago
Then why could they not also legally get away with using account age as a proxy?
Comment · 8 months ago
But under that argument, you would have to prove your age on a regular basis, the plan right now appears to be that each account would only need to do so once.
Comment · 9 months ago
Historically, it actually has been very closely aligned with he military. The Scout Oath said at every meeting begins with "On my honor, I will do my best to do my duty to God and my country." There are undercurrents of military influence throughout a ton of their other traditions as well.
Comment · 1 year ago
Looks like the third attempt was actually in Edinburgh
Comment · 1 year ago
I would assume Diego Garcia does have the facilities for B-2s. The B-2 has been based there fairly frequently in the past, I believe.
Comment · 1 year ago
I honestly would be surprised if the Supreme Court agrees to hear the case, there does not seem to be a huge amount of controversy here from a legal standpoint.
Comment · 1 year ago
Grant wrote his autobiography pretty much entirely out of desperation to provide for his family after his death. He had lost everything he had in a Ponzi scheme and was heavily in debt as he was dying from cancer, and the autobiography was his last chance to make money for his family.
Comment · 1 year ago
It actually was, he was almost entirely destitute when he died and the autobiography was his last desperate at providing for his family.
Comment · 2 years ago
One of my professors has started doing that, and I would much rather write an essay. I hate interacting with the chatbot. It feels unnatural, and the chatbot tends to drag out the conversations far longer than they need to go. Ideally, they would have students have conversations with TAs instead, which is what several of my classes have done to great success.
Comment · 2 years ago
I believe they can because it falls after the new year, multiple NFL playoff games are held on Saturday.
Comment · 2 years ago
That assumes that Israel would allow a China-run port in Gaza, which is no guarantee.
Comment · 2 years ago
If China tried to land troops in Gaza I imagine they absolutely would.

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