8 April 2012

Easter Sunday

URBI ET ORBI

In terra pax hominibus bonae voluntatis

Romae. In sua oratione pascuali hodie pro multitudine centum milium fidelium, in foro Vaticano, Papa Benedictus XVI incitavit pacem in terra atque finem caedis, praecipue in Syria.

Dum autem orationem habebat Papa, dictator Syriae, Bashar al-Assad, oppugnabat adversarios: fere septuaginta homines (dicitur) necavit.

Heri vesperi, inter missam pascualem in templo Sancti Petri, mentionem fecit Papa tenebrarum quae impendent generi humano: homines res corporeas, quae cerni tangique possunt, facile vident,  facile indagunt, sed quo vadit orbis terrarum aut unde venit, quo vadit vita nostra, quid bonum est, quid malum, haudquaquam videre possunt.

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 You might perhaps care to view some of our earlier posts.  For instance:

 1. Why? or How? That is the question (3 Jan 2012)

2. Das Vierte Reich/The Fourth Reich (6 Feb 2012)

3. The shoddiest possible goods at the highest possible prices (2 Feb 2012)

4. Where’s the beef? Ontology and tinned meat (31 Jan 2012)

5. What would Gandhi have said? (30 Jan 2012)

Every so often we shall change this sample of previously published posts.

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