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Reading scripture in unity with Sacred Tradition and the teaching authority of the Church.
Key question: “How does this passage illuminate and cohere with the deposit of faith handed down through Sacred Tradition?”
24,276 sermon illustrations through the Roman Catholic lens
"The goal of an artist is to create the definitive work that cannot be surpassed." - George Bernard Shaw
"A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees." - Amelia Earhart
3/15 (1978): Somalia and Ethiopia signed a truce to end the Ethio-Somali War.
11/11 (1839): The Virginia Military Institute is founded in Lexington, Virginia.
10/12 (1279): The Nichiren Shōshū branch of Buddhism is founded in Japan.
10/12 (1773): America's first insane asylum opens.
11/9 (2023): U.S. surgeons at NYU Langone Health announce the world's first whole eye transplant.
8/6 (1538): Bogotá, Colombia, is founded by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada.
3/15 (2011): Beginning of the Syrian revolution.
1/1 (1990): David Dinkins is sworn in as New York City's first black mayor.
9/11 (1758): Battle of Saint Cast: France repels British invasion during the Seven Years' War.
6/6 (1933): The first drive-in theater opens in Camden, New Jersey.
11/1 (1570): The All Saints' Flood devastates the Dutch coast.
10/12 (1928): An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Boston Children's Hospital.
7/4 (2008): A bomb explodes at a concert in Minsk's Independence Square, injuring 50 people.
4/22 (1500): Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral lands in Brazil (discovery of Brazil).
12/24 (1952): First flight of Britain's Handley Page Victor strategic bomber.
3/17 (1969): Golda Meir becomes the first female Prime Minister of Israel.
11/9 (1791): The Dublin Society of United Irishmen is founded.
12/25 (1870): Wagner's Siegfried Idyll is first performed.
3/15 (1990): Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first President of the Soviet Union.