Current Events Activity 1.3 - News Encyclicial

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The Pope is in town adressing throngs of Catholics and infidels alike, trying to instill some of the churches values in them. There are many facets of traditional livelihood that the church has upheld for centurites as it's most sacred tenets - the family, and the community. Before industrialization, a materialistic outlook on life was uncommon among most people, as relatively few people had the potency to aquire large sums of wealth through their own endeavors. The Church was intsrumental in maintaining a sense of community, but also instilling christian values of piety, humility, and above all, kindness into the heart and minds of it's congregation. Francis is worried that here in the states our keen adoption of the Protestant Virtues of wealth and hard work as exemplars of faith has become very dangerous, and our reckless abandon of the Church's communalism may lead us to destroy important societal institutions. This is the first time that the Pope has visited the United States in his life, and it is the first time that many of his more skeptical critics here in the United States have borne witness to his teachings. He was invited to speak in front of a joint session of Congress by Speaker of the House John Boehner, an Ohio Republican and Catholic.

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Apparently some high school linebacker teed up a ref, which in my book is pretty awesome, and also totally justified if he was spewing racist bile. I honestly whish I was surprised, but this sounds like something that happens in some silly Friday Night Lights spinoff show. I doubt the kids or coach will ever play ball again if they didn't show up to their hearing, but this whole story seems sort of overblown.

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So apparently a bunch of parents are going to be crybabies about not having a teacher anymore because the district is too stingy to just hire a new one. AISD wanted to avoid breaking the law and they did, and in the process they disrupted the learning of sixth graders at Maplewood. I'm sure knowing that you might have to have a new teacher is hard, but it sounds to me like these Yuppie parents need to get over themselves.

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John Whitmire asked the Attorney General, Ken Paxton, to issue a non-binding legal opinion on the subject of SB-17, a bill that the Texas Legislature passed that either:

a) Allows firearms to be carried and concealed on outdoor areas of public school campuses, you know, in case you want to do a little target practice during recess.

b) Allows you to carry a firearm everywhere on public school campuses, because having the power to quickly and efficiently kill schoolchildren needs to be magnified.

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There was a stampede in Mecca when a bunch of people rushed in to complete the pilgrimage by doing circuts around the Kaaba, a giant black box with a meteorite inside. 700 people died, which is surprising considering that it was because of a stampede. Couldn't you just slow down for a while, it's not like the Kaaba is having 70% off Black Friday deals or anything, it takes a while to complete all of the circuts, there is absolutely no reason to rush.

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