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“Our Civil Rights Have no Dependency on Our Religious Opinions…” Celebrating...
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, On this day, 233 years ago, the the legislature of the Commonwealth Of Virginia ratified a law written by Thomas Jefferson. It was the precursor to the Establishment...
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Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Farewell Speech: The Speech Of the Anti-Trump
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, Fifty-eight years ago today President Dwight D. Eisenhower, a man far different than President Trump gave his farewell address to the nation. While most people only...
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Reading and Reflecting amid the Maladies of Age
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, Mickey Mantle once quipped: “If I knew I was going to live this long, I’d have taken better care of myself.” But 50 plus years of athletics and military service have...
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Babylon Berlin: An Amazing Series, Excellent History, and Lessons for Today
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, I have just finished watching the German historical crime series Babylon Berlin for the second time. I watch it on Netflix and it is worth watching. Set in 1929 Berlin...
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So Far Yet to Go, Overt Racism on Display Yet Again: Catholic Youth Accost...
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, Tomorrow is the official observance of the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. In the past I have been content to post variations on the theme of Dr. King’s I Have a...
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Dr. King’s Letter From a Birmingham Jail
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, Not long ago I posted an article about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail. I included the link to the letter in my article, but I realize that...
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“We Must Fight them More Vindictively” The American Civil War: From Limited...
Friends of Padre Steve’s World Here is another reworked section of my Civil War and Gettysburg text. It deals with how the how the American Civil War changed from being a limited war to a people’s...
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The Civil War’s Transgender Soldiers
Friends of Padre Steve’s World Today in the Supreme Court President Trump and his theocratic supporters of the Christian Right won a victory on one of their fronts to suppress the civil rights of...
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From Limited to Total War: The American Civil War as a Watershed
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, As always I continue to revise my Gettysburg and Civil War texts. I am posting the second half of a majorly revised section dealing the the nature of the war, and how...
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The American Civil War and the Continuum of History, Humanity, and War
Friends Of Padre Steve’s World, Barbara Tuchman wrote: “No one is so sure of his premises as the man who knows too little.” Finite human beings find themselves bound by time and space, we live in the...
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An Unnecessary Condition Of Affairs: A Temporary end to the #TRUMPDOWN
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, I pondered writing this post late last night but was too tired to write it. It’s not long at all and it it is something that I wrote about previous shutdowns. Back in...
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Fighting Joe Hooker, a Biographical Vingette: Part One
Friends of Padre Steve’s World Another biographic vignette from my Gettysburg text, the first part of a section dealing with Major General Joseph Hooker who almost commanded the Army of the Potomac at...
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Holocaust Remembrance 2019: “To Forget a Holocaust is to Kill Twice”
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, Seventy-four years ago today the Red Army liberated the Auschwitz Concentration Camp. While the Nazis continued to exterminate Jews at other camps and in forced marches...
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“Don’t be Silly, Space Shuttles Don’t Explode” Remembering Challenger
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, It is still so hard to believe that thirty-three years ago we were stunned to see the Space Shuttle Challenger blow up shortly after launch from Cape Canaveral,...
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”The Lessons Have Not Been Learned” Reflections after International Holocaust...
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, Sunday was Holocaust Remembrance Day. I took the time to write about it after completing reading the book Hitler’s Death Squads: The Logic Of Mass Murder, by Helmut...
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The Closet Of Anxieties
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, Today has been a pretty crappy day. I have been anxious and a bit depressed. A couple of months ago I found an old friend on Facebook. When I found him I was excited....
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The Ill-Fated Field Marshal of Stalingrad: A Lesson for Men Who Blindly...
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, Seventy-six years ago today the commander of the encircled German Sixth Army at Stalingrad, Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus left his command bunker and surrendered the...
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The Code Of Honor: Time for Governor Northam to Resign or Admit that He is a...
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, I pride myself in holding to a code of honor that I learned as an Army ROTC Cadet at UCLA back in 1981 to 1983. It was the West Point honor code: “A cadet will not lie...
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Remembering the Four Chaplains Of the Dorchester
The Four Chaplains Friends of Padre Steve’s World, Today I am writing a brief remembrance of four men who I never met but whose lives helped guide me into my vocation as a Priest and Chaplain. I think...
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A Return to My Tipperary
Friends of Padre Steve’s World, Today I am a bit tired and going to post so,etching that basically is a rerun. Ten years ago today I stepped off a plane with the man who had been my body guard and...
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