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About Catherine, Edgar, and Elon

The Friday Pillar Post

Ed. Condon
Apr 29, 2022
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Happy Friday friends,

And a happy feast of St. Catherine of Siena, to whom I have always had a special devotion. 

She is a saint of many virtues, and her Dialogue is about as full-bore as spiritual reading can get. But, if I am honest, it is her letters to Pope Gregory XI — the last Avignon pope — which I find myself thinking about most often.

In one, she …

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