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The shortest day, Cardinal Wuerl, and answering 'the dubia'

The Tuesday Pillar Post

JD Flynn
Dec 21, 2021
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Hey everybody,

This is The Tuesday Pillar Post, and - if you live in the Northern Hemisphere - today is the shortest day of 2021.

Today is the winter solstice, on which Earth’s North Pole reaches maximal tilt away from the sun. If you live in Fairbanks, Alaska, you can expect to get fewer than 4 hours of sunlight today. If you live in Rome, you’ll get ab…

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