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Tuesday, June 27, 2017

RE: Pope Francis’s New Man in Newark

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Pope Francis's New Man in Newark

The New Yorker 20 hours ago
"What keeps despots, dictators awake at night, what topples evil empires is the little person who goes into the square in the middle of the town in the dark of night and scrawls on the wall, 'No!' " the Catholic prelate told the congregation. "And I want to say to you, we are the 'No!' that God scrawls on the wall." This was at an interfaith gathering in Newark, New Jersey, in early May, to oppose the Trump Administration's immigration and deportation policies. The speaker was Cardinal Joseph Tobin, and the meeting was in defense, as another participant, Bishop Dwayne Royster, said, of "undocumented folk," "black folk," "poor folk," and "folk needing health care in this country." Donald Trump ...

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