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Ye must go green and sin no more

Posted on March 21, 2008 - Filed Under Religion | Leave a Comment

The Vatican, through Monsignor Gianfranco Girotti, a close ally of Pope Benedict XVI and the head of the Apostolic Penitentiary . . . which is unlike the one in Muntinlupa but one of the Roman Curia’s main courts . . . has announced

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Let them eat cassava cake?

Posted on March 21, 2008 - Filed Under History, Governance | Leave a Comment

In the days leading up to the French Revolution, Marie Antoinette, the Queen Consort of Louis XVI, was supposed to have said, “Qu’ils mangent de la brioche!” (Let them eat cake!) after she was informed that the French masa (pan intended) had no more bread to eat.
Some historians are unsure if Marie Antoinette actually uttered […]

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