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Hope

As a Catholic (adjec­tive) ex-Catholic (noun), I should take note of Pope Bene­dict XVI’s [2007] encycli­cal, Spe Salvi (“in hope we are saved”), his sec­ond, a doc­u­ment which has things to say about science.

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The Brontë Sisters, Anne, Emily, and Charlotte, painted by their brother Branwell (c. 1834)

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