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issued the most extensive revision to Catholic Church law in four decades, insisting that bishops take action against clerics who abuse minors and vulnerable adults, commit fraud or attempt to ordain women.

The revision, which has been in the works since 2009, involves all of section six of the Church's Code of Canon Law, a seven-book code of about 1,750 articles. It replaced the code approved by Pope John Paul II in 1983 and will take effect on Dec. 8.

The revised section, involving about 90 articles concerning crime and punishment, incorporates many existing changes made to Church law by Francis and his predecessor Benedict XVI.*

Do you know who invented the term “climate change”? Frank Luntz. The Republican “strategist.” Why? Because “global warming” was dangerous. Because it was true. Too frightening. Too real. Too self-explanatory, powerful, and strong. https://t.co/i06Q7qtq8s

— Bob Leonard (@BobOne4All) July 3, 2021

It was Orwell’s great lesson writ large. If you can disappear a thing in language, you can make people stop thinking it, and it simply … vanishes. The point of Orwellian doublespeak is to veil the truth with doubt, to filigree it with the shadows of complacency, to make the lie seem real. And the truth is that thanks to Luntz, the GOP, American media, and elites around the world following their lead, the dire threat of global warming soon enough became the anodyne sounding “climate change.” And who really worries about that? It makes you think you might be sitting on a tropical beach sipping a Mai Tai – not boiled alive by a killer heat dome.*

“People fail to recognize things that do not fit into their worldview, which is why those in power have not adequately responded to decades of terrorism by white men”https://t.co/T5JdrSIsi6

— John Erik Englund (@johnerikenglund) June 1, 2021

You could fit all of the waste from your entire lifetime of energy consumption in a 12oz Coke can. (!gi)

“propaganda manufactures consent”

stories can never be more than relative truths

unless we see this, the ruling stories control what we think, say, and do

some people get it and make sure their stories rule

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— George Atherton (@notrehta) July 5, 2021

you either think you know the truth
or see that it’s beyond the mind

relative truth is what is thought to be
and depends on what else is thought*

Here’s yet another phrase for our new vocabulary in the climate era: heat dome.

The heat dome building over British Columbia this weekend is expected to shatter records and spread east across the Prairies. Dangerous heat has already obliterated records across the western U.S. and from eastern Europe into Siberia.

What used to be the joyful beginning of summer has become a time of dread for those of us attuned to climate breakdown.*

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