Difficult Pentecost for pope as butler probe hurts

A couple of holidays this weekend are the church celebration of Pentecost on Sunday and the secular honoring of the dead with the observance of Memorial Day on Monday. The word Pentecost means 50th and it occurs 50 days after Easter. The Rev.The First Reading is, finally, the account of Pentecost itself, from Acts 2:1-11. We have already remarked on the intimate relationship between this event and Babel (Pentecost is the Un-Babel) and Sinai (Pentecost is the

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