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May 04
Greetings all,
St. Anthony Fraternity is now publishing a monthly newsletter. If you would like to be put on our email distribution list please email Jay Gilmartin, SFO and put something in the subject line like “SFO Newsletter”…..I get about 100 spams a day and sometimes AOL assists me in deleting “desired” emails. Also keep the Regional Retreat in September circled on your calanders. More information concerning registration, etc. will be forthcoming shortly.
Pax et Bonum,
Jay Gilmartin SFO
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Mar 20
LONDON, El Salvador, Nearly two decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union’s officially atheist empire, Mikhail Gorbachev admitted he is a Christian, the Daily Telegraph reported via Newser.com Wednesday.On a visit to Italy the last president of the U.S.S.R. prayed at the tomb of St. Francis of Assisi. He later told priests the saint played a fundamental role in his life. “St. Francis is, for me, the alter Christus, the other Christ,” he said.
Gorbachev always professed atheism as Soviet leader, although Ronald Reagan is said to have suspected his Cold War adversary was a “closet believer.” Gorbachev’s parents baptized him in the Russian Orthodox church and his wife’s parents were killed during World War II for owning religious icons.
Copyright 2008 by United Press International.
UPDATE: It looks as though reports of Gorbachev’s conversion are a bit premature. Too bad.
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