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On February 8, 2021, Pope Francis addressed members of the diplomatic corps accredited to the Holy See for the annual exchange of New Year greetings. In the state-of-the-world address, he reviewed the multiple crises affecting various parts of the world, including those caused by the pandemic, and said that fraternity and hope can help overcome them.
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Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I thank the Dean, His Excellency Mr George Poulides, Ambassador of Cyprus, for the kind words and good wishes he has expressed in your name, and I beg your pardon for any inconvenience caused by the cancellation of our meeting originally planned for 25 January last. I am grateful for your patience and understanding, and for accepting the invitation to be here this morning, despite the difficulties, for our traditional encounter.
Life Sketch of John Donne
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John Donne
Anti-Catholicism in England
John Donne was born to a wealthy Catholic family on June 19, 1572, at the time in world history when anti-Catholicism was gaining influence in England. John s father, John Donne, Sr., was a well-to-do ironworker. His mother was a relative of Sir Thomas More, and her father was John Heywood, the playwright. The future poet was only four years old when his father died in 1576, and his mother struggled to raise John and his two siblings by herself.
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and his younger brother, Henry, began school at Hart Hall at Oxford University. John was eleven years old at the time. John continued his studies at Hart Hall for the next three years, after which he enrolled at Cambridge University. John refused to vow to a supremacy oath declaring King Henry VIII the head of the church because such vows were considered blasphemous to devout Catholics. John was, therefore, not allowed to graduated because of that refusal
‘No man is an island,’ wrote John Donne on a grim Christmas amid a pandemic
These famous few lines suggest a kind of compassionate solidarity, a sense of deep connection when others die, or might die. But Donne’s real point is not just compassion for others, even during a plague, but the necessity of attention to the self. In this Nov. 24, 2020, file photo, Kyla Harris, 10, writes a tribute to her grandmother Patsy Gilreath Moore, who died at age 79 of COVID-19, at a symbolic cemetery created to remember and honor lives lost to COVID-19 in the Liberty City neighborhood of Miami. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)