TOLD that the peasants were starving, Marie-Antoinette, the wife of King Louis XVI of France, was reported to have said “Let them eat cake”. Historians have since disputed that the queen ever said any such thing but the phrase has remained in our lexicon as shorthand for an upper class that is oblivious and uncaring about the plight of the poor.
We’ve seen a lot of let-them-eat-cakeism lately within our shores. Beginning with the minister who so blithely went abroad on holiday with his family and then did not have to quarantine when he came home. Meanwhile, ordinary people could barely poke their noses out of their front yards without attracting a thousand-ringgit fine. A decision not to charge him with ignoring the quarantine was made because he was “not issued a home surveillance or observation order by the Health Ministry”. Which makes me think that whoever it was who was responsible should have been censured for being negligent. After all, although he was swabbed at th
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Divine Word Archbishop Gabriel Manek founded the Daughters of the Rosary Queen congregation
Members of Monsignor Gabriel Manek’s Friends distribute aid to poor people in Timor-Leste. (Photo courtesy of Monsignor Gabriel Manek’s Friends)
Archbishop Emeritus Gabriel Wilhelmus Manek of Ende, a city on the Catholic-majority island of Flores, died nearly 32 years ago at the age of 76. But his spirit in serving those in need remains alive among Catholics in Indonesia.
Born in August 1913 and ordained a Divine Word priest in January 1941, he became a prelate 10 years later in March 1951.
Seven years later, on Aug. 15, 1958, he and a nun from the Holy Spirit Missionary Sisters founded a religious congregation called the Daughters of the Rosary Queen (PRR).
Washington [US], February 28 (ANI): A global study focused on people living in five continents found that a diet high in poor quality carbohydrates leads to a higher risk of heart attacks, strokes, and death.
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