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Pope Francis • Cardinals • Wilton Daniel Gregory • Catholic Church

Pope Francis appoints Wilton Gregory, an outspoken civil rights advocate, as first black American cardinal Cardinal Wilton Gregory made headlines when he blasted President Donald Trump for his photo opportunity in front of a Washington DC church during the pandemic. Source: AP Archbishop Wilton Gregory has been appointed the first African-American Roman Catholic cardinal. Wilton Gregory, the first black American to be named as cardinal and known as a refined diplomat, made headlines when he blasted President Donald Trump’s photo opportunity hoisting a Bible at a Washington church after police used tear gas to clear demonstrators in June. Archbishop Gregory, who was among 13 new cardinals named by Pope Francis on Sunday, was installed as the first Black archbishop of Washington, DC in 2019. He turns 73 just days after the naming ceremony for new cardinals next month. Pope Francis on Sunday said Archbishop Gregory was picked with others from Rwanda, the Philippines and elsewhere to w...

The Undoing • Nicole Kidman • HBO • Hugh Grant • Big Little Lies

HBO's "The Undoing" does the incredible: Make us nostalgic for lifestyles of the rich and bothered Rich people problems are so much sexier than poor people's pandemic problems, so let's watch this crazy thing Well, it's finally happened. Maybe this is the quarantine talking . . .  No, yes it's definitely the quarantine . . . but I've reached that point on the extended social distancing spectrum where I've realized how much I've missed  the zany exploits of fictional rich, entitled people. I know! Crazy right? But hear me out:  such characters are the stuff of American dreams . Take Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant's New Yorkers in "The Undoing," products of privileged white tragedy,  David E. Kelley -fantasy edition.   Advertisement: "The Undoing" is a limited series designed to be enjoyed with friends and box wine and cheap finger foods – sorry, canapes in this context, not finger foods. Maybe hors d'oeuvres, but prefer...

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