Sacredness

• 2024 Best Places To Camp: Southeast
  The 60 highly rated campgrounds that earned Best Places to Camp regional honors this year dot the country from California to Maine with comforts ranging from bare ground in the Badlands and Black Hills of South Dakota to pillow-topped mattresses in a cabin on Lake Superior in Minnesota.
• The Dyrt's 2024 Camping Report Presented by the All-New Toyota Tacoma found that nearly 85 million Americans went camping last year.
• The 2024 Best Places to Camp Regional Awards reflect that.
• "There's something for everyone in every region in the Best Places to Camp Regional Awards.

• The Seton Hall Board of Regents has voted to appoint Monsignor Joseph R. Reilly, S.T.L., Ph.D., to serve as the University's 22nd president.
• SOUTH ORANGE, N.J., April 3, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- After a wide-ranging search, the Seton Hall Board of Regents has voted to appoint Monsignor Joseph R. Reilly, S.T.L., Ph.D., to serve as the University's 22nd president.
• Monsignor Reilly brings to the presidency a deep knowledge of Catholic higher education, impressive administrative skills, and personal experience as a Seton Hall student, alumnus, faculty member, administrator and priest.
• A Mountainside, N.J. native, Monsignor Reilly attended Seton Hall Prep and graduated from the University in 1987 with a bachelor's degree in psychology.

• Pope Francis has provoked fury by suggesting in a television interview that Ukraine should find “the courage to raise the white flag”.
• As Pope Pius XII, Eugenio Pacelli led the Catholic Church throughout the second world war.
• However, while Hitler’s determination to eliminate the Jewish people was brought to his attention, he did not publicly condemn it.
• Though he admired the authoritarian regimes of Franco in Spain and Salazar in Portugal, Pius XII was not pro Nazi.

‘Catholics will be loyal’

• He told the German chancellor:
  I am certain that if peace between Church and state is restored, everyone will be pleased.
• The German people are united in their love for the Fatherland.
• I am certain that if peace between Church and state is restored, everyone will be pleased.

• He feared that criticism of Hitler’s regime would provoke harm to German Catholics.
• In August 1942 Pius XII received a letter from Andrej Septyckj, a Ukrainian Cleric, bearing news of the massacre of 200,000 Jews in Ukraine.
• Pius XII flirted with public criticism of Nazi inhumanity in his 1942 Christmas Eve broadcast.

Evil then and now

• As I discovered while researching my book, Reporting the Second World War - The Press and the People 1939-1945, he could have learned as much by reading British newspapers.
• In autumn 1942, titles including The Times and Daily Mail reported the World Jewish Congress’s belief that a million Jews had already died.
• Today, his successor might contemplate the damage inflicted on his wartime predecessor’s reputation by his meek collusion with the wrong side.
• Ukrainian foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba responded caustically to Pope Francis’s crass comments with: “Our flag is a yellow and blue one.

Tim Luckhurst has received funding from News UK and Ireland Ltd. He is a member of the Free Speech Union and the Society of Editors

• BHUBANESWAR, India, Feb. 28, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading global philanthropist, Mr. Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft and co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation was honored with the KISS Humanitarian Award 2023 in a significant recognition of his philanthropic work.
• The award ceremony featured virtual participation from the staff and students of KIIT and KISS, along with alumni.
• Prof. Achyuta Samanta, Founder of KIIT, KISS & KIMS said, "Awarding Bill Gates with the KISS Humanitarian Award not only honors his exceptional contributions but also elevates the prestige of this recognition.
• Initiated in 2008 by Prof. Achyuta Samanta, the KISS Humanitarian Award is the highest honour of KIIT and KISS dedicated to recognizing individuals and organizations that embody the spirit of humanitarian work worldwide.