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not quite dead yet

By Diogenes ( bio - articles ) | Aug 04, 2005

Call it a Freudian slip: The headline writer said more than he intended:

Brain-Dead Woman Dies After Giving Birth

If she was "brain dead," how could she "die" after giving birth? Unless she wasn't quite dead yet.

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Mon12 October
Ordinary Time

Monday of the Twenty-Eighth Week in Ordinary Time

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St. Carlo Acutis (1991-2006) is commemorated today. Carlos was a Catholic Italian teenager who died in 2006, was canonized on September 7, 2025. Acutis, a gamer and computer programmer who loved soccer and the Eucharist, has been the subject of interest around the world. Pope Francis referred to Carlo as a…

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