But simply silent as the Kevin McCaffrey gangsters and Nassau otb and holy Andrew cuomo fight the Russians others and infidels by picking my Easter Sunday over Murillo Easter Sunday
Ny const art 1 sec 3 is not found in the Bible
The holy church of Nassau otb must be open for the faithful Sunday april 17
Pope Francis Laments War in Ukraine Without Taking Sidesabout Nassau OTB’s declaration of war
Stop scratching on holidays
Published: June 1, 2012
Off Track Betting in New York State has been racing into a crisis called shrinking revenue. Some people have spitballed a solution: Don’t close on holidays.
New York State Racing Law bars racing on Christmas, Easter and Palm Sunday, and the state has ruled OTBs can’t handle action on those days, even though they could easily broadcast races from out of state.
“You should be able to bet whenever you want,” said Jackson Leeds, a Nassau OTB employee who makes an occasional bet. He added some irrefutable logic: “How is the business going to make money if you’re not open to take people’s bets?”
Elias Tsekerides, president of the Federation of Hellenic Societies of Greater New York, said OTB is open on Greek Orthodox Easter and Palm Sunday.
“I don’t want discrimination,” Tsekerides said. “They close for the Catholics, but open for the Greek Orthodox? It’s either open for all or not open.”
OTB officials have said they lose millions by closing on Palm Sunday alone, with tracks such as Gulfstream, Santa Anita, Turf Paradise and Hawthorne running.
One option: OTBs could just stay open and face the consequences. New York City OTB did just that back in 2003. The handle was about $1.5 million – and OTB was fined $5,000.
Easy money.
Pontiff decries ‘vicious war’ without explicitly blaming Russia or Vladimir Putin
Pope Francis presides over a ceremony at the Vatican’s St. Peter's Basilica on Friday.
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ROME— Pope Francis celebrated a liturgy for peace between Russia and Ukraine, lamenting the “vicious war that has overtaken so many people and caused suffering to all...this cruel and senseless war that threatens our world,” in his most high-profile gesture yet to deplore the conflict while maintaining his neutrality.
The ceremony on Friday in St. Peter’s Basilica, which the pope asked Catholic bishops and their flocks around the world to join in through prayer, was marked by tension between his sympathy for what he called “our defenseless Ukrainian brothers and sisters” under bombardment and his continuing refusal to explicitly name Russia as the aggressor.
Pope Francis’ neutrality has its roots in Vatican tradition but also reflects his particular agenda, which includes better relations with the Russian Orthodox Church and a wariness of identifying the Vatican with U.S. foreign policy. The U.S. and its European allies are supporting Ukraine’s defenseagainst Russia’s invasion with military aid and economic sanctions on Russia.
The Vatican didn’t reply to a request for comment.
Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church hold a virtual meeting on March 16.
PHOTO: VATICAN MEDIA/VIA REUTERS
Pope Francis refrained earlier in the war from referring to an invasion of Ukraine, speaking in terms that could as easily have described a civil war, while his top deputy echoed the Kremlin’s language by calling the invasion “the start of Russian military operations on Ukrainian territory.”
The pope has since made clear his horror at the “violent aggression against Ukraine,” calling it “a senseless massacre” and “this repugnant war.” But his only explicit references to Russia’s military have been to sympathize with “so many soldiers who are sent to the front, very young, Russian soldiers, poor things,” along with their Ukrainian counterparts.
He has also raised doubts about whether he supports Ukraine’s right to defend itself, saying on two occasions last week that there is no such thing as a “just war,” thus seeming to dismiss traditional Catholic teaching that allows for the legitimate use of military force for defense.
On Thursday, in a speech citing Mahatma Gandhi, the famed exponent of nonviolent resistance, the pope denounced as madness the decision by some countries to raise their military spending above 2% of gross domestic product, an apparent reference to North Atlantic Treaty Organization members including Germany who have announced higher military spending in response to the war in Ukraine. “The true response is not more weapons, more sanctions,” the pope said.
President Biden traveled to Poland after announcing that the U.S. would boost natural gas deliveries to Europe; as Russian strikes continued in Ukraine, officials in Mariupol said about 300 people were killed in a theater bombed last week. Photo: Associated PressTHE WALL STREET JOURNAL INTERACTIVE EDITION
Vatican neutrality is a tradition dating to the 19th century and the loss of the papal states in central Italy, when the Holy See ceased to be a territorial power that formed alliances and fought wars with other countries, said Giovanni Maria Vian, a professor of patristic philology at the University of Rome La Sapienza and a former editor in chief of the Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano.
The papacy’s neutrality became especially controversial following World War II. Scholars continue to debate whether the wartime Pope Pius XII could have done more to protect European Jewry from the Nazis.
Pope Francis’ reluctance to criticize Russia also reflects his eagerness for good relations with the Russian Orthodox Church, which is closely allied with the Kremlin and whose leader Patriarch Kirill of Moscow has defended the invasion.
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