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Hypebeast
15 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Hypebeast
Mac DeMarco Delivers New 'Guitar' Single "Holy"
Summary Mac DeMarcodebuted his latest single 'Holy,' the second release from his upcoming albumGuitar. The new track follows last month's 'Home' and hears DeMarco reflect on his spirituality. 'Holy' also arrives with an accompanying music video filmed by the artist himself, 'I waded around in the ocean fully clothed for a couple hours and completely filled my boots with seawater.' He continued, 'There were some other shots on some rocks I kept trying too, but in the end the clip of me falling in the garden and eating the apple was best. Thank you for listening.' Guitaris set to release on August 22, and was written and recorded in its entirety in November last year at DeMarco's Los Angeles home. With the exception of the mastering (done by David Ives), the album was created fully by DeMarco. I thinkGuitaris as close to a true representation of where I'm at in my life today as I can manage to put to paper. I'm happy to share this music, and look forward to playing these songs as many places as I'm able,' he said. Watch Mac DeMarco's 'Holy' music video August 22.
Toronto Sun
3 days ago
- Politics
- Toronto Sun
Pope Leo XIV renews his call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza
Published Jul 20, 2025 • 1 minute read Pope Leo XIV waves to faithful at the end of the noon Angelus prayer in the square in front of the Apostolic Palace for in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, Sunday, July 20, 2025. Photo by Gregorio Borgia / AP CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (AP) — Pope Leo XIV renewed his call on Sunday for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, asking the international community to respect international laws and the obligation to protect civilians. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. SUBSCRIBE TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. REGISTER / SIGN IN TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account. Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments. Enjoy additional articles per month. Get email updates from your favourite authors. THIS ARTICLE IS FREE TO READ REGISTER TO UNLOCK. Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors Don't have an account? Create Account 'I once again call for an immediate end to the barbarity of this war and for a peaceful resolution to the conflict,' the pontiff said at the end of his Sunday Angelus prayer from his summer retreat in Castel Gandolfo. Leo also expressed his 'deep sorrow' for the Israeli attack on the only Catholic church in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, which killed three people and wounded 10 others, including the parish priest. 'I appeal to the international community to observe humanitarian law and respect the obligation to protect civilians as well as the prohibition of collective punishment, the indiscriminate use of force, and the forced displacement of populations,' the pope added. The shelling of the Holy Family Catholic Church in Gaza also damaged the church compound, where hundreds of Palestinians have been sheltering from the Israel-Hamas war, now in its 21st month. Israel expressed regret over what it described as an accident and said it was investigating. 'We need to dialogue and abandon weapons,' the pope said earlier Sunday, after presiding over Mass at the nearby Cathedral of Albano. 'The world no longer tolerates war,' Leo told reporters waiting for him outside the cathedral. Asked about his phone conversation on Friday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Leo said, 'We insisted on the need to protect the sacred places of all religions.' The pope will remain in Castel Gandolfo until Tuesday evening, when he returns to his Vatican residence, a Vatican spokesman said Sunday. Editorial Cartoons Relationships Uncategorized World Toronto & GTA
Buzz Feed
4 days ago
- Politics
- Buzz Feed
Pope Leo's Viral Tweet About Catholic Church In Gaza
Yesterday, it was announced that the Holy Family Church — a shelter and place of worship for Catholics in Gaza — was struck by Israel amid the continuing Israel-Palestine conflict. Three people were killed. Soon after, the office of Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released a statement saying, 'Israel deeply regrets that a stray ammunition hit Gaza's Holy Family Church. Every innocent life lost is a tragedy.' "I am deeply saddened to learn of the loss of life and injury caused by the military attack on the Holy Family Catholic Church in #Gaza," he wrote. The post has been viewed by over five million people. Further, NBC reports that during a Friday morning call between Pope Leo and Netanyahu, the pope relayed the importance of a ceasefire and end to the war in Gaza... ...and expressed that places of worship, worshippers, and citizens on the ground in both Palestine and Israel should be protected. What are your thoughts? Please share in the comments.
Irish Examiner
5 days ago
- Irish Examiner
Blessed West Cork setting for born again Georgian era glebe house in great nick
WEST Cork's Rathclaren House is as good as old — the supremely comfortable former Georgian rectory was effectively rebuilt from the roof down, and from its dug-up floor upwards, when it last changed hands, in jig-time, in 2008. Gorgeous Georgian glebe on five acres of groomed and green grounds Apart from its walls, just about everything within is new, and high end, but its aesthetic and the quality of its workmanship is 100% faithful to its past, leaving confusion only as to whether the 1820s rooted home is as good as new, better than new, or as good as it gets for an veteran coastal home with deep local roots. Despite being over 200 years in age and built to a template common at the time for 19th-century rectories and glebe houses, Rathclaren is not the oldest kid on its block: that honour belongs to its next door neighbour, the Anglican Holy Trinity Church, with portions going back to the 1650s (even earlier ruins of a church nearby date to the 13th century). Holy Trinity, or Rathclaren Church, was added to and altered several times in the 1800s, including a tower with clock and a so-called lychgate covered entrance — quintessentially English, also seen in Scandinavia, rarely in Ireland. Lychgate at Holy Trinity church. Picture Dan Linehan With its adjacent church, graveyard, and cemetery holding the remains of both Catholics and Protestants and its lychgate, the Rathclaren ensemble is picture postcard pretty, just a few hundred metres uphill from the coastal road (and, Wild Atlantic Way) running west of Kinsale towards Clonakilty, between Ballinspittle and Timoleague near Burren and Kilbrittain. Old bones, updated inside It's in good company with a handful of other period homes in the vicinity, including the early 1800s Georgian villa Gortaglenna, and the late 1700s Burren House, while nearby on the coastline is Coolmain Castle, currently for sale for the Disney family with a €7.5m AMV on 56 acres of 'Disney-land', in immaculate order. Rathclaren House is near Disney's Coolamain Castle Coolmain went to the international market in April with joint agents Andy Donoghue of Hodnett Forde and Lisney Sotheby's International Realty: now the same pairing are lined up to sell Rathclaren House, on five minded acres with sea glimpses, with a price guide considerably less that the area's magical Disney castle ... it's launched at €2.95m. Coolmain Castle Rathclaren House previously featured here, back in 2008 when the market was still strong, priced at that time at €1.5m and in a condition that — diplomatically — reflected its age, despite being generally well presented and maintained. Previous owners included the Wilson family for c 20 years prior, and before that the UK diplomat Sir Geofroy Tory (1912 to 2012) who served as Britain's ambassador to Ireland in the 1960s and who retired after an international career to Rathclaren, in a gentle West Cork setting. Interior grace at Rathclaren Buyers in 2008 were Axel Thiel, CEO of a specialist industrial company related to the auto sector Thiel & Heuche in Germany, and his wife Philippa (nee Graves), internationally based and who fell for its charms upon their very first glimpse of it. They bought it straight away, after first viewing from the Wilsons after it appeared in the Irish Examiner Property pages and before any rival bidding could take place. Upwardly mobile The couple then with teenage children had been in the hunt for a Georgian property in Cork at the time and knew just what they hoped for. Philippa's family home is Ballylickey House, between Bantry and Glengarriff, now four generations in Graves hands (related to the poet and author Robert Graves) and the family are now only selling Rathclaren to take over at Ballylickey House: 'It's a very difficult decision to sell,' Philippa acknowledges. Kitchen with German limestone floor with fossil traces What they are selling both is — and is not — what they bought back in '08, given its near total internal rebuild in the original retained building envelope, the construction equivalent of a total organ transplant and rebirth. Bright side in Not only is the mainc 4,000sq ft house as good as, or better, than new, so too is the former coach house and outbuilding, brought down to retention of the stone front wall and arch only and then fully rebuilt as a three-bedroom 2,300sq ft guesthouse, fully self-contained (bar a proper kitchen, easily provided) and, at its far end, a two-bed staff house, currently lived in by the full-time caretaker and attentive groundsman. Guest cottage The rebuilding work took a full two years, to painstaking detail, with a local crew headed by builder Dan Healy whom the Thiels praise highly. Specialist conservation and new joinery work was done to an exceptional standard by London-based Patrick O'Donovan, who did the windows, typically six-over-six sliding sashes, working window shutters on the deep walls, doors, architraves and pristine staircase, the works, while reclaimed pitch pine wood lines the modestly-sized study en route to the dining room. Modest add-ons or wings were placed, with glass roof lanterns, for a feature triple aspect dining room and for the large and hospitable kitchen, done by House of Coolmore, with a limestone floor brought in from Germany, complete with fossils to spot in the stone underfoot. From the floors (dug out, and redone and finished in solid oak when found to be wringing wet), right up to the roof, all inside is new or newly finished, bar superb original fireplaces (one an Adam chimneypiece or Adam style, with polished brass insert) and thick internal walls. Courtyard cluster with lustre It's quite the experience to go up into the spacious attic of a 200-year-old house, with hipped roof and internal valley (holding solar panels) and see every stout roof timber is new: there's reassurance in this for the centuries yet to come... For all of its Georgian grace, the five-bay home is far from being overly grand or grandeur, and from day one had quite simple plasterwork and internal architectural embellishment. It functions really well as a manageable home of supreme comfort, with twin formal reception rooms interlinked via solid double doors (it's BER exempt, having been listed post-upgrades), with four bedrooms and a mod estly enlarged great ground level floor plan which, originally, held a small room for the rector to meet his parishioners in. It was just to the right of the off-centre fan-lit 'front' door, which is around to the far side of the long and leafy approach drive. Guest/staff accommodation in a converted stable/coachhouse Each façade is different: that entrance with ornate fan over the original door is slate-hung, with slates in graduated sizes for perspective. The main five-bay faces south for views to the water by Courtmacsherry bay and village, whose lights sparkle in evenings and night, amid otherwise perfect night skies, delineated by soaring trees, including a beast of a macrocarpa, likely as old as Rathclaren itself. I see the sea Joint agents Eileen Neville of Lisney Sotheby's IR and Hodnett Forde's Andy Donoghue say Rathclaren House 'stands as a refined and meticulously restored period residence of notable architectural and historical interest,' adding, 'this distinguished home was conceived in alignment with the ecclesiastical and social heritage of the time.' Now wholly secular since about the 1950s when it left Church of Ireland hands for a series of private owners, it's on five acres, largely wooded, with extensive planting done by the Thiels during their caring tenure, including adding the likes of European black pines, Sequoia redwoods, Ginkos, Handkerchief trees, and Silver Birches to the existing long-settled stock, of indigenous deciduous trees and pines, including the signature, stand-out macrocarpa. Green fingered The grounds, on a gentle slope east to west and also down away from the house to the south, remain largely wooded, with defined sections, walks, walled sections and old stone boundaries, and openings, interspersed with rhododendron and other colourful intercessions and include lawns which included a tennis court at some time, fruit gardens and frames. There is joyous growth and greenery right up to the walls of the main house, to the coach house, and adjoining staff house (with a mix of six dormer windows and conservation-style Veluxes in slate roofs), all the time with glimpses back through the trees to the pyramidal roof of the 1870s added tower at Rathclaren Church. Rathclaren's Holy Trinity church Picture: Dan Linehan Departing vendors the Thiels say most of the time their private retreat property is so quiet 'you can hear a pin drop', but perhaps at this stage they are more than used to the chimes and peal of the 10 tubular bells installed in the belfry in the 1890s … which appeared to be out by an hour to the 'real' time when visited in the past week? (The refinished clock face in black and gilt has a pock mark by the7 o'clock setting, said to be from a bullet in the Civil War era.) Something to aspire to.... Image: Dan Linehan The auctioneers say Rathclaren 'offers a rare combination of privacy, serenity, and natural beauty', within short distances of Cork City, international airport, Kinsale, and the further roll out of West Cork towns from Bandon and Clonakilty. It mixes preservation of its original layout and essential charms, upgrades of outbuildings, double garage, wine and fuel stores 'with thoughtful incorporation of modern conveniences, representing a harmonious fusion of traditional elegance and contemporary luxury'. Pitch pine perfection VERDICT: It's rare to find a glebe home of such local history and heritage with new life breathed into its old bones, in such a timeless setting, with huge peace of mind thanks to the quality and thoroughness of the works done. Next owners can be expected to fall as heavily for Rathclaren House as its owners did back in 2008.
Straits Times
5 days ago
- Politics
- Straits Times
Pope, Israeli PM speak by phone after strike on Gaza Catholic church
Find out what's new on ST website and app. Pope Leo XIV also renewed his appeal for negotiations, a ceasefire and the end of the war. VATICAN CITY – Pope Leo XIV emphasised the importance of protecting places of worship in a call on July 18 with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu following Israel's deadly strike on Gaza's only Catholic Church, the Vatican said. The Pontiff also renewed his appeal for negotiations, a ceasefire and the end of the war, while reiterating his concern for the 'dramatic humanitarian situation' in the Palestinian territory, it said in a statement. The Vatican said Mr Netanyahu initiated the call early on July 18, the day after Israeli fire on the Holy Family Church in Gaza City killed three people and provoked international condemnation. 'During the conversation, the Holy Father renewed his appeal to revive negotiations and reach a ceasefire and the end of the war,' the Vatican said in a statement, noting that Pope Leo was at his summer residence in Castel Gandolfo, south of Rome. 'He once again expressed his concern for the dramatic humanitarian situation of the population in Gaza, whose heartbreaking toll is borne particularly by children, the elderly and the sick,' it added. 'Finally, the Holy Father reiterated the urgency of protecting places of worship and especially the faithful and all people in Palestine and Israel.' Mr Netanyahu has said Israel 'deeply regrets' the strike, and blamed a 'stray round'. Top stories Swipe. Select. Stay informed. Singapore Critical infrastructure in S'pore under attack by cyber espionage group: Shanmugam Singapore Who is UNC3886, the group that attacked Singapore's critical information infrastructure? Singapore HSA looking to get anti-vape cyber surveillance tool with AI capabilities Singapore Singapore police in contact with Indonesian authorities over baby trafficking allegations Singapore Alleged Kpod peddler filmed trying to flee raid in Bishan charged with 6 offences Singapore NTU upholds zero grade for student accused of using AI in essay; panel found 14 false citations or data Singapore 30% of aviation jobs could be redesigned due to AI, automation; $200m fund to support workers: CAAS Singapore Former NUH male nurse faces charges after he allegedly molested man at hospital He repeated this regret in the conversation with the Pope, which was 'friendly', a spokesman for Mr Netanyahu said, adding that the two men agreed to meet soon. AFP
