POPE LEO HAS PASSED the night peacefully. THE HOLY FATHER BREATHED HIS LAST dose of aerosolised saline via the nebuliser and is now resting comfortably. HIS HOLINESS IS NO LONGER WITH US in intensive care, having been transferred to the medical unit. 🇮🇹 ➡️ 🔀 ➡️ 🔄➡️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

In college we has `rejection Tuesdays` where you had to try and get rejected. Homies got married left and right

Today is the feast of St Philip Howard. Could he be patron saint of those going to court over their silent prayers? St Philip was accused of praying for the success of the Spanish Armada. He was sentenced to death for high treason but died after 10 years of imprisonment from dysentery and malnutrition. While in the Tower of London he inscribed in the wall "The more affliction we endure for Christ in this world, the more glory we shall get with Christ in the world to come".

Can we just Old Yeller this show already

RT @CSW_Hoosier: This is how I became Catholic though, to be fair. When Protestants display their ignorance about Catholicism and are corr…

This is the way.

Simone Weil learned Greek so that she could pray the Lord’s Prayer. I’m learning Québécois French so that I can join this chorus. cajunlyrics.com/fr/?lyrics=3…

Simulation theory for the win.

Last year I thought Threads was an existential risk to X. When Meta puts its full weight behind something -- by injecting the app into Instagram, it’s DEFCON 5: You have to squeeze out every last drop of growth from all available surfaces to save the app. However, I started to realize that the opposite was happening: It was strengthening X. If you look at any announcement by Zuck, you will see the most rude & toxic comments on the internet. But when he makes those same announcements on X, people are thrilled about how he’s pushing humanity forward. X is a place where people are excited about the future, so it’s no surprise he and his top lieutenants are using it more than their own app. Threads — and Bluesky — have effectively quarantined some of the worst people on the internet. And so I had an epiphany: those apps are X’s anti-abuse systems.

One day to go to the Closing Session of the Diocesan phase of Fr Willie Doyle’s Cause. As it is Saturday, Our Lady’s day, I’m sharing a photo of Fr Willie’s rosary (with his Sacred Heart badge). Willie’s love for Our Lady was profound. He entrusted his whole life, his sufferings & even his death to her, as an Oblation unto martyrdom.

So what Im learning is that new york is to the US what the US is to the world

Second time, actually

I am simultaneously horrified and impressed

A big 'THANK YOU' from Victoria, Australia to @elonmusk

As long as it remains an official position, we must expect it to be occupied by a villain, and if we must have a villain, then one motivated by Paw Patrol tickets is a good outcome.

Great account to follow. Meet some of the real women of the Roman Catholic Church: saints, sinners, remembered, forgotten, and from all centuries. Curated by historian @bronwenmcshea.

fiberbytes.github.io/ I understand your reasons for turning off your comments. Several months ago, I was in a discussion where someone used a lot of insults in their replies to me — it’s lead me on an interesting journey so far, and thankfully at that point I was already praying the Litany of Humility. What I did for this particular argument was to strip away the insults. I actually typed out the message without the insults, and what was left wasn’t substantive or even an argument. That eye opening to me. For example this person’s comment stripped of insults: Yes…maybe you should study that Bible instead of trying to change a study in to your world veiw religion. Okay now Susan said: “study that Bible” — which Bible? What evidence does Susan have that you tried to change a study unit your world view religion? Everyone has a right to voice their perspective, but Susan doesn’t seem to think so. Anyway, God bless you on this journey. 🤍🙏😇🕊️

Some may be surprised to hear it, but Žižek was a major element in my reversion to Catholicism. In his writings on the subject of "Christian Atheism," he argued very well that a Western person will exist in relation to Christ whether they like it or not. If we reject religious Christianity, it will nonetheless exert a strong, subconscious influence on the psyche. In spite of one's own professed opposition to Christianity, they will be controlled by it anyway, usually in extremely unpredictable ways. For an example of this, I didn't have to look far. I read his work on this subject at a liberal arts college in New England, where "woke 1.0" was quickly turning into witch-hunts and purity spiraling -- no doubt a manifestation of the dregs of New England Puritan culture, which still hangs in the air there very thickly. But these witch-hunting, anti-Christian "woke" types were patently unaware that they were pantomiming old Puritan tropes. If you suggested as much to them, they vociferously denied it. Every aspect of this was strange, feverish even. Contrariwise, if you consciously profess the Christian Faith, you are positioned to have at least some level of influence over how the Faith works in you. You become aware of the 'psychological architecture' of your own culture and mind, and in so doing, you become less helpless, more self-aware. This is the minimum of course; eventually you will seek to conform yourself to Christ, and undergo a serious change. And so through Žižek, I came to conclude that there's no such thing as "not being a Christian." You're either going to profess the Faith deliberately and consciously -- or you are going to subconsciously exist in relation to it, forever acting out its basic tropes without intending to... As for Žižek himself, it eventually just seemed like he was doing a series of clever rhetorical parlor tricks to avoid actually being Catholic. This seemed craven to me; I was far more inclined to go "whole hog"... and I thank God I did...

FINALLY. Someone gets it. I went to a Catholic school in the 90s that was the only private school in my area. More than half the students were only there because their parents wanted them to have a good education and prepare for college. As a result, since more than half the class was always some variety of protestant, Catholicism was hardly taught. We learned a lot about people like Ghandi, Harriet Tubman, and MLK Jr though. I completed prep for First Communion without having any idea what was going on, made up sins in my first confession because I didn't understand what confession was for, and by the time I was 13 I was functionally agnostic and by high school I was atheist. I didn't learn the Catholic faith until I turned 21 and a somewhat mystical experience lead me to investigate Catholicism and read the entire 1992 Catechism.

Money can destroy you faster than poverty:

Awaiting the start of a prayer vigil for Pope Leo, and the guy behind me.goes like "He just passed away, this priest I know." Dude, you should totally be hired by Vatican News 😭😭😭🤣