Pope Francis biographer, fellow @campionoxf, ✍️ #TheGreatReformer #WoundedShepherd #LetUsDream. #FirstBelongToGod + Smallholder #LaudatoSi: 🐑 🐓 🐝🪴🌳🥬🍅🧄
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12 years on, people ask: how can we follow the path the Pope is calling us to? For parishes, communities and the curious, I have written a retreat “with” Francis, based on the Ignatian Exercises which shaped him. In English, español, français, italiano and português.
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As Leo hits the skies, I’m in Buenos Aires. My first dispatch for The Tablet gives an overview of the trip to Uruguay, Argentina and Peru.
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Can’t decide why Bob Dylan is dressed this way. Monastic hood? Male mantilla? Gandalf?
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Consolation Row:
🇺🇸 Today, I had the privilege and the joy of accompanying #BobDylan to meet Pope Leo, together with Andrea Monda. It was hard not to feel the emotion of being part of an encounter that had a real sense of history about it, with the feeling that, at every step through the Apostolic Palace, absolutely anything could happen! Carlo Feltrinelli and Susan Pullman were also with us. On July 31, Pope Leo had met with Patti Smith. I’m writing about it in L’Osservatore Romano.
🇮🇹 Oggi ho accompagnato #BobDylan da Papa Leone insieme ad Andrea Monda. Non senza l’emozione di vivere un incontro che ha il sapore della storia e la sensazione che, ad ogni passo nel Palazzo apostolico, sarebbe potuta accadere qualunque cosa! Con noi Carlo Feltrinelli, e Susan Pullman. Il 31 luglio Leone aveva incontrato Patti Smith. Ne scrivo sull’Osservatore Romano.
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If I might gently point to the contradiction here, Gagliarducci regrets that commentators apply a political lens to the papacy while claiming that the pope is an elected monarch and should behave like one. 😬
Ancora qualche riflessione sul fatto che il Papa abbia deciso di votare negli USA - in 12 punti
vaticanreporting.blogspot.co…
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God is good. This guy is anointed to shame our politics, and call us to a better place.
.@JamesTalarico: We didn’t win by alienating our neighbors, or by shaming our neighbors, or by ridiculing our neighbors. We embodied a new kind of politics. A politics rooted in a deep love — for our state, for our country, and for all of our neighbors.
My faith teaches me that love is the strongest force in the universe.
Love is not passive. Love is not neutral. Love is not weak. Love requires that we stand between the bullies and the bullied. Love requires that we look evil in the eye and not blink.
Love can heal what’s broken in America.
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Por si acaso estuvieras en Buenos Aires el viernes, en vísperas de la llegada de León a América del Sur …
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Apologies, should be Mokoto. 😞
Fascinating tidbit from Makoto Rich @nytimes on how Francis upgraded what journalists get to eat on papal flights.
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If I were writing this as history, I would juxtapose it with the news that Netenyahu is trying to push Trump into nuking Iran.
US President Donald Trump finished his midterm campaigning with a speech outside the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington DC. Read more: bbc.in/4zyN8FF
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".... los grandes cambios muchas veces comienzan con pequeños movimientos del alma"
Una oportunidad para recuperar la capacidad de encontrarnos lanacion.com.ar/opinion/el-p… via @LANACION/ por @estebanbullrich
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People said the same when Benedict XVI published his Jesus trilogy under the name Jospeh Ratzinger because, he said, he was writing as a theologian not as pope. People said you can't make that distinction. Of course you can.
Harsh words here:
“The Pope’s choice to vote in the US midterms makes it more than fair to wonder how well he has understood who he is and what he is in his new office.”
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Fascinating tidbit from Makoto Rich @nytimes on how Francis upgraded what journalists get to eat on papal flights.
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I disagree with this post very profoundly. The papacy is an office, a mission. It is NOT like an hereditary monarchy, and the arguments from that analogy fail entirely.
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In his superb essay on Substack, substack.com/@michaelfoxcate… is right: @BishopBarron’s argument is not with Card Aguiar, Card Vesco or with me, but with papal teaching.
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“What Bishop Barron objects to is the condition that …Pope Paul VI placed on that work: the Church brings people to Christ by becoming the kind of community in which Christ can be seen. The condition falls on Catholics first, before it falls on anyone Catholics hope to convert.”
Bishop Barron's Conversion Debate With the Vatican Is Significant Because It Is About What It Means to Be Catholic mikefoxcatechist.substack.co…
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The Trappist Martyrs of Algeria famously committed themselves to friendship w & service to their Muslim neighbors. Inspired by their approach & 1996 martyrdom, Cdl Vesco volunteered to be a missionary to Algeria in 2002. @BishopBarron has a nice ‘11 video lauding the Trappists
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On Barron/Vesco, easy to guess where our missionary pope stands. “The great missionaries bear witnesses to quiet, unobtrusive approaches, whose method is the sharing of life, selfless service, the renunciation of any calculated strategy, dialogue and respect,” Leo said in April.
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A great Francis-Prevost appointment:
NEW: Detroit Archbishop Edward Weisenburger, an ally of Pope Leo XIV, stood on a sidewalk in Clark Park on Friday holding a sign that read “Todos Somos Familia,” after days of reports that ICE agents were targeting the city’s immigrant neighborhoods.
“I don’t really believe in a polite religion that maintains the status quo for people in power,” he told the Detroit Free Press.
The vigil came eight days after twelve American bishops prayed over President Trump in the Oval Office, a moment the White House filmed and posted online. thelettersfromleo.com/p/detr…
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If anyone is struggling to understand how Card Vesco's comments fit with the Great Commission, here's a section from Venite ad Me. Conversion is not our power, but Christ's. Evangelization channels Christ's love.
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Terrific response by Cardinal Jean-Paul Vesco to @BishopBarron disgraceful attack on his integrity. Vesco speaks from the Church, Barron for himself.
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