Fr. Alexei Woltornist

Melkite Catholic priest | Co-Founder @teamathos | Member of @dhsgov Homeland Security Advisory Council | Fmr: DHS Asst Secretary, DOJ/ Congress spokesman

[Kalshi Politics @KalshiPolitics]

What’s the most memorable US political ad you’ve ever seen? (Good or bad)

[Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone @ArchCordileone]

They care for poor people dying of cancer for free. New York demands they assist suicide or risk jail. Leave our nuns alone!

The Sisters of Hawthorne Become the Latest Progressive Target - WSJ https://t.co/cGX3HwZ2Gd

[Katy Faust @Katy_Faust]

This little girl is not in the video. She wasn't even born. But she is moved to tears watching her mother and father get married. Why?

Marriage researcher and family therapist Pat Fagan once told me:

"When a child sees their mother loving their father they feel like their mother is loving them. When they see their father loving their mother they feel like their father is loving them. It is the only time in the human experience where you can be loved indirectly. No one's even looking at you or touching you or talking to you, but you feel loved."

That is not the case with a step parent, he said. The child may tolerate the romantic expression. But they do not experience that same circuitous love. More often they feel competition or jealousy.

If every child could order their own world, this is what they would say:

"I want my mom and dad to love me and I want my mom and dad to love each other."

Sometimes that's not possible. Woe to a culture that intentionally denies that to children in the name of adult freedom.

[Terry Schilling 🇺🇸 @Schilling1776]

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If you can donate anything at all, or even just share this, it would mean the world. Every bit helps lift that financial weight so they can be fully present for this little fighter.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart. Please keep Baby Michael and the whole family in your prayers. 🙏❤️

https://t.co/8I1Uk3BpKC

#BabyMichael #FamilyStrong #PrayForMichael

[Terry Schilling 🇺🇸 @Schilling1776]

Hey friends & family, I don’t often come on here asking for help like this… but this one is personal and serious.

This is my nephew, Baby Michael — my brother Aaron and his wife Kiki’s sixth child. They just welcomed him, but his lungs aren’t fully developed and aren’t working properly. He’s been transferred to St. Louis Children’s Hospital, intubated, and fighting hard.

[Fr. Alexei Woltornist @AWoltornist]

We aren't really free to practice religion if it involves going to court practically in perpetuity.

[Catholic World Report @cworldreport]

Legal counsel for the Little Sisters of the Poor delivered oral arguments to a federal appellate court on July 7 as the Catholic religious society continued its 15-year legal battle over contraception mandates.https://t.co/20LjfU37Ue

[Dudley Newright @NewRightPoast]

I think of this every time I see one of these effusive divorce announcements.

[American Principles Project @approject]

@Schilling1776 just pulled ahead in his quest to become the first grandpa in his friend group.

CNN with the scoop...

#BigFamily

[Steve Milloy @JunkScience]

New York State celebrates the 250th by trying to force Catholic nuns to use 'preferred pronouns':

"The sisters have received three letters from the state’s health department, in effect, explaining that they’re not complying with provisions of a “Bill of Rights for LGBTQIA+ New Yorkers” that Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) signed in 2023.

"The text stipulates that long-term care facilities must use patients’ preferred pronouns, even when they’re not present; defer to their choice of bathroom; and refuse to assign rooms based on biological sex. Staff must also undergo “cultural competency” training."🙄

https://t.co/PY5Cg8xAII

[Adrian Vermeule @Vermeullarmine]

Weird, I was so often and so confidently assured that it was inherently impossible to repurpose the administrative state for socially traditional ends.

[Fr. Alexei Woltornist @AWoltornist]

This is a great hire. @Mmontsealvarado is one of the best of the best and will do an excellent job.

[Edward Pentin @EdwardPentin]

Pope Leo XIV has appointed @EWTN's head of news, Maria Montserrat Alvarado, as prefect of the Dicastery for Communication, replacing Paolo Ruffini who has served as prefect since 2018. Alvarado will become the first laywoman to head a dicastery of the Roman Curia. She will take up her new position on November 1.

[Roger Severino @RogerSeverino_]

No more federal funding for research that, quite literally, procures and uses aborted baby body parts. Congratulations to ⁦@DrJBhattacharya⁩ for taking this decisive action to protect the sanctity of life. https://t.co/Sj0AZsPM1Y

[Fr. Alexei Woltornist @AWoltornist]

@FrancisXRocca @JohnLAllenJr Memory eternal!

[Fr. Alexei Woltornist @AWoltornist]

This is nothing but a dishonest smear. Mora is one of the sharpest public servants in the government. America is lucky to have her in this post.

[The Daily Beast @thedailybeast]

Trump has installed an attorney and part-time beauty salon owner to decide which foreigners are allowed to enter the U.S.

https://t.co/USTTZ9nX1y

[Bishop Matthew @MatthewPFirth]

I’ve been called into work on Christmas Eve. Can you believe it? Absolutely typical.

[BECKET @becketfund]

The Little Sisters have again asked a federal appeals court to block a nationwide ruling that rejected their protection from the federal government’s contraceptive mandate.

[Angelina Serbska ☦️ @Angelina_Lina8]

A man’s neighbor has become his god: every moment he seeks to please him; if he does wrong, he feels shame before him, if he does him an injury, he is afraid; or if he does him some good, then he has spoiled that good by his thirst for praise.

Such a man has become an abject slave in all these ways. The Good One gave us freedom, but we have reduced this to slavery.

St. Ephrem the Syrian

[Adrian Vermeule @Vermeullarmine]

I wonder why this doesn’t work for inherently communal and political beings, how odd

[Katy Faust @Katy_Faust]

Absolutely stunning, lengthy write up from @nytimes on a Chinese gang luring foreign women to Georgia to be used as surrogates and harvest their eggs.

We all must be aware of this new and novel, and dangerous form of trafficking

Excerpts below.
https://t.co/IyqeiVJ8EL

[Andrew Ferguson @AFergusonFTC]

Unbelievable. This guy was in charge of the Richmond FBI when it targeted Virginia Catholics for treatment like terrorists. They pressured a priest to break the seal of the confessional. They sent spies into local parishes. And now he’s getting rewarded with a promotion.