Austen Ivereigh

Pope Francis biographer, fellow @campionoxf, ✍️ #TheGreatReformer #WoundedShepherd #LetUsDream. #FirstBelongToGod + Smallholder #LaudatoSi: 🐑 🐓 🐝🪴🌳🥬🍅🧄

[Austen Ivereigh @austeni]

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.

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

Status quo at Jerusalem's holiest site under threat as Israeli nationalists flout rules https://t.co/1bBuk9elMD

[Austen Ivereigh @austeni]

JD Vance: “​Here I was, the most senior Catholic in the United States government, and the Vatican seemed unwilling to move its moral guidance past the point of trite platitudes.”
(🟰Vatican did not bend its moral teaching under US political pressure) https://t.co/vfO6c6VCyS

[Austen Ivereigh @austeni]

@Jimmy86404697 He doesn’t say the last part. He allows for war strictly as self-defence. But there is never a justification for using military means to secure political objectives.

[Austen Ivereigh @austeni]

George Weigel, 2024: “just war theory always matters”.
Pope Leo XIV, 2026: “just war theory is now outdated”.

[Austen Ivereigh @austeni]

@Kevin72127362 @BishopBarron The blockade has for decades had the effect of uniting the Cubans, and kept the regime in place. Your call.

[Austen Ivereigh @austeni]

But not to worry, @BishopBarron advises Trump on religious freedom and surely he will stand up for Cuban Catholics suffering the US government’s brutal blockade, and threaten to resign if he is not listened to?

[AFP News Agency @AFP]

Bitter communion: Cuban priests ordered to ration mass wafers.

Communion wafers consumed by Cuba's Catholics are made at a Carmelite monastery in Havana, which like the rest of the city and country has been battling extended power cuts, made worse by a five-month-old US oil blockade

https://t.co/ZQiO86jgG1

[Austen Ivereigh @austeni]

@Kevin72127362 @BishopBarron I’ve often written about the Cuban government’s restrictions on the Church, and reported from there on it.

[Austen Ivereigh @austeni]

@BpBarronTG @rightscholar @BishopBarron Odd that you think access to the Eucharist is not a matter of religious freedom,

[Austen Ivereigh @austeni]

@BpBarronTG @rightscholar @BishopBarron Is that right? I didn’t know. Then he is even more free to speak out.

[Austen Ivereigh @austeni]

A nice piece, but @MichaelSWinters wrong to claim Francis opposed to traditional/popular piety and devotion. He spent his Jesuit life, time as archbishop and pontificate defending and valuing these, often in the face of criticism. See Evangelii Gaudium 122-126 quoting Aparecida.

[Michael Sean Winters @MichaelSWinters]

Pope Leo's trip to Spain was amazing. Here is what we learned about the pope: https://t.co/HvqtpEZ9NV

[Austen Ivereigh @austeni]

Leo XIII then, Leo XIV now. #MagnificaHumanitas

[Austen Ivereigh @austeni]

“Palestinians have started digging through an estimated 61m tonnes of debris, *about 20 times the combined amount generated by conflicts worldwide since 2008*. Beneath the rubble, at least 10,000 people are thought to be buried …” https://t.co/Nc74tVSgx2

[Austen Ivereigh @austeni]

The warmongering Hegseth boasts about achieving through violence and destruction what had formerly been secured by a diplomatic agreement they chose to rip up. This is what Leo means by a “zeal for war”. It is evil.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 This Was The Most Revealing Exchange In Hegseth’s 60 Minutes Interview.

Pete Hegseth defended the new Iran agreement by saying the document guarantees Iran will never have a nuclear weapon, never seek one, and never obtain one.

Then came Brennan’s response:

The Obama-era JCPOA said that too.

Notice what happened next.

Hegseth didn’t argue that Brennan was wrong.

He didn’t say the provision was new.

Instead, he argued the difference was that this agreement was negotiated “from a position of strength.”

Not whether Iran promised not to build a nuclear weapon.

Both sides appear to agree similar language existed before.

The disagreement is whether military pressure and leverage make this agreement more durable than the one Trump withdrew from.

[Austen Ivereigh @austeni]

This, exactly this:

[Nadira Ali🇵🇸 @Nadira_ali12]

Journalist Janine di Giovanni:

"If a missile hits a hospital in Ukraine,
Europe calls it a war crime."

"But if missiles hit a hospital in Gaza and 100 people die, it’s Israel's right to defend itself."

[Austen Ivereigh @austeni]

Even in his failed Iran war, Trump models himself on Putin’s failed invasion of Ukraine. https://t.co/XBAmqleBB7 via @NYTimes

[Austen Ivereigh @austeni]

In the wake of Leo’s encyclical it is rather fitting that his week in Spain showed forth humanity in all its vulnerable magnificence, while the tech proved unreliable.

[Austen Ivereigh @austeni]

“It’s why I never fly commercial, Holiness.”

[Austen Ivereigh @austeni]

Ancient institutions to the rescue … but that means no airborne press conference 😪

[Christopher Lamb @ctrlamb]

Technical issues force Pope Leo XIV to disembark plane in Tenerife. He is then offered the King of Spain’s plane to return to Rome. @CNN Report from inside the aircraft:

https://t.co/btK50afsGu

[NCR @NCRonline]

"Every life lost on these routes is a failure for the human family," the pontiff said. https://t.co/Mi1Nn1oKoX

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Amnesty International has accused Israel’s government of carrying out a campaign of “ethnic cleansing” of Palestinians from the occupied West Bank and annexing their territory.

🔴 LIVE updates: https://t.co/PfpDpSthUf