Catholic Military Association

We are the quad-service organisation for Catholics in HM Forces and MOD, praying and working together to grow in the faith. Charity #1205467

[Catholic Military Association @CatholicMilAssc]

This is it. We just must start *somewhere*. Even if it seems almost nothing, we must do something.

Start. Pray. Grow.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Even when it seems we are able to do little in life, it is always worthwhile. There is always the possibility to find meaning, because God loves our life. #GeneralAudience https://t.co/5UF9KnzLE1

[Catholic Military Association @CatholicMilAssc]

@cusackandrew @DictatorPope We love him. 👌🏻

[Andrew Cusack @cusackandrew]

His Grace the Rt Rev’d Paul Mason, the Bishop of His Majesty's Forces, at the end of this year's Corpus Christi procession in London.

[Catholic Military Association @CatholicMilAssc]

Readiness runs from politics and industry, through to souls and graces.

We must prepare in every domain.

[Al Carns @AlistairCarns]

The next war won't be won by armies, navies or air forces alone.

It'll be won by the country whose 19 year olds can code, whose factories can build drones in weeks not years, and whose grid stays on when someone tries to switch it off.

Industry. Society. Economy. That's the fight now.

We're not ready. And we're not being honest about what getting ready will cost.

[Al Carns @AlistairCarns]

The next war won't be won by armies, navies or air forces alone.

It'll be won by the country whose 19 year olds can code, whose factories can build drones in weeks not years, and whose grid stays on when someone tries to switch it off.

Industry. Society. Economy. That's the fight now.

We're not ready. And we're not being honest about what getting ready will cost.

[The Spectator @spectator]

I was born into a sternly Presbyterian culture. Politically, I’m more Orange than Donald Trump’s skin tone. But today I am on my knees giving thanks to the Pope.

He has produced the most powerful political document of the year, taking on the greatest challenge of our times. His first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, deals with the changes which will be wrought to all our lives by artificial intelligence in the months and years ahead.

AI will transform our economies and societies massively and irrevocably; it will change what it means to be human; it may even mark the end of humanity itself. If it takes the Pope to alert us to this revolution then perhaps the Reformation wasn’t such a good idea after all.

✍️ Michael Gove

Article | https://t.co/ZZfyMFPFsX

[Catholic Military Association @CatholicMilAssc]

British Contingent representing at the International Military Pilgrimage this weekend.

The biggest event of many each year for Catholics in HM Forces.

Please pray for all attending.

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#PMI2026 @diocese_armees @lourdes_france

[Catholic Military Association @CatholicMilAssc]

@assyriancrusdr0 @punished_assur 👀

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@AtticusBorealis @Sachinettiyil 🙄

[Catholic Military Association @CatholicMilAssc]

Blessed to be a part of this.
🙏🏻

[Sachin Jose @Sachinettiyil]

Catholic members of the British Armed Forces pray at the Marian pilgrimage site of Lourdes in France during the International Military Pilgrimage

Video: Catholic Military Association

[Bloomberg @business]

US President Donald Trump reiterated that he would raise the case of imprisoned Hong Kong businessman Jimmy Lai when he meets Chinese leader Xi Jinping at their summit this week. https://t.co/16SSwEy4qM

[Father V @father_rmv]

Today on which the Church commemorates the English and Welsh martyrs, I highly recommend The Stripping of the Altars, Eamon Duffy’s history of the English Reformation. It argues that traditional Catholic religion in late medieval England was vibrant, deeply popular, and thoroughly integrated into everyday life through a rich calendar of feasts, saints’ cults, pilgrimages, images, prayers for the dead, and elaborate liturgy. Far from a corrupt or decaying faith ripe for reform, this “traditional religion” commanded broad lay enthusiasm right up to the 1530s. The book then traces how Henry VIII’s and Edward VI’s regimes systematically dismantled it: dissolving monasteries, banning images and shrines, rewriting or suppressing service books, closing chantries, and enforcing new Protestant doctrines and worship.

Duffy shows this as a top-down cultural revolution that met significant passive and sometimes active resistance, especially in the countryside, and left ordinary people bereft of familiar rituals and communal devotions. The title refers both to the literal removal of altars and to the broader cultural “stripping” of a whole religious world.

[Henry von Blumenthal @PaulinusOfTrier]

Perhaps you ask why we converts are so zealous for Catholic tradition. It's because we did not become Catholic in order to find ourselves Protestant again.

[Catholic Military Association @CatholicMilAssc]

Sad, but also a non-issue.

We *all* fall short.

That's all. 🙏🏻

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

🗣️ Years of inner conflict over his sexuality have pushed Alberto Ravagnani to challenge one of Catholicism’s most divisive disciplines

🔗:https://t.co/KCPIIMR0YB

[Catholic Military Association @CatholicMilAssc]

@shagbark_hick Uhhhhh, yes. Exactly. We are here.

[British Catholic Aesthetics @BritCathAes]

Church of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, commonly known as the Brompton/London Oratory. Consecrated in 1884.

[DeoQuest @DeoQuest_en]

With faith, loving your enemies is possible. Catholics and the military are dedicated to serving the common good. As you are relationship in yourself, the common good is your good too. 🤝
Read more in 'Your Neighbour is GOD' https://t.co/2GpPhgzBH8

#peace #war #military #pope

[Catholic Military Association @CatholicMilAssc]

@lordmiles Haha, ok deal. DM or email a postal address and we'll get you some solid sacramentals for the trip, with a return address for you to send anything back in turn.

[email protected] or https://t.co/0coeDEpj8j as you prefer. 🙏🏻

[Catholic Military Association @CatholicMilAssc]

Want a robust rosary for the trip, and a couple of Miraculous Medals?

[Lord Miles @Lordmiles]

This decision either leads to my death or my world record setting success.

For my 100 day attempt to survive on rockall island in 2027 ,200 miles from any civilization, i need a REALLY good shelter against winds and waves.

Look at the 3rd picture, waves go OVER this island.

So I'm speaking to specialised chinese manufacturers about a structure thats Light enough to drag up a rock, strong enough to not be ripped apart, and has solar panels and some comforts to survive and document my stay on Rockall.

The record holder is Nick Hancock in 2014, he survived 45 days. His shelter was simple yet elegant and well thought out.

[J.K. Lunden @Jklunden]

Yesterday marked a deeply meaningful turning point in my life: my final day as a Protestant.

After completing a year in RCIA, my children and I will be received into the Catholic Church this evening. The journey began through what felt like divine intervention, sparked by a thoughtful conversation with a wonderful priest at the Holy Well in Tara - an encounter that stayed with me and set so much in motion. I was introduced to him through my now Godmother, who recognised me in a shop from an interview I had just given. Truly, God works in mysterious ways.

In many ways, it feels like a path that has been quietly forming for a long time. After more than two decades living in a Catholic country, with my children in Catholic schools and my own involvement in supporting the Catholic ethos in education, this step has grown naturally out of lived experience as much as personal reflection.

Today - being baptised alongside my two children, and sharing the joy of my daughter’s First Holy Communion, makes this moment especially profound and deeply personal.

Grateful for the journey, and for what lies ahead.

[Catholic Military Association @CatholicMilAssc]

@SweetBeuanne @trussliz @Beretta_1526 🙏🏻