David Rankin

[David Rankin @David_Rankin]

I’m celebrating my second anniversary of Priesthood on Sunday, May 31. Here’s a highlight video of my ordination I just finished editing:

https://t.co/1BKaimEBsa

[Archdiocese of Toronto @archtoronto]

NEWS: Cardinal Leo Writes to Prime Minister, MPs – “I ask you to choose life…” https://t.co/qT1xyacck1 #catholicTO

[James Dueck🇻🇦 @JamesDueck]

I’m willing to admit that Catholics added 7 books to the Bible, but it’s actually even worse than that: We added the other 66 as well!

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

In the dramatic circumstances of war, information must guard against the risk of turning into propaganda. It is every journalist's duty to verify the news, so as not to become a megaphone for power. They must show the suffering that war always brings to populations, which entails showing the face of war and recounting it through the eyes of victims.

[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

It was with real sadness that I learned that the monks of the Abbey of La Trappe in Normandy are considering closing down their operation. As the name suggests, this monastery is the mother house of the Trappist Order, a reform of the Cistercian movement and a particularly intense form of Benedictine life, famous for its austerity and silence. I came to know of La Trappe through Thomas Merton, a Trappist monk of the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky, whom I read with great passion when I was a young man. La Trappe shaped Merton, who in turn opened so much of the spiritual life to me. Founded over nine hundred years ago, La Trappe has survived the Black Death, the Hundred Years' War, the Protestant Reformation, the French Revolution, and the world wars of the twentieth century. That this venerable monastery cannot find enough vocations to keep it alive is, in my judgment, a sign of the spiritual disaster that has befallen Europe in the last hundred years: an ideological secularism that is rotting the soul of the West. Let's redouble our prayers that the monks of La Trappe might find a way to preserve their great Abbey. It is needed especially now.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Faced with the possibility of a tragedy of immense proportions, I make a heartfelt appeal to all the parties involved to assume the moral responsibility of halting the spiral of violence before it becomes an unbridgeable chasm. May diplomacy regain its proper role, and may the well-being of peoples, who yearn for peaceful existence founded on justice, be upheld. And let us continue to pray for peace.

[Become A Saint @BeSaintly]

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[David Rankin @David_Rankin]

The pronunciation of Uisge beatha on tonight’s episode of Plur1bus ruined the series for me. Oidhche mhath!

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Technological innovation can be a form of participation in the divine act of creation. It carries an ethical and spiritual weight, for every design choice expresses a vision of humanity. The Church therefore calls all builders of #AI to cultivate moral discernment as a fundamental part of their work—to develop systems that reflect justice, solidarity, and a genuine reverence for life.

[Adrian F. Pascal 🇻🇦 @deusimpera]

Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners.

[stepfanie tyler @stepfanie]

“The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.”
—George Orwell

[Ascension @AscensionPress]

St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our protection against the wickedness & snares of the devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray, & do thou, O Prince of the heavenly hosts, by the power of God, cast into hell Satan, and all the evil spirits, who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls. Amen.

[Ryan T. Anderson @RyanTAnd]

Lots of people became overnight experts in Catholic Social Thought when the new pope chose the name Leo. Read beyond the Twitter experts. Here are my suggestions on primary and secondary sources to (re)read.

[David Rankin @David_Rankin]

@EricRSammons I’m going to take a wild guess that’s not the scripture scholar

[Bree A Dail @breeadail]

How should people discern through the noise of media manipulation?

In a 2012 interview with @CatholicNewsSvc, Pope Leo XIV (then Robert Cardinal Prevost) addresses the how some in the media manipulate narratives, and form people’s opinions for them.

His solution:

[Ascension @AscensionPress]

"Peace be with you!" —First words of Pope Leo XIV 🙏🕊️

[Ascension @AscensionPress]

Happy Mother's Day! 💛

[Vatican News @VaticanNews]

Pope Leo XIV explains his choice of name:

"... I chose to take the name Leo XIV. There are different reasons for this, but mainly because Pope Leo XIII in his historic Encyclical Rerum Novarum addressed the social question in the context of the first great industrial revolution. In our own day, the Church offers to everyone the treasury of her social teaching in response to another industrial revolution and to developments in the field of artificial intelligence that pose new challenges for the defence of human dignity, justice and labour."