David Gibson

Director of Fordham's Center on Religion & Culture. "Let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times." -- Augustine

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

“After their prolonged stay in purgatory, the Knicks are back, and playing a beautiful style that long ago seemed our birthright,” @powellAtlantic, a long-suffering fan, writes: https://t.co/e9woQL2a7j

[David Gibson @GibsonWrites]

Real Nueva York

[Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran]

New album just dropped:

My Mayor's still Muslim
My bagel's still Jewish
The Pope's on our side
Knicks in 5!!!

[Arielle Angel @ArielleLAngel]

who did this lol

[David Gibson @GibsonWrites]

"Leo Reigns in Spain" is the subject line of the latest @The_Tablet newsletter.

Aces, but should have gone in a headline IMO

[Catholic News Service @CatholicNewsSvc]

In a striking moment of the Q&A in Barcelona, Pope Leo warned not to dismiss suffering with easy religious answers.
"We must not spiritualize pain, superficially attributing it to 'God's will' ... because this risks minimizing that suffering, silencing it and hurting people."

[Catholic News Service @CatholicNewsSvc]

Pope Leo casts flowers into the Atlantic Ocean off Spain's Canary Islands, praying for migrants who lost their lives attempting to cross from Africa into Europe.

"Human dignity has no passport and does not lose its value when crossing a border," he said.

(CNS photo/Lola Gomez)

[James Martin, SJ @JamesMartinSJ]

"Dear migrants: Before I say anything else I want to bow before your dignity. ... You are not just numbers or files. You are people who have left behind families and homes. You have dreams that no one has the right to despise.”
Pope Leo XIV in the Canary Islands.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Every boat that arrives brings a question along with the migrants: what kind of world have we built, if so many brothers and sisters must risk death to seek life? Human dignity demands legal and safe pathways, rescue and assistance, real cooperation against traffickers, effective protection for victims, serious processes of reception and integration, and policies that allow every person to live with dignity in their own land. We cannot grow accustomed to counting the dead. Human dignity has no passport and does not lose its value when crossing a border. #ApostolicJourney

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

The drama of migration must serve as an appeal to the conscience of the nations of origin of the migrants, which must establish conditions for peace, justice and development. It is also an appeal to the conscience of the transit nations, which are called to protect the vulnerable and not leave them in the hands of criminal networks. It is likewise an appeal to the conscience of Europe, which cannot claim to uphold human dignity while growing accustomed to the Mediterranean and the Atlantic becoming unmarked graves, as well as that of the international community, which is called to effective and persevering cooperation. #ApostolicJourney https://t.co/3YfdiJYiGg

[David Gibson @GibsonWrites]

Pope hosted a better Knicks watch party in Barcelona than Dolan did in New York

[Christopher Lamb @ctrlamb]

Pope Leo XIV blessed the tower of Jesus Christ at Barcelona’s La Sagrada Família during a spectacular ceremony 100 years after Antoni Gaudí’s death.

@CNN report

[David Gibson @GibsonWrites]

The only thing that could purge memories of Charles Smith, c.1993

[NEW YORK KNICKS @nyknicks]

THE PLAY THAT PUT THE KNICKS UP 3-1.

[Justin McLellan @McLellan_Js]

"Dear brothers and sisters, we cannot believe in Jesus and promote war. We cannot believe in Jesus and kill the innocent," Leo said in his homily delivered at the Basilica of Sagrada Familia.

In Barcelona for @NCRonline

https://t.co/SxNWYeiOs1

[ArtButMakeItSports @ArtButSports]

Cast of Laocoön and his Sons (Roman version of a lost Greek original), 100BC-50AD

[Steven Vago @Vagoish]

Someone from their second floor apartment projects the Knicks game against the 4th Avenue-9th Street station

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

THANK YOU TO THE PEOPLE WHO BLESSED MSG TODAY TO GET THE STANK VIBES OUT YOUR SERVICE IS APPRECIATED

[David Gibson @GibsonWrites]

Much like conversion to Catholicism:

[Leah Libresco Sargeant @LeahLibresco]

Ross Douthat: "Because it’s creedal, this culture is open, often radically open, to newcomers in a way that many cultures aren’t. But the assimilation to American norms is still a process rather than a single act of intellectual assent..

[Rich Raho @RichRaho]

Pope Leo at St. Augustine in Barcelona, known as the “Church of the Poor:” "Whoever cannot pass the ball has not yet understood the game, even if he has talent. And whoever cannot live with others and for others has not yet understood life."

[Vatican News @VaticanNews]

⚽ Pope Leo talks about his experience of football.

He made the unscripted comments in a meeting with charity workers in Barcelona, Spain, the second leg of his Apostolic Journey to the country.

[Rich Raho @RichRaho]

Pope Leo in Montserrat: “Let us ask Mary, Queen of Peace, to teach us to refrain from hurtful words, hasty judgments, slander, and defamation—in the family, in the workplace, on social media, in political debates.”

[David Gibson @GibsonWrites]

Is it sincere? Who knows. But it is striking that a Dem candidate feels compelled to adopt the redemption path whereas a candidate (or sitting president) of God's Own Party would just smirk and vaunt their sins as a badge of honor, and be praised for it.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Platner: Redemption is not just some simple or easy destination. It's a journey. I've made mistakes in my life. Mistakes that I regret, that I live with and that I continue to learn from. And I'm still far from perfect. But every day I wake up and I try to be a little bit better and a little bit kinder than I was before.

And if you give me the chance, I will be a senator for the people who cannot afford to buy a senator