Regina Roig-Romero 🟧

IBCLC & doctoral candidate; Miami Heat & Star Trek fan; mother of 3; singer for Christ, & Catholic to my core @[email protected]

[Regina Roig-Romero 🟧 @ReginaIBCLC]

@HeatvsHaters I’m gonna miss that guy.

[Regina Roig-Romero 🟧 @ReginaIBCLC]

@MAalcofribas @PetriOP Aesthetically, I like the Ascension cover better than WOF’s. But their artwork in the WOF speaks to me more than Ascension’s art. What a blessing to have more than one beautiful option to choose from!

[Regina Roig-Romero 🟧 @ReginaIBCLC]

@GwertleG @MAalcofribas @PetriOP You’re right - if you get into the actual ordering process, WOF gives you the option to only purchase one volume. It’s more expensive, and they’re clearly trying to bury it in the order form so people don’t realize only buying 1 volume is indeed an option

[Regina Roig-Romero 🟧 @ReginaIBCLC]

@Di_bear I’m on the fence & wish I could see/hold them in person before deciding. My initial thought was buy one volume from each of them then complete the set of whichever proves to be my favorite. But now I’m not sure; the WOF set is much cheaper and I like the artwork.

[Regina Roig-Romero 🟧 @ReginaIBCLC]

@PetriOP I'm on the fence myself, so I'm curious as to why - what don't you like about Word on Fire's cover?

[Regina Roig-Romero 🟧 @ReginaIBCLC]

@HeatvsHaters As others have said, someday when he retires, Andy's calculator needs to be retired to the rafters at the arena 🤪

[Regina Roig-Romero 🟧 @ReginaIBCLC]

@BronsMindset I don't love the idea. I loved his 4 years with us - the absolute highlight of my basketball life thus far. But I don't want the drama, and I want Spo to win a ring without him. I'm tired of people dissing Spo saying it was only because he had LeBron

[Regina Roig-Romero 🟧 @ReginaIBCLC]

@Major_Passons We back

[Regina Roig-Romero 🟧 @ReginaIBCLC]

@DoodleNessa So sorry for your impending loss. I have been there (lost a dog to cancer), including enduring people questioning me when I knew it was time to let my fur baby go. My best wishes for you all!

[Regina Roig-Romero 🟧 @ReginaIBCLC]

@bunsenbernerbmd What a sight for sore eyes!

[Bunsen, Beaker, Bernoulli & Brix @bunsenbernerbmd]

I got to hold Brix today for the first time in five days, out of oxygen also, for a minute.
He snuggled into me and purred and I was alone with him in the ICU darkroom.
I felt where his soft was and wasn’t due to where it was shaved for procedures and IVS.
I am not ashamed to say I wept for my little cat in that moment.
But he is alive and his metrics are improving and that is all that matters.

[Regina Roig-Romero 🟧 @ReginaIBCLC]

@bunsenbernerbmd Bless you for doing this. Our hearts and prayers are with you. My fur baby and I send our love!

[Godsplaining | Catholic Podcast @godsplaining]

What does Pope Leo’s first encyclical say about AI and what does it reveal about the human person? 👀

Fr. Patrick reacts to Magnifica Humanitas, exploring the Church’s response to artificial intelligence, human dignity, and what we are ultimately made for.

Because the biggest questions about AI are really questions about us.

🎥 Watch the full episode: https://t.co/7QM91D633B

[Tea with Tolkien @TeawithTolkien]

Thank you to Pope Leo XIV for giving us an absolute banger of a Tolkien trivia question: “Which character from The Lord of the Rings is quoted in a papal encyclical?”

[Sr. Dorcee, beloved @SrDorcee]

I don't lightly recommend "must reads". This is definitely one. Every US Catholic should read this and have your conscience properly informed. Be warned: it is long, but every word is important.
https://t.co/7ln8v8kZYs

[Regina Roig-Romero 🟧 @ReginaIBCLC]

@MattWalshBlog Tolkien described it well, "Many that live deserve death. Some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them, Frodo? Do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment"

[Fr Matthew P. Schneider, LC🇻🇦 @FrMatthewLC]

The question is not whether he deserves execution (he does), but whether we should execute him (we shouldn't).

In the USA, executing people does not reduce crime, protect people (at least if incarcerated in more protective prisons), or save money compared to long term imprisonment.

Executing people hardens us as a society to others. All systems of capital punishment there are systems to protect the executioner from the deed, showing the recognition of how such acts are bad for them as human beings, even when they agree in principle it's moral.

In the US, the evidence & ethics are against having any executions.

[Edward Feser @FeserEdward]

Cardinal Ratzinger on the Iraq war: “The concept of a ‘preventive war’ does not appear in the Catechism of the Catholic Church… It was right to resist the war and its threats of destruction. It should never be the responsibility of just one nation to make decisions for the world… Given the new weapons that make possible destructions that go beyond the combatant groups, today we should be asking ourselves if it is still licit to admit the very existence of a ‘just war.’” https://t.co/4vd5a7whhW

[Acyn @Acyn]

Father John Lydon on Pope Leo: in Peru, we lived together during a time of terrorism and an authoritarian government, and violations of human rights. And he was in the main plaza of our city gathering signatures in defense of human rights, in the plaza surrounded by government buildings.

So this is not somebody who just woke up and decided, well, now is the time to speak about human rights. This is part of his identity…

He's going to continue to speak up based on the moral principles of the church, because that's what he was elected to do. That's what all the popes are supposed to do

[Edward Feser @FeserEdward]

Yet another reminder for those falsely accusing Pope Leo of departing from traditional teaching. Here is Pope Nicholas I in the 9th century characterizing war in terms even harsher than Leo’s, while acknowledging (as Leo has) that defense against aggressors is legitimate. (Quoted in John Eppstein, The Catholic Tradition of the Law of Nations, p. 196)