Sharyn Jaycoxe

[Sharyn Jaycoxe @SJaycoxe94649]

@Jessica_DH2 @Pontifex But it’s okay to waste 30 years of food
so she can wait for us to decide it’s finally time for her to die?

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

She surrendered one of the greatest achievements of her life to help save a baby she had never met.

In 2021, Polish javelin thrower Maria Andrejczyk, a cancer survivor and Tokyo Olympic silver medalist, auctioned her medal to raise funds for life-saving heart surgery for eight-month-old Miłoszek Małysa.

The medal sold for approximately $125,000, covering the remaining cost of the child’s treatment in the United States.

Then came an extraordinary turn of events.

The winning bidder, the Polish supermarket chain Żabka, paid the full amount and immediately returned the medal to Maria, stating that she deserved to keep the symbol of everything she had achieved.

Maria later explained her willingness to part with it: “A medal is only an object, but it can save lives instead of collecting dust in a closet.”

In that moment she transformed a personal symbol of victory into something far more meaningful, a second chance at life for a young child.

[Paulina Guzik @Guzik_Paulina]

In what will certainly become one of the most fundamental speeches of his pontificate, Pope Leo XIV told the Spanish Parliament, before receiving a 7-minute standing ovation: "The defense of human life is neither a partisan issue nor a confessional interest: it is a goal of civilization."

"If life ceases to be recognized as a fundamental value, what future can our societies have?" he said, speaking to a gathering of politicians, many supporting abortion and euthanasia.

"Can a community that casts into the shadows the unborn child, the elderly, the sick, those who suffer in silence, or those who depend entirely on the care of others be called fully just?"

"Every human life must be recognized and safeguarded from conception to its natural end, in every circumstance of its existence. When this certainty is obscured, the most vulnerable are the first victims, and the law loses its deepest meaning: to serve and protect every person."

"For this reason, the moral greatness of a nation is manifested, above all, in its capacity to accompany, protect and love those lives that are most fragile," he said, repeating what John Paul II emphasized decades ago.

Starting his speech he commented that Church's is the "message offered in the spirit of service to the human person."

"When the Church addresses anything concerning public life, she does so while respecting the proper mission of institutions and the legitimate responsibility of those who have received the mandate to legislate," Pope Leo said, emphasizing "the Church offers a reflection born of the desire to serve the common good."

He hailed Spain as country that "has known how to view the human being as more than just a cog in the social, economic or political order. It has recognized the human being as a creature open to truth, endowed with freedom, and driven by a thirst for eternity that no temporal reality can quench -- in a word, as someone whose dignity takes precedence over all utility and to whose service legislative action is subject."

He said it was Catholic orders that "helped to shape a legal and moral consciousness capable of remembering that authority always entails responsibility and that every human being must be recognized as a subject of rights and duties."

"That aspiration continues to resonate today: that dignity, justice and the common good should be the measure of social relations, both at the national and international levels."

Referring multiple times to his "Magnifica Humanitas" encyclical, he said: "When the common good ceases to be a shared horizon, public action runs the risk of fragmenting into partial interests, incapable of safeguarding what belongs to all."

"In this context, the family — the primary human reality and the natural foundation of the community — takes on particular importance," Pope Leo said.

"The family will always be the first school of humanity, where one learns, before anywhere else, the basic grammar of living together: welcoming life, caring for others, forgiving, serving and belonging."

"Human life can never be treated as a commodity," the pope said.

"A law does not attain its true greatness merely by having been formally enacted; it attains it when, in addition to being valid in form, it can stand before the dignity of the person and pass that test without shame."

"I invite you, then, to lift your gaze to the world around you, not to turn away from reality, but to remember that every decision by public authorities affects real people, especially those who have less power to make their voices heard."

"The expanse of one’s vision consists precisely in looking more deeply at what is at stake in every public decision. This is why, alongside technical solutions and legal reforms, a moral renewal is also needed."

Video: Vatican Media
(fragment of speech follows)

[Sharyn Jaycoxe @SJaycoxe94649]

@GaneyThoma44388 @BTUPDATES10 Are you being sarcastic?… He has billions of dollars and works for free. A very charitable man.

[Sharyn Jaycoxe @SJaycoxe94649]

@BishopBarron Bishop Barron, you have become a big disappointment. It seems that you support the man you work for, not surprising but most unfortunate.

[CatholicVote @CatholicVote]

Trump achieved something no Republican presidential candidate has done in 40 years: he won the Catholic Vote by the largest margin, which ultimately determined the 2024 presidential election.

[Sharyn Jaycoxe @SJaycoxe94649]

@SJUwomenscenter Lord have mercy!

[Franciscan Missionaries of the Eternal Word @MFVAFriars]

Fr. Patrick’s sister, Siobhan entered the Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration Saturday morning. Father gave her a special blessing before she walked through the enclosure door. God bless Siobhan. 🙏🏼
@OLAMShrine

[Sharyn Jaycoxe @SJaycoxe94649]

Gaetz voices concerns as 275,000 people leave Florida due to living costs, politics https://t.co/mpdqwcHRFw

[Bishop J. Strickland @BishStrickland]

I am urging all in the Diocese of Tyler and all other Catholics to join in this important call to prayer and fasting.

[Sharyn Jaycoxe @SJaycoxe94649]

@LilaGraceRose Lord have mercy on our fallen world.

[Cardinal Burke @cardinalrlburke]

Brothers and Sisters in Christ, we have manifested our deepest concern to the Roman Pontiff… https://t.co/aPLse1BaLe

[Sharyn Jaycoxe @SJaycoxe94649]

@Shea1105 A waiver? This should be censored! You 40-somethings talk like this? 🤮 Glad I'm not.

[U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops @USCCB]

Catholics Invited to Pray an Act of Reparation on Solemnity of the Sacred Heart. Read the full press release at: https://t.co/bEbS6uQhFQ

[Catherine of Siena @1catherinesiena]

Catholic Church investigates a communion bowl 'miracle' in In Connecticut - The Washington Post #Catholic https://t.co/27hZ58uxo2

[Daily Wire @realDailyWire]

It’s the movie they really don’t want you to see: #WhatIsAWoman?

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