Tony Spence🇺🇦

Catholic journalist since 1982; former: director/ eic @CatholicNewsSvc, prez @SIGNIS NA, prez @CatholicPressAssociation, Vatican consultor, Vanderbilt exec

[Tony Spence🇺🇦 @TonySpence]

@SekouFranklin Is there no end to Tennessee’s embarrassment?

[Tony Spence🇺🇦 @TonySpence]

@Tcam12305 @Chris_SmithsJ Pope Francis is not the patriarch of Jerusalem, Pizzabella is. Bishops are charged with the care of souls in their own dioceses.

[Tony Spence🇺🇦 @TonySpence]

@HeidiSchlumpf @sistersreport @rhina_guidos It is an excellent piece of reporting.

[Tony Annett @tonyannett]

The left needs to focus less on race, gender, and sexuality and much more on class. In other words, it needs to get back to its social democratic roots. Otherwise it’s giving ammunition to the right.

[Tony Spence🇺🇦 @TonySpence]

@KerryAlys @CCharitiesUSA She is a fantastic choice!

[Tony Spence🇺🇦 @TonySpence]

@austeni Those big boys have been throwing back some carbs!

[The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center @TheKingCenter]

Today, we honor the life, resolve, and leadership of the late #JohnLewis. His legacy of practicing #Nonviolence as a means to dismantle injustice continues to fuel our commitment to, and belief in, the #BelovedCommunity.

[James Bretzke @jimbretzke]

Unless every student in the program is going into cloistered religious life, sooner or later, they will be confronted with the realities of digital media. When they do, they may find that they are unprepared for life in the modern age. https://t.co/el00QJGoAe via @NCRonline

[ISHWRA @ISHWR_A]

An interesting article by @gillianmobrien in the @IrishTimes: 'Overlooking nuns’ contribution to Ireland erases women from our history – yet again'.

https://t.co/vW1lG6veMT

[Kevin Clarke🍺 @ClarkeAtAmerica]

Happy belated "Pacem in Terris" anniversary! Here's Francis taking the next step on nuclear weapons a few years back ...

Nuclear disarmament now a ‘moral imperative’ as Pope Francis rejects deterrence https://t.co/O8oCLpRbOJ

[Tennessee Senate Democrats @TNSenateDems]

“It should be us choosing who we want, not the Republicans.”

@NBCNews explains how Republican-rigged election maps — drawn to reduce Black representation — led to the unconstitutional expulsion of two Black Democrats. #TennesseeThree
https://t.co/b9md5qsM2m

[Tony Spence🇺🇦 @TonySpence]

Good Lord!

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Tucker Carlson just said that Tennessee state Rep. Justin Pearson was “probably” accepted to Bowdoin College thanks to affirmative action.

He’s not even hiding his racism anymore.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is hit with bad news as over a dozen Senate Democrats launch a bill that will slash the Supreme Court’s funding if it doesn’t implement a strict ethics code for all Supreme Court Justices.

Justice Thomas is afraid to death of this bill… because it would force him to recuse himself from cases he’s personally tied to — and put an end to his shameless grifting. RT if you support this bill!

[John Ray Clemmons @JRClemmons]

It is truly unfortunate and disappointing that our governor has been MIA this far. Whatever the reason, Tennessee deserves leadership and courage from its executive. There is still time to do
what’s right and badly needed. https://t.co/ESm7Tpv7UK

[Tony Annett @tonyannett]

These kids are heroes.

[Tennessee Senate Democrats @TNSenateDems]

Today is the 55th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s final sermon, which he delivered in Memphis in support of striking sanitation workers.

“Somewhere I read that the greatness of America is the right to protest for right.”
https://t.co/TKzLswNxGB

[Tony Spence🇺🇦 @TonySpence]

@lynnwms I’m with Don.

[Tony Spence🇺🇦 @TonySpence]

I think swamp gas is really getting to the Floridians. https://t.co/Il35zwzUYa

[Really American 🇺🇸 @ReallyAmerican1]

Want to know how far the Republican Party has drifted on its interpretation the 2nd Amendment? Here's what Republican Supreme Court Justice Warren Burger-appointed by President Nixon-had to say about the NRA:

"The Gun Lobby’s interpretation of the Second Amendment is one of the greatest pieces of fraud, I repeat the word fraud, on the American People by special interest groups that I have ever seen in my lifetime. The real purpose of the Second Amendment was to ensure that state armies – the militia – would be maintained for the defense of the state. The very language of the Second Amendment refutes any argument that it was intended to guarantee every citizen an unfettered right to any kind of weapon he or she desires."

Make sure everyone sees this.