Fr. Ryan Rojo 🇺🇸🇻🇦🇲🇽

Vocation/Seminarian Director for Diocese of San Angelo TX. Licentiate (S.T.L.) from @LiturgicalInst. MSCM from @VillanovaU. KHS @eohsj_info. Views are my own.

[Fr. Ryan Rojo 🇺🇸🇻🇦🇲🇽 @FrRyanRojo]

Gosh, how did we get such a cool pope!

[Fr. Aquinas Guilbeau, OP @FrAquinasOP]

The Vicar of Christ is my co-pilot.

[Fr. Ryan Rojo 🇺🇸🇻🇦🇲🇽 @FrRyanRojo]

Also bought some boots….

[Fr. Ryan Rojo 🇺🇸🇻🇦🇲🇽 @FrRyanRojo]

Bought a Stetson.

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Looks like most folks are finding the means necessary to ensure their eternal salvation just fine…..

[EWTN Vatican @EWTNVatican]

This is the view of 1.2 million people from above. This is happening in Madrid, in the famous Plaza de Cibeles and its surroundings, where Pope Leo XIV will preside over the solemn Corpus Christi Mass, followed by a historic procession.

[Fox News @FoxNews]

More than 1 million people packed Madrid’s streets to see Pope Leo XIV celebrate Mass on Corpus Domini, honoring Spain’s centuries-old tradition of religious devotion. The historic event featured a massive procession over elaborate flower-petal carpets, one of the country’s most iconic expressions of faith.

[Fr. Ryan Rojo 🇺🇸🇻🇦🇲🇽 @FrRyanRojo]

@SkoOrp Blessing to you from the U.S., brother!

[CatholicVote @CatholicVote]

"May they be welcomed, appreciated, and never discarded, right from their mother's womb."

– Pope Francis on individuals with Down syndrome ❤️

[Fr. Ryan Rojo 🇺🇸🇻🇦🇲🇽 @FrRyanRojo]

1/3 of the way through “Magnifica Humanitas.” It’s so good. @Pontifex!

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas

[Fr. Ryan Rojo 🇺🇸🇻🇦🇲🇽 @FrRyanRojo]

11 Years Ago Today. Praise be Jesus Christ!

[GestasdeEspaña @GestasdeEspaNa]

#TalDíaComoHoy de 1252 fallecía uno de los reyes más importantes de la Edad Media española, el rey de Castilla y León Fernando III el Santo.
Conquistó casi todo el valle del Guadalquivir sin descuidar el desarrollo cultural y económico de los demás territorios que gobernaba.

[Catholic Sat @CatholicSat]

Today is the Feast of St. Ferdinand III of Castile. Pope Gregory IX conferred on him the title of Athleta Christi, 'Champion of Christ', for his repeated and decisive victories against the Islamic Caliphate.
Ora pro nobis

[Universitarios Católicos @UniCatolicos_es]

Hoy celebramos la fiesta del Rey San Fernando.

Reconquistó Sevilla, Córdoba y Jaén, liberándolas tras siglos de dominio musulmán y devolviéndolas a la fe cristiana.

[Fr. Ryan Rojo 🇺🇸🇻🇦🇲🇽 @FrRyanRojo]

Factus est repénte de cœlo sonus tamquam adveniéntis spíritus veheméntis, ubi erant sedéntes, allelúja: et repléti sunt omnes Spíritu Sancto, loquéntes magnália Dei, allelúja, allelúja.

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Breaking news from @ConceptionAbbey and @Seminary_Life. Our diocese has had a long relationship with Conception Seminary College, with their monks forming generations of priests for service in West Texas. Let’s pray that they will elect an abbot who will model the heart and love of Christ. Abbot Benedict will be missed.

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@GretchenOSV We’re so proud of our seminarian, Raymond.

[Fr. Ryan Rojo 🇺🇸🇻🇦🇲🇽 @FrRyanRojo]

Pentecost Monday? You trolling us, good @Pontifex?!

[Catholic Sat @CatholicSat]

Accompanying his Encyclical Letter Magnifica humanitas, on safeguarding the human person in the age of Artificial Intelligence, Pope Leo XIV writes a short note to bishops signed and dated today, Pentecost Monday:

“Dear brother bishop,

May the Holy Spirit “renew the face of the earth” and the magnificent humanity God has created and Jesus Christ has saved.

Please join me in bringing our magisterium to the whole Church and all the world.

Fraternally in the episcopate,

Leo PP. XIV”

[John A. Monaco @johnamonaco]

For as much as people want to claim that the Catholic Church is “irrelevant” or a relic from a medieval past, notice how when the Church speaks on faith and morals, the world stops. Even if the world doesn’t faithfully follow the Church’s directives, the Church is still a “main character”. The Church is still a target of the world’s fluctuating emotions: anger and rage, awe and reverence, curiosity and inquiry.

Patriarch Bartholomew, the woman in Canterbury, the Mormon prophet—none captures the global attention. There isn’t 24/7 news coverage on the election of the president of the Southern Baptist Convention. No one ever hears about the Dalai Lama anymore.

Anthropic wouldn’t waste its time joining a Methodist convention on AI. Major news outlets and journalists wouldn’t flock to Geneva to hear what Lutherans have to say about artificial intelligence. When Islamic imams issue a fatwa, very rarely does anyone blink an eye. These religions and denominations don’t ever come off as having a moral authority beyond that of their own people.

But when the Catholic Church and the pope speaks, the world stops. Maybe the vast majority of people will argue and rant against its teaching (Humanae Vitae, 1968). Maybe what is taught will win favor among world leaders (Laudato Si, 2015). But the fact remains that the Church is seen as a major player on the world’s stage.

As I sit down to read Pope Leo XIV’s “Magnifica Humanitas” (Encyclical Letter on Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence), I realize that, like Catholics across millennia, I belong to not only a church, but the Church. I am a member of a supernatural society, one that continues the mission of Christ today, through His Spirit.

Whether it is mocked or praised, the Church has “main character energy”, because it simply is the main character of history. And when the main character speaks, you stop for a moment to listen. Or in this case, to read a 42,300-word encyclical.