Geoffrey Tweedale

[Johnny Midnight ⚡️ @its_The_Dr]

He warned us

[CatholicVote @CatholicVote]

Communism has no place in the world.

More than 100 million people are estimated to have died under communist regimes.

We must stand against every form of communism before it's too late.

[Zeale @ZealeMedia]

Pop icon Bruno Mars—who was raised Catholic—opened his concerts with a heartfelt prayer, leaving thousands of fans surprised that he would publicly express his faith despite the potential risk to his career.

He closed with the Sign of the Cross.

Our world needs more of this 👏

[Geoffrey Tweedale @Geotwid]

The Science of Manipulation: Why Good People Follow Orders to Do Bad Things https://t.co/NdrIIy8RWm via @epochtimes

[EWTN News @EWTNews]

Miriam Lancaster’s story sparked “outrage” after she shared that she was offered medical assistance in dying (MAID) after arriving at a Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, hospital with back pain.

In 2025, 84-year-old Lancaster was taken to Vancouver General Hospital via ambulance after waking up with intense back pain. She was taken out of the ambulance and placed into the emergency room.

“The first person that I remember coming to speak to me was a young lady doctor. And this is where the story begins,” Lancaster recalled in an interview with “EWTN News Nightly.” “The very first thing she said to me was, ‘I would like to offer you MAID.’”

MAID is the euthanasia and assisted suicide law in Canada that allows a physician or nurse practitioner to administer or provide a drug that causes death to the patient.

After the doctor offered MAID, “I said: ‘No, thank you,’” Lancaster said. “I was certainly taken aback, and there were so many other things on my mind.”

Lancaster said she was thinking: “Yesterday I was feeling fine. I got out of bed this morning, and suddenly I am not feeling fine. I am in horrendous pain. So I need to know what’s causing the pain. Let’s not talk about end of life please.’”

“My husband, three years previously, had also been offered MAID. He turned it down,” Lancaster said. As “practicing Catholics, there is no way that we are going to take measures to end our life. That is in the hands of the Lord. So he turned down MAID when he was in hospital, and a few years later, there I am in the same hospital, and I gave the same response.”

Later, Lancaster was moved to the UBC Hospital. “By this time they knew that I had a tiny crack in my sacrum. That’s a little bone at the base of the spine,” she said. “There’s no surgery possible, so I was in bed, with some exercises of course, for three weeks.”

“When I got home, I thought, ‘Oh, I’ve been given a second chance here. I am going to make the most of whatever time is left,’” she said.

Lancaster said she and her daughter decided to travel to Cuba in the fall and to Mexico and Guatemala in the spring. While on her trip, Lancaster even went horseback riding on a volcano.

Amanda Achtman, who works to humanize the conversation around suffering and death through the Dying to Meet You Project, told “EWTN News Nightly” she hopes Lancaster’s story “emboldens other seniors to speak out too” who have had similar experiences.

“Your story has gone totally viral in media all around the world because people are rightly outraged at the suggestion that you could have been offered death when you have so much life to live,” Achtman said to Lancaster.

People who are opting for MAID “are being killed by having a lethal injection administered by a doctor or nurse directly,” Achtman said. “And now in Canada, 1 in 20 deaths is the result of this premature hastening of an end of life.”

MAID “is the suggestion that is being made more and more often to Canadian seniors,” she said.

Achtman also works with Canadian Physicians for Life on ethics education and she teaches a bioethics course for St. Bernard’s School of Theology and Ministry. She was recently invited by the bishop of the Diocese of Victoria, Canada, to Vancouver Island, which she said is “literally the euthanasia capital of the world.”

“And while there, I met Miriam, but also others who shared with me experiences about unsolicited offers of euthanasia within the health care system,” she said.

One woman shared her story with Achtman about “having had euthanasia brought up by her family doctor, by a cancer specialist, and even by the funeral home.”

“Now, bringing up euthanasia is not prohibited in Canada, according to the Canadian Association of MAID Providers and Assessors — the government-funded group that is promoting this,” Achtman said. “There’s no prohibition, and they stress that.”

“However, what I would stress is that simply having euthanasia offered already kills a person, because it deflates and defeats a person’s sense of self-worth, self-esteem, and of value,” she said.

https://t.co/uz2Rn49edX

[The Knowledge Archivist @KnowledgeArchiv]

Can't believe she wrote this 70 years ago

[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

I'm happy to share this post by my friend Rep. Riley Moore. Both Congressman Moore and I have been following for some time the story of the brutal anti-Christian persecution underway in Nigeria. To suggest, as the New York Times does, that these attacks are not motivated fundamentally by anti-Christian animus is simply absurd. I suppose the editors of the paper of record feel that it was just an odd coincidence that a purportedly “tribal” and “economically motivated” assault took place on Palm Sunday. Anyone who studies these murders, that have taken place over many decades, and fails to see an anti-religious pattern is blind.

[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

A recent statement by Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez illuminates the Marxist ideology which continues to take hold of American politicians. Here are my thoughts.

[DC News Now @DCNewsNow]

An investigation is underway after a Sunday morning shooting left a man dead outside of a Suitland apartment complex. https://t.co/94m0BMRtRb

[Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. @Bob_Ehrlich]

In case you missed the least surprising headline of the year...Maryland is now facing a $1.4 billion deficit in the next fiscal year and
up to $4 billion over the next 5 years.And the beat goes on….and on….and on.

[Geoffrey Tweedale @Geotwid]

@FinnHuckster @WaymoreJennings Also great taste in hats!

[Geoffrey Tweedale @Geotwid]

@elonmusk LOL!

[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

There was a line from Zohran Mamdani’s inaugural address yesterday that took my breath away. He said he intended to replace “the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.” Collectivism in its various forms is responsible for the deaths of at least one hundred million people in the last century. Socialist and Communist forms of government around the world today—Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea, etc.—are disastrous. Catholic social teaching has consistently condemned socialism and has embraced the market economy, which people like Mayor Mamdani caricature as “rugged individualism.” In fact, it is the economic system that is based upon the rights, freedom, and dignity of the human person. For God’s sake, spare me the “warmth of collectivism.”

[Geoffrey Tweedale @Geotwid]

@cboyack Your so full of it. Maduro was not a head of state. Bolsenaro is the the legally elected president of Venezuela and even the UN said so. In your eyes a dictator who destroyed his own nation's economy, murdered people, and shipped deadly drugsto USA is your preference.

[The Tuttle Twins @tuttletwins]

🐝 The Founders knew: dependence on government always leads to control.

That’s why they demanded a Bill of Rights—to protect liberty, not grant it.

Kids need to learn this truth if freedom is to last.
👉 https://t.co/qIvRLhc5Ii

#TuttleTwins #Constitution #TeachFreedom #RaisingThinkers

[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

What would be our response if 200 Catholic school children were kidnapped in Minneapolis, Chicago, New York, or any other city in America?

[CatholicVote @CatholicVote]

This is breathtaking 💙

The Tölzer Knabenchor performs "Hallelujah" from Handel’s Messiah, filling the Sagrada Familia with truly heavenly music.

[Helen Raleigh @HRaleighspeaks]

The urgent need to confront the serious implications of China’s transnational repression cannot be overstated. Recent events have starkly illustrated the extremes to which the CCP will go to extend its influence and suppress dissent. No nation is safe from Beijing’s overreach, as the regime’s repression knows no borders.

[CatholicVote @CatholicVote]

Defend Nigerian Christians.

During a World Cup qualifying match, Romanian football fans held up a banner that read: 'Defend Nigerian Christians.'

[CatholicVote @CatholicVote]

George Weigel is calling out two cardinals for serious failures of leadership:

📍 Cardinal Cupich, for honoring a radically pro-abortion senator
📍 Cardinal Chow, for downplaying China’s persecution of Catholics