Matt Cannaday

Theology Teacher, Cathedral HS, Indianapolis. I tend to talk about Jesus most of the time and Disney the other times. Living with MS #mementomori #mswarrior

[Vatican News @VaticanNews]

Pope Leo expresses his sorrow over the “serious act of violence” that has claimed the life of a bishop in Mozambique, who was shot dead in his residence

https://t.co/o9Y799xgb5

[Classical Theist ✠ @ClassicalTheis]

This is basically Cardinal Ottaviani’s position. Notice he doesn’t say just war doctrine was doctrinally erroneous but that the nature of modern warfare does not harmonize with its principles

[Luke Smith @LukeSmithF1]

I’ve covered Monaco and I’ve covered Le Mans — but nothing prepared for my first Indy 500 🤯

Some reflections on a week in Indy that brought me such joy and felt like going back to my racing roots, as well as completing my ‘Triple Crown’ 👑

https://t.co/CgAv5avql0

[University of Notre Dame @NotreDame]

Sister Raffaella Petrini, F.S.E., called upon our graduates to be people of hope:

"Dear Notre Dame graduates, ... I now invite you to become leaders of hope. Your credibility will be the foundation of your leadership, based on the consistency between your words and your actions.

I urge you not to be afraid of taking risks, because Christians must fully engage with life and the history of humanity. They can overcome sloth and indifference with bravery. They are willing to seek the good and look to the future knowing that our best days are always yet to come.

Fighters for hope are willing to work through their strengths and weaknesses to make this happen."

[Fr. Paul @BackwardsFeet]

Nothing that is a "one-stop shop for IVF" is a "huge win for the pro-life movement".

[Greg J. Marchand MD @MarchandSurgery]

I'm a board certified OBGYN. I've practiced for 20+ years. Here's what's actually happening with mifepristone, because the coverage of it has been a mess.

On May 1, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the FDA overstepped its authority in 2023 when it eliminated the in-person dispensing requirement for mifepristone and allowed the drug to be mailed. On May 4, the Supreme Court issued a temporary administrative stay restoring mail-order access while it reviews the emergency appeals from Danco and GenBioPro. That stay expired May 11. We're waiting on the Court.

Let me say this clearly: I don't want mifepristone banned. Almost no OBGYN I know does. It has a legitimate place in our practice. What's being argued in Louisiana v. FDA is not whether the drug exists. It's whether the FDA's safety protocol "the REMS" should include the in-person dispensing safeguard the FDA itself required for the first 23 years this drug was on the market.

Here's what an in-person visit does that a telehealth call cannot:

1. It confirms gestational age by ultrasound. Patients are not always accurate about their dates. They are sometimes weeks off. Without imaging, no one knows.

2. It rules out ectopic pregnancy. Mifepristone does not treat an ectopic. If you take it and your pregnancy is in your fallopian tube, the tube will still rupture. Women die from this.

3. It creates a local physician who is accountable when something goes wrong — hemorrhage, sepsis, incomplete abortion requiring surgery. A doctor in another state on a video call cannot manage a bleeding patient at 2 a.m.

The 2023 REMS change removed all three. And here is the part the mainstream media will not tell you: it is entirely predictable that a partner, a parent, or a boyfriend will substitute themselves on the telehealth visit to spare the patient an awkward conversation. That means the person actually taking the drug may never be seen, never be examined, and never have her dates verified. If she is further along than she said, the outcome can be a severely preterm infant. This is a child who may live decades with profound disability, at a public cost in the tens of millions of dollars over a lifetime.

This is why the FDA itself opened a safety review in September 2025. Real-world claims data is suggesting complication rates well above what is on the drug label. Secretary Kennedy and Commissioner Makary launched that review for a reason. Until it's finished, returning to in-person dispensing is the conservative clinical position. And by "conservative" I mean cautious. Careful. The standard of care.

The Fifth Circuit didn't ban anything. It restored the same safeguard the FDA enforced under Clinton, Bush, Obama, and the first Trump administration. That's not extremism. That's medicine.

[Kevin Pritchard @PacersKev]

I'm really sorry to all our fans. I own taking this risk. Surprised it came up 5th after this year. I thought we were due some luck. But please remember - this team deserved a starting center to compete with the best teams next year. We have always been resilient.

[Pat Boylan Fever/Pacers @PatBoylanPacers]

Losing out on the chance to draft top 4 is of course very frustrating.

It would be even more frustrating if you weren’t able to turn the 5-7 pick into a near All-NBA center on one of the best contracts in the NBA.

Especially when those 5-7 are likely to be PGs.

[Matt Cannaday @hymnographer]

@Edward_Holloran We were never getting it and that’s fine. Time for a revenge tour with dudes who have always been underestimated.

[Cathedral Softball @CathedralSoftb1]

Irish put 5 runs on the board in the 1st as @sidneyfeczko and @lup75811 hit 💣💣. Feczko threw a shutout, with 9 Ks and one walk. Way to go Irish!

[Rosary Quotes @RosaryQuotes123]

Can't help but reshare this video of a priest making space on the kneeler for the little boy who wants to adore Jesus.

[Reid Wiseman @astro_reid]

Only one chance in this lifetime…

Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him.

I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.

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

The Catechism of the Catholic Church on Just War Doctrine.

[Timothy P. O'Malley @timothypomalley]

Dear Americans, not everything the Pope says is about you.

Sincerely,
The rest of the world.

[Amigo de Frodo @bpdflores]

The jackals in the machine are really mad.
Be at peace.
As Catholics we pray for the Holy Father, the country, and the world; we bear no ill will.
We ask for grace to hear the Voice of Christ the Good Shepherd in Scripture, Tradition and the patient ministry of Peter’s successor.

[Matt Cannaday @hymnographer]

@MrsRuvi I don't think a genuinely joyful greeting at the doors can be talked about enough! Joyful people of all ages/backgrounds are in active ministry (liturgical and non-liturgical), and we have some kind of communal event every week after Mass.

[Jonathan Liedl @JLLiedl]

People do realize that, while what the Holy Father says here is universally applicable, he is speaking to an audience in a city that has been beset by a civil war that has killed ~8,000 people?

[Amigo de Frodo @bpdflores]

Public officials may opine about theology, as is their right.
The Successor of Peter teaches. This is his office.
If what he teaches doesn’t sound like what we want to hear, we should admit the likelihood that the problem is in what we want to hear, and not in what he teaches.

[The Criterion @criteriononline]

Statement of the Most Reverend Charles C. Thompson, Archbishop of Indianapolis, on Pope Leo XIV Addressing the Signs of Our Times: https://t.co/TVWlktHirq

[Fr. Joseph Krupp @Joeinblack]

I’m going to be blunt.
I’d like to talk about some of the very stupid things that people are saying right now
If you’re not catholic, I’m not talking to you. I’m talking to people who say they are Catholic.
Let’s start with the talking point about the pope sitting behind walls.
Have you been to the Vatican? These “high walls” that were built in the fourth century leave an opening about a half a mile wide so that anyone and everyone can simply walk in anytime.
Look at an image of Saint Peter Square you’ll see exactly what I mean.
What the heck are you guys talking about with high walls?
Would you like them to tear down a fourth century wall so that you think their politics might be more defendable?
Would you like a pope that runs about shouting “cry havoc and let’s slip the dogs of war!” is that the pope you want? What mighty army would he summon? How did our invasion of Iraq in the Afghanistan go? How many corpses do we need to pile up until everyone understands that war is a horror. Statistically, more than 99% of the people screaming for war will never be affected by it.
Maybe The Pope should call for a crusade?
I’m sure all 27 Americans who replied to it would make a huge difference.
Your political masters .2 about eight posts to see how bad the pope is. You believe them.
He’s given a ton of speeches about Islamic violence, he’s done everything in his speaking power to encourage people toward peace. But your political masters told you different and you followed like good acolytes.
Most of our Protestant brothers and sisters love us, Catholics. But the Huxter‘s and the insecure don’t. I’m watching Catholics repeat the talking points of anti-Catholic madman and acting like they have a geopolitical sense greater than that of a man in charge of a world wide institution with 1.3 billion members.
Pardon my intensity, but I am very sick of Americans being more formed by right wing and left-wing political commentators then they are by the spirit of the living God.
Do you want war? Go fight in one. Stand with me at the funeral of these beautiful lives, shredded and cut short so that your political masters are appeased.