Alan Koppschall

Journalist | Editor @Plough | @theBruderhof member | @PittTweet Grad | hopelessly optimistic @ManUtd fan

[Cedars and Saints🇻🇦 @CedarsAndSaints]

🚨 Pope Leo has chosen his side in El Clásico! 🚨

Real Madrid vs Barça?

“That’s easy… the Pope is for all teams, but Prevost is Real Madrid.”
— Pope Leo XIV has spoken ⚪🔥

Hala Madrid from the Vatican 🙏

[EWTN News @EWTNews]

The first people to greet the Pope upon his arrival at Madrid-Barajas Airport were children with special needs. In a deeply moving moment, the Pope embraced them and spoke with them and their families. This is how Spain welcomes the first papal visit in 15 years.

[Philip Bunn @PhilipDBunn]

“I asked chatgpt” “I asked grok” well I asked the oracle at Delphi and she said Socrates is the wisest man in all of Athens

[Alan Koppschall @koppsch_a]

Absolutely fantastic news! Many congratulations to @MontseEWTN!

[Edward Pentin @EdwardPentin]

Pope Leo XIV has appointed @EWTN's head of news, Maria Montserrat Alvarado, as prefect of the Dicastery for Communication, replacing Paolo Ruffini who has served as prefect since 2018. Alvarado will become the first laywoman to head a dicastery of the Roman Curia. She will take up her new position on November 1.

[Jonathan Liedl @JLLiedl]

It makes sense that a Christo-centric Pope would pick such a Christo-centric comms director.

[Lee Oser @radical__middle]

MY NEW ESSAY ON MODERNITY

https://t.co/UJOXJYORvg

[Matthew Loftus @matthew_loftus]

Gina Dalfonzo on good books by bad people: "We can lament the times when [Charles Dickens] failed to show those qualities in his life, but to deprive ourselves of them in his work would be to impoverish ourselves."
https://t.co/3JdYOYPPLH

[Plough Quarterly @Plough]

“Unlike many contemporary authors, @malcolmguite has not sought to desacralize or deconstruct the old tales but to restore their ancient symbolic and religious edifice, like a contractor refurbishing a venerable and beloved house.” @SketchesbyBoze

https://t.co/EDGDUK4NBv

[Edward Pentin @EdwardPentin]

Pope Leo XIV has appointed @EWTN's head of news, Maria Montserrat Alvarado, as prefect of the Dicastery for Communication, replacing Paolo Ruffini who has served as prefect since 2018. Alvarado will become the first laywoman to head a dicastery of the Roman Curia. She will take up her new position on November 1.

[Plough Quarterly @Plough]

Gen Z and young millenials: Join us this summer at the Sustaining Revival Conference, July 31 - Aug 2.

Plough will host a camp-out conference for young adults at the @TheBruderhof’s Fox Hill community in Walden, NY. The weekend will consist of conversations, keynotes, and informal discussion on how to continue to grow in faith and live it out in everyday life.

Learn more and apply here: https://t.co/vrbusSllLA

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Deep inner suffering inevitably arises when the human person is reduced to performance, consumption, or a statistical datum. Many young people today live under the yoke of expectations to perform, immersed in an exasperated competitiveness that generates anxiety, fear of not measuring up, and disorientation.

[The Bruderhof @TheBruderhof]

We are unable to bring ourselves to a rebirth of the Holy Spirit such as the people experienced at Pentecost. We must give our souls, minds, and hearts to God and say, "Change them!"
From the book Discipleship https://t.co/x350IVdN6W

[The Bruderhof @TheBruderhof]

The Another Life Is Possible conference will be held at Woodcrest Bruderhof in Rifton, New York, on July 10–12. Tickets and details here: https://t.co/hSi3pFcM4r

[Santiago Vicent @San_Vfl]

A paradise on the Hudson Valley.

Writing, Bruderhof and conversation.

I am sure that I learned more on a weekend there than I would have in a whole year of "creative writing". It also gave me more motivation to sit and actually write, submit and get published. And 'know how'.

[Plough Quarterly @Plough]

“What we call AI is the extremely fast simulation of decision-making processes, generating results from the multitude of data available on the network that can be deceptively similar to the achievement of intelligent activity. But it is not intelligence.” —Johannes Hartl

https://t.co/IrcvyNQARn

[Alan Koppschall @koppsch_a]

@stephengadubato Haha, true, but many people have had embargoed copies since Friday, fwiw.

[Daniel Mendelsohn @DAMendelsohnNYC]

But, as with “Gladiator,” it might also get a substantial number of young Americans to become curious & take classics courses. I’m optimistic!

[Durham Cathedral @durhamcathedral]

Yesterday Tom Holland @holland_tom became the first Bede Librarian at Durham Cathedral🙌

At Evensong yesterday Tom knelt by Bede's tomb in the Galilee Chapel and was inaugurated as Bede Librarian.

[Plough Quarterly @Plough]

“Our capacity to control the world around us has itself become uncontrollable, reducing both ‘divine sovereignty’ and ‘human dignity’ to words in a history book.” —Peter Berkman

https://t.co/S6NiPCM9Ix

[Katie Prejean McGrady @KatiePMcGrady]

THE POPE CAN COMMENT ON ANYTHING HE WANTS AND DOING SO IS ABSOLUTELY PART OF HIS ROLE