Michelle cronin

Honestly Wise and Beautiful

[Michelle cronin @Mic2Old2care]

Truth of communism https://t.co/dXs983fWbX

[Mel Gibson @_melgibson1_]

Heaven has walls, a gate, and strict entry.

Hell has open borders.

Think about it…

[Trad West @trad_west_]

Eighteen-year-old Maël Le Lagadec has drawn international attention after carrying a newly built wooden cross to the summit of Pic d’Aneto, the highest mountain in the Pyrenees.

On May 9, the young Frenchman climbed for approximately fourteen hours while carrying the 35-kilogram cross on his back, together with a 15-kilogram backpack. Measuring 1.10 metres high, 70 centimetres wide and 11 centimetres thick, the cross was transported to an altitude of 3,404 metres in the Spanish region of Aragon.

The extraordinary journey began after the original metal cross, which had marked the summit since 1951, was cut down with a grinder and stolen in April 2026. Refusing to leave the mountain without its Christian symbol, Maël and a friend decided to build a replacement themselves from black walnut wood.

“A few weeks ago, we discovered that the Aneto cross had disappeared,” he explained. “With a friend, we launched this somewhat crazy project to rebuild it.”

After enduring the exhausting ascent, Maël finally reached the summit and restored the Cross to its place above the Pyrenees. Overcome with emotion, he knelt beside it and wept.

“I arrive, I kneel, and I cry.”

Someone tried to remove the Cross from the mountain.

An eighteen-year-old carried it back. ✝️🏔

[Michelle cronin @Mic2Old2care]

@frobrien Amen 🙏🏽

[𝔊𝔯á𝔦𝔫𝔫𝔢 🕊️☘️ @GrainneMcD92925]

Who is she that comes forth as the morning rising, fair as the moon, bright as the sun, terrible as an army set in battle array? 🕊️

[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

I’ve just finished reading Gad Saad’s book Suicidal Empathy.

It ranks, along with Chris Rufo’s America’s Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything and Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay’s Cynical Theories, as the best take-down of the lunacy at the heart of the wokeist philosophy.

For Saad, empathy—in itself a perfectly decent trait—has become so grossly exaggerated that it threatens truth, reality, and justice.

Cases in point abound: so they won’t feel bad about themselves, we’ll allow biological men to compete in women’s sports and crush the dreams of thousands of young women; so as not to undermine the self-esteem of minorities, we will permit unqualified candidates to have positions in universities and the corporate world; so that everyone might feel included, we will characterize the meritocracy as “white privilege,” etc.

As I was making my way through Saad’s book, I kept remarking the sharp distinction between empathy and love.

To empathize is to enter profoundly into the experience of another and to endeavor not to hurt that person’s feelings. But to love is, as Thomas Aquinas taught, “to will the good of the other.”

As I said, in itself and all things being equal, empathy is a good thing. But it is not the same as love, which, depending on circumstances, can very much involve hurting someone’s feelings.

When a professor gives a student a “C” as an honest reflection of his work, he might well be insulting him, but he’s also telling him the truth and perhaps even urging him to try harder.

When, in the Confessional, a priest tells a murderer to turn himself in to the police, he’s undoubtedly making that person’s life more uncomfortable, but he’s also willing the man’s good.

Any decent parent knows that showing real love for her children means engendering all kinds of bad feelings in them.

In light of this distinction, we can understand why Jesus didn’t say, “have empathy for one another,” but rather “love one another.” And why St. John the Evangelist didn’t say, “God is empathy,” but rather “God is love.”

It occurred to me as I was reading Saad’s book that one reason Wokeism has seized the consciousness of so many in the West is that Christianity has faded as a cultural force and Christians themselves have forgotten what stands at the heart of their faith.

[Michelle cronin @Mic2Old2care]

@DesireeAmerica4 Dolphins 🐬 are just naughty creatures. 😂

[ArchaeoHistories @histories_arch]

Everyone told her to throw it away. She tested it anyway—and saved 3,000 lives...

In July 1965, DuPont Laboratory, Wilmington, Delaware. Stephanie Kwolek held a beaker toward the light and frowned. The liquid inside didn't look right. It was cloudy, thin, and watery. Every polymer she had ever created was thick, smooth, and clear like honey. This one looked contaminated.

Her supervisor looked at it for a moment.

"Discard it and start over."

It was standard procedure. Sensible advice. Almost any other chemist would have poured it straight down the drain without a second thought.

But something inside Stephanie quietly asked one question.

What if?

"I'd like to test it anyway," she said.

That quiet decision would change thousands of lives forever.

Stephanie had never planned to save people through chemistry. Her dream had always been to become a doctor and care for patients. But in the 1940s, medical school was simply too expensive for the daughter of hardworking Polish immigrants.

So she accepted what she believed would be a temporary job at DuPont in 1946, planning to stay only long enough to earn enough money for medical school.

The temporary job became a forty-year career.

Her father, who passed away when she was just ten years old, had taught her to observe carefully, stay curious, and always ask questions. Her mother, a skilled seamstress, taught her patience, precision, and attention to every small detail.

Those lessons made Stephanie an extraordinary chemist.

By 1965, she had spent nearly twenty years researching strong, lightweight fibers that could improve automobile tires. It wasn't glamorous work, but she approached every experiment with determination and curiosity.

That strange cloudy liquid refused to make sense.

The chemical structure looked correct.

So why did it look completely wrong?

Stephanie wanted to spin it into fiber using a delicate spinneret machine. The technician warned her not to do it.

"That liquid will clog the equipment and ruin the machine."

But Stephanie insisted.

Finally, he agreed.

They ran the experiment.

And discovered something extraordinary.

The fiber that emerged was unlike anything DuPont had ever seen.

When they measured its strength, they checked the results again and again, convinced there had been a mistake.

There wasn't.

Weight for weight, the new fiber was five times stronger than steel. It was incredibly light, highly heat-resistant, remarkably tough, and almost impossible to break.

Stephanie had just invented Kevlar.

It was first used in tires.

Soon, researchers realized it could do much more.

Police officers received Kevlar body armor. Soldiers gained stronger protection in combat. Firefighters wore heat-resistant suits made from the same remarkable material.

By the time Stephanie passed away in 2014 at the age of ninety, more than one million Kevlar vests had been produced.

Conservative estimates credit the invention with saving over 3,000 lives, and many believe the true number is far higher.

Stephanie Kwolek never became a doctor.

Yet she saved more lives than most doctors ever will—simply because she refused to throw away a cloudy beaker and chose to trust her curiosity instead.

© Women In World History

#archaeohistories

[Michelle cronin @Mic2Old2care]

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[Michelle cronin @Mic2Old2care]

@Uber stop charging people that never signed up for uber one membership unknowingly! Your actions are theft!

[Michelle cronin @Mic2Old2care]

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[Michelle cronin @Mic2Old2care]

Beware! Uber is adding people to their Uber one membership unknowingly with $9.99 service charges without your permission.

[Michelle cronin @Mic2Old2care]

Beware! Uber is adding people to their Uber one membership unknowingly with $9.99 service charges without your permission.

[Michelle cronin @Mic2Old2care]

@BreeSolstad May The Holy Trinity bless throughout your life. 😇

[Michelle cronin @Mic2Old2care]

@LabdogEric @TaraBull @lorraine01640 California has its own strict prohibitions under the Elections Code, particularly § 18522 (and related sections like 18520–18524 on corruption of voters).

Those paid votes are illegal and I hope someone can prosecute the Dems for violating the voting laws.

[Michelle cronin @Mic2Old2care]

I used to think taking my kids to Mass every Sunday was enough https://t.co/xXrAhST7QP via @YouTube

[That Catholic Guy 🇻🇦 @Catholic_bro]

Facts

[Michelle cronin @Mic2Old2care]

@patrickmadrid Totally disgusting 🤮

[Sachin Jose @Sachinettiyil]

Yes, June is the month of the Sacred Heart of Jesus!