MaryAnne McKenna ☘

Loving mother, blessed Mimi, lucky wife. IrishCatholic, #TrumpSincetheEscalatorRide, AmericatheBeautiful, XRP, Prolife, Backtheblue. Follow your dream! NO DMs!

[MaryAnne McKenna ☘ @MissMaryMac33]

Good morning America, how are ya’.

#XRP

[Cardinal Dolan @CardinalDolan]

It’s the feast of the three archangels – you know who they are: Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael. Their names tell us about them! @thegnewsroom

[Irish🇮🇪✝️ @CapatanEl4662]

I want Irish pubs to stay like this. Traditional pubs, Irish faces, our songs.

No African in sight.

That’s the point.
Keep it that way.
Ireland belongs to the Irish. Forever. ✊🇮🇪✝️

[MaryAnne McKenna ☘ @MissMaryMac33]

@thepeacepoet99 @xx_xyathletics A huge congrats to you. You have amazing inner strength! Just curious - do you think that the public school system targets gay kids and tries to convince them they’re trans? Do they see gay kids as vulnerable and easy targets? Asking d/t a family member.

[MaryAnne McKenna ☘ @MissMaryMac33]

@JackPosobiec Is there a way to buy the prayer cards online?

[Jack Posobiec @JackPosobiec]

The procession has begun

The Beatification of Fulton Sheen

[MaryAnne McKenna ☘ @MissMaryMac33]

@itsrosesm Massachusetts, even though it’s a lost cause.

[MaryAnne McKenna ☘ @MissMaryMac33]

Not all heroes wear capes. But this one does. Pray to Beatified Archbishop Fulton Sheen.

[Fr. David Paternostro, SJ @DavidPaternostr]

A small thing I hope comes out of Fulton Sheen’s beatification is the return of capes. Not just for clergy, but for people in all walks of life. The world needs the cape’s AURA

[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

Friends, I’ve arrived in St. Louis for the beatification of one of my great heroes, Archbishop Fulton Sheen. Tonight I’ll celebrate and preach at Vespers, and tomorrow we’ll beatify him as Blessed Fulton Sheen! Please pray for me and all those who partake in this pilgrimage.

[MaryAnne McKenna ☘ @MissMaryMac33]

@Bird_XRPL

[MaryAnne McKenna ☘ @MissMaryMac33]

@beyond_broke

[MaryAnne McKenna ☘ @MissMaryMac33]

I can feel it coming in the air tonight.
Hold on.
$XRP

[Kate 🐘🇺🇸👠 @KateKcollins1]

I kept hearing that Pope Leo XIV was “far left,” and for a while I assumed there must be some truth to it.

Then I started actually listening to him.

Not clips. Not political commentary. Not somebody telling me what I was supposed to think about him. His speeches. His words. His teaching.

And I have completely changed my opinion of him.

On immigration, he has acknowledged that a country has the right to control its borders. But he does not stop there. He has also told immigrants that entering another country comes with responsibilities. Learn the language. Respect the laws. Learn the customs. Participate in the life of the community.

That struck me because it is neither “open borders” nor a rejection of the immigrant. It is order and responsibility alongside human dignity.

Then there is abortion.

Pope Leo has been absolutely clear that the right to life begins at conception and continues until natural death. In his encyclical, he specifically named induced abortion and euthanasia among choices the Church considers gravely wrong.

And now, as he prepares to go to France, where abortion has been placed in the constitution and assisted dying has advanced into law, the central theme of his visit is essentially a defense of human life: “That the world may have life.” (AP News)

Then listen to what he tells young people.

Stop being afraid of commitment.

Stop being afraid of your vocation.

Stop being afraid of marriage.

When speaking to hundreds of thousands of young people in Spain, he congratulated couples preparing for marriage and told them plainly: “You don’t have to be afraid to get married and start a family.”

In a culture constantly telling young adults to delay marriage, delay children, chase themselves first and keep every option open forever, hearing the Pope tell young people that marriage and family are something beautiful enough to embrace instead of fear hit me hard. (National Catholic Register)

The more I listen to Pope Leo, the more ridiculous our political labels start to look.

Borders matter.

Laws matter.

The unborn matter.

Migrants matter.

Marriage matters.

Families matter.

Human dignity matters.

None of those things cancel the others out.

That is Catholicism.

I thought I had Pope Leo figured out before I really listened to him.

I was wrong.

And honestly, the more I hear from him, the more I love this Pope.

[MaryAnne McKenna ☘ @MissMaryMac33]

Really, what was the point of BOJ raising the interest rate by .25 BPS again, just like last summer? Neither time did anything to improve the yen.

[MaryAnne McKenna ☘ @MissMaryMac33]

@GrowingUpRetro The “yellow” room. Everything in the room was yellow. Couch, rug, drapes, pillows, overstuffed chairs. You name it - yellow.

[MaryAnne McKenna ☘ @MissMaryMac33]

@589CTO Hahahaha. I howled at that.

[MaryAnne McKenna ☘ @MissMaryMac33]

Just a gut feeling: Trump will curtail diesel shipments to most countries, but will keep them running for Japan. How will that impact XRP/PA/RCT? @dom_kwok @kwok_phil @leadlagreport

[MaryAnne McKenna ☘ @MissMaryMac33]

@AjKhan7qe @beyond_broke Lyons Irish Tea

[Howie Carr @HowieCarrShow]

They tell women they aren’t strong enough, capable enough, or supported enough to choose life.

At PreBorn!, we reject those lies. We fight for women to know the truth:

You can do this. You are not alone. And your baby’s life matters.

[MaryAnne McKenna ☘ @MissMaryMac33]

@catholicpat I love it when non-Catholics try to tell me what Catholicism is all about. When I have been practicing and living it daily for 60 years.