Michael Swan

Former Associate Editor, The Catholic Register, Married to Yone, Love her.

[Michael Swan @MmmSwan]

@ArchCordileone Very slick, and no hint about who financed it. Americans? Napa Institute? Wingnut private Catholic colleges?

[Canadian Affairs @CDNAffairs]

The Canadian cardinal with a long shot as papal conclave begins

Here is a shortlist of some of the individuals who could be chosen to lead the Catholic Church as it deals with wars, refugees and cultural change

@MmmSwan reports:
https://t.co/4ILinKQlol

[Michael Swan @MmmSwan]

@MassimoFaggioli Don't take opportunities away from hard working journalists.

[Michael Swan @MmmSwan]

@acoyne Maybe an outlier, but not that far off the Nanos result – and the dates matter.

[Michael Swan @MmmSwan]

We don’t have to worry about what might happen next. We can start trusting that if we fully live the life in the Spirit, the future will unfold from the present as we travel through life. https://t.co/T8DD57vz7V

[Michael Swan @MmmSwan]

Waiting is not a popular pastime. It is not something we anticipate or experience with great joy... the paradox of waiting is it requires attention to the present, with the expectation of what is to come and the patience to learn from the act of waiting. https://t.co/p4uqnzP1kY

[Michael Swan @MmmSwan]

“Ukraine needs unity of people – of every nation and every citizen – to establish a just peace, a peace Ukrainians long for more than anyone and for which they are making the ultimate sacrifice.” https://t.co/XP1WQ67gB3

[Michael Swan @MmmSwan]

Sometimes you just have to say the obvious truth, so that the insidious lie cannot be believed.

[Wab Kinew @WabKinew]

Zelenskyy is a hero.

Slava Ukraini! Heroyam Slava!

(Via: @mbndpcaucus)

[Michael Swan @MmmSwan]

... Operation Reassurance, Canada has 1,900 troops stationed in the small Baltic nation of Latvia, one of six NATO countries that share a border with Russia. This makes Canada the single largest contributor to a 3,000-strong brigade. @CDNAffairs https://t.co/Gui0e9eQJ5

[Michael Swan @MmmSwan]

Christ is the man who in the most revealing way made clear that prayer means sharing in the power of God. https://t.co/m63luhFFPa

[Michael Swan @MmmSwan]

LThe world in which we live makes us believe that the real thing is happening next week, next month, or next year. As Christians, we are challenged to believe that what is happening is always happening here and now. At this moment. Now. https://t.co/PnrHFGkvFw

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

Britains’s Jonathan Pie just completely went off on Trump’s stupidity.

[Ines San Martin @inesanma]

Just in from the Vatican: The Holy Father's condition remains critical; however, since last evening he has not presented any further respiratory crises.
Platelet/penia remained stable; however, some blood tests show initial, mild, renal failure in the controlled state.
Oxygen therapy continues at high flows through the nasal cannulas.
The Holy Father continues to be vigilant and well-oriented.
The complexity of the clinical picture, and the wait required for pharmacological therapies to give some feedback, require that the prognosis remains confidential.
During the morning, at an apartment on the 10th floor [of the Gemelli hospital], he participated in the Holy Mass, together with those who take care of him during these days of hospitalization.

[Pope Francis – ARCHIVE @Pontifex266Arch]

I have recently received many messages of affection, and I have been particularly struck by the letters and drawings from children. Thank you for your closeness, and for the consoling prayers I have received from all over the world!

[Jason Blakely @jasonwblakely]

Pope Francis is one of the great spiritual teachers of the age. I've read this book many times & it has never failed to shift my position, change my heart, redirect my mind (what Christians call 'conversion'). Yes, he's the Pope but also one of the most intimate voices in my life

[Michael Swan @MmmSwan]

The Ford government’s recent decision to mail out $200 rebate cheques to all Ontarians was another big spending initiative. Crombie has described the rebates, which will cost the province $3 billion, a “pre-election bribe.” @CDNAffairs https://t.co/IpMphLLMsM

[Michael Swan @MmmSwan]

One of the greatest temptations is to use our faith as a way to exercise power over others and thereby supplant God’s commandments with human commandments. https://t.co/836zHDA1fO

[Michael Swan @MmmSwan]

The overriding conviction, if you can call it that, is the relentless permeability of truth, its utter porousness, its essential unknowability. Not bad fun for academics but when it leeches, diluted of its nuances, into the public domain, we have problems https://t.co/Em4voroNVh

[Michael Swan @MmmSwan]

We can situate ourselves in time and space to know God’s will and do God’s work in the world. https://t.co/PmFHG6WxCr

[Michael Swan @MmmSwan]

Snyder argues that in today's coups "power is more digital than physical". It's an important insight. And with tech giants behaving like powerful feudal lords, you can see the consequences. https://t.co/s5OixGQuq2