A Kildare woman

Not left or right: just Catholic. Don’t wait for the storm to pass: learn to dance in the rain. Director of @FaithonFireIre

[Sachin Jose @Sachinettiyil]

“I have often said during my 20 years as a bishop that I am not interested in a private education for the privileged as an apostolate of the Church. The Archdiocese of Portland should not be operating schools whose institutional priorities and plans are dominated by a secular, utilitarian vision of academic excellence and great sports programs, while remaining inaccessible to so many of our families because of high tuition costs. To do so would be wholly inconsistent with the history and purpose of Catholic education. Our first job is not to prepare children eventually to get into a great college or university, but to help them get into heaven!”

Portland Archbishop Alexander King Sample

[Luke Coppen @LukeCoppen]

What do Catholics who don’t go to Mass every Sunday believe and what keeps them away?

There are some surprising findings in this new national study from Australia 🇦🇺:

https://t.co/pSMWTBl2LJ

[Larry Donnelly @LarryPDonnelly]

If we’re going to listen to women, we need to listen to all women

https://t.co/01qUyMv5jr

[Crux Now Media @Crux]

“We are deeply disturbed that the Scottish Greens believe abortion should be treated ‘like any other healthcare procedure’,” the Scottish bishops said Saturday.
https://t.co/781B8CZ4tn https://t.co/781B8CZ4tn

[Catholic Arena @CatholicArena]

Republic of Ireland football team manager Heimir Hallgrímsson has said that the players now pray together before games, led by Catholic player Conor Coventry, whom they have nicknamed 'Brother Coventry':

'One change is that we do a little prayer with the players and the staff just to cool our heads before we go on.

We call Conor Coventry 'Brother Coventry' now in the squad. It’s good when you go into a high intensity game. It's good to start the game with cool heads, instead of shouting and screaming at each other. We try to cool the players down'

[Danny Boy @Care2much18]

The incident clearly happened and damage to the plane shows the result of dramatic overspeed and violent cockpit struggle.

It would have been terrifying for passengers and a borderline miracle nobody died.

That nobody died is due to this guy.

Captain Smit Machchhar.

Hero. 🇮🇳

[Reuters @Reuters]

The Indian pilot stabbed by his co-pilot on a flydubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv replayed the dramatic attack and his desperate effort to open the cockpit door to seek help, in a video call with Prime Minister Narendra Modi https://t.co/y6Hz4o49oG

[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

Friends, it was a delight to meet Pope Leo this morning for a joyful and productive conversation. He expressed his support and appreciation for the work of Word on Fire.

[Sachin Jose @Sachinettiyil]

Bishop Robert Barron had a private audience with Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican. Both are Chicago natives.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.

[RTÉ News @rtenews]

Tennessee woman Christa Pike is in hospital today after authorities "failed" to carry out her execution, her lawyers said, with witnesses reporting the convicted murderer was breathing despite the injections intended to kill her
https://t.co/ZTRFGFVWrH

[CatholicBishops @CatholicBishops]

@ArchbishopEamon Martin: Church doesn’t have technical answers to AI, but offers ethical principles

Opening address by Archbishop Martin at the 'Living Magnifica Humanitas' conference in Maynooth

https://t.co/bq2Hy3ZPeq

[Catholic Arena @CatholicArena]

'I pray every day for these people and for this country, it is so near to my heart...from my childhood it is so'

September 29th 1979

Pope John Paul II lands in Ireland after eating an Irish fry for breakfast on the 747 named 'Saint Patrick'

[Catholic Sat @CatholicSat]

Pope Leo XIV holding back the tears at the conclusion of Mass in Metz, his last public engagement of his incredibly successful Apostolic Journey to France.

[CatholicBishops @CatholicBishops]

We hosted an informative and challenging conference today in @StPatsMaynooth inspired by @Pontifex’s encyclical letter #MagnificentHumanity. Thank you to our contributors and audience for your concern to safeguard people in this age of #AI @ArchbishopEamon

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Here in Lourdes, the city of the sick and of hope, I appeal to the entire healthcare community to remember the profound meaning of your vocation, which is to care for a suffering person, not to eliminate that person. Be passionate servants of life! No one ever has the right to decide the life of any person. Medicine must never become the servant of programmed death! #ApostolicJourney #France https://t.co/gMbrY7eA6G

[Catholic Sat @CatholicSat]

The Ave Maria of Lourdes, as more than 200,000 people join Pope Leo XIV praying the rosary.

[Catholic Arena @CatholicArena]

'One cannot speak of Europe without mentioning Christianity'

Pope Leo XIV

[Catholic Arena @CatholicArena]

INCROYABLE

There are close to a million people at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris to see Pope Leo XIV

These scenes are unbelievable

[Paulina Guzik @Guzik_Paulina]

The sounds of Lourdes - Ave Maria as Pope Leo XIV approaches the Masabielle Grotto and complete silence with the sound of river in the background as he prays. Absolutely beautiful scenes in the sanctuary right now.
Video: Vatican Media