Maria C

I don’t actually talk about coffee. stick around if you enjoy: parenting, kid book recommendations, baby pics, the occasional hot take.

[Maria C @plssendcoffee3]

I’m just here to say all the things that would make the Facebook peoples shit their pants.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

God favors smallness, a sign of his discreet love, by which he leaves us free to accept or reject him. His love makes its presence felt even among the weeds, acts in a hidden and invisible way like the smallest of all seeds, and leavens the dough without making a sound. #GospelOfToday (Mt 13:24–43)

[Gloria Purvis @gloria_purvis]

F A C T S

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

The cross is part of the mission. The imperialist occupation of the world is disrupted from within; the violence that until now has been the law is unmasked. The poor, imprisoned, and rejected Messiah descends into the darkness of death, yet in so doing He brings a new creation to light. #HolyThursday

[Gloria Purvis @gloria_purvis]

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[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

I am deeply saddened to learn of the loss of life and injury caused by the military attack on the Holy Family Catholic Church in #Gaza. I assure the parish community of my spiritual closeness. I commend the souls of the deceased to the loving mercy of Almighty God, and pray for their families and the injured. I renew my call for an immediate ceasefire. Only dialogue and reconciliation can ensure enduring peace!

[Gloria Purvis @gloria_purvis]

Lord have mercy! They were wrongfully convicted when they were teens.

[Innocence Project @innocence]

BREAKING: Brian Boles and Charles Collins have been exonerated in New York after 30 years of wrongful conviction. No physical evidence ever connected them to the crime. https://t.co/hKfA68NrGm

[Matthew McConaughey @McConaughey]

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[Caroline Wren @CarolineWren]

I went to camp for 10 years on the Guadalupe River just a couple miles down from Camp Mystic. This tragedy hits close to home. Since there’s tons of information flying around, here is what I’m hearing from friends and family in the area and with kids at the camps.

Camp Mystic is an all girls Christian camp on the Guadalupe River and opened in 1926 and has been run by the same family since the 1930s. The current owners, Dick and Tweety Eastland, have been with the camp since 1974 and sadly I am hearing that Dick Eastland died in the flooding (unconfirmed) while trying to rescue the young campers in the Bubble Inn and Twins cabins. Those two cabins are along the river and are for the 7-8 year old campers (the youngest age group at the camp). The cabins reportedly washed away and almost, if not all, of the 27 missing kids from Camp Mystic are from those two cabins including two camp counselors (aged 19). At least two of those precious children are confirmed dead by their families and the bodies have been recovered.

There are about 40 summer camps in this area along the Guadalupe River. Thankfully, most of the camps were between terms so they did not have campers on site.

Camp Waldemar, which I attended, was in session but all the cabins are up on a hill and Waldemar has confirmed all campers and counselors are accounted for.

Heart O’ The Hills, a girls camp just down the river from Camp Mystic, was thankfully out of session. However, Jane Ragsdale, the longtime co-owner and director of Heart O' The Hills, died in the floods.

Camp La Junta is the all boys camp across from Mystic. That’s the camp where you’ve seen the footage of the cabin washing away with all the young boys in it. Miraculously, the camp says that all the campers are alive and accounted for.

Camp Stewart, another all boys camp just up the river, was thankfully between terms so no campers were on site. The new campers were set to arrive on July 6 (tomorrow).

Please continue to pray for these families. This is an unspeakable tragedy.

[Rich Raho @RichRaho]

Right out of the gate, Bishop Danny Garcia appointed to Austin today: “We live in a time of great suffering and hurt…We cannot profess to be Catholic and Christian, yet see one another as enemies or strangers. The poor, the weak, those that live on the margins of society and life cannot be forgotten in our policies and practices. The church must be a voice for those who have no voice.” Asked about ICE raids, Garcia says: “Migrants are lacking due process…these are people with faces and a story.”

[Maria C @plssendcoffee3]

@catholicpat Hush.

[Maria C @plssendcoffee3]

What’s the inverse of “if he wanted to he would”? If he didn’t want to…he wouldn’t. and yet he DID attempt to dunk.

Shoot and a miss, sir. The statement from the USCCB this week, the Gospel, the Pope, and the Catechism all say you’re wrong. Kthanksbyeeeeeeeee.

[Patrick Neve @catholicpat]

I don't want to dunk on these people because it obviously comes from a good place

But what do you want to do?

The US government can't feed everyone who wants to come here.

We should help the poor.
They also should not have come.

[JamesVGrimaldi @JamesVGrimaldi]

We invited @AlessandraH17, a Black Catholic woman, to write about the U.S. electing Donald Trump as president for a second term: devastated — but not surprised https://t.co/Vz9qt9HqJ7 via @NCRonline

[Transvangelical @transvangelical]

I voted

[Gloria Purvis @gloria_purvis]

This is a transcript from Vance’s time on Meet the Press in August 2024. Where is the smoke for this recent Catholic convert for publicly supporting this?

[R Bratten Weiss @RBrattenWeiss]

The first step toward being an ethical gun owner is stopping and thinking about what that means. A person who mocks the idea of ethical gun ownership is a person who lacks the moral stability to be trusted with firearms.

[Gloria Purvis @gloria_purvis]

Racism and the promotion of it is anti-Catholic.

[Gloria Purvis @gloria_purvis]

Ask yourself how pervasive rape was in a slave owning society and you will understand why your comment isn’t the flex you think it is…..

[Brock Bahler 🍉 @brockbahler]

But that's not the whole story. You see, the Warren Court that made these rulings ALSO gave us Brown (1954) & Loving (1967). Christians--esp in the South--saw these rulings as interconnected. In short, "God" was removed from the school the moment schools were being desegregated.

[Gloria Purvis @gloria_purvis]

Angel of God, my Guardian dear to whom God’s love commits me here. Ever this day be at my side, to light and guard, rule and guide. Amen #GuardianAngels #Catholic Art by Thomas Blackshear