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[ASH @rodand30]

Madonna del Miracolo Prega per Noi, Ave Maria

[Fox News @FoxNews]

New data shows Catholicism is gaining momentum on college campuses across the U.S.

Participation in adult Catholic conversion classes is up 115% from last year, and more students are showing up for retreats and receiving the sacraments.

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[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

The world does not need an artificial intelligence that diminishes humanity; rather, it needs human intelligence enlightened by wisdom, political authority guided by conscience and technological innovation directed by charity. Only then will artificial intelligence become not a rival to humanity but a servant of the common good.

[Sean Feucht @seanfeucht]

Team USA gathers to pray again shouting their praise & thanks to God over the noise!!!🙏🏽🔥🇺🇸

Man, there is something so special about this team.

[Jose Ignacio Munilla @ObispoMunilla]

Cuando a Gaudí le preguntaron quién terminaría la Sagrada Familia, él respondió: «La terminará san José».

Y cuando le recriminaban la lentitud de las obras, respondía: «Mi cliente —refiriéndose a Dios— no tiene prisa».
#PapaLeónXIV #SagradaFamília #Gaudí

[Paulina Guzik @Guzik_Paulina]

I just play it on repeat since yesterday:

"Hello Pope Leo XIV, I'm Renzo, I'm six years old.
I'd like to ask you a few questions."

Renzo, a little a boy from the poor neighborhood of Barcelona, stole the show yesterday at St. Augustine's parish, a place where Pope Leo admitted he "feels at home."

Renzo in the sweetest way ever asked those questions to the pope:
Do you like soccer?
When you were little, did you want to be Pope?
Why are my mom and dad worried?
Why does my dad have so many jobs?
Why do bad things happen to some people and not to others? Whose fault is it?
Why are there so many people living on the streets? Does no one see them? Does no one help them?
How can we help if the world is so big?
Does God want there to be poor and rich?
Why are there so many lonely grandparents, if they are so important?
And one last question ... Must we always forgive?

What pope Leo answered the boy was really moving.

"Regarding whether I like football, I confess that I play tennis and I enjoy it very much, but I also appreciate football; in fact, during my years as bishop in Peru, I liked to follow how some local teams were doing; and now, as Pope, I have also received football clubs and sports groups," the pope said, adding that "sport is important because it helps us grow up healthy in body and mind."

He said that as World Cup unfolds, "many will be watching the matches. Football reminds us of something we must not forget: life is not a race to show off alone, but a path we learn to travel together."

"Whoever doesn't know how to pass the ball, even if they have talent, hasn't yet understood the game. And whoever doesn't know how to live with others and for others hasn't yet understood life."

Answering whether he wanted to be Pope when he was little, the pope said: "Well, Renzo, I don't think so. I don't think I ever thought about it."

"But I can tell you something: from a young age, I felt the desire to dedicate my life to God. I didn't yet know exactly how or where the Lord would lead me. Over time, I discovered that Jesus was calling me to follow him as a priest, and that this path led through the Order of Saint Augustine."

"But this isn't just true for me," he said. "Every child is a dream of God. You are too. God desires the happiness of all and wants us, from childhood and throughout our lives, to have a heart like that of children (cf. Mt 18:3): capable of trusting, full of kindness; he wants us to be his friends and not turn away from him. Therefore, more important than asking oneself whether one will be a priest, doctor, teacher, parent, or anything else, is asking oneself whether one wants to be a friend of Jesus. Because friendship with Jesus gives us joy, sets us free, and helps us to see, step by step, the vocation and the path that God has planned for each of us."

Answering the point on injustices in the world, Pope Leo told the boy that "through the life of Jesus Christ, God shows us that, although there is suffering, he never abandons any of his children, because he has prepared for us an eternal joy where there will be no more sadness or pain. Let us have confidence, Jesus is with us, he helps us and accompanies us, and gives us strength to go through the difficult moments we may encounter in life."

Stressing that grandparents play a crucial role in families, the pope said: "Let us not allow loneliness and abandonment to become normalized in the lives of older adults. That is a very sad thing. Let's have our hearts open to all of them."

On forgiveness, he told Renzo and those gathered: "It does not mean forgetting by force, as if nothing had happened. Forgiveness means not letting hatred become the master of our hearts ... our willingness to forgive is a condition for the forgiveness we receive from God."
Video: Vatican Media

[La Sagrada Família @sagradafamilia]

We see the tower of Jesus Christ illuminated for the first time!
The light show, starting from the base up to the illumination of the cross, culminated with a composition of lights guided by drones that traced the figure of Gaudí and the phrase “first love, then technique”.

[Lula @LulaOficial]

Recebi, na tarde desta segunda-feira (25), telefonema do presidente da Bolívia, Rodrigo Paz.

Conversamos sobre a situação humanitária enfrentada pela Bolívia em decorrência de protestos e bloqueios de estradas, que vêm provocando o desabastecimento de algumas regiões do país.

Reiterei minha solidariedade ao governo e ao povo bolivianos e ressaltei a importância do pleno respeito às instituições democráticas e ao Estado de Direito. Defendi que governo e movimentos sociais evitem o recurso à violência e privilegiem o diálogo como caminho para a superação das divergências e para a preservação da paz social.

A pedido do presidente Rodrigo Paz, determinei envio de ajuda humanitária à Bolívia.

[Keith Nester @KeithNester1]

Will you please join me in prayer? We are in Lourdes and will put my wife in the water tomorrow. She was recently diagnosed with cancer and we are praying for a miracle. Thank you so much.

[ASH @rodand30]

@ChristopherHale @Pontifex everything Bad Bunny says in his songs is vulgar and degenerate. 🥲 absolutely not comparable no even as a light joke, because Bad Bunny really needs to find Jesus.

[Fe Viva Católica @liderSanAlfonso]

Ahora que la izquierda y la derecha nos odian.

Se puede decir, el Católico no está NI a la izquierda NI a la derecha, está POR ENCIMA, con el CRISTO 😎✝️✨Ave Christus Rex🇻🇦

[ASH @rodand30]

@RebelHeart1958 @PropChrisMaybe @grok @DavidFischer Lisa I ask you to consider Charity when you are referring to my beautiful Catholic Church, and I thank God every day for the grace to a part of it. God bless you.

[ASH @rodand30]

@RebelHeart1958 @grok @DavidFischer Matthew 16:18 And so I say to you, you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it. Will be keeping you in prayers 🙏🏼

[ASH @rodand30]

@michaelnp1701 @grok @DavidFischer Read Matthew 16, 18-19. God Bless you 🙏🏼

[ASH @rodand30]

@Rahabtheharlot3 @grok @DavidFischer Matthew 16:18 “And so I say to you, you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church,* and the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it.”

[ASH @rodand30]

@4freedom1USA @grok @DavidFischer We are absolutely not Saints we are sinners who are called to be Saints and with God’s grace we can strive to be Saints so one day we can join him in eternity, however that entails repentance and confession of Sins and living by the Gospel. Will be praying for you 🙏🏼

[ASH @rodand30]

@GeorgeSchulte @grok @DavidFischer The Sacrament of confession is available through priests and the Catholic Church. Will be keeping you in prayers 🙏🏼

[ASH @rodand30]

@GenFlynn Sir respectfully, this is not about Politics, it’s about human dignity and respect for human life. Will be praying for you, the humility advice should be for the President. The Pope is just relaying the Gospel not politics, the one true God is our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Within digital environments — structured to persuade — interaction is optimized to the point of rendering a real encounter superfluous; the otherness of persons in the flesh is neutralized, and relationships are reduced to functional responses. Dear friends, you, however, are real persons! Creation itself has a body, a breath, a life to be listened to and safeguarded.

[Eduardo Verástegui @EVerastegui]

Respira.
No todo se resuelve hoy.
Pero todo puede empezar a ordenarse dentro de ti ahora.