Robert Rutherford

[Edward Feser @FeserEdward]

The present moment is revealing people’s true loyalties. The pope is the spiritual father of all Catholics. In a family, even when you disagree with your father, you rally to his defense when he is attacked by an outsider. And if you don’t, there is something very wrong with you.

[Nick Freiling @NickFreiling]

A cutting reflection from Cardinal Ratzinger, Good Friday 2005:

"Pilate is not utterly evil. He knows that the condemned man is innocent, and he looks for a way to free him. But his heart is divided. And in the end he lets his own position, his own self-interest, prevail over what is right.

Nor are the men who are shouting and demanding the death of Jesus utterly evil. Many of them, on the day of Pentecost, will feel "cut to the heart," when Peter will say to them: "Jesus of Nazareth, a man attested to you by God... you crucified and killed by the hands of those outside the law."

But at that moment they are caught up in the crowd. They are shouting because everyone else is shouting, and they are shouting the same thing that everyone else is shouting. And in this way, justice is trampled underfoot by weakness, cowardice and fear of the diktat of the ruling mindset. The quiet voice of conscience is drowned out by the cries of the crowd.

Evil draws its power from indecision and concern for what other people think."

[Antonio Tajani @Antonio_Tajani]

Voglio esprimere la mia più sentita solidarietà al Patriarca di Gerusalemme, cardinale Pierbattista Pizzaballa, capo della Chiesa Cattolica in Terra Santa, e al Custode di Terra Santa, padre Francesco Ielpo,
�� inaccettabile aver loro impedito di entrare nella Chiesa del Santo Sepolcro a Gerusalemme.
Per la prima volta, la polizia israeliana ha negato ai vertici della Chiesa Cattolica la possibilità di celebrare la Messa della domenica delle Palme in uno dei luoghi più sacri per milioni di fedeli nel mondo.
Ho dato immediate istruzioni al nostro Ambasciatore in Israele di esprimere alle autorità di Tel Aviv la protesta del governo e confermare la posizione italiana a tutela , sempre ed in ogni circostanza, della libertà di religione.

[Emmanuel Macron @EmmanuelMacron]

J’apporte mon plein soutien au patriarche latin de Jérusalem et aux chrétiens de Terre Sainte, empêchés de célébrer la messe des Rameaux au Saint-Sépulcre.

Je condamne cette décision de la police israélienne, qui s’ajoute à la multiplication préoccupante des violations du statut des Lieux Saints de Jérusalem.

Le libre exercice du culte à Jérusalem doit être garanti pour toutes les religions.

[Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem @LPJerusalem]

بيان مشترك من البطريركية اللاتينية في القدس وحراسة الأراضي المقدسة.

Joint Press Release: The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem and the Custody of the Holy Land.

https://t.co/ujB3t50j67

[Jim LaPorta @JimLaPorta]

Bob Mueller was a Marine. He served in the Vietnam War where he earned a Bronze Star with Valor and a Purple Heart. https://t.co/tX9zHx8XK5

[Aaron Fritschner @Fritschner]

The most striking thing to me is that the the CBP officer pushes a woman onto the ground and the man is trying to protect her from them and help her up when they tackle him and then shoot him. It’s one of the most upsetting things I’ve ever seen happen in America

[Gregory Brew @gbrew24]

The profession is slowly fading from existence.

[Matthew Hazell @M_P_Hazell]

Ratzinger, "God and the World" (Ignatius, 2002), p. 416: "There has never been anything like this in history; in doing this we are despising and proscribing the Church’s whole past. How can one trust her at present if things are that way?"

[Volunteer Mississippi @VolunteerYall]

Volunteer Mississippi, the Mississippi Commission for Volunteer Service, is pleased to announce the promotion of Suzanne Scales Rutherford to executive director! Read more ➡️ https://t.co/S9hnVTTqzi

[David Attenborough PARODY @AttenboroughSir]

Better than the original

[WLBT 3 On Your Side @WLBT]

A postal worker parked on Woodlark Street in NE Jackson Monday afternoon, according to a resident. Moments later, the ground gave way beneath him, after water had been running about 48 hours. Neighbors have now set up a makeshift roadblock to protect drivers.

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

💷For more than 1,000 years, the monarch’s name has been inscribed in Latin on coins.

However, in a move to make Britain’s coins more “accessible” to modern-day users, the name of the new King will be given as Charles, not Carolus https://t.co/WD8G4qvdcM

[Benjamin Butterworth @benjaminbutter]

Kirsty Young’s monologue on the final departure of the Queen is utterly beautiful.

[Mark W. @DurhamWASP]

"Those who imagine that a politician would make a better figurehead than a hereditary monarch might perhaps make the acquaintance of more politicians."

Margaret Thatcher

[Westminster Abbey @wabbey]

Following the arrival of The Queen's coffin at Westminster Hall, the Abbey bells are ringing fully muffled – something which only happens following the death of the monarch. Muffles are leather pads fitted to a bell’s clapper to produce a soft, solemn sound.

[Peggy Noonan @Peggynoonannyc]

https://t.co/KAgWAbLh27

[President Biden Archived @POTUS46Archive]

Our statement on the death of Queen Elizabeth II.

[Matt Glassman @MattGlassman312]

Just a reminder that Queen Elizabeth has reigned for 30% of U.S. history.

[Miles Smith IV @IVMiles]

Worth remembering that when HM The Queen assumed the throne there were sitting peers born before Germany or Italy existed.