Gordon Cole

[Chicago White Sox @whitesox]

The White Sox Pope Hat has officially landed at the Vatican 🤝

[Baseball by BSmile @BSmile]

Today In 1977: Texas #Rangers batters Toby Harrah and Bump Wills hit back-to-back, inside-the-park home runs in a game vs. the New York #Yankees at Yankee Stadium! ⚾️ #MLB #Baseball #History

[Colm Flynn @colmflynnire]

That time Dolly Parton made a surprise appearance and sang in Páidí Ó Sé’s pub in Dingle, Co. Kerry, back in 1990. Rest in peace, Dolly.

[Daniel Mulhall @DanMulhall]

This is wonderful. Rest in tuneful peace, Dolly.

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

This is not Europe. This is Missouri.

The Cathedral Basilica of Saint Louis, built in 1914. It has over 41 million mosaic pieces. Some of the most wondrous churches ever built are in the United States.

[America Magazine @americamag]

How often, upon seeing a disabled person, do we jump in to help? And how often is our unsolicited help actually disruptive? Real accompaniment is different.
https://t.co/zqDjd0y2Jm

[Catholic Arena @CatholicArena]

Baseball legend Babe Ruth was a Catholic who wrote this letter about Communion, Confession and the Miraculous Medal:

“In December, 1946, I was in French Hospital, New York, facing a serious operation. Paul Carey, one of my oldest and closest friends, was by my bed one night.

- They’re going to operate in the morning, Babe, Paul said. -Don’t you think you ought to put your house in order?

-I didn’t dodge the long, challenging look in his eyes. I knew what he meant. For the first time, I realized that death might strike me out. I nodded, and Paul got up, called in a chaplain, and I made a full confession.

-I’ll return in the morning and give you Holy Communion, the chaplain said, -But you don’t have to fast.

-I’ll fast, I said. I didn’t have even a drop of water.

-As I lay in bed that evening, I thought to myself what a comforting feeling to be free from fear and worries. I now could simply turn them over to God. Later on, my wife brought in a letter from a little kid in Jersey City.

‘Dear Babe,’ he wrote, ‘Everybody in the seventh grade class is pulling and praying for you. I am enclosing a medal, which if you wear will make you better. Your pal—Mike Quinlan. P.S. I know this will be your 61st homer. You’ll hit it.’

-I asked them to pin the Miraculous Medal to my pyjama coat. I’ve worn the medal constantly ever since. I’ll wear it to my grave.”

[Gordon Cole @sugrue_p]

@CatholicArena Hearing Babe’s Confession must have took a while

[Thomas Reese, S.J. @ThomasReeseSJ]

A Jewish scholar of Jesus makes history as president of the Catholic Biblical Association https://t.co/tSdBoBEDd8 @YonatShimron

[Gordon Cole @sugrue_p]

PR and Texas next to each other…Ted Cruz would be “outraged”

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

“It was an honor to go meet someone who’s in the position of being the moral compass of the world, not just the Catholic Church.

“And I was reminded of something I’ve always been reminded of with the most spiritual and holy people that you meet — they all have a great sense of humor.”

— Matthew McConaughey on meeting Pope Leo XIV

[Howie Rose @HowieRose]

If nothing else, take note of just how beautiful Shea Stadium was in its early years. It opened in 1964. This took place one year later.

[Gordon Cole @sugrue_p]

@Hot_Pepper76 He had cocaine so she blew him

[Catholic Arena @CatholicArena]

'He made me laugh, which is one of the things that I think is consistent about the holiest and most spiritual people I've ever met in the world. They all got a great sense of humor'

Matthew McConaughey on meeting Pope Leo XIV

[Gordon Cole @sugrue_p]

@TheEconomist Though we were all taught about the Christianization of Rome It’s actually the other way around….. the Romanization of Christianity

[Zeteo @zeteo_news]

@mehdirhasan brings receipts to debunk Ben Shapiro’s claim that “You could probably count on one hand the number of… major movies where Muslims are the villains.”

Grab some popcorn.

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

Barack Obama said in February that he wants to meet Pope Leo XIV.

I’m told there’s been more movement recently on that front.

Notably, Donald Trump hasn’t even picked up the phone to call the first U.S.-born pontiff.

Here’s what Obama said:

“I had the pleasure of getting to know Pope Francis pretty well. And he was legit. There are some figures — he’s one, the Dalai Lama is another — who, they’re how you hope they are. They kinda walk the walk.

And my sense of this new pope is he’s cut from that cloth. Somebody who worked in places that really needed help. And wasn’t just preaching from a pulpit, but getting his hands dirty trying to help people. So I’m looking forward to talking to him.

“I think we can.”

[Gordon Cole @sugrue_p]

@SqSehrish Aman is the father’s name

[Karim Emile Bitar @karimbitar]

“CIA had doubts about Israeli intelligence on a threat to Trump in Turkey that prompted an extraordinary secret flight.

CIA analysts called the reports of threats against Trump’s life “Israeli-derived, not U.S.-generated, and viewed as low confidence.” https://t.co/0NgwtMXDC5

[Gordon Cole @sugrue_p]

@Hot_Pepper76 TAPS