Vince

“I want to look back and be proud of my work—that I tried everything. Yes, I want to look back and know I was terrible at a variety of things.” ~ Jon Stewart

[Vince @vmfaurote]

@jdflynn “The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own' or one's 'real' life. The truth is of course that what one calls interruptions are precisely one's real life - the life God is sending one day by day…”
—C.S. Lewis

[Vince @vmfaurote]

@MassimoFaggioli @MassimoFaggioli That’s all good and fine, but SP and lifting of the excommunications likely also bore fruit in many souls. The hardness of one heart in malevolent reception of generosity, doesn’t mean all hearts received it equally poorly.

[Vince @vmfaurote]

@1goodtern “…and I proudly stand UP!”

~faceplants into tent~

[Vince @vmfaurote]

@PetriOP The more I see of each, I come to the same conclusion. I’m curious if WoF will stick to the seemingly excessive margins 🤔

[Vince @vmfaurote]

@JoshHochschild Gorgeous. Congratulations!

[Vince @vmfaurote]

@EndOfDaysWoman Cornbread bruschetta is a must.

[Vince @vmfaurote]

@Sensus_Fidelium It wasn’t the Vatican band. It was a visiting band.

[Vince @vmfaurote]

@RaymondArroyo Asking the Lord to hold your tongue while simultaneously not holding your tongue is not helpful. What is this supposed to achieve?

Also, it was a visiting band playing the song, not official Vatican pageantry. Prudence is great to debate, but not like a gossipy southern dame.

[Vince @vmfaurote]

@FrBMulcahyOP @FrCharles Gold 😂

[Vince @vmfaurote]

@GasBuddyGuy It’s $4.99 north of Indianapolis right now

[Vince @vmfaurote]

@RepShriThanedar This is repugnant. You can write information, data, and philosophical insight off as “fear-mongering”, but you are the one who is afraid to confront it on its own terms.

If information scares you—if its implications for dignity and rights scare you—then resign your office now.

[cow @cowincrisis]

that’s why no jeep wrangler ever jumped over the moon

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

We could metaphorically say that in the era of the “digital triumph,” political action that is truly oriented to the common good requires a return to the “analogue.” Perhaps this is the real antidote to a politics that often shouts, consists only of slogans and is incapable of responding to people’s actual needs.

[kevconrad 🚀🐘 @kevconrad2]

Unbelievable. We have personal iPhone footage from an astronaut going around the far side of the Moon capturing the Earth setting behind it.

[South Bend Cubs @SBCubs]

"There's a magic, in the sound of her name..."
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[Fr. Joshua J. Whitfield @frjoshTX]

For many, Catholicism becomes irritating precisely the moment they realize the Church in fact means what she says.

[Vince @vmfaurote]

@michaeljknowles Michael, when did the Pope support Iran having a nuclear weapon?

[James Martin, SJ @JamesMartinSJ]

Dear friends: I don’t know any Catholic in the United States, from the most traditional to the most progressive, who does not have strong feelings about the comments from President Trump and Vice President Vance about Pope Leo XIV. These include not only President Trump’s initial disrespectful Truth Social post about the Holy Father, but also Vice President Vance’s similarly disrespectful comments about Pope Leo having to be “careful” when he speaks about theology.

Let me share some of my own feelings. First of all, it is shocking that a President and Vice President would treat such a good, holy and learned man with such disdain. Imagine telling a man with the Holy Father’s learning and experience (and authority) that he doesn’t understand theology sufficiently. What’s more, imagine attacking him as, ridiculously, “weak on crime” or somehow not understanding foreign policy.

Second, I’m edified by Pope Leo’s charitable and courageous response to all this. Charitable because he has not responded in any way other than with charity and respect. As some of you may know, I know the Holy Father slightly, thanks to our being seated together at the Synod for two weeks, and know him to be a kind, reserved, discerning and highly intelligent person. In a word, holy.

But courageous too: as we have seen during his time in Algeria and Cameroon, Pope Leo has not shied away from continuing to preach the Gospel, and speaking out in favor of peace (and yes, he understands St. Augustine’s concept of the “just war”) and against, as he said today, tyrants and those who would use God’s name to support violence of bloodshed.

So, where will this all end? It’s hard to say. But I would imagine that now that the taboo has been broken, politicians will continue to denigrate him and thus try to persuade people, without saying it explicitly, to think that the Pope’s words do not need to be listened to.

But this will be in vain for two reasons. First, Pope Leo is clearly fearless. A few hours after he was elected as pope, I spoke with a fellow Augustinian priest who had known “Bob” for decades. “He’s a great listener, very kind and much loved.” Then he paused. “But he’s no pushover.” But the main reason that the Pope’s words will be heard is less about Robert Prevost’s own many virtues but something else: the Vicar of Christ will be heard because he is preaching the Gospel. As Jesus told his disciples, “Heaven and earth may pass away, but my words will never pass away.” So, in these strange times, fear not.

[Vince @vmfaurote]

@Franklin_Graham @realDonaldTrump You’ve sold out, and it is scandalous. If you go through the trouble of announcing you are not Catholic, then keep your opinions about the Holy Father to yourself. This is shameful.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic, and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth. #ApostolicJourney #Cameroon https://t.co/bKteFZ3iWE

[Jack Hunter @jackhunter74]

Trump: I’m gonna wipe out an entire civilization.

Pope: That’s wrong.

Vance: The pope should stick to questions of morality.