Eelco van Wel

Occasional modern explorer/adventure traveler/small-scale expeditioner. Likes (outdoor) sports. Follows (international) political news. 🇳🇱🇳🇿🇺🇸

[Lindsey Graham @LindseyGrahamSC]

Statement from the Office of U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina).

[Eelco van Wel @welve247]

May the Holy Cross be my light. May the dragon never be my guide. Begone Satan! Never tempt me with your vanities. What you offer me is evil. Drink the poison yourself.

Ora pro nobis, Sancte Benedictus.

#SaintBenedict

[Eelco van Wel @welve247]

The Great Erling Haaland.🇳🇴

Brazil still has too many problems to go deep in tournaments. A lot of work to do for Ancelotti. And what a sad ending for Neymar Jr.

#BRANOR #FIFAWorldCup

[RSBN 🇺🇸 @RSBNetwork]

FULL EVENT: America 250 Celebration Ends with World's Largest Fireworks Display - 07/04/26

[Secretary Marco Rubio @SecRubio]

For 250 years, America has been the greatest nation on Earth — and with God’s grace, it will be for 250 more.

Happy Independence Day!

[1776 Live @250YearsAgoLive]

Continental Congress HAS SIGNED A DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE! 

The UNITED STATES are OFFICIALLY INDEPENDENT from BRITAIN.

LIBERTY BELLS ring out throughout Philadelphia; the streets ERUPT IN ECSTASY.

[Eelco van Wel @welve247]

Happy 250th America!🇺🇸
On to the next 250 years of independence, freedom and greatness.🇺🇸

May all the American people have a wonderful day full of family bbq's, festivals, fireworks and/or what not.🇺🇸

#4thofjuly #independenceday #1776

[History Calendar @HistoryCalendar]

July 4, 1776 -- The United States Declaration of Independence is adopted by the Second Continental Congress.

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

HAPPY 250TH AMERICA!!!!

[Matthew McConaughey @McConaughey]

bets still on the table America, yet.

[1776 Live @250YearsAgoLive]

After South Carolina reverses its position, Continental Congress votes to declare INDEPENDENCE from Britain, adopting a legal separation from the Crown.

Charles Thomson, Secretary for Continental Congress, uses hash marks to note how many colonies voted for the severance from the Crown.

John Adams writes in a letter to his wife, Abigail, that “the second day of July, 1776 will be the most memorable epoch in American history.”

But although newspapers report the independence, no mass celebrations break out.

[Michael Haynes 🇻🇦 @MLJHaynes]

NEW: The Vatican has published the process for “reconciliation” of priests & lay faithful from the SSPX ----

Both priests & lay must sign a Profession of Faith and Declaration of Adherence

Priests must be “willing to accept the Second Vatican Council and the legitimacy of the novus ordo Missae, even while remaining attached to the usus antiquior”

Laity not deemed under Vatican's censures & thus with no need to "reconcile" include:
“Laypeople who have attended the Priestly Fraternity of St. Pius X solely for liturgical or spiritual reasons; Laypeople who, while aware of the tensions with the Holy See, do not reject the Magisterium or the authority of the Roman Pontiff.”

“Reconciliation” process is most complicated for clerics & involves:
1. finding an Ordinary
2. writing to the Pope
3. showing certificate of ordination
4. signing the Profession & Declaration
5. having the Ordinary vouch to Holy See that he is willing to take the priest under his jurisdiction ad experimentum

[Karli Bonne’ 🇺🇸 @KarluskaP]

Happy 250 America 🇺🇸

[Eelco van Wel @welve247]

Waarom honderdduizenden bezoekers een heel ander Amerika zien dan Europese media dagelijks beschrijven https://t.co/U3kwsVEY8o via @ewmagazinenl

[Raymond Mens @raymondmens]

Dit is heel tof: Trump bezoekt de presidentiële bibliotheek van zijn verre voorganger, Teddy Roosevelt.
Daar praat Amerika’s 47e president meg een AI-versie van de 26e president.