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Austen Ivereigh

4 months

Now available: *First Belong to God: On Retreat with Pope Francis*: 8-day Spiritual Exercises drawing on his talks as Jesuit and teachings as Pope, plus a Foreword by him. @loyolapress (world) and @MgrPublications (Europe). Soon in Spanish @LoyolaGC .

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Austen Ivereigh

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3 years

Here’s a crib scene you don’t see often: Joseph taking the baby to allow Mary to sleep.

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50 priests have died of Corona in Italy: the youngest 45 yo, the eldest 104 yo. Most were active, and died serving the people, without funerals. Pastors who smelled of their sheep, who died for and among them.

I 50 preti morti. Il Papa: «Pastori che stanno vicino alla gente»

La dolente conta fatta da Avvenire, quotidiano della Cei

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6 years

Pope Francis told couple he married: “Don’t have your wedding rings so tight that they torture you, but not so loose that they fall off”.

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Papa Francisco les preguntó si todavía querian casarse, ellos le dijeron que sí y el Papa les dijo: “Las argollas no las usen apretadas para que no los torturen, pero tampoco tan sueltas que se les puedan caer” 👰🏼🤵🏻🥂✈️🇻🇦 @CNNChile

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Uffff. “Therefore, I resign. Not only do I resign, I encourage others to resign from the Knights of Columbus. I stand with my archbishop in this controversy. He was right." via @ncronline

I'm done with the Knights of Columbus

Priestly Diary: I have been a member of the Knights for 33 years. But now, I am quitting. Because the top brass injected the Knights into a partisan campaign at a moment of crisis in our national...

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“Friends I want to be clear with you … In the Church there is room for everyone, for EVERYONE, and no one is superfluous — for the one who makes mistakes, for the one who falls … REPEAT AFTER ME: EVERYONE!! For me, for you ….” #JMJ2023

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3 years

When the pope, the Vatican, moral theologians have all made clear that vaccinations are not only morally licit but demanded by the common good and fraternity, for a bishop to claim the precise opposite is a public act of repudiation of the communion to which he claims to belong.

Brian Fraga 🇺🇸 🇵🇹 🇻🇦

@BrianFragaNCR

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The archconservative Catholic bishop of Tyler, Texas, on Covid-19 vaccines and mandates: "To coerce someone, to mandate that you do something that you know is immoral — you know, that's what people have died for in the past...."

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Benedict XVI told bishops at the time of his 2007 Summorum Pontificum that it would be reviewed if it created problems. Francis has consulted the bishops of the world and they say it has. What was meant to foster unity has been used to sow division and opposition to Vatican II.

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2 years

Solidarity with Bishop Alvarez, a pastor of the people in Nicaragua and now unjustly imprisoned by its government.

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5 years

What a stunningly prayerful way to honour the Word of God. #sinodoamazonico

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Pope to impose sanctions on Cardinal Raymond Burke, including removal of his Vatican privileges (monthly salary, big apartment) following years of the cardinal attacking, accusing and undermining the authority of the pope to whom he promised obedience.

Le accuse al Papa dei cardinali conservatori Usa, la reazione di Francesco contro Burke: cosa...

La scorsa settimana, papa Francesco ha fatto capire ai capi dei dicasteri varicani che la guerra scatenata contro di lui dal fronte conservatore Usa avrà conseguenze: in arrivo «provvedimenti di...

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5 years

One cannot help but imagine that Cardinal Newman, a famous opponent of papal infallibility, would delight to be canonised on Oct 13 by a pope who admits mistakes, calls himself a sinner, dislikes being put on a pedestal, & has restored the role of conscience. #Newmansaint #Newman

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2 years

No individual should have $44 billion to spend. On anything.

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7 months

Sometimes they look so alike.

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1 year

Asked on Italian television what his favourite TV programs were as a young man, Pope says: ”I’ll let you into a secret. When I was young we didn’t have television.”

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Even in the USA, centre of the right-wing opposition to Francis, his popularity among Catholics remains close to 80%. Confirms yet again that while resistance is well-funded and vicious, most Catholics see it for what it is, and Francis for what he is.

58% of Americans, 77% of U.S. Catholics View Pope Favorably

The pope is viewed in a largely favorable light by Americans -- though less so among conservatives.

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2 years

Many things are said of Pope Francis, but seldom the truest thing: He is a spiritual master with deep knowledge of the ways of the Spirit and its enemy; and a great teacher, who shows us, simply and practically, how to follow the first and reject the second. From today’s homily:

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5 years

“The Vatican listed the audience with the Rev. James Martin among the pope’s daily activities, in a sign that Francis wanted it publicized ... [T]he implicit message was a public vote of confidence in Martin’s ministry.” @nwinfield on @JamesMartinSJ

Pope meets with Jesuit targeted by right for gay outreach

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis met privately Monday with an American Jesuit who has been attacked by conservative U.S.

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To the persecuted Christians of Iraq Francis has just given one of the finest homilies of his pontificate on the Beatitudes.

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In battle to reform Vatican, Pope enlists extra help.

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4 years

Delighted to announce that Pope Francis has given me a wide-ranging interview on living under Corona crisis which will be published tomorrow morning by @The_Tablet in the UK and @commonwealmag in the US, and freely available on those sites from 06:30 London (07:30 Rome).

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5 years

This is one of the hardest things for successful people in performance-driven western cultures to grasp.

Pope news

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5 years

Pope: The Lord does not work miracles with those who consider themselves righteous, but with those who know themselves needy. He is not attracted by our goodness; that is not why he loves us. He loves us just as we are.

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Austen Ivereigh

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I get the need to be hardline: to be prophetic, to be a sign of contradiction. What I don’t get is why you would choose to be absurdly selective. Why not death penalty, gun control, dehumanising of migrants? Why not be hardline about the Gospel?

Christopher White

@cwwhiteNCR

3 years

NEW: Amid the growing calls among conservative Catholics to deny Biden Communion, @ArchCordileone has released a new letter calling for public figures who support abortion to be barred from the sacrament. my @NCRonline report:

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An 86 yo pope is flying 9 hours across east Asia to bring the closeness of God to a tiny number of people in the world’s largest landlocked country. Let’s pray for him, for the noble people of Mongolia, and for great fruits from this bold mission.

Christopher White

@cwwhiteNCR

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The long route that will take #PopeFrancis from Rome to Ulaanbaatar (which will include the pope flying over China).

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4 years

Another cardinal goes down over abuse — and on the eve of the publication of the McCarrick report. Francis is deadly serious about eradicating abuse from the Church.

Paulina Guzik

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Card. Henryk Gulbinowicz of Wroclaw, Poland, banned from public ministry, using bishops’ insignia and future honorary funeral, Nunziature in Poland announced today following sex abuse and abuse of power investigation. He is told to donate to st Joseph Fund helping victims.

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Pope tells 1.5m young people: “I want to look each of you in the eye and tell you: do not be afraid …. Shine with the light of Christ. Listen to Him that you too might be light to the world. And be not afraid, for the Lord loves you and walks by your side.”

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7 months

Happy 87th birthday, dear Pope Francis. Ad multos annos! 🎉🎂🎈

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9 months

It’s a thing:

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4 years

Friends: I have some happy news: a rather special book, out Dec 1 in English and Spanish and other langs.

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2 years

Said in front of world leaders: “People of loving service are rare in any walk of life. Leaders of loving service are still rarer. But in all cases those who serve will be loved and remembered when those who cling to power and privileges are long forgotten.” @JustinWelby

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The Guardian on Pope Francis: “there is no spiritual leader making these arguments against unrestrained capitalism and environmental destruction as forcefully and to such an audience as Francis does in the global south today.”

The Guardian view on Pope Francis: a voice in the wilderness | Editorial

Editorial: No other spiritual leader is speaking out so clearly for the poor and for the environment in the developing world

www.theguardian.com

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3 years

And yet he says he would deny communion to politicians whose sincere conscience has led them to conclude that abortion should not be criminalized. Why should conscience be legitimately exercised and respected in one case yet not the other? Baffling.

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2 years

Blessed are the pizzamakers

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5 years

A group of 19 concerned Scribes have written to the Sanhedrin urging them to act to condemn a Galilee preacher who has stopped the stoning of an adulterer, lunched with tax collectors and welcomed sinners. LifeSite News has published their letter.

Reuters | Breaking International News & Views

Find latest news from every corner of the globe at Reuters.com, your online source for breaking international news coverage.

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1 year

Delighted, surprised, excited and humbled to be invited by @Synod_va to serve in the group of “experts / facilitators” at the historic assembly in October, where conversation in the Spirit will be the first time embedded in the synod methodology. And what a great group …

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2 years

We confess: Putin did the same thing before, in Syria, yet we did not then open our homes to those fleeing, we did not impose massive sanctions, we did not care for Syrians as we now do for Ukrainians, even though all are God’s children. We confess.

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Differenze?

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5 years

The Basilica of St Peter’s is filled right now with a congregation Francis is delighted to have: homeless people, poor families, migrants #worlddayofthepoor

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Comienza en #SanPedro la #Misa por la #JornadaMundialDeLosPobres La basílica llena de personas sin hogar, familias con pocos recursos, inmigrantes. @COPE

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3 years

We decided St Francis should be looking outward, praising God in creation, rather than staring at our stairs.

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2 years

Pope to priests: “Clericalism is a perversion because it is based not on closeness but on distance. When I think of clericalism, I also think of the clericalization of the laity: the creation of a small elite around the priest who end up betraying their own essential mission.”

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2 years

The Catholic Church’s position is that both abortion and the death penalty are wrong. A bishop who denies the Eucharist to Catholic politicians who back the first but not those who back the second preach not the Gospel but the GOP platform, & confuse and scandalise the faithful.

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2 years

This👇🏼There is only one thing worse than politicizing the Eucharist, and that is politicizing the Eucharist inconsistently, for partisan ideological reasons.

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When the former Attorney General William Barr, a Catholic, played a key role in reviving the federal death penalty I don't remember conservative bishops clamoring to deny him Communion. 1/4

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Cdl Sarah has accused the Pope of heresy, violating the solemn oath before God he took as a cardinal.He must now hand back his red hat. If he is convinced in conscience, he must stay silent, trusting history & God to vindicate him. That is prophecy. All else is power politics.

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11 months

There is room in the Church for everyone, even for those who think there shouldn’t be room in the Church for everyone.

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@austeni

11 months

“Friends I want to be clear with you … In the Church there is room for everyone, for EVERYONE, and no one is superfluous — for the one who makes mistakes, for the one who falls … REPEAT AFTER ME: EVERYONE!! For me, for you ….” #JMJ2023

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3 years

An extract in @guardian from a book by former Bank of England chairman (& Canadian Catholic) Mark Carney begins with this fascinating anecdote about Francis.

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3 years

Pope hugged just now in Greek refugee camp. They told him: “we need you to plead for us.” He will. #PopeinGreece

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3 years

Great line from the papal preacher: “Tradition is the living faith of the dead; traditionalism is the dead faith of the living.”

Catholic News Service Rome

@CatholicNewsSvc

3 years

+Cantalamessa: the Holy Spirit renews the vessel that contains it; this is why tradition-dogma is always new. Tradition is the living faith of the dead, traditionalism is the dead faith of the living. #Lent #PopeFrancis

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5 years

Jean Vanier, founder of L’Arche, prophet and beautiful human being, died this morning. His final message: “God is good and whatever happens it will be the best. I am happy and give thanks for everything. My deepest love to each one of you”

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E' morto Jean Vanier, fondatore de L'Arche. La preghiera del Papa - Vatican News

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1 year

Days after he was installed as bishop of San Sebastián in northern Spain, ⁦⁦ @ferpradocmf ⁩ banned his diocesan TV station from carrying ⁦ @EWTN ⁩ content in order to “favour the diocese’s communion with the Successor of St Peter”.

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Warm, engaging, thoughtful, funny - and gracious, greeting each of the crew in person, giving them his time and presence, because everyone has dignity and value. Francis acts in his interview on @60Minutes in *precisely* the same way as he acts in the meetings he has every day.

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When 60 Minutes interviewed Pope Francis, he insisted on shaking everyone's hand in the room, including our entire crew. @NorahODonnell describes the pope as warm, engaging, thoughtful, and funny.

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Lovely letter from Pope Francis to the Peruvian father of liberation theology, Fr Gustavo Gutiérrez, on his 90th birthday. Thanks him for his theological service to Church & humanity thru preferential option for the poor and the excluded.

Rafael Luciani

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Mensaje de @Pontifex_es al P. Gustavo Gutiérrez OP, fundador de la Teología de la Liberación

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Pope Francis today: “We must never forget that God is not frightened by our sins, our mistakes, our falls, but he is frightened by the closure of our hearts, by our lack of faith in his love."

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5 years

Simply and beatifully put.

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Bishop Stowe: Pro-Lifers Should Not Sport Slogans of President Who Denigrates and Endangers Immigrants

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Pope drops August bombshell: “I’m writing a Laudato Si Part 2 to bring it up to date with current problems.”

El Papa anuncia que ya trabaja en una nueva encíclica: la "segunda parte" de Laudato Si

"Los tiempos de crisis social, económica, de identidad y de seguridad desafían a las democracias occidentales a responder eficazmente a estas crisis, permaneciendo fieles a sus principios; principios...

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4 years

If the Vatican made human rights compliance a precondition of its engagement it would lose all influence in the world. And it certainly couldn’t have relations with the US. The agreement with China ensures a dialogue. It may be many years before it achieves anything tangible.

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Two years ago, the Holy See reached an agreement with the Chinese Communist Party, hoping to help China's Catholics. Yet the CCP’s abuse of the faithful has only gotten worse. The Vatican endangers its moral authority, should it renew the deal.

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2 years

Nice moment at the end of our meeting this afternoon with Pope Francis: women asked for a women-only photo with him. #Frascati22

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5 years

Wonderful words from Prince Charles at Collefio Urbano on how Newman’s Trinitarian theology underpinned his embrace of difference. #NewmanCanonisation

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3 years

Francis to Slovak Jesuits on (probably) @EWTN & vicious critics in general: “the work of the devil”.

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2 years

Powerful examination of conscience from @Pontifex today. When we meet opposition to our attempts to do the Lord’s work, do we get angry, seek revenge, because we didn’t get the applause we deserve? Or do we follow Jesús’s way, and press on quietly and resolutely elsewhere?

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3 years

Praying the Veni Creator Spiritus at the start of the #synod , the biggest popular consultation in human history and a threshold moment for the global Catholic Church.

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3 years

Argentina wins Copa América, Italy the Euro, as an Argentine Bishop of Rome emerges intact after surgery. Just sayin.

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2 years

We had a busy night 🐑🐑🐑

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3 years

In what will become known as the “Nephew Socks Letter”, Francis scores a triple: defends a great pastor from his detractors, tells LGBT people that God is close to them, and teaches Gospel truths absent from March CDF letter contra same-sex blessings.

Pope praises James Martin's ministry to gay Catholics

Pope Francis has given a powerful endorsement of Fr James Martin’s ministry to gay Catholics in a letter to the Jesuit priest.

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Imagine being a US Colorado Catholic millionaire who dies, and faces the judgement of Matthew 25. You were given millions to spend attending to the needs of the poor at your gate, yet blew it on denouncing gay priests to their bishops. Oh dear.

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A group of conservative Colorado Catholics has spent millions of dollars to buy mobile app tracking data that identified priests who used gay dating and hookup apps and then shared it with bishops around the country.

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4 years

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

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Abortion is health care.

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Taking the Gospel to the ends of the earth. And a bit beyond.

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Not Babel. Pentecost. And one of us is wearing the socks to prove it. #synod2023

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“It is difficult to overstate what a repudiation of Pope Francis the selection of Broglio to lead the conference is. He is the one bishop in the U.S. with long-standing tensions with the pope, tensions that goes back to Broglio's work with Sodano.” ⁦

Bishops elect anti-Francis archbishop as new president

The U.S. bishops have sent a clear message of rejection to Pope Francis by selecting Archbishop Timothy Broglio, who heads the Archdiocese for the Military Services, as president of the bishops'...

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The difference a century makes: #Francis10 @stambrose

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Thank you @BristolAirport for providing free water-filling stations so we don’t have to pay through the nose for water in throwaway plastic bottles that have been transported using fossil fuels (etc. etc.) Also for giving me a chance to show off my #LaudatoSi bottle.

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“During a first-of-its-kind, on-board joint press conference, the leaders of the three Christian churches…offered a rare and united front … against condemning LGBTQ persons, with all 3 strongly voicing opposition to the criminalization of homosexuality.”

Benedict XVI's death has been 'instrumentalized' by agenda-driven church leaders, Pope Francis says

In a press conference aboard the papal plane, Pope Francis addressed recent moves by his critics and joined leaders of two other Christian churches in condemning the criminalization of LGBTQ persons.

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No mention of the obligation of love, nor of the imperative of the common good. Nothing about care for the vulnerable, nor consideration for over-worked health carers. Nor even the duty to inform our consciences. Just an appeal to the sovereignty of individual choice. Amazing.

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I fully support every person who makes a free choice to be vaccinated. I also fully support every person who makes a free choice not to be vaccinated. It must be their free, personal choice. God gave us free will, let us use it. No mandates.

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The day after an attempt by Viganò to mobilise his followers and friends (incl. cards Müller, Sarah and Zen) against the Vatican, Pope Francis calmly notes how the Spirit creates harmony in the Church, and the bad spirit seeks to destroy it.

Diego Fares

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Francisco: El Espíritu crea la armonía de la Iglesia; el mal espíritu busca destruirla y hace alianza con los poderes temporales. Siempre esta lucha! Cuánto trabajo, cuánto martirio! Pero la Iglesia va adelante en medio de las consolaciones de Dios y las persecuciones del mundo.

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Children in paediatric ward of hospital where Pope is recovering from hernia operation have sent him a message: “Don’t be scared, we are with you.” 😍🤒

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From the children’s ward in the Pope’s hospital today

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Only in the USA do conservative bishops line up under the cloak of anonymity to bitch about the pope in a book. It’s cowardly, undermines communion, poisons trust, and undermines their claim to be church leaders.

New book examines conservative Catholics, and it isn't pretty

Francis Maier's True Confessions interviews bishops, clergy and laity providing an insider's look at the conservative wing of the Catholic Church.

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9 months

Given today’s topics the women of #synod2023 thought it was time for a group pic ….

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3 years

The Our Father, said in Aramaic, close to how it must have sounded when Jesus taught it.

Javier Martínez-Brocal

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Así suena el padrenuestro en una variante del arameo que podría ser muy cercana a la que usó Jesús. Lo han rezado ante el Papa en Bagdad. #PapaenIrak

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Portuguese commentators saying 1.5m at Tejo Park is biggest ever gathering on Portuguese soil.

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Pope praying for a world under threat of a virus: “A thick darkness has grown over our squares, cities and streets.” #UrbietOrbi

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Homily this morning: “Priests don’t drop out of the sky. They come from families. Every priest is someone’s son or daughter.” 🤭

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Austen Ivereigh

@austeni

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Jesus was accused by Pharisees of undermining the law, yet he was fulfilling it. Today’s Catholic pharisees claim Francis is undermining church teaching, yet he is fulfilling it. The distorting lens in both cases is INVIDIA — an envious blindness.

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Austen Ivereigh

@austeni

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Sure, it’s cafeteria Catholicism, but of a new kind. They don’t just pick from the menu but they shout at the waiters, insult the cook and claim that only they know what true coffee is.

James Martin, SJ

@JamesMartinSJ

5 years

As we've seen, some of the same people who used to say that disagreeing with the Pope was tantamount to dissent are now disagreeing with Francis on a daily basis, and even questioning his legitimacy. Welcome to the cafeteria.

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Austen Ivereigh

@austeni

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“If it had been Pope Francis who questioned Limbo, he would have been condemned by conservatives for challenging church dogma.”⁦ @ThomasReeseSJ ⁩ on Benedict’s radical overturning of centuries-old doctrine that no one seemed to mind.

Pope Benedict 'closed' Limbo and no one complained

(RNS) — The church can never admit that something it was teaching or doing for centuries was dumb.

religionnews.com

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Austen Ivereigh

@austeni

2 years

Our work is done. Y’day synthesis doc signed off by @Synod_va council. We met Pope Francis, who thanked us. And at our concluding liturgy @cardinal_jch invited us to “dispossess” ourselves of the document, which now goes out to assist discernment of universal Church. #Frascati22

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Austen Ivereigh

@austeni

4 years

The paradox of the pope’s stunning address was that, while he prayed for an end to the virus, he was also opening us to the graces — the conversion opportunity— the crisis offers.

Cindy Wooden

@Cindy_Wooden

4 years

#PopeFrancis blessing the city and the world, looking out over an empty St. Peter's Square as the rain pours down.

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Austen Ivereigh

@austeni

6 months

The very prospect is enough to keep fundamentalists awake at night, bathed in a cold sweat.

Cindy Wooden

@Cindy_Wooden

6 months

#PopeFrancis : "This isn't dogma, just my thought: I like to think of hell as being empty. I hope it is."

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Austen Ivereigh

@austeni

2 years

McElroy is very much aligned with the bishops of the world, who are horrified by politicisation of Eucharist by large part of US episcopate. In world church terms, Cordileone et al are the outliers, and they glory in it.

James Martin, SJ

@JamesMartinSJ

2 years

@robinrome @Pontifex @antoniospadaro @CardinalBCupich @CardinalJWTobin @austeni @GibsonWrites @gerryorome @cwwhiteNCR @ctrlamb The implication seems to be that Bishop McElroy is an "outlier." He may be an "outlier" in terms of some of the other US bishops, but he is very much in line with vision of the Holy Father.

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Austen Ivereigh

@austeni

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My book *FIRST BELONG TO GOD: ON RETREAT WITH POPE FRANCIS* will be out mid-Feb 2024 with @loyolapress and @MgrPublications . 8-day Spiritual Exx drawing on his talks as a Jesuit & cardinal plus teachings as pope. Plus a foreword by him. Available to pre-order from UK & US Amazon.

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@austeni

30 days

The way we treat the Eucharist in the rich west too often reflects our individualistic, consumerist culture. We can treat it as fuel, sustenance, consolation — for us, for me. Something we “have” or “do”. Francis in yesterday’s Angelus reminds us what the Eucharist really is:

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Austen Ivereigh

@austeni

3 years

The Tridentine Mass is not the Mass of the apostles, which is theologically speaking the Mass of the bishops in unity with the Pope, which has developed over time. In terms of language and ritual, the closest Mass to that of the apostles is the Syrian rite.

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Austen Ivereigh

@austeni

1 year

A bishop in a small, ultra-rich enclave of Texas, who was radicalised by TLM advocates at the WYD in 2016 in Poland, has now formally declared the break with Rome he has long hinted at. The people of God deserve pastors, not ideologues.

Where Peter Is

@Where_Peter_is

1 year

Joseph Strickland, the highly controversial bishop of Tyler, Texas, announced this evening on Twitter, "I believe Pope Francis is the Pope but it is time for me to say that I reject his program of undermining the Deposit of Faith. Follow Jesus."

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Austen Ivereigh

@austeni

5 years

Extraordinary how a pregnant woman, a peaceful, innocent depiction of life and love, provokes such horror in supposedly pro-life, traditional Catholics. It’s as someone had whipped out a crucifix at a gathering of vampires.

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Austen Ivereigh

@austeni

4 years

As an example of vanity, pope this morning lamented how liturgies can become a fashion show, with ostentatious vestments and desire to be bigger and better. One wonders who he has in mind ...

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Austen Ivereigh

@austeni

3 years

Pope tells POTUS he can take Communion, and he does — in Rome. So what a bishop in Texas, or Kazakhstan, says — or a superannuated cardinal on Arroyo — is literally of no consequence.

Philip Pullella

@PhilipPullella

3 years

Biden takes communion, where he and his wife Jill attended Mass at Rome's American community church a day after meeting Pope Francis, who Biden said told him he was a "good Catholic" who could receive the sacrament. @jeffmason1

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Austen Ivereigh

@austeni

7 years

For an astonishing example of the lack of sensibility produced by secularization, visit the UK’s leading supermarket.

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Austen Ivereigh

@austeni

6 months

First copies of my first spirituality book are here … and they look great! Thank you @MgrPublications and @loyolapress for publishing #FirstBelongtoGod — an 8-day Ignatian retreat drenched in the wisdom and insights of humanity’s spiritual director. (And he wrote the foreword).

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Austen Ivereigh

@austeni

4 years

Given that there are just a handful of you that are confused, I’d like to propose a 15-minute Zoom in which I will explain why the pope’s remarks are clear, orthodox and transparent. 5 minutes of me explaining then 10 mins q&a. How about it?

Alexander Tschugguel

@ATschugguel

4 years

No confusion anymore! Respectfully we ask for clarity! #clarity #roma #PopeFrancis

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Austen Ivereigh

@austeni

2 years

Highest of praise from the Pope for one of the great Catholic communicators of our time:

Gerard O'Connell

@gerryorome

2 years

Pope Francis recommended Fr. James Martin’s book “Learning to Pray” to Vatican communicators, Nov. 12. “Read it bec it will teach you to pray”, he said. He praised the American Jesuit as “a man of values”+”a communicator who knows how to teach the way to communicate with God”

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Austen Ivereigh

@austeni

3 years

Sometimes you just need pictures. #PopeInIraq

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Austen Ivereigh

@austeni

4 years

A nice delivery this morning .... #LetUsDream

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Austen Ivereigh

@austeni

3 years

As Pope Francis says, it’s an act of love for the good of others, especially the poor and vulnerable. Of course it is not mandatory. Love is not mandatory. We can always choose not to love, and to ignore Christ’s commands.

James W. Stroud

@jameswstroud

3 years

As a Catholic moral theologian, I’d like to re-affirm the position that Catholics can in good conscience reject the use of the COVID-19 vaccination. There is no Catholic doctrine or dogma that teaches vaccinations are mandatory.

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