#OTD in 1542, St. Francis Xavier, SJ, reached Goa, India, after more than a year’s journey. Here's Fr. Michael Rossmann, SJ, on why he still inspires us today: ow.ly/gZ7B50VNKh1
Bill McCormick, SJ
@bmccsj.bsky.social
Jesuit priest and political theorist (religion & politics); La Civiltà Cattolica
Fr. @bmccsj.bsky.social, a political scientist and writer at La Civiltà Cattolica in Rome, talks with AMDG about this moment of transition for the Church, including the mood in Rome, Pope Francis’ legacy and how Ignatian spirituality might inform our approach to the conclave. 🎧 ow.ly/QIwP50VMhJt
Vatican’s Caritas outraged at ‘reckless’ USAID cuts, says millions will die, others left in poverty apnews.com/article/vati...
Vatican's Caritas outraged at 'reckless' USAID cuts, says millions will die, others left in poverty
Caritas warned that millions of people will die as a result of the U.S. decision to stop USAID funding, and hundreds of millions more will be condemned to “dehumanizing poverty.”
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Feliz Fiesta de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe! Happy Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe! "Let not your heart be disturbed… Am I not here, who is your Mother? Are you not under my protection? Am I not your health? Are you not happily within my fold?...
News: Pope Francis on Wednesday called on the Syrian rebels who toppled the regime of President Bashar al-Assad to stabilise the country, and govern in a way that promotes national unity. For @reuters.com:
Pope Francis calls on Syrian rebels to stabilise country
Pope Francis on Wednesday called on the Syrian rebels who toppled the regime of President Bashar al-Assad to stabilise the country, and govern in a way that promotes national unity.
reuters.com
"In coming years... the ever-swelling data stream may become our dominant train of thought, our all-purpose apparatus for the work of sense-making and self-making." hedgehogreview.com/issues/in-ne...
All the Little Data
When we communicate using little data, we’re speaking the language of robots.
hedgehogreview.com
Restored baldacchino at St Peter's Basilica dazzles. Amazing job revitalizing Bernini's design.
Restored baldacchino at St Peter's Basilica dazzles. Amazing job revitalizing Bernini's design.
«La gente, chi dice che io sia?». Davvero Gesù è interessato al gossip sul suo conto, al sentiment popolare, alla chiacchiera, alla sua reputation sociale? Continua la mia lettura continua del Vangelo di Marco sul Fatto Quotidiano.
"The true measure of humanity is essentially determined in relationship to suffering and to the sufferer. This holds true both for the individual and for society...
Spe salvi (November 30, 2007) | BENEDICT XVI
Spe salvi, Encyclical of Pope Benedict XVI, Christian faith, christian hope, redemption, salvation
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The Josephites will ordain three to the transitional diaconate on Dec. 7—the second ordination this year for the Catholic religious community serving African Americans. The Nigerian-born ordinands currently serve in the society's apostolates in Louisiana. https://buff.ly/3VaJmjH
#PopeFrancis welcomed US Secretary of State Blinken to the Vatican early this morning. Afterward, Blinken met with Cardinal Parolin and Archbishop Gallagher of the Vatican Secretariat of State. (📸Vatican Media)
We often worry about the wrong things. People killed annually by Sharks 10 Elephants 100 Hippos 500 Snails 10,000 Dogs 25,000 Snakes 50,000 People 475,000 Mosquitoes 725,000 🧪
"And I remember thinking to myself that being such a lover of books, I was surprised it didn’t feel romantic to be written about. I felt kind of violated. All these painful experiences regurgitated and rearranged into fiction." - McCarthy's "muse," i.e., victim www.vanityfair.com/style/story/...
Cormac McCarthy’s Secret Muse Breaks Her Silence After Half a Century: “I Loved Him. He Was My Safety.”
When he was 42, Cormac McCarthy fell in love with a 16-year-old girl he met by a motel pool. Augusta Britt would go on to become one of the most significant—and secret—inspirations in literary history...
vanityfair.com
Distressing news about a great Catholic newspaper in New Orleans.
“Therefore any ascetic life or practice that is without love is a stranger to God.” -St. Maximus the Confessor
"Ratzinger’s distinctive emphasis on freedom’s need for truth, in other words, may have come not too late but too early to find a bipartisan hearing in the United States." www.americamagazine.org/faith/2018/0...
Did Benedict XVI predict the rise of Trump and fake news?
The dictatorship of relativism and the demise of objective reality
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"...mass deportation threatens to break up nearly 5 million American families" Important report from the Center for Migration Studies; h/t Brian Fraga/National Catholic Reporter cmsny.org/publications...
Proposed 2024 Mass Deportation Program Would Socially and Economically Devastate American Families - The Center for Migration Studies of New York (CMS)
In this report, we highlight the devastation of mass deportation on both undocumented residents and their US citizen and legal noncitizen families and communities.
cmsny.org
Faith's role in #Conclave movie from @ncronline.bsky.social today. www.ncronline.org/culture/inte...
Interview with Ralph Fiennes, Isabella Rossellini and Edward Berger on making 'Conclave'
NCR spoke with "Conclave" director Edward Berger and actors Ralph Fiennes and Isabella Rossellini about accuracy in liturgical portrayals, the role of faith in the creative process, and thoughts about...
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Happy Feast of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, Patron Saint of Immigrants: "My thoughts run to our many immigrants who arrive annually on the shores of the Atlantic, moving into the already overcrowded cities of the East, and there they encounter many difficulties and meager wages."
Is there any way to overcome the political polarization in our country? Yes. And I think the Synod can offer us some tools. After all, people from all over the world, with very different perspectives, were able to come together. Here's how: www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...
3 lessons from the synod for dealing with our post-election divisions
The fundamental insight of the synod was not only that attentive listening was helpful in decision making, but also that the Holy Spirit was at work in everyone.
americamagazine.org
An amazing offer from Commonweal Magazine today -- FREE print and digital subscription for a year in celebration of their 100-year anniversary. I can't recommend their work strongly enough. Pretty sure its one-day only so take advantage! subscribe.commonwealmagazine.org/CMW/?f=freet...
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I'm old enough to remember when no one was on this thing.
Hello, all. We're happy to join you! We'll have lots of Pope Francis photos and quotes ... it's what we do ... like this from Pablo Esparza at the pope's general audience this morning.
"Adult" is not a verb and this matters morally, not only aesthetically and grammatically.
