Jason Azzopardi

In the era of #ArtificialIntelligence, when human dignity is threatened by new forms of dehumanization, ours is the pressing duty to remain profoundly human. We must lovingly safeguard the grandeur of humanity bestowed upon us and revealed in its fullness in Christ, the splendor of which no machine can ever replace. #MagnificaHumanitas vatican.va/content/leo-xi…

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During the Wednesday General Audience, Pope Leo XIV greeted His Holiness Aram I, Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church—See of Cilicia, who joined him on the stage in St. Peter’s Square. The Pope invited everyone to pray for peace in Lebanon and the Middle East and also highlighted how Catholicos Aram I’s visit is an opportunity to “strengthen the bonds of unity that already exist between us, as we draw closer to full communion between our Churches.”

Mit einem Ehepaar, das vor kurzem seinen 22-jährigen Sohn verloren hatte, betete Papst Leo XIV. heute Abend in Castel Gandolfo gemeinsam und spendete den Trauernden seinen Segen sowie Worte des Trostes. Vor seiner Rückkehr in den Vatikan nahm er sich Zeit für die Pilger.

Pope Leo XIV will present a major Church document on artificial intelligence next week and he will be joined by Chris Olah, the billionaire co-founder of Anthropic. Read more: forbes.com/sites/conormur… Photo: Andreas Solaro/AFP via Getty Images

New Apostolic Nuncio Mgr Wojciech Załuski lands in Malta mrf.lu/7FMb

Andy Serkis czytający tweety Trumpa głosem Golluma. Umarłem.

How do you even explain Italy to someone who’s never been there? 🇮🇹✨

Zsolt Hegedus, the leading candidate for health minister in Hungary's new government, recreated his viral dance complete with air guitar moves on parliament steps as tens of thousands gathered in Budapest for Peter Magyar's inauguration as prime minister reut.rs/4dgB4PC

The new government of Hungary after inauguration. Never been so cool to be Hungarian.

Two months into his pontificate, a man named Robert Prevost picked up the phone from the Vatican and called his bank in South Chicago. He wanted to update the phone number on his account. The teller asked the standard security questions, and he answered every one of them. Then her screen flagged his file: any further changes had to be made in person, at the branch, with a photo ID. Coming in person would not be possible, he told her, in the polite tone of a man who knew the answer before he asked the question. The teller apologized. He paused, then asked: “Would it matter to you if I told you I’m Pope Leo?” She hung up on him. thelettersfromleo.com/p/would-it-mat…

Winston Churchill fought his depression with bricks. He'd lay them for hours at his country home in Kent. He joined the bricklayers' union. And in 1921 he wrote about why it worked. It took psychology another 75 years to catch up. He called his depression the "Black Dog." It followed him for decades. His method for fighting it back was as basic as it sounds: laying brick after brick, hour after hour. Churchill spelled out his theory in a long essay for The Strand Magazine. People who think for a living, he wrote, can't fix a tired brain just by resting it. They have to use a different part of themselves. The part that moves the eyes and the hands. Woodworking, chemistry, bookbinding, bricklaying, painting. Anything that drags the body into a problem the mind can't solve by itself. Modern psychology now calls this behavioral activation. It's one of the most-studied depression treatments out there. Depression sets a behavior trap. You feel bad, so you stop doing things, and doing less means less to feel good about. Feeling worse makes you do even less. The loop tightens until you can't breathe inside it. Behavioral activation breaks the loop from the action side. You schedule the activity first, even when every part of you doesn't want to. Doing it produces small rewards: a wall gets straighter, a painting fills in, a messy room gets clean. Those small rewards slowly rewire the brain. Action comes first, and the feeling follows. Researchers at the University of Washington put this to the test in 2006. They studied 241 adults with major depression and compared three treatments: behavioral activation, regular talk therapy, and antidepressants. For the people who were most severely depressed, behavioral activation matched the drugs. It beat the talk therapy. A 2014 review of more than 1,500 patients across 26 trials backed up the result. Physical work like bricklaying does something extra on top of this. It crowds out rumination, the looping bad thoughts that grind people down during the worst stretches of depression. Bricklaying needs both hands and gives feedback brick by brick: each one is straight or crooked. After an hour you can see exactly how much wall you built. No room left for the mental chewing. The line George Mack used in his post, "depression hates a moving target," is good poetry. The science behind it is sharper. Depression hates a brain that has somewhere else to be.

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47' - Szoboszlai gets one back with a brilliant solo goal early in the second half! 👊 [2-1] #MUNLIV

Labour is presenting flexible work as something new. It isn’t. The Prime Minister will find those rights already in force in the Work Life Balance Directive I negotiated. Improving them, just as @PNmalta has been calling for since day one, would be better late than never.

The US Attorney for DC, Jeanine Ferris Pirro, posted a video showing Cole Allen shooting a Secret Service officer during the alleged White House Correspondents' Dinner assassination attempt. The FBI will continue the investigation. Written by @JamesGenn jpost.com/international/…

Let us #PrayTogether that everyone, from large producers to small consumers, be committed to avoid wasting food, and to ensure that everyone has access to quality food. #PrayerIntention @clicktopray_en popesprayer.va/praywiththepop…

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