Robert Nugent

@BishopBarron It seems the White House has bought your silence on the war?

Friends, it’s an honor to serve on the White House Religious Liberty Commission. This week, we gathered in Washington, DC to discuss religious freedom in healthcare.  Please keep this important work in your prayers.

@EdwardPentin your account has been hacked

Back in the 60s the Beatles said they were more popular than God. This ⬇️ is a Beatles Moment. And God will act in his time

I was with Marija in Medjugorje this evening during an apparition she received. Pray for peace, Our Lady had prepared us for these times. Confess, go to mass, fast and pray the Rosary, read sacred scripture.

He didn’t walk out… HE BENT THE KNEE.

@BigModernism I can’t actually see any Pachamama statue in the photo.

The context is that he is kneeling before a pagan idol

In a Church that has done everything possible to stop laity kneeling for communion, these photos are painful. But I would very much like to know more about their context.

Pope highlights plight of vulnerable adults in abuse and meets with top Opus Dei critic AP and @nwinfield make some astute observations various elements of Pope Leo’s diary yesterday Is he sending a subtle message? apnews.com/article/vatica…

Pope Leo asked me to meet him in a private audience at the Vatican today I presented him with documents and evidence detailing decades of abuse inside Opus Dei and urged him to launch a full independent investigation into the group A THREAD 🧵

@gareth_gore drugging members to hide mental health, this is exactly what happened in the Legionaries of Christ under Fr. Marcial. Spiritual direction also was used to manipulate members, it was not confidential. Nothing was private.

RT @Lemelson: 𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗭𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗺 𝗘𝗫𝗣𝗢𝗦𝗘𝗗: 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗮 𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘆 𝗛𝗶𝗷𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮 | 𝗘𝗽 𝟰𝟭 A war is being waged—not just overseas, but for the soul of…

@Melody31Cecilia @sitsio In Spanish, turn on the English subtitles. Pope Leo is living in a new 4th floor apartment. Not in the 3rd floor where previous Popes lived. He has a new apartment

@DecreviD2BC @sitsio osvnews.com/in-a-return-to…

A small Vatican announcement can carry huge symbolism. Today the Holy See Press Office has confirmed that Pope Leo XIV will “take possession of the Apostolic Apartment” in the Apostolic Palace. At one level, this is simply practical. Every pope needs a residence. But in Vatican culture, these things are never just practical. For the past decade, the papal apartments have been empty, abandoned and unused as a residence. Pope Francis chose instead to live in the Domus Sanctae Marthae, presenting this as a sign of simplicity and a break with what he perceived as the “court” culture of the papacy, although others suggested it kept him closer to the gossip. That decision itself became symbolic. It was intended to communicate a particular vision of the papacy: Humble, less monarchical, more pastoral, more personal perhaps. This despite the fact that the papal apartments & associated costs did not disappear during the reign of Pope Francis. A return to the Apostolic Palace therefore signals something different. It quietly restores the normal pattern of the modern papacy, followed by popes such as John Paul II and Benedict XVI: the pope living and governing from the historic residence overlooking St. Peter's Square. This matters because the papacy is not simply a personal ministry. It is an office embedded in centuries of visible continuity. The Apostolic Palace embodies that continuity. It is the place from which popes have governed the Church, received heads of state, prayed, worked, and addressed the world. When a pope resides there, the symbolism shifts subtly from the personality of the man to the permanence of the office. In other words, this small logistical move may also signal something deeper: a desire to re-anchor the papacy visibly within its historical and institutional tradition. In Rome, even a change of address can be a theological statement.

@BishopBarron @WhiteHouse @Hillsdale Any comment on the 160 girls killed by American bomb?

Friends, this video is a part of the series “The Story of America," a collaboration between the @WhiteHouse and @Hillsdale in commemoration of the 250th anniversary of our nation’s founding. youtube.com/watch?v=pMi_EO…

@MLJHaynes Those candles are hideous

The Vatican’s new security measures around the High Altar are now in place. Comes after a number of incidents involving people climbing onto the altar & vandalising it. Video @MLJHaynes taken on Mar 12

Pathetic. What America has sunk to. The 160 little girls killed are not a game.

The funeral of Father Pierre El-Rahi, Maronite parish priest of a Christian village, is celebrated today in #Lebanon, as these villages once again experience the tragedy of war. I am close to all the Lebanese people in this time of grave trial. Fr. Pierre was a true shepherd. As soon as he heard that parishioners had been wounded in a bombing, he rushed to help without hesitation. May the Lord grant that the blood he shed become a seed of peace for beloved Lebanon. #PrayTogether

@NYCYvonne1 @BishopBarron There are hundreds of monasteries that are closing. It would cost millions to maintain such a monastery.

@BishopBarron @DecreviD2BC Do they have a third order to help with maintaining the monastery?

It was with real sadness that I learned that the monks of the Abbey of La Trappe in Normandy are considering closing down their operation. As the name suggests, this monastery is the mother house of the Trappist Order, a reform of the Cistercian movement and a particularly intense form of Benedictine life, famous for its austerity and silence. I came to know of La Trappe through Thomas Merton, a Trappist monk of the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky, whom I read with great passion when I was a young man. La Trappe shaped Merton, who in turn opened so much of the spiritual life to me. Founded over nine hundred years ago, La Trappe has survived the Black Death, the Hundred Years' War, the Protestant Reformation, the French Revolution, and the world wars of the twentieth century. That this venerable monastery cannot find enough vocations to keep it alive is, in my judgment, a sign of the spiritual disaster that has befallen Europe in the last hundred years: an ideological secularism that is rotting the soul of the West. Let's redouble our prayers that the monks of La Trappe might find a way to preserve their great Abbey. It is needed especially now.

RT @sitsio: Was Archbishop Lefebvre against Vatican II? You might be surprised to learn that he actually praised it. In a January 1966 lett…