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Che cos’è un “segreto pontificio”? #PapaLeone

“Democrats trying to normalize Piker are making a mistake. He is not just a cool, edgy guy who wants universal health care. Nor is he disliked simply because he speaks up for Palestinians, as his supporters would claim. The core problem with Hasan Piker is that he is, at the most basic level, an ideological authoritarian. He promotes violence and repression whenever that violence and repression have a socialist lean.” thedispatch.com/article/hasan-…

Right before Easter, @DouthatNYT noted that any Catholic revival that didn't incl the working class wasn't worthy of the name. @ryanburge, @blucollarbible, @CSJWorker, etc confirmed for us: there's no blue collar boom. And here's why: ncregister.com/news/catholic-…

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Without a doubt, our best trail camera capture yet: the first documented observation of a cougar with kittens in Minnesota in modern history. Turn up the volume to hear all the vocalizations. The footage, which was captured on March 25, shows a cougar with 3 large kittens while they feed on a deer they killed just south of Voyageurs National Park. We captured this surreal footage because we started a study to understand the survival and mortality patterns of deer in our area this winter. As part of that work, we GPS-collared several deer in the area in January.  In late March, we received a mortality signal from a GPS-collared deer and found the carcass buried under a pile of leaves on a hillside—a tell tale sign of feline predation.  We suspected it was likely a bobcat but thought, just possibly, it could be a cougar. So we put up two trail cameras on the cached deer carcass and 4 hours later, two cougar kittens returned to the kill. The entire family showed up that evening and spent hours in front of our cameras. In total, we captured 7.3 hr (435 minutes) of video footage of these animals. We will share more footage soon! Huge thanks to the Minnesota Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund for supporting the Voyageurs Wolf Project and the recent effort to understand deer survival in the area. Their support was critical to this observation—without it, we would never have captured this footage. And huge thanks to the >10,600 donors who have supported our project and enabled us to purchase trail cameras supplies. The cameras (and batteries, SD cards, mounts) we set at this kill were purchased with funds from donations.

This is very good x.com/MFMClavier/sta…

Just war theory has its place, but is “the wrong starting point,” Cardinal Cupich said. The first question we should ask is not, “Can this war be justified?” but rather, “What does the Gospel demand of us now? What does it mean, concretely, to be peacemakers?”

Hi everyone, it’s been awhile since I’ve posted, but I wanted to share the cover for my upcoming book The Italian Job: A Memoir of an American Reporter in Rome, coming on Oct 6, 2026. You can pre-order it at the link in my bio. I hope you all read and enjoy it! Grazie!!

published this @ncronline profile one year ago today: ncronline.org/vatican/vatica…

Every Member of Congress should watch @RepJasonCrow here. Asking tough, pointed, clear questions at hearings is always more effective than simply delivering repetitive monologues.

Surprisingly, folks who agreed w Francis' approach on this question see Leo in continuity w Francis, & those who disagreed w Francis find in Leo discontinuity. Quidquid recipitur ad modum recipientis recipitur.

standing ovation after King Charles sings the praises of NATO and says "that same unyielding resolve is needed for the defense of Ukraine"

Standing ovation for this line from King Charles: The U.S. Supreme court historical society has calculated that Magna Carta is cited in at least 160 supreme court cases since 1789, not least as the foundation of the principle that executive power is subject to checks and balances.

EXCLUSIVE: White House Correspondents' Dinner shooter was deeply Christian. Friends say Cole Tomas Allen now is "twisting the faith he held dear" Read @DPAQreport and @hannah_natanson washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/04…

George Santayana, also Spanish, had a thought about this …

Also, Pascal, c. 1660: "All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone."

"This latest Catholic moment—both the fascination with new conversions & the resonance of the pope-versus-president imbroglio—reveals a hunger for moral authority. It’s difficult not to hope that a revival of some kind is on its way" great @ChristineEmba @nytimes piece; link-->

VP Vance deleted Twitter from his phone for Lent @semaforben semafor.com/article/04/28/…

Most people know this quote, but fewer know where it actually comes from. “The Scriptures are deep enough for an elephant to swim in and shallow enough for a child to wade through.” It’s often credited to Augustine, Jerome, or Martin Luther. But the real source is Gregory the Great. His version is as follows. “Scripture is like a river… where a lamb may wade and an elephant may swim.” (Moralia 4.177–78) Even more interesting is that he says this while explaining the four senses of Scripture. So it’s not just about the clarity and depth of Scripture. It’s about how Scripture operates on multiple levels at once.

"What a piece of work is man..."