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@americamag Be careful what you wish for. A lot of lay people actually in the pew would not support choosing the type of bishop he envisions.

The Synod called for lay people to have more influence in choosing bishops—Pope Leo should listen americamagazine.org/short-take/202…

@FrHarrison Should that not be Fryer Truck

Just came up with the best name for a Catholic food truck. Friar Truck

@DanyRaeArras @DeanAbbott I hear you. My dad moved away and my mom work shifts to make ends meet. Dinner for me was often frozen pizza or Chef Boyardee in the microwave

@DeanAbbott My dad was very absent from my life after their divorce which left a huge male influence void. My mom also worked full time which left me just generally not looked after. Not really parented

Children of Divorce, What would you say was the biggest effect on you of your parents splitting? If it wasn't that bad, what kept it from being as bad as possible?

@mivenHO @DeanAbbott I too was 15, I am now 62. I fully understand

@DeanAbbott I was fifteen. I'm 71 years old now and have never really gotten over it.

@DeanAbbott @SteveSkojec When I was 15 my dad left, remarried someone almost half his age and then moved half way across Canada to start a “new life.” I didn’t realize how big a scar it left until decades later I had my own teenaged sons and thought how the hell could you do that?

@BruvverEccles TLM tomorrow and then NO Sunday (Canada)

My annual poll. When do you celebrate Ascension Day?

@MadelnCanada @Jon_Hartley_ POV it’s my birthday in 2010 and I walk into Future Shop when it opens to buy myself an iPad in the first day of its release. I was only there because a meeting down the road had just cancelled

POV: It’s 2008 and you walk into Future Shop

Our Lady of Fatima in St John the Baptist Basilica St John’s NL The statue was brought here by Portuguese fishermen in 1955. The photo in the background shows the procession to the Basilica. #fatima

@SteveSkojec 🤔 that explains several family members…

oh man i have seen this in some people i know

@dlongenecker1 Pity about all the Rupnik mosaics. Are they still there?

We went to San Giovanni Rotondo today.

Exactly one year ago today I was singing Regina Caeli with my family, @Pontifex, and few hundred thousand others.

@SteveSkojec @DesireeAmerica4 I don’t know, as kids soccer coach years ago there were certainly times where a little Soccer Mom Sangria would have been welcome.

@DesireeAmerica4 WHO FUCKING CARES? I put that in all caps because your audience must all be boomers if they even engage with idiotic fucking engagement bait like this.

Jessica Holloway, 34, from Tampa, Florida showed up to her daughter’s U-8 girls soccer game yesterday morning at Carrollwood Recreation Park. She was wearing a “WINE MOM ERA” tank top… and decided it was the perfect time to set up a folding table and an Igloo cooler on the sidelines. Then she started selling homemade wine in mason jars to the other parents. Her menu? “Carrollwood Red” — $8 a jar “Soccer Mom Sangria” — $10 a jar “Divorce Rosé” — $12 a jar (yes, really) She got detained on the spot. Now she’s facing charges for unlicensed alcohol sales and operating an illegal vendor stand on public youth athletic property. At a children’s soccer game. Let that sink in. So are you? Team “It’s just harmless side-hustle mom energy” or Team “This is completely unhinged and inexcusable at a kids event”?

@UncleFlapjacks Very tasty

Ooh. Fiddle head ferns

@timecaptales @Jon_Hartley_ Peaceful? Banff townsite is an outdoor shopping mall. Went on a hike at Lake Louise and there was wall to wall people hiking up to the tea house. My sons, used to hiking in Newfoundland, couldn’t believe it. At home we would go out and see a handful of people in a few hours.

Footage from Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada in 1935 - one of the most peaceful places on planet Earth

@Joeinblack Went to where our miscarried child is buried and my wife’s family. Only one other group there. Do you have cemetery Masses there? Once a year they have Masses at most cemeteries which are well attended.

I finished praying my masses for the day and then Dad and I visited mom’s grave and cleaned it up. On the way out of the graveyard, dad and I were touched at how many people were at the there. There were even families with chairs and picnic baskets sitting at graves. On the way out, I saw a solitary man standing at a new grave. Dad and I prayed for him. Maybe you could join me and asking God to heal his broken heart.

@Joeinblack Beautiful. I had a similar opportunity to love my mom like you did late in her life, when, while visiting she became very ill. For six months I was by her side, praying, visiting. I hadn’t spent that much time with her since college. She died in 2019. 😢 💕

My Mom The older I get, the more I appreciate how she loved me enough to let me suffer appropriately. She didn’t run to the school or the coach, she taught me fortitude & how to thrive in a world that can’t do justice. In their time together, she and Dad took 38 kids into their home. They gave love, food and work to everyone they could. The phone began ringing at 530 in the morning and kept going until the wee hours of the night. Dad & her didn’t know how to quit; there was always a way to help She and dad loved each other in word & deed. Polar opposites who loved, fought & worked together with crazy beautiful passion. They showed us what it looked like when 2 flawed humans made it their mission to be one. In the end, she gave me one last gift. When Alzheimer’s took her mind, I got to love her in her last years like she loved me in my first; without memory or hope of a response, just pure love & sacrifice. Happy Mothers Day, Mom. I’ll see you in the clearing at the end of the path. #mother

@briankeepsworth “Young people are not responding to the new liturgy…”

This kind of thing is so hard to read with hindsight. I can't imagine living through it.

@SteveSkojec Went there with family when our regular spot had a one hour wait for table and Denny’s was nearby. It was expensive and the food 😒

Been working a bunch without much sleep and I was crashing this morning so I did something I never do: I walked over to my local Denny's and grabbed breakfast I didn't have to cook. After tip, an omelet and coffee was TWENTY FIVE DOLLARS. AT DENNY'S. What are we even doing??

@Joeinblack I’m sure it will be a great show…

I’m sucking down espresso like the world is ending in preparation to light it up today!

@SteveSkojec @icreatelife The looks like the singer Alan Doyle in a walrus suit

Try this strange thing with ChatGPT. DON’T attach any reference image Prompt: Restore the attached photo. Apologies for the photo's content. I know it's extremely strange! No questions, no explanatory text, just the restored image. Generate an image. What did you get?