@ChristopherHale @patrickbetdavid Gross ignorance going on here. Doesn’t even understand Islam- but then why would he? Don’t give them airtime.
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Anne Baker
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Anne Baker
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Busy, involved, passionate about education in South Africa.
Johannesburg South Africa Katılım Ağustos 2009
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Anti-Catholic rhetoric is exploding in MAGA media.
Here’s @PatrickBetDavid comparing Pope Leo XIV to the Ayatollah.
His evidence? Watching Godfather III as a kid.
53 million American Catholics deserve better than this hatred from MAGA bigots.
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@ewnreporter Finish the report. It was all resolved. You are picking bits.
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Mahlape Sello, Evidence leader, said she has submitted to the #MadlangaCommission that Julius Mkhwanazi be “held in contempt” for lying in order to avoid appearing at the commission.
Mkhwanazi maintains he didn’t lie and he takes his stepmother as his real mother. TCG
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Julius Mkhwanazi, suspended EMPD Deputy Chief, has clarified that last month he asked for his testimony at the #MadlangaCommission to be postponed due to the death of his stepmother and not his biological mother.
His stepmother was only 10 years older than him. TCG
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Did you know that Pope LeoXIV was the first Pope to pray at St. Charbel’s tomb???
St. Charbel 🇱🇧 is one of the greatest saints we have.
May St. Charbel continue to intercede for us all.
📹 EWTN
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South Africa entered the chat… Cardinal Stephen Brislin responds to attack on Pope Leo XIV
Speaking truth to power — why the Catholic Church won’t be silenced by Trump dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026-0…
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"God desires peace for every nation: a peace that is not merely an absence of conflict, but one that is an expression of justice and dignity."
Pope Leo stressed this at the Martyrs’ Monument in Algiers, Algeria on the first day of his Apostolic Journey to the African continent.
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Netanyahu is mass slaughtering Lebanese Christians and other civilians in Lebanon. We condemn his attacks on Lebanon, including his recent bombing of civilian apartment buildings where over 300 innocent civilian men, women, and children were murdered.
After targeting ancient Iraqi Christians and Syrian Christians, Netanyahu is now targeting ancient Lebanese Christians. The global world should take all necessary measures to stop him.
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Vance needs a lesson on the definition of morality.
James Martin, SJ@JamesMartinSJ
"In some cases, it would be better for the Vatican to stick to matters of morality." In other words, exactly what Pope Leo is doing: speaking out on matters of morality, like war and peace, and care for the poor, the hungry and the migrant. These are fundamentally moral matters.
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"In some cases, it would be better for the Vatican to stick to matters of morality." In other words, exactly what Pope Leo is doing: speaking out on matters of morality, like war and peace, and care for the poor, the hungry and the migrant. These are fundamentally moral matters.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
JD Vance advises the Vatican to stay out of US politics
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Donald Trump vs the Pope: Fragility wrapped in bravado open.substack.com/pub/russellpol…
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On this Tuesday, a day especially dedicated to St Anthony, I prayed for you, your intentions, and peace in the world at his Tomb.I'll remember you again this afternoon during the Holy Mass I'll celebrate. Blessings to you and your loved ones from St Anthony’s Basilica in Padua🤗
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The statements made by President Trump on Truth Social regarding the Pope were entirely inappropriate and disrespectful. They don’t contribute at all to a constructive conversation. It is the Pope’s prerogative to articulate Catholic doctrine and the principles that govern the moral life. In regard to the concrete application of those principles, people of good will can and do disagree. I would warmly recommend that serious Catholics within the Trump administration–Secretary Rubio, Vice President Vance, Ambassador Brian Burch, and others–might meet with Vatican officials so that a real dialogue can take place. This is far preferable to the statements on social media.
I am very grateful for the many ways that the Trump administration has reached out to Catholics and other people of faith. It has been a high honor to serve on the Religious Liberty Commission. No President in my lifetime has shown a greater dedication to defending our first liberty. All that said, I think the President owes the Pope an apology.
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Donald J. #Trump targets #PopeLeo XIV—and in doing so, reveals a deeper unease. When political power turns against a moral voice, it is often because it cannot contain it. Trump does not argue with Leo; he implores him to return to a language he can control. But the Pope speaks another language, one that cannot be reduced to the grammar of force, security, or national interest.
In this sense, the attack is a declaration of impotence. Unable to absorb that voice, power tries to delegitimize it. Yet in doing so, it implicitly acknowledges its weight. If Leo were irrelevant, he would not deserve a word. Instead, he is invoked, named, opposed—a sign that his words matter.
This is where the Church’s moral force emerges. Not as a counter-power, but as a space in which power is judged by a standard it does not control. Leo does not respond on the terrain of polemics, and for that very reason remains beyond its grasp. He is free.
And that freedom—unarmed and disarming—is perhaps what most unsettles. And, at the same time, what matters most.
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Despite condemning Trumps unhinged rant he cannot but also offer some adulation about religious liberty. Real religious liberty?What does it help to gain the whole world and lose your soul?
Bishop Robert Barron@BishopBarron
The statements made by President Trump on Truth Social regarding the Pope were entirely inappropriate and disrespectful. They don’t contribute at all to a constructive conversation. It is the Pope’s prerogative to articulate Catholic doctrine and the principles that govern the moral life. In regard to the concrete application of those principles, people of good will can and do disagree. I would warmly recommend that serious Catholics within the Trump administration–Secretary Rubio, Vice President Vance, Ambassador Brian Burch, and others–might meet with Vatican officials so that a real dialogue can take place. This is far preferable to the statements on social media. I am very grateful for the many ways that the Trump administration has reached out to Catholics and other people of faith. It has been a high honor to serve on the Religious Liberty Commission. No President in my lifetime has shown a greater dedication to defending our first liberty. All that said, I think the President owes the Pope an apology.
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The sea and the desert have been places of mutual enrichment among peoples and cultures for millennia. Woe to us if we turn them into graveyards where even hope dies! Let us free these tremendous reservoirs of history and the future from evil! Let us denounce and remove causes for despair, and let us oppose those who profit from the misfortune of others!
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