Terence Sweeney

"Love is as much shown in small acts of care and attention as it is in big words and bold deeds." americamagazine.org/faith/2023/03/…

@David_Mahfood @commonplacelivg

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

Any recommendations for books or other materials for Confirmation preparation for children in 7-8th grade?

The Pope always speaks as a Shepherd - Vatican News vaticannews.va/en/vatican-cit…

To be clear: ICE shot and killed a man who was not their target. He had no criminal record, was seeking legal status, & was pushed off the road by unmarked cars. There’s “no body cam footage”, his family can’t recover his body, and the witnesses in his van have been detained.

"Roe v. Wade may be gone, but Pope Leo reminds us that abortion, euthanasia, war and other violations of human life most certainly are not." americamagazine.org/politics-socie…

I can remember one of the reasons Liz Cheney was removed from leadership was she kept bring up January 6 and how important it was to move on from according to Republican leadership at the time...

@DavidPaternostr I turned 20 in Providence RI, I turned 30 in Los Angeles, and now I turned 40 in Philadelphia. 10/10 would recommend

I turned 20 in Louisiana, I turned 30 in France, and now I turned 40 in Texas 10/10, would recommend

An American pope at the birthplace of independence - @TerenceJSweeney | @americamag americamagazine.org/politics-socie…

"Pope Leo speaks to our country at a critical juncture in our history. In some ways we are becoming a nation closer to those nativist rioters than to the Augustinian friars in 1844 or the one who is now pope." Beautiful from @TerenceJSweeney. americamagazine.org/politics-socie…

@paddygilgersj Thanks!

An American pope is honored at Independence Hall americamagazine.org/politics-socie…

This is fascinating to me, because beyond the surface level it illuminates why conservatives are often so full of shit. The baseline here is that there's a heatwave, and Mamdani asked New Yorkers to adjust their thermostats to help the grid. This is regular practice in red and blue areas of the country. Daniel posts a defiant "I'm not gonna do what mommy tells me!" style post. He surely thinks he's a very clever boy here. Now if the message is "This is a free country, and I love my AC, and by god it's my house and no government bureaucrat can force me to change", then fine. Sure. But there is no law being proposed here. No police are bursting down your door demanding to check your thermostat. It's a request from a community leader, a polite ask that you engage in a very small pro-social sacrifice. You would think conservatives would understand the idea that local communities should pull together in times of need. For the 'common good', perhaps. You'd think. And that they'd be happy if no government force was involved, if they could act merely because they had strong moral character and believed in private charitable action. "Nobody should ever ask anyone to sacrifice for the common good, even if it's just a polite request" is just dipshit nihilism. But I suspect Daniel doesn't actually believe in those conservative ideas. Or if he does, they're a distant second to the true guiding star of conservative thought: owning the libs. Given the chance to help people or own the libs, conservatives will always own the libs. Given the chance to demonstrate strong principles or own the libs, they'll always abandon the principle to own the libs. The actual philosophy of the right is merely "We hate the left". And it's sad.

They wave the American flag yet they are traitors to this great nation, and choose to express their hatred of its founding principles on the day of its birthday for the attention.

A few years ago, I got into a Twitter argument with someone accusing Barron of being partisan. I might have been wrong then or not but it is sad to see the effort he puts into partisanship today. Doesn't change the great work he is doing and WOF is doing but it is sad.

Great conversation between William Desmond and John Vervaeke youtube.com/watch?v=sIyO3O…

To everyone celebrating the first flight on Qatar Force One today, understand what you are actually applauding. A foreign government handed the sitting President of the United States a $400 million plane. American taxpayers then paid to retrofit it, with an estimated cost of at least another $400 million (some estimates far higher), for security and communications work in a Texas hangar since last September. When Trump leaves office, the plane does not stay with the government. Ownership transfers to his presidential library foundation. In other words, he keeps it. You are being asked to treat pure corruption as normal, to shrug at a President personally profiting from a foreign gift the taxpayers paid to upgrade. In any other administration this would be the scandal that ends a presidency. With Trump, it’s Wednesday. abcnews.com/Politics/trump…

The prospect of driving out Haitian migrants in need and forcing them to return to a failed state is not just a legal crisis, to say nothing of a natural law crisis, it is a biblical one. americamagazine.org/faith/2025/05/…