DR. CM Fernandez

What happens when: a. tu colega is expert/facilitator @Synod_va; b. your @ChicagoCTU class is studying & paralleling Synod all month; c. your DMin mentee is writing on synod & Deaf Church? Simple--Pope grades their homework! Gracias @Mariarscj y @Pontifex! ¡El futuro es sinodal!

@BishopBarron Does it explain your actions @ WH on Wednesday as you applauded warmongering, racism, xenophobia, & blasphemy? Video lives online, even though WH 404d it. Does it repeat your interpretation that Pope Leo writes of war in the "abstract"? If so, good thing it's behind a paywall.

Friends, do not let the world domesticate Easter! The resurrection is not one myth among many; it is an earthquake that changes everything. I invite you to read my Easter reflection, published today by the Washington Post. wapo.st/4m9STUf

@NYCMayor Thank you.

Today, on Good Friday, we mark a day of sacrifice. Some New Yorkers will abstain from eating; others will spend hours without speaking. Faith, the Bible tells us, is belief in the things unseen. That belief is what will guide so many of our neighbors in solemn reflection and reverence. I wish all those observing Good Friday a blessed day of peace.

@BishopBarron You mean at the Easter service that has been taken down from WH because of critiques of blasphemy? The lunch where pres. called out Minnesotans as having in general "low IQs"? That service?

Friends, yesterday, I had the opportunity to offer a prayer at an Easter lunch hosted by the White House. What follows is the text of that invocaton: Heavenly Father, almighty and eternal God, provident Lord of history, we come before you today in an attitude of humble gratitude. We are thankful, Lord, for this opportunity to be together in fellowship, for the faith that unites us, and for the blessings of liberty that we enjoy as Americans. But we are grateful, above all, on this holiest week of the year, for the gift of your Son Jesus Christ, who is God from God, light from light, true God from true God; who is the Yes to all the promises made to Israel; who is the Lamb standing as though slain; who is the Alpha and the Omega; who is the Lion of Judah; who is the desire of the everlasting hills; and who is the Word made flesh. Father, you so loved the world that you sent your only Son that all who believe in him might not perish but might have eternal life. On Good Friday, you sent him indeed to the very limits of godforsakenness that he might gather back to you even those who had wandered furthest away. On the cross, he took upon himself the sins of the world—injustice, cruelty, hatred, violence, betrayal, and denial—that he might swallow them up in the ever-greater divine mercy. On Easter Sunday, Father, you raised him from death, showing your victory over all of the powers of darkness. Having met the risen Jesus, St. Paul could therefore say, “I am certain that neither death nor life, neither angels nor principalities, neither height nor depth, nor any other creature could separate us from the love of God.” We bless you, Father, for you have given us the privilege of declaring the kingship of Christ to the world and calling all people to be subject to him. And so, Lord, conform us to Christ your Son. Clothe us, we pray, with his compassion, his meekness, his love for the poor. Father, we ask you to bless our country. Make us prosperous and safe, but above all, make us morally upright and order our freedom toward your truth. Bless our troops, especially those who are most directly in harm’s way. Protect them and make them righteous warriors. And finally, Father, bless our President. Give him the grace, the courage, the wisdom, and the prudence he needs to perform his duties according to your will. We say, with gratitude, that we are a nation under God. We acknowledge that in you we live and move and have our being. We know that our freedom and rights come from you. Continue, Lord, to shed your grace on us and to hold us in the palm of your hand. We pray through Christ our Lord. Amen.

@GibsonWrites 2/2 Considering the violent words and deeds of his congregant secdef I'm not convinced that it was a metaphor.

@GibsonWrites What he said/what others "heard" or understood are different matters. In USA w/ easy access to weapons, where messages are amplified on social media to folks who don't belong to his church, & in a climate of increased tolerance of violence, he was pastorally irresponsible. 1/2

Good stuff on taking religious language seriously but not literally. OTOH he was preaching to an audience of biblical literalists so who knows what the MAGAlonians heard.

@WBCBaseball @MLB Vamos Mets!

Happy @MLB #OpeningDay! Repost and reply for a chance to win a World Baseball Classic cap!

@NYM_News Miss the2024 Mets...they were special, and came so close...

What a difference a year makes… #Mets (2026 Opening Day lineup hasn’t been officially announced yet, this is just a projection)

@atrupar Article 25.

Trump: "They shot the now-famous Ireland--- the island that the UK was very afraid to give us."

Happy Opening Day...

@alexweprin Morning Joe was not 4 hours. It was 3 hours and a rerun, though some days more like 2 hours.

Big changes coming to MS NOW: *Morning Joe will return to 3 hours, down from 4. *Ali Velshi takes over The 11th Hour. *New daytime shows for Stephanie Ruhle, Alicia Menendez. *Chris Hayes returns to hosting Mondays at 8. More:

@krassenstein If you voted for him then sadly you did.

BREAKING: Trump: “I do believe I will have the honor of taking Cuba, in some form. Whether I free it or take it, I think I could do whatever I want with it. They are a very weakened nation right now.” WTF is wrong with this guy? This is NOT normal. I didn’t vote for this, did you

@julito77 Always, and a history going back to 1860s in the Caribbean has been at play the whole time.

Looks like Trump wants Venezuela to become the 51st of the Union all because of a baseball game. Will forever wonder now what he would have said if Puerto Rico were playing the US team in the WBC final. Baseball is not apolitical. It's always political.

@JenniferJJacobs HIPPA violation. No right to share her info as her employer.

BREAKING news on Trump's chief of staff, Susie Wiles

@BNightengale Another way to word this, Pool A winner team Canada will be playing this evening and team Puerto Rico by playing at 3 pm Saturday afternoon will allow children on the island to watch the whole game!

While Team Italy normally would be playing at 8 p.m. for winning Pool B, No. 2 seed Team USA instead gets the timeslot tonight for FOX TV viewership. But by playing at 3 p.m. ET Saturday, baseball fans in Italy can watch the game live with the six-hour time difference at 9 p.m.

While Trump wants to narrow who qualifies as a citizen, the World Baseball Classic offers a different idea of belonging. @batear: Who gets to claim baseball as “theirs”? commonwealmagazine.org/baseball-world…

@commonwealmag Gracias Commonweal!

"For this Puerto Rican artist, baseball is not only culturally embedded both at home and in diaspora; it is resistance performed, worn, and retold." @batear on Bad Bunny, imperialism, and the World Baseball Classic: commonwealmagazine.org/baseball-world…

@kevin_ahern @GibsonWrites or CUA

@GibsonWrites Don’t go near rose hill campus either

They obviously did not consult anyone in Brownstone Brooklyn where they'd have been warned about "Gingko Stink."

@prisencotech @ChristopherHale Thanks! Never know with these posts. I know JPII was opposed, but this author tends to exaggerate what popes actually say. :/

Who famously was a huge fan of the Iraq War.