Mary Whelan

Israel actively shoots young boys in the testicles.... Read that again. Kids. Shot on purpose in the testicles. #StopTheGame

🇮🇪 A football commentator in Australia would be hung and quartered for daring this. US, UK and many other nations too. All power to you Richard Sadlier 💚 #FreePalestine #BDS 🇵🇸

Israel bombed a Roman Fort in Lebanon, over 2000 years old, one of the finest examples of Roman Architecture left on the planet, stood isolated on a hill. But Israel bombed it anyway. They are terrorists, and they destroy everything.

He says this publicly because he knows the world will do nothing. After murdering 30,000 kids and turning the Gaza Strip to dust. Israel is now stealing 70% of it.

A Lebanese family was killed after Israeli forces ordered them to evacuate their hometown for "safety." As they fled, an Israeli drone tracked their car and struck it, killing the mother, father, and all four children. Paramedics said the burned children were unrecognizable

Young people are always told what not to do. But what should you do? Did you know that most public libraries have a Nintendo Switch to use? That parks show free movies at night? That there's a map of pickup basketball games? Nyc.gov/summer is a map of free and affordable things to do this summer that we made just for you. Because public programs mean nothing if you don't know how to access them. 


Pope Leo XIV is inviting Catholics around the world to join him in praying a rosary for peace on May 30. The Holy Father is set to pray the rosary live from the Lourdes Grotto in the Vatican Gardens at 7 p.m. Rome time. Monsignor Walter R. Rossi, rector of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C., will join Pope Leo in praying the rosary with a simultaneous livestream at 1 p.m. ET, according to a May 22 press release. Shrines that have joined the initiative, coordinated by the Dicastery for Evangelization, include: the Shrine of the Mother of God (Zarvanytsia, Ukraine); the International Shrine of Our Lady of Peace and Good Voyage (Antipolo, Philippines); the Shrine of Our Lady of the Rosary (Fátima, Portugal); the Shrine of Our Lady Queen of Peace (Medjugorje, Bosnia and Herzegovina); the Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes (Lourdes, France); the Shrine of St. Charbel Annaya (Byblos, Lebanon); and the Pontifical Shrine of the Holy House (Loreto, Italy). “As the preeminent Marian shrine and patronal church of the United States, the basilica joins shrines throughout the world in this worldwide rosary with the Holy Father,” according to a statement from the basilica in Washington, D.C. “All are invited to participate in this special moment of unity and prayer for peace throughout the world.” During his homily at Pentecost, Leo called Catholics to pray to the Holy Spirit to “save us from the evil of war, which is overcome not by a superpower but by the omnipotence of love.” Leo has issued repeated calls for peace around the world, including the Middle East, Africa, and Ukraine, since the start of his pontificate. ewtnnews.com/world/us/vatic…

"I think cancelling this fixture, boycotting this fixture...I think it would be an act of respect to the players. The most powerful politicians in this country give statements, they're ineffective and useless. This would be an act. Action of some kind is surely required." 👏🏻👏🏻

Hundreds of Christian churches and religious sites across central Europe will open their doors on the evening of May 29 for the Night of Churches, an annual ecumenical initiative that draws nearly 1 million visitors in the Czech Republic and Austria combined. The event, now in its 18th year in the Czech Republic, invites believers and nonbelievers alike to explore churches, chapels, and synagogues through concerts, exhibitions, talks, guided tours, and prayer — often until late at night. Some participating sites grant access to towers, crypts, and spaces that are otherwise closed to the public. This yearʼs theme in the Czech Republic and in Slovakia is “Courage.” Last year, more than 460,000 visitors and 25,000 volunteers took part across the Czech Republic, an increase of 40,000 visitors and 5,000 volunteers compared with the year before. In Austria, organizers counted around 300,000 visitors in each of the last two years. In Slovakia, where precise figures were not available for 2025, several cities reported record attendance, according to the press agency of the Slovak Bishops' Conference. Archbishop Stanislav Přibyl of Prague, writing in the periodical Kostelní Noviny published for the occasion, acknowledged that “sometimes it takes courage to even cross the threshold of a church.” The prelate invited readers to enter and “get to know each other,” noting that “churches and chapels were created as spaces for people to meet each other and with God.” Archbishop Josef Grünwidl of Vienna said he appreciated the growing popularity of the Night of Churches in neighboring Czechia, calling it “a challenge for all people to further explore their own religious and spiritual tradition, enter new spaces, and not be afraid to open up to the unknown.” In Vienna, Grünwidl and Bishop Cornelia Richter of the Evangelical (Lutheran) Church invited guests from church, society, business, and politics for dinner and discussion at the archbishopʼs palace. A limited number of seats were available through a public lottery. Organizers in the Austrian capital alone expect more than 100,000 visitors, who will be able to choose from more than 170 participating churches — including a police chapel — and performances ranging from Gregorian chant to a Korean choral concert. In Slovakia, Archbishop Bernard Bober of Košice, president of the Slovak Bishops' Conference, called on people to come, saying that “open temples will become a place of prayer, meeting, and courage to seek God in silence and in community.” He described the event as an “opportunity to rediscover the beauty of faith and the openness of our churches to everyone.” Several Czech regional governors encouraged residents to enjoy the Night of Churches for its “unique atmosphere” and “openness and sharing,” or simply to pause inside centuries-old buildings and reflect “on how we live and what we can do for us and for others.” The initiative has also provided unexpected settings for faith and reconciliation. In 2023, former parishioners of the village of Radovesice in the Czech Republic gathered above the site of their buried village — including its Church of All Saints — on the 40th anniversary of the villageʼs demolition. The village was one of several in northwestern Czechoslovakia destroyed during the communist era to make way for mining. “We brought archive documents, paintings, and statues which had belonged to the temple [church],” Robert Kotyšan, caretaker of the Diocese of Litoměřice, explained in Kostelní Noviny. “We commemorated the deceased parishioners and debated our relationship and responsibility to the place in which we live,” Kotyšan told EWTN News. The former parishioners also unlocked a padlock from the church that had been preserved, which Kotyšan described as “a symbolic opening of a better future for this once beautiful country and an effort to return at least part of its memory and dignity to it.” A considerable part of the artifacts brought to the 2023 gathering are now kept in a still-standing church in Kostomlaty pod Milešovkou, which is itself considered a “dead parish” because no parishioners attend. The next gathering is planned for 2028, the 45th anniversary of the demolition. The concept of opening churches at night originated in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, in 1995. It spread to Austria in 2005 and to the Czech Republic in 2009 and has since expanded to Slovakia, Hungary, Estonia, South Tyrol in Italy, and Switzerland. The initiative usually takes place at the end of May. ewtnnews.com/world/europe/h…

I genuinely have no words for the horrors coming out of Gaza tonight. I just saw a video of a beheaded baby. This is the systematic slaughter of innocent people, carried out in front of the entire world.

🚨BREAKING🚨 Tyre is under a night of fire. Israel is blitzing residential neighbourhoods across Lebanon’s coastal city while civilians try to hunker down in their homes. Apartment blocks, streets & entire districts are being pounded with relentless airstrikes as families scramble for shelter under constant bombardment. Such attacks are clearly not “targeted,” but collective blanket, indiscriminate terror from the air.

It’s crazy to see an elected official just deliver on every campaign promise.

Today we announced the most ambitious housing plan in our City's modern history: Block by Block. We're building 200,000 new affordable homes. We're overhauling code enforcement. We're cracking down on bad landlords. We're creating tens of thousands of good-paying jobs. We're building new paths to homeownership. We're investing $5.6 billion in NYCHA — the largest City capital investment in recent history. New York is facing a historic housing crisis. We're pursuing a historic solution. All hands on deck. All-of-the-above. All for New York City. Read more: cbsnews.com/newyork/news/n…

BREAKING: Israel is dropping bombs on residential buildings packed with families in Doueir, South Lebanon, in the middle of the night. Not military bases. Homes. Families. Civilians. This is a massacre.

The real welfare queen in America is Jeff Bezos, worth $279 billion, who pays wages so low his workers rely on food stamps and Medicaid while he sailed on his $500 million yacht to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring because his tax rate is less than 1%.

The USA is an abomination and the UN must be removed from US soil. Blackmailing Palestine to prevent them winning a democratic vote. The US and its leader, Israel, are the most dangerous entities on earth

IDF soldiers kill 14 year old Palestinian boy. We need to make this video viral. Share it.

On this great feast of Pentecost, I pray the Holy Spirit will anoint you all with Peace and Grace. 🙏🏼❤️

Highly recommend reading. The state of Israel subverted democracy in Britain. They secretly took down a man they could not buy off and replaced him with a ma subservient to them. And both British society and Palestinians are paying a huge price.

Over half of Bethlehem’s Christians once relied on pilgrimage tourism for their livelihood. Now, after years of closures, revoked permits, military occupation, Jewish-only colony expansion, military checkpoints and gates, the apartheid wall, curfews, invasions, destruction, land theft, and the fallout of war, shops sit empty and families continue to emigrate. We remain because this is our home, not a vacation destination. International politics must not ignore the human cost. Support the Christians of the Holy Land. Hope persists. ❤️🇵🇸