Emily Laird

I stand with Pope Leo in all things.

BREAKING: Speaking to reporters aboard the papal plane to Algeria on Monday, Pope Leo XIV said: “I think that the people who read will be able to draw their own conclusions: I am not a politician, I have no intention of entering into a debate with him. Rather, let us always seek peace and put an end to wars. I am not afraid of the Trump administration. I speak about the Gospel, I am not a politician. I do not think the message of the Gospel should be abused in the way some people are doing. I will continue to speak out loudly against war, to try to promote peace, multilateral dialogue between states in order to seek the right solution to problems. The message of the Church is the message of the Gospel, blessed are the peacemakers; I do not see my role as that of a politician, I do not want to enter into a debate with him. Too many people are suffering in the world.”

Thank you Bruce ❤️

ban it from showing the people i went to high school with what they’d look like as a cartoon character too while you’re at it

Get bent, Canada.

This is everything. 🥺🇺🇸 #RIPJohnnyHockey

The crying about @alexathallow is insane. The people at Hallow created a program that makes it easier for people to pray. That’s it. As a priest who hears over 10 hours of confession a week, I can joyfully tell you that it bears great fruit for people. To create the app and set it up and coordinate took a huge investment of manpower and technological skills. They charge for it because they have a right to their wage. They did something no one has done as well as them and the fruits show. I don’t use Hallow, I’m not getting paid by them, I’m just tired of watching people tear apart those who are doing their best to advance the kingdom of God. If you don’t like what they’re doing, get off your couch and do something better. Otherwise, stop this nonsense. There is nothing about it that shows the fruits of the spirit, but I see a lot of the fruits of the flesh in the attacks.

New images in the search for Nancy Guthrie:   Over the last eight days, the FBI and Pima County Sheriff’s Department have been working closely with our private sector partners to continue to recover any images or video footage from Nancy Guthrie’s home that may have been lost, corrupted, or inaccessible due to a variety of factors - including the removal of recording devices. The video was recovered from residual data located in backend systems.   Working with our partners - as of this morning, law enforcement has uncovered these previously inaccessible new images showing an armed individual appearing to have tampered with the camera at Nancy Guthrie's front door the morning of her disappearance.   Anyone with information, please contact 1-800-CALL-FBI or visit tips.fbi.gov

There was a line from Zohran Mamdani’s inaugural address yesterday that took my breath away. He said he intended to replace “the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.” Collectivism in its various forms is responsible for the deaths of at least one hundred million people in the last century. Socialist and Communist forms of government around the world today—Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea, etc.—are disastrous. Catholic social teaching has consistently condemned socialism and has embraced the market economy, which people like Mayor Mamdani caricature as “rugged individualism.” In fact, it is the economic system that is based upon the rights, freedom, and dignity of the human person. For God’s sake, spare me the “warmth of collectivism.”

Just got a work email today…… like dont u guys have families

OHIO STATE OWNS THE BIG HOUSE

My perspective on this changed when I learned one key fact about driver behavior. Traffic engineers studied it carefully and discovered that drivers are, in general, very good at choosing the maximum speed that is safe for current driving conditions. This is consistent with other indicators that what drivers actually do is choose a level of acceptable risk and then calibrate their behavior to that. Make seatbelts and airbags mandatory, they start doing chancier things. Remove all stop signs and traffic signals, they start driving very carefully and accident rates actually go down. (Yes, this experiment has been done in Europe.) So it's not so much that Americans think driving over the speed limit is a god-given right. It's that we're basically incapable of seeing speeding as a malum in se. Contrast driving drunk. Matters aren't helped by the fact that speed limits are widely perceived to be dishonest ways for the police and local government to raise revenue via fines. This conduces to a lack of respect for them.

If venison tasted good we would have domesticated them

"My name's Raymond. I'm 73. I work the parking lot at St. Joseph's Hospital. Minimum wage, orange vest, a whistle I barely use. Most people don't even look at me. I'm just the old man waving cars into spaces. But I see everything. Like the black sedan that circled the lot every morning at 6 a.m. for three weeks. Young man driving, grandmother in the passenger seat. Chemotherapy, I figured. He'd drop her at the entrance, then spend 20 minutes hunting for parking, missing her appointments. One morning, I stopped him. "What time tomorrow?" "6:15," he said, confused. "Space A-7 will be empty. I'll save it." He blinked. "You... you can do that?" "I can now," I said. Next morning, I stood in A-7, holding my ground as cars circled angrily. When his sedan pulled up, I moved. He rolled down his window, speechless. "Why?" "Because she needs you in there with her," I said. "Not out here stressing." He cried. Right there in the parking lot. Word spread quietly. A father with a sick baby asked if I could help. A woman visiting her dying husband. I started arriving at 5 a.m., notebook in hand, tracking who needed what. Saved spots became sacred. People stopped honking. They waited. Because they knew someone else was fighting something bigger than traffic. But here's what changed everything, A businessman in a Mercedes screamed at me one morning. "I'm not sick! I need that spot for a meeting!" "Then walk," I said calmly. "That space is for someone whose hands are shaking too hard to grip a steering wheel." He sped off, furious. But a woman behind him got out of her car and hugged me. "My son has leukemia," she sobbed. "Thank you for seeing us." The hospital tried to stop me. "Liability issues," they said. But then families started writing letters. Dozens. "Raymond made the worst days bearable." "He gave us one less thing to break over." Last month, they made it official. "Reserved Parking for Families in Crisis." Ten spots, marked with blue signs. And they asked me to manage it. But the best part? A man I'd helped two years ago, his mother survived, came back. He's a carpenter. Built a small wooden box, mounted it by the reserved spaces. Inside? Prayer cards, tissues, breath mints, and a note, "Take what you need. You're not alone. -Raymond & Friends" People leave things now. Granola bars. Phone chargers. Yesterday, someone left a hand-knitted blanket. I'm 73. I direct traffic in a hospital parking lot. But I've learned this: Healing doesn't just happen in operating rooms. Sometimes it starts in a parking space. When someone says, "I see your crisis. Let me carry this one small piece." So pay attention. At the grocery checkout, the coffee line, wherever you are. Someone's drowning in the little things while fighting the big ones. Hold a door. Save a spot. Carry the weight no one else sees. It's not glamorous. But it's everything." Let this story reach more hearts.... Credit: Mary Nelson

So new guy on the NY political scene says taxation is not theft, capitalism is. DUDE, do you know our forefounders literally staged one of the largest rebellions in US history over a 3% tax on tea ...which is the direct result of us not still subject to the British Monarchy.

It really sucks having a king. We should come up with some sort of official system where we could vote to replace him every, say, 4 years or so.

Every conservative I know has had a similarly grating experience: a leftist you know casually drops the most nasty, intense political comment you've ever heard in polite conversation, assuming you agree Great writeup from @kitten_beloved , link on his page

I have been thinking a lot about this C.S. Lewis quote about the danger of reading the news. From a letter to Bede Griffiths dated 20 December 1946. Even more timely now. Very struck by this phrase: "A great many people do now seem to think that the mere state of being worried is in itself meritorious." Here's the whole thing. “It is one of the evils of rapid diffusion of news that the sorrows of all the world come to us every morning. I think each village was meant to feel pity for its own sick and poor whom it can help and I doubt if it is the duty of any private person to fix his mind on ills which he cannot help. (This may even become an escape from the works of charity we really can do to those we know.) A great many people (not you) do now seem to think that the mere state of being worried is in itself meritorious. I don’t think it is. We must, if it so happens, give our lives for others: but even while we’re doing it, I think we’re meant to enjoy Our Lord and, in Him, our friends, our food, our sleep, our jokes, and the birds’ song, and the frosty sunrise. About the distant, so about the future. It is very dark: but there’s usually light enough for the next step or so. Pray for me always.” — C.S. Lewis in “Letter to Bede Griffiths” dated 20 December 1946.