Andrew O’Brien

Ireland is alive today! Gosh this is beautiful!

Again today, 5 loads of fuel are departing Foynes Port destined for stations for front line services & vulnerable people… Very well done to the protesters for the peaceful protests and negotiations 👏

🚨 FOUND IN A LEBANESE HOME: MEIN KAMPF — IN ARABIC IDF troops discovered a copy of Hitler’s Mein Kampf in Arabic inside a home in Lebanon. ‼️For anyone still asking why Israel is operating there, this your answer.

German police officer covers a woman’s mouth as she chants for Palestine during a protest in Berlin supporting civilians in Gaza and Lebanon.

Honest Question: When was the last time Harris or Martin physically pumped petrol into their own car? Im going to guess its somewhere between 6 & 15 years.

The Avignon Papacy reference is the detail that demands attention. An American defense official invoked a 14th-century episode in which the French Crown physically relocated the papacy to Avignon and controlled it for 67 years - as an implicit model for what happens to religious institutions that oppose state power. That's not a slip of the tongue. That's a studied historical reference deployed deliberately in a room with the Pope's senior diplomat. The message was not subtle. Leo heard it. He spent Holy Week delivering what papal scholars described as a sustained theological argument about the nature of power and imperial violence. On Palm Sunday he said Jesus rejects the prayers of those who wage war. On Easter Sunday - the same morning Trump posted his expletive-filled threat on Truth Social - Leo told world leaders to lay down weapons. On Tuesday he called the civilization threat "truly unacceptable" and asked citizens directly to contact their elected representatives. The White House's response to the Pope's Tuesday statement: "The Iranian people welcome the sound of bombs because it means their oppressors are losing." The first American pope will spend America's 250th birthday on Lampedusa with migrants. One Vatican official told The Free Press: "The Pope may well never visit the United States under this administration." The Pentagon summoned a cardinal and invoked the Avignon Papacy. The Pope responded by asking 1.4 billion Catholics to call their congressmen.

Rooted in this land for generations. An olive tree in bloom - quiet, resilient, and unmistakably Israel 🌿

With particular affection, in the light of the risen Lord, we remember today Pope Francis, who, on Easter Monday of last year, returned to the Lord.