"We have learned from the bitter lesson of history that closure and extreme nationalism always bring disastrous consequences for those who implement them." #PopeFrancis #Hope

"In making our way through life, we are guided by simplicity, humility, and littleness rather than by power, prestige, and status." #LiveTheGospel #ShareGodsLove #RebuildMyChurch assisiproject.com/mission

“Jesus calls you to be witnesses of communion, builders of bridges, and sowers of trust in a world often marked by division and suspicion.” #PopeLeoXIV #LiveTheGospel www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

"The illusion of happiness derived from a comfortable life pushes many people towards a vision of life centered on the accumulation of wealth and social success at all costs, even at the expense of others (11)." #PopeLeoXIV #DilexiTe #RememberThePoor

"We must feed hope through the force of gestures, instead of placing our hope in gestures of force." #PopeFrancis #Hope

"What the world expects of Christians is that Christians should speak out, loud and clear...that they should get away from abstractions and confront the blood-stained face history has taken today." #Camus

"My devotion to Truth has drawn me into the field of politics; and I can say without the slightest hesitation, and yet in all humility, that those who say that religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion means." #Gandhi

"We must at all costs shun any propaganda that instills fear of other people in the public mind." #PopeFrancis #Hope

"In hearing the cry of the poor, we are asked to enter into the heart of God...If we remain unresponsive to that cry, the poor might well cry out to the Lord against us, and we would incur guilt and turn away from the very heart of God (8)." #PopeLeoXIV #DilexiTe #RememberThePoor

We pray for Cardinal McElroy! #PrayTogether www.ncronline.org/news/dc-card...

"By a long course of prayerful discipline, I have ceased...to hate anybody. I know this is a big claim. Nevertheless, I make it in all humility." #Gandhi #LoveEachOther

"If there is any way to terrify a despot, it is by dismantling the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power." #ZohranMamdani #PrayForAmerica #RememberThePoor

“This is kidnapping — plain and simple." #PrayForAmerica www.boston.com/news/local-n...

“Jesus says very clearly: At the end of the world, we are going to be asked, how did you receive the foreigner? Did you receive him, and welcome him, or not?” #PopeLeoXIV #LiveTheGospel #WelcomeTheStranger www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

"Wanting to inaugurate a kingdom of justice, fraternity and solidarity, God has a special place in his heart for those who are discriminated against and oppressed, and he asks us, his Church, to make a decisive and radical choice in favor of the weakest (16)." #PopeLeoXIV #DilexiTe #RememberThePoor

"By you, Most Holy Lord, and by the whole celestial court, and by me, too, your little one, cursed be those who by their bad example disrupt and destroy what you have built up." #SaintFrancisOfAssisi

Pope Francis, pray for us and for our suffering world! #PopeFrancis #SantoSubito www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

"Migration is always a double right: a right to find the conditions for a respectable existence in your own country, and a right to move away when those minimum conditions do not exist." #PopeFrancis #Hope

"Even its loudest outcry might not be enough to change policy or sway elections—but then again, it might. At the very least, it would demonstrate that the U.S. Church can still bear prophetic witness to the Gospel’s most basic demands." #PrayForAmerica www.commonwealmagazine.org/bishops-and-...

"What is worst of all is using God and religion to bolster up our own greed, our own attachment to property, and putting God and country on an equality (1961)." #DorothyDay #PrayForAmerica

“If that was an animal shelter, crowded with the filth that we hear is in there, it would be closed down. It’s inhumane.” #PrayForAmerica chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

“We must love our enemy, not because we fear war, but because God loves him.” #DorothyDay #LoveEachOther

"The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty." #PopeLeoXIV #DilexiTe #RememberThePoor

"My noncooperation has its roots not in hatred, but in love." #Gandhi #Resist

"It is for us, and above all, for us believers to convert instruments of hatred into instruments of peace; it is for us to point out the sinister operations that revolve around money & arms trafficking; it is for us to have the courage to look up toward the stars of Abraham's promise." #PopeFrancis

"Human dignity demands that every person have access to health care — not as a commodity, but as a fundamental right flowing from the sanctity of human life. The common good requires that we protect the vulnerable first, not reward the wealthy." #PrayForAmerica www.ncronline.org/opinion/edit...

"We are constantly being astonished these days at the amazing discoveries in the field of violence. But I maintain that far more undreamt of and seemingly impossible discoveries will be made in the field of nonviolence." #Gandhi #Resist #Nonviolence

"An economy that kills, that excludes, that starves, that concentrates enormous wealth in a few to the detriment of the many, that multiplies poverty and grinds down salaries, that pollutes, that produces war, is not an economy: It is just an emptiness, an absence, a sickness." #PopeFrancis #Hope

"We need to raise our voices and start boycotts." #BishopBrennan #PrayForAmerica www.ncronline.org/news/wv-bish...

"Praise to you, my Lord, through those who forgive each other in your love, and who bear trial and sickness." #SaintFrancisOfAssisi

“We spoke with multiple people who had been in there for more than a week, more than 10 days – in the same clothes, not having bathed and no access to toothbrushes." #PrayForAmerica www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"Meetings are life's teachers. We sometimes don't welcome the encounter as we should. When we lack firsthand knowledge and the ability to listen, we could miss that reality is much bigger than ideas." #LiveTheGospel #ShareGodsLove #RebuildMyChurch www.ncronline.org/news/qa-fr-a...

"Consider, human, the wondrous dignity that God has conferred upon you. He formed and created your body in the image of his Beloved Son and your soul in his own likeness. And still, all creatures under heaven know, serve, and obey their Creator better than you do." #SaintFrancisOfAssisi

"To resist is to survive." #DorothyDay

"As people of God, we can't just sit and watch." #PrayForAmerica www.ncronline.org/news/immigra...

In our new podcast, Brother Patrick reflects on the life and legacy of Saint Jude the Apostle, faithful friend and patron of hope. Saint Jude, pray for us! #SaintJude #LiveTheGospel #AssisiProjectPodcast assisiproject.com

"Stupidity gives intellectual cover to hatred." #PopeFrancis #Hope

"My prayer from day to day is that God will so enlarge my heart that I will see you all, and live with you all, in his love." #DorothyDay #LiveTheGospel #LoveEachOther

“No one is called to dominate; all are called to serve." #PopeLeoXIV

"Selfishness is stupid." #PopeFrancis #Hope

"One day the world tosses us a bouquet of roses, the next it crowns us with thorns. That's the nature of this valley of tears." www.ncronline.org/spirituality...

"We can pray in petition, praise, thanksgiving or repentance, but underneath every kind or style of prayer, the purpose is simply to grow in relationship with God and the people of God — which means everyone." #PrayTogether www.ncronline.org/spirituality...

"Corruption is an accomplice of the horror. The hoarding of natural resources is an accomplice of the horror. The lack of democracy is an accomplice. And silence is an accomplice too." #PopeFrancis #Hope

“When people see faith leaders standing in the line of fire, I hope they understand that it’s not because we seek attention or confrontation. Our presence...is meant to be a moral mirror. It reminds the world that this is not normal.” #PrayForAmerica religionnews.com/2025/10/24/a...

"We must campaign and protest so that the vital course of peace...is not impeded by the flood of violence, obstructed by the swamps of corruption, or thwarted by the inundation of poverty." #PopeFrancis #Hope

"On the wounded faces of the poor, we see the suffering of the innocent and, therefore, the suffering of Christ himself." #PopeLeoXIV #DilexiTe #RememberThePoor

"Bans on religious texts in prisons cannot stand. The free exercise of religion is not a privilege to be granted or withheld at the discretion of correctional officials — it is a fundamental constitutional right that must be protected." #PrayForAmerica www.ncronline.org/opinion/reli...

"To renounce noble and generous ideals in order to serve money or power is a great apostasy." #PopeFrancis #RememberThePoor

"The work of destruction, speaking generally, goes on not in the light of day, but, metaphorically, in the dark hours of night." #JECaselyHayford #PrayForAmerica www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"In hearing the cry of the poor, we are asked to enter into the heart of God, who is always concerned for the needs of his children, especially those in greatest need (8)." #PopeLeoXIV #DilexiTe #RememberThePoor