This an official Vatican photograph of Leo at Lampedusa, Italy - one of the world’s heaviest migrant sites - where he went this morning to pray for migrants who died at sea. This is after turning down the offer to come to the United States.

mercy and grace to the living; pardon and rest to the dead

I pledge allegiance only to Christ and him crucified.

I don’t know what people think “let the little children come to me” means in light of church

This kinda reiterates why physical media is so important. Because if all our history books become digital, they can change records of the truth on a whim.

The weather on Juneteeth was incredible. Make of that what you will.

I'm watching a food Taiwanese drama. And I can't believe that the male lead's mom sprung a blind date on him. He's running between the kitchen and serving/eating with his mom, date, and her dad. I have too many family members who've worked in kitchens to know that he is NOT presentable for a date!

In Photos: Gaza erupts in Joy as Egypt's World Cup victory brings moment of respite english.ahram.org.eg/WorldCup2026...

RIP Lam Wing-kee, the man who ran Causeway Bay Books, was kidnapped by the CCP in Hong Kong and brought across the border to China in a case that was a harbinger of much worse to come for HK, and who died in exile in Taiwan. may every other HKer live to see a free Hong Kong

What could you create/make by next summer to lessen suffering in some part of your world? Let that question be your guide and hold yourself to making something of whatever size and impact by that time. Hold yourself to the commitment. No one else needs to know but you will.

… We have offended against thy holy laws, We have left undone those things which we ought to have done, And we have done those things which we ought not to have done, And there is no health in us…

The Pope is in Lampedusa today, where so many arrive, having crossed the Mediterranean sea: "The dead people in this sea are victims both of decisions made and decisions not made".

"The disregard for the common good and corruption in the places of origin, a global economic system that generates poverty and exclusion, the fear that fuels prejudice and contempt, the idea that these problems do not concern us..."

"... and the criminal calculations of those who profit from the tragedy of others."

You can always count on NYC for Philadelphia erasure

There’s a technical term for “the most senior Catholic in the U.S. government.” In the Church, they call that a “layperson.”

and I just think Leo went “yeah no fuck this, they had their chances, there’s no compromising with these people,” and I think the reason this is all so satisfying even to non-Catholics is that we all want to see people like this actually removed from their access to power but it happens so rarely

I talked a little about this before in one of the other threads but honestly my theory is no they didn’t because when do reactionary right-wing Christofascists in this day and age ever actually experience consequences for stuff? even Francis, who didn’t like them, offered some concessions

JD VANCE’S BOOK CALLED MY MOM *W H A T* ????????????

This is the best of who we are and what we represent. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Martha and Mary in their distress; draw near to us

The Egyptian team dedicated their victory to the Egyptian and Palestinian people ♥️

Just spent the last few hours finding and reading histories of Episcopal nuns, and feeling emotional. 😭

Jesus, Lover of my soul,

Excerpt from the diary of Thomas Cranmer. 3rd July, 1533.

I feel like portraying it as a fringe theological dispute between catholic sects over the 2nd vatican council and finger pointing over who's a heretic, rather than as a conflict with a fringe far right sect that says Jews are going to hell and Muslims are rapists hides the general interest aspect.

The fact that this article from Associated Press in NPR doesn't mention that the original Lefebvrist tendency has had consistent decades long links to nazis and spreading antisemitic ideology really underplays what's gone on here.

Praise him, all ye heavens: and ye waters that are above the heavens. (Psalm 148:4)

I have so many thoughts on this topic: the loss of "third spaces" is such a comforting trope because it implies some greater force *took* our social fabric away. That's true to some degree, but the more painful truth is people also extracted themselves from it en masse.

We're so starving for consequences we're reading Vatican press releases

who I am will never be lost to you

👀👀👀 Pope Bob from Chicago ain’t playing around.

Look, the SSPX are awful, but I’m kind of over the “lol men wearing lace” stuff. The vestments are not the problem.

love to be on a common medication that totally wrecks your ability to regulate temperature

I am dutifully keeping my AC higher than I'd like to lessen the strain on the grid and boy is it uncomfortable

I see a lot of “so-and-so is a birthright citizen” because their parents weren’t citizens when they were born on American soil. But the truth is, we’re all birthright citizens, unless we have been naturalized.

Okay, I have referenced this a few times in replies, but: some people are confused about why the SSPX would play this game of chicken and expect the Pope would blink. It's not JUST the precedent from the last time! It's also the entire recent history of the Catholic Church in China.

this is where suddenly "what are all the other sedevacantists who DON'T specifically belong to this one organization going to do" becomes the biggest and most potentially explosive question - now that they know Vatican II denialism gets you the maximum sentence and Leo is not fucking around with it

but instead, not only was there a big public announcement which scoops up 300,000 people instead of 6 people, it was framed as a warning to the rest of the church not to fraternize with these people. that's a shot across the bow to scare potential SSPX sympathizers and other right-wing Catholics

“the lay faithful” here means everyone civilian parishioners but also like, all those nuns is a whole order of nuns going to just defect to stay with the schismatics?? like everyone has to run the numbers and do their own calculus now

The Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America already exists! 😉

🚨🚨🚨MEMBERS OF THE ORDER WHO STAY IN THE ORDER ARE *ALL* EXCOMMUNICATED🚨🚨🚨

THE VATICAN IS CALLING IT A SCHISM I REPEAT HOUSTON, WE HAVE A SCHISM

Vatican response! the gist is “they excommunicated themselves by doing this” and they quote a lot of the nastiest little jabs interesting to see where they call them “the Lefebvrists” and not the Society of St. Pius X, positioning them as a cult of personality rather than a legit-sounding order

okay Leo is up and at 'em, appointing new senior staff (including WOMEN, still annoyingly rare!) according to Vatican news, so I'm guessing he will have some shit to say in the next few hours & I will get to enjoy it when I wake up we definitely have excommunications; we'll see if we have a schism!

we are all waiting for our Emotional Support Augustinian to finish his breakfast cappucino in the Vatican dining room and start spitting bars

isn't this just the donatism controversy? someone call an Augustinian.

For context on today’s Birthright Citizenship case, highly recommend this Throughline Episode: www.npr.org/2025/02/06/1...

6 years on from the implementation of the National Security Law in Hong Kong, that day & few days following still hurt. People I had got to know, friends & allies went dark, not all of them but alot. They deleted their socials, accounts scrubbed clean, gaps in conversations. Some... 1/