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“Every man of faith has questions, including myself. You are so frustrated by the situation. You ask God ‘Where are you?’ Then I come to myself & I understand the question should be: ‘Where is man now? What have we done with our humanity?’” Cardinal Pizzaballa of Jerusalem

Suhail is a young Catholic student from Gaza, seriously wounded in the Israeli attack on the Holy Family parish on Thursday. He writes a column for L’Osservatore Romano, the Holy See’s newspaper. Although Suhail sustained shrapnel wounds to his internal organs during

Reading Greg Iles ☮️ "Southern Man." This is the best, single paragraph I've read that succinctly breaks down the reasons for the rise of Donald Trump.

Strong-Link Problems, by Bob Seawright. The first of two parts on living a fat-tailed life. open.substack.com/pub/betterlett…

♟️“If I were a chess piece…”♟️ From queens to pawns, these refugee students in Kakuma know that every move and every person matters. 💭 On #WorldChessDay, they remind us: even small steps can change the game.

In today's #GospelOfTheDay (Lk 10:38-42) Jesus is a guest at the house of Martha and Mary. One of the sisters welcomes him with much attention, while the other listens to him while sitting at his feet. Service and listening are twin dimensions of welcome. vatican.va/content/leo-xi…

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Happy Feast of St. Mary Magdalene! In today's beautiful Gospel, the Risen Christ appears first to Mary Magdalene and asks her to tell his other disciples the news of the Resurrection (Jn 20). Thus, in the time between her encounter with Christ and her proclamation to the

St. Mary Magdalene, Disciple of the Lord vaticannews.va/en/saints/07/2…

Addiction, anxiety and depression are NOT problems. They're symptoms. The real culprits behind 95% of your suffering: 1. The Voice in Your Head 2. Disconnection 3. Repressed Emotions How to solve them (without force):

IT asked that we remind you that bringing your own device to work is a huge security risk. Also, they are instituting a mandatory two-factor confirmation for every login, sent to your personal phone.

Book I’m reading this weekend, published in 1983 tells the story of Rabbi Henry Cohen, Jacob Schiff, Israel Zangwill, and the “Galveston Movement” 1907-14, how Texas opened its door to Jewish immigrants fleeing programs in Russia, and all its complexities, both darkness and light

The removal of three outspoken critics of Pope Francis from Sacred Heart Seminary exposes a deeper crisis in the U.S. Church—where dissent from the Magisterium is masked as fidelity and ideology masquerades as orthodoxy. wherepeteris.com/false-orthodox…

Nassim Nicholas Taleb “As there is always more misery among the poor, they are more accustomed to helping one another. The rich never help each other, because they never need to.” Victor Hugo “It is a curious fact, but it is only the poor who are generous. The rich are often afraid of losing

A pretty amazing depiction of what the depressed brain feels like, tbh...

A true genius, and an American original. RIP. "Tom Lehrer, Musical Satirist With a Dark Streak, Dies at 97" nytimes.com/2025/07/27/art…

Finally read this great essay from 1964. I hadn't realized there was a subsection called "The Jesuit Threat." Best line: "Anti-Catholicism has always been the pornography of the Puritan" harpers.org/archive/1964/1…

Fantastic profile of Brother Guy Consolmagno, SJ, director of the Vatican Observatory (and great guy, no pun intended!) in the latest issue of The The New Yorker

31st of July, Saint Ignatius (Iñigo), patriot saint of the Basque Country. Great fireworks display, first line from home 🎉🎊