Bridget O’Brien

screenshot from Click to Pray reading Is a world without nuclear weapons possible? In 2017, the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons was signed by more than 80 countries. None of the countries that currently possesses nuclear weapons signed it. Pope's Worldwide Prayer Network

Something tells me the prompts for prayer on the $80 celebrity-backed Thiel-funded prayer app don’t QUITE resemble the ones on the Vatican’s free Click to Pray app.

* I am not a Midwesterner and will not comment beyond my competency, but: rhetorically, when a public person in the US says "Midwestern values," they don't mean "Chicago values."

Mostly posting this bc I'm fascinated by "[Location] Values" rhetoric. "People work hard, they love their families"--we're used to hearing that described as "small town values," or maybe "Midwest* values."

But the addition of "they appreciate the international flavor of the city"...

Cardinal Cupich: 'We must embrace principles to avoid wars' - Vatican News In a wide-ranging interview with Vatican Media, Cardinal Blase Cupich, Archbishop of Chicago, calls for restraint to avoid unnecessary military ...

"It's not just the fact that he is from Chicago, but his life in some way was formed by the culture of Chicago where people work hard. They love their families. They appreciate the international flavor of the city itself. For instance, we celebrate Mass in 26 languages in Chicago."

If I tell you something in confidence & then you tell a journalist and it shows up in the newspaper, it’s not the journalist I’m mad at!

Yeah, I hold O’Connell and Pique in high respect! I fully buy that there’s something I’m just not getting here (but I think the Church would benefit from something helping us understand that)—but honestly more to the point, it’s not them I’m side-eyeing; it’s the cardinals.

Our Lady of Guadalupe

the only Shield of the Americas I recognize

“Secrecy is absolutely essential to allow the cardinals to set aside all outside influence and listen to the Holy Spirit. Any attempt to undermine this secrecy incurs automatic excommunication.”

(11 months later)

“Your Holiness! Please enjoy our book, written thanks to conclave leaks!”

What a new book tells us about the conclave that elected Pope Leo A new book suggests that Cardinal Robert Prevost's path to the papacy was shaped by fragile alliances and small human moments that influenced perceptions inside the Sistine Chapel and produced the fir...

I’m just a simple city layperson, but I will never not be confused by what conclave leaks don’t incur automatic excommunication. I just don’t get it, guys!

Of course I should not be shocked on this, the website for 38 year olds with graduate humanities degrees, but: dang you all have grandfathers with fancy careers.

It was really very moving. I am very moved.

(yes i am taking an uber home; i am a True Urbanite and do not own a car. but not so True an Urbanite that i will wait an hour at 9:30pm to take the regional rail i took here.)

I was invited to preach at a prayer service in the suburbs, about an hour from the church where I work…
…and about 20 members of the church where I work came, and several told the organizers, “We’ll go anywhere to hear Bridget preach,” and now I’m crying a little in the Uber home.

No absolutely; anyone grouping Haugen & Haas either hasn’t heard about Haas or has truly terrible priorities (or both, I suppose).

OH LORD.

I WILL say it is true that churches should not use Haas’s music, but that is because he is a serial sexual harasser who used his work as a liturgical music composer to harm women.

Bluesky can’t move on from Talarico discourse fast enough, truly.

- your bishops firmly stand against an attack on birthright citizenship, calling it "immoral"

...and your move is to call their teaching incoherent?

(2/2)

What, exactly, is "Catholic" in your culture when:

- 1 in 5 Catholics in the US are either at risk of deportation or live with someone who is

- 61% of immigrants vulnerable to deportation are Catholic - 29% of US Catholics are immigrants

- 14% of US Catholics are the children of immigrants

(1/2)

AAAAHHHHHH

Screenshot showing a google search for "usccb birthright citizenship." The first hit is a link to the USCCB titled "The Catholic Church's Position on Birthright Citizenship." The second hit is a link to a First Things page titled "What the USCCB Gets Wrong About Birthright Citizenship."

I was just trying to find the amicus brief.

hi athena 😍

many parts, one body, yadda yadda (but seriously)

I played the violin from 3rd through 6th grade but I was truly terrible at it & my closest friend from childhood whom I still text every day is a clarinetist, so I support you in this.

the algorithm will truly have advanced when we can pick from a list and mute current discourse

"Hi Bridget! Today we are arguing about: Why cheddar cheese is counter-revolutionary; Whether walks in the park are inherently rude; Why Americans don't understand what dessert is. Click to mute."

Truly came to the replies to say exactly this.

"hysterical"

Yeah. I personally do not care for "Eagle's Wings," but it comes directly from scripture and other people do have strong attachments to it, and I am not the only person whose aesthetics matter when planning liturgy!

(Also, "Eagle's Wings" isn't Marty Haugen; it's Michael Joncas.)

This is the 🤯 place that this post started, honestly.

I just keep blinking in shock.

Yes, this is it exactly.