Bill McCormick, SJ

#OTD in 1542, St. Francis Xavier, SJ, reached Goa, India, after more than a year’s journey. Here's Fr. Michael Rossmann, SJ, on why he still inspires us today: ow.ly/gZ7B50VNKh1

Fr. @bmccsj.bsky.social, a political scientist and writer at La Civiltà Cattolica in Rome, talks with AMDG about this moment of transition for the Church, including the mood in Rome, Pope Francis’ legacy and how Ignatian spirituality might inform our approach to the conclave.

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Vatican's Caritas outraged at 'reckless' USAID cuts, says millions will die, others left in poverty Caritas warned that millions of people will die as a result of the U.S. decision to stop USAID funding, and hundreds of millions more will be condemned to “dehumanizing poverty.”

Vatican’s Caritas outraged at ‘reckless’ USAID cuts, says millions will die, others left in poverty
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How would you compare that to the endless revolution of say Ortega in Nicaragua? The revolution has overthrown the dictator but must be unending because the counter-revolutionaries are always at work?

Why are these all coming out now?

That's University of Detroit Mercy!

Clear evidence that dinosaurs and humans coexisted

Drop in Death Penalty Support Led by Younger Generations Declining support for the death penalty since the early 2000s is largely a result of lower support among Generation Z and millennials.

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NEW POLL: Overall Support for the Death Penalty Remains at Five-Decade Low as Opposition to the Death Penalty Grows Among Younger Generations | Death Penalty Information Center According to October 2024 polling produced by Gallup, support for capital punishment remains at a five-decade low in the United States. Overall, Gallup...

It's dropping: deathpenaltyinfo.org/new-poll-ove...

Feliz Fiesta de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe! Happy Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe! "Let not your heart be disturbed… Am I not here, who is your Mother? Are you not under my protection? Am I not your health? Are you not happily within my fold?...

Pope Francis calls on Syrian rebels to stabilise country Pope Francis on Wednesday called on the Syrian rebels who toppled the regime of President Bashar al-Assad to stabilise the country, and govern in a way that promotes national unity.

News: Pope Francis on Wednesday called on the Syrian rebels who toppled the regime of President Bashar al-Assad to stabilise the country, and govern in a way that promotes national unity. For @reuters.com:

"In coming years... the ever-swelling data stream may become our dominant train of thought, our all-purpose apparatus for the work of sense-making and self-making."

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Oggi una mia breve riflessione sulla retrospettiva dedicata alla fotografia di #MoYi all’ UCCA Center for Contemporary Arts di Pechino #Cina 🇨🇳 visitata la settimana scorsa. Sul Fatto Quotidiano in edicola

Restored baldacchino at St Peter's Basilica dazzles. Amazing job revitalizing Bernini's design.

Restored baldacchino at St Peter's Basilica dazzles. Amazing job revitalizing Bernini's design.

«La gente, chi dice che io sia?».
Davvero Gesù è interessato al gossip sul suo conto, al sentiment popolare, alla chiacchiera, alla sua reputation sociale? Continua la mia lettura continua del Vangelo di Marco sul Fatto Quotidiano.

A society unable to accept its suffering members and incapable of helping to share their suffering and to bear it inwardly through “com-passion” is a cruel and inhuman society."

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"The true measure of humanity is essentially determined in relationship to suffering and to the sufferer. This holds true both for the individual and for society...

The Josephites will ordain three to the transitional diaconate on Dec. 7—the second ordination this year for the Catholic religious community serving African Americans.

The Nigerian-born ordinands currently serve in the society's apostolates in Louisiana. https://buff.ly/3VaJmjH

#PopeFrancis welcomed US Secretary of State Blinken to the Vatican early this morning. Afterward, Blinken met with Cardinal Parolin and Archbishop Gallagher of the Vatican Secretariat of State. (📸Vatican Media)

I Want To Burden My Loved Ones | Gilbert Meilaender To live or to die? When the time comes, Gilbert Meilaender wants his fate in his family’s hands, . . . .

Still one of the greatest all-time article titles.

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This graphic, created for Bill Gates' website, shows that diseases transmitted by mosquitoes are responsible for vastly more human deaths than other animals. While sharks inspire fear in many, they kill few people.

We often worry about the wrong things.

People killed annually by
Sharks 10
Elephants 100
Hippos 500
Snails 10,000
Dogs 25,000
Snakes 50,000
People 475,000
Mosquitoes 725,000
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The Vatican Christmas tree is going up today

Cormac McCarthy’s Secret Muse Breaks Her Silence After Half a Century: “I Loved Him. He Was My Safety.” When he was 42, Cormac McCarthy fell in love with a 16-year-old girl he met by a motel pool. Augusta Britt would go on to become one of the most significant—and secret—inspirations in literary history...

"And I remember thinking to myself that being such a lover of books, I was surprised it didn’t feel romantic to be written about. I felt kind of violated. All these painful experiences regurgitated and rearranged into fiction." - McCarthy's "muse," i.e., victim

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I tried to link to him, but the Vatican website is somehow down again :(

It follows his recent letter on the role of literature in priestly formation, as you know. I wonder if this is the start of a series.

Distressing news about a great Catholic newspaper in New Orleans.

#goals, as the kids say

Congrats!

“Therefore any ascetic life or practice that is without love is a stranger to God.”
-St. Maximus the Confessor