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Pope Leo: “We must dream of and build a more humble Church; a Church that does not stand upright….triumphant and inflated with pride, but bends down to wash the feet of humanity; a Church that does not judge.,,but becomes a welcoming place for all.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

Pope Leo XIV: “The supreme rule in the Church is love….No one is excluded; we are all called to participate. No one possesses the whole truth; we must all humbly seek it and seek it together.”

Listen to Reagan’s words and judge for yourself. Trump is, again, lying.

Incredibly specific fortune cookie.

I don’t even bake. 🤷‍♂️😂

A poignant reminder of the Pope’s take on the mistreatment of migrants…from 2018…when Leo was “Bob.”

Wikipedia is having a hard time keeping up with its "East Wing" entry.

Pope today: “With the abuse of vulnerable migrants, we are witnessing not the legitimate exercise of national sovereignty but grave crimes committed and tolerated by the state. Ever more inhuman measures are being adopted, even celebrated politically, that treat these 'undesirables' like garbage.”

There's always a lot of glory at this gas station in the fall.

That's just weird.

Just a window into my life right now. We have our bi-annual Christmas bazaar in 2 1/2 weeks. I am busy cranking out Christmas cards (among other things) to sell there.

Just received my friend, Mako's latest book. An exquisitely beautiful book. Mako practices "slow art", and I can only do the same by slowly reading and savoring and taking in all that he offers here.

I’m all out of words.

Catholic Church must do more to help sexual abuse survivors and hold church leaders to account, hard-hitting report says | CNN A Vatican commission for the protection of children has said the mishandling by the Catholic Church’s leaders of sexual abuse allegations involving clergy is causing “ongoing harm” to victims.

Via @ctrlamb.bsky.social: Vatican's child protection body says church leaders must do more to help sexual abuse survivors and hold church leaders to account.

The hard-hitting report highlights failures to adopt robust anti-abuse measures in parts of Italy and Africa. www.cnn.com/2025/10/16/e...

Christmas Day 1958

YouTube video by Associated Press Horse lover Pope Leo receives purebred Arabian from Polish donor

When I was 8, we got a horse for Christmas. (Really.) Couldn't help think of that when I saw the joy on Pope Leo's face when he was given this beautiful Arabian today.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhpN...

'Hatemonger' Paints Trump Advisor Stephen Miller As A 'Case Study In Radicalization' Miller has been seen as a link between the white nationalist agenda and the Trump White House. Journalist Jean Guerrero traces the origins of Miller's anti-immigrant policies in a new book.

This is exactly Stephen Miller's agenda.
www.npr.org/2020/08/24/9...

Statement of Cardinal Cupich on the Moral Imperative to Uphold Both Security and Human Dignity.

Bishop Seitz: “What has happened to our heart? What has happened to the word compassion? Can it, where can it be found? Today, in this country and in this world, sometimes I wonder if I can even recognize our country.” www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/i...

“Sometimes we think that the Lord comes to visit us only in moments of contemplation or spiritual fervour... Instead, the Risen One is close to us precisely in the darkest places... Nothing that we are, no fragment of our existence, is foreign to him.” — Leo XIV, 8 Oct 2025

That's beautiful, isn't it?

Pope to journalists: “…it is worth remembering Hannah Arendt’s warning that ‘the ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist.’”

"My sins, my brokenness, my failures cannot be the last word, because the Divine Lover has called me beautiful." (Joshua Elzner)

Two of our Sisters are on pilgrimage in Rome right now. Beautiful encounter with Pope Leo.

Marking this to read later! I've got to make time to read the exhortation first. ☺️

The whole document is worth the read. I find Leo being one of the only sane voices right now in this crazy world.
www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

They took an Alzheimer's facility and transformed it into housing for the homeless. He told me his arm is red from pinching himself. This is caring for the poor as Leo writes about.

I am rejoicing at Pope Leo's "I have loved you". Yesterday I found out that one of my brothers who has been homeless for almost 20 months found transitional housing, rent free, through a group called Michigan Rebuilders who are dedicated to ending homelessness. 1/

Pope Leo in Dilexi te: “The Church has always recognized in migrants a living presence of the Lord who, on the day of judgment, will say to those on his right: ‘I was a stranger and you welcomed me’”(Mt 25:35).

Wonderful, wonderful!

‪Pope Leo was also presented with letters fr migrants in the US who are living in fear.‬