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BOB!!!

For some historic context, from the Auditorium of the Pharaohs, 2015 +Chaput on the moral and pastoral exigencies of US’ immigration policy (under that era’s “Deporter-in-Chief”):

Meanwhile, in US’ largest diocese ever – home to roughly 1 million undocumented – Mamba +Gomez showed up and showed out; onetime(/future?) GOP nominee for LA Mayor gives $6-figures to seed Church’s aid to immigrant families amid Trump’s ICE terror: bit.ly/4o5hbzj

Suffice it to say, better letter than never….

Pope Leo has returned to the Vatican from his summer residence in Castel Gandolfo. On the way back, he stopped to talk to some journalists, and answered some questions on international affairs. vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2…

Lest anybody forgot – or, more likely, never knew – St JPII's Veritatis Splendor (long the Right's ear-tickle par excellence) stacked "deportation" alongside "homicide, genocide, abortion" as "intrinsece malum"... "acts always seriously wrong by reason of their object."

“Goodnight, sweet Prince….” Gratz’eterne, Ozz 🪦 🌨️ ⚫️ 🕯️ … Randy, get ‘im! bit.ly/4eYXBAC

As Trad-federates declare the undocumented guilty of “mortal sin” for seeking their intrinsic dignity over human law, in US’ largest diocese ever – and ICE’s capital of fear (bit.ly/4m6hisL) – +Gomez to unveil an LA-wide assistance push for immigrant families Wed AM:

St. Mary Magdalene, Apostle of the Apostles, pray for us. vaticannews.va/en/saints/07/2…

The archbishop of Łódź has condemned recent “hate and fear” expressed towards refugees and migrants. "Catholic teaching clearly states that every person has the right to choose a place to live and be respected in that place for their beliefs and culture" notesfrompoland.com/2025/07/21/pol…

Sunday PM about 25 Knights on Bikes stopped at entrance of Alligator Alcatraz and prayed a rosary for the detainees. Archdiocese is still waiting for approval to access to provide Mass for detainees

Pope Leo XIV paid a private visit to the Santa Marta Home for the Elderly in Castel Gandolfo on Monday morning, offering words of comfort, encouragement, and spiritual closeness to the women residing there and to their carers. vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2…

Leo’s “out of this world” Sunday to mark 56 years since the moon landing has deep resonance in papal history – a captivated Paul VI watched Apollo 11 touchdown from the Castel Observatory, then met the crew 3 months later, who brought him a Moon-rock. Montini’s speech that day:

This evening, 56 years after the Apollo 11 moon landing, I spoke with the astronaut Buzz Aldrin. Together we shared the memory of a historic feat, a testimony to human ingenuity, and we reflected on the mystery and greatness of Creation.

A first for @phillymag’s vaunted August edition – despite the list’s debut amid the (pre-1978) Wojtyła-Krol bromance – Bob Prevost’s Math major/early OSA formation at Villanova nabs Leo #BestOfPhilly Honors🇻🇦🇺🇸🏆 However tempting the “spokes,” let the monument speak for itself👏🏽

Appearing yet again at the Portal of the Castel Palace (vs. the Balcony B16 so loved: bit.ly/44XbQkO), at the Angelus, Leo on the “humility” of hospitality… before announcing that he’s extending his lakeside stay, which was slated to end today: bit.ly/3Iwz36b

In what was fleetingly his Cathedral as Card-Bishop of Albano (a role he’s since given to Card Chito), now-Pope muses how “the Holy Spirit” blocked his planned installation there on 12 May before asking that summer be “an opportunity to care for others”: bit.ly/3IBxns0

Nella tarda mattinata di oggi, anniversario dell’allunaggio del 1969, dopo la recita dell’Angelus, #PapaLeoneXIV ha visitato i telescopi e la strumentazione nelle Cupole della Specola Vaticana a Castel Gandolfo @HolySeePress

"A war without limits": That's how Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s Secretary of State, described the situation in Gaza during a phone interview on Friday evening. vaticannews.va/en/vatican-cit…

5 months since Francis made Bob the first US-born member of the top rank of the College of Cardinals, giving him title to one of Rome’s suffragan dioceses, now-Pope to close Castel fortnight with his unfinished business as Card-Bishop of Albano – Sunday Mass at its Cathedral.

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…