Spencer
@smead2942
Christian, socialist, Canadian-American 🍁🦬 Dostoevsky, Aristotle, Augustine, Weil, & Camus simp. @JohnCarrollU MA Counseling ‘26 💙⚜️
“Love becomes concern and care for the other. No longer is it self-seeking, sinking in the intoxication of happiness; instead, it seeks the good of the beloved. It becomes renunciation and it is ready, and even willing, for sacrifice.” -Pope Benedict XVI, “Deus caritas est”
Catholic Social Teaching can sound remote at times. Here’s a concrete application. The dignity of the children of Gaza is being violated by deliberate starvation. The preferential option for the poor calls us to work for their relief, defence and liberation (Catechism, 2448).
One in five children in Gaza is malnourished, UN aid agency says bbc.in/4f4vSPj
Baltimore has been investing youth programming, including late night programs, summer camps, teen jobs, sports, after school programs, etc. Homicides in the city are down 40%, with steep drops in robberies, carjackings, and shootings. This should be talked about more.
Intentionally risking civilian lives in order to put pressure on the enemy is a war crime, manifestly contrary to natural law and just war doctrine. To do so with this sort of glee adds a further layer of depravity. “Starve away” is the GOP equivalent of “Shout your abortion.”
Release the hostages. Until then, starve away. (This is all a lie anyway. It amazes me that the media continues to regurgitate Muslim terror propaganda.)
This is Pope Francis literally sitting in Church Square in Mosul, the heart of the ISIS persecution of Christians, in 2021 A female suicide bomber and a van travelling at high speed with explosives both attempted to kill him during this visit
Have you noticed the pattern in which one Pope after the next will focus on the Jewish state & slandering it, while completely ignoring the actual genocide of Christians in the Middle East including right this minute in Syria?
Okay let's clarify some things. Link below
Okay let's clarify some things. Link below
Good morning! I'm in Uganda to visit family and friends. But depending on your perspective, don't worry or I'm sorry: I'll be back by the end of the month. See you soon, NYC.
Given the choice between Joel Berry, an editor of a Millennialslop Christian satire website who moonlights as an IDF apologist, and Cardinal Pizzaballa, who risks his life daily by ministering to Palestinians, which between the two is qualified to identify "true Christian faith"?
True Christian faith still exists in Gaza, but it’s all underground. Anyone allowed by Hamas to practice openly is allowed to do so only because they aid and support the terror regime.
I was a Navy SEAL for over a decade, so I know a few things about drawing a weapon. Technique *this bad* could only survive in a place where the people you’re shooting are unarmed. This only “works” because they’re shooting women and children. 🌈 The More You Know 🌈
In Israel, they don't carry a round in the chamber. This is their quick-draw technique.
Some Popes are different. Francis was one such Pope. My biographic introduction to The Lamp's symposium on the last pontificate is online 🔗🔽
To condemn Israel’s excesses in Gaza is no more anti-Semitic than condemning Dresden is anti-British or condemning Hiroshima is anti-American. On the contrary, genuine love for a nation and its people can be (and ought to be) what motivates criticism of it when it acts unjustly
the world is against Holy Family parish but God is with them in their suffering. Israel and the US are instruments of Satan.
Two people are confirmed to be dead after Israeli strikes on Holy Family Church, the only Catholic Parish in Gaza, this morning. Several people have been injured, included Fr. Gabriele Romanelli, whom Pope Francis used to call every night. The building has also been damaged.
Based on photos it looks like the Israeli tank operators were aiming for the cross, but missed hitting the roof leading to the debris to rain down and crush those sheltering inside. There is no reason for an Israeli tank shell to be aimed this high. Lord have mercy.
Donald Trump is attacking me because he is desperate to distract from his war on working people. We must and we will fight back.
Today I joined hundreds walking to the ICE field office in Detroit, motivated by a truth that flows from the Gospel: Everyone has inherent dignity. We recognize this dignity above all else and seek to bring our nation back to its roots of charity, accompaniment, and welcome.
“You say you care about the poor? Then tell me, what are their names?” -Gustavo Gutierrez.