Pope Francis biographer, fellow @campionoxf, ✍️ #TheGreatReformer #WoundedShepherd #LetUsDream. #FirstBelongToGod Smallholder #LaudatoSi: 🐑 🐓 🐝🪴🌳🥬🍅🧄
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13 Mar 2025
12 years on, people ask: how can we follow the path the Pope is calling us to? For parishes, communities and the curious, I have written a retreat “with” Francis, based on the Ignatian Exercises which shaped him. In English, español, français, italiano and português.
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Jun 13
In the wake of Leo’s encyclical it is rather fitting that his week in Spain showed forth humanity in all its vulnerable magnificence, while the tech proved unreliable.
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Jun 12
Ancient institutions to the rescue … but that means no airborne press conference 😪
Jun 12
Technical issues force Pope Leo XIV to disembark plane in Tenerife. He is then offered the King of Spain’s plane to return to Rome. @CNN Report from inside the aircraft:
cnn.com/2026/06/12/world/vid…
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Jun 12
"Every life lost on these routes is a failure for the human family," the pontiff said. bit.ly/49VvbXd
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Jun 10
Amnesty International has accused Israel’s government of carrying out a campaign of “ethnic cleansing” of Palestinians from the occupied West Bank and annexing their territory.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/ja8wy2
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Jun 11
Leone XIV dalle Canarie sui migranti: “l’Europa non può proclamare la dignità umana e abituarsi a che il Mediterraneo e l’Atlantico siano cimiteri senza lapidi. La comunità internazionale è chiamata a una cooperazione efficace e perseverante”
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Jun 11
“The war in Ukraine — which [today marks] 1,569 days, or more than four years and three months — has now outlasted World War I.”
nytimes.com/2026/06/11/world… via @NYTimes
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Jun 10
Very impressive how Leo switches between Castilian and Catalán at the iconic monastery of Montserrat (address from 1:25) youtu.be/q8tCFFdFJ5Q?si=XFTM… via @YouTube
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Jun 9
The much talked about bilateral took place after all. Leo met Bad Bunny. rtve.es/noticias/20260609/pa…
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Jun 9
Looking ahead with excitement to tomorrow evening’s Sagrada Familia Mass with Pope Leo, here is a piece I wrote in 2010, after being present at Benedict XVI’s consecration of the cathedral. theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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Jun 9
BREAKING: Israel has just issued an evacuation order for the entirety of the biblical city of Tyre.
No more “safe zones.” No more fake ceasefire. No more good-cop-bad-cop routine between Trump and Netanyahu.
Israeli ethnic cleansing is in full effect.
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Jun 9
Spain, more than any other country in Europe, has been the the country that has most quickly grasped the missionary, synodal, pastoral (etc.) conversion called for by Evangelii Gaudium, and is therefore the ideal launch pad for what is a Leo priority: the mission to Europe.
Jun 8
"España parece más católica hoy que hace 15 años"
✍️ La opinión de Jorge Bustos elmundo.es/opinion/columnist…
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Jun 9
Leo made 🔥 call to Madrid diocese last night to a missionary synodal conversion: to walk with seekers, transform culture, open parishes to HS in communal discernment, and priests / PPCs to see this not as threat but opportunity. Leo is bringing Evangelii Gaudium to Europe.
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Jun 9
This is an astonishing turnaround in public opinion, one of the legacies of Bibi Netanyahu. And because it is most evident among younger Americans, it is not yet fully felt in the political system.
Jun 8
For the first time in two decades of polling, more Americans sympathize with Palestinians (41%) than Israelis (36%), a reversal from 55% to 26% in Israel’s favor before to the October 7th attacks. Even 57% of Republicans aged 18 to 49 now disfavor Israel.trib.al/dcUq28Q
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Jun 8
Leo’s silence is absolutely correct. There is nothing worth discussing that has not already been raised in the dialogue with Leo’s official intermediary, Cdl Fernández. Pagliarani knows the choice he faces. The rest is just power games.
Jun 8
SSPX superior general Fr Davide Pagliarani says in a new interview that he sincerely wishes to meet Pope Leo XIV and is “astonished that, from the Holy Father, there has been no response or personal reaction up to now.” He adds that he “struggle[s] to understand this silence.”
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Jun 8
Leo to Spanish bishops is asking the Church to adapt to a new situation in which lay people are assuming responsibilities and evangelization is carried out from a place of humility.
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In a world torn by ever deeper fractures and conflicts, Leo invites Spanish bishops to create a witness to a plural unity “capable of welcoming the wealth of gifts, charisms and insights which the Holy Spirit is calling forth in the People of God.”
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