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“Never was so much owed by so many to so few.” #Churchill #PrayForAmerica www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"The most decisive turning points in world history are substantially co-determined by souls whom no history book ever mentions." #EdithStein #PrayForAmerica

"Without a distinction between truth and lies, there is no grounding for a distinction between good and evil." #PrayForAmerica www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"You love your enemy when you do not brood over the evil another person has done to you, but instead grieve over the sin on that person's soul while continuing to act with love for the love of God." #SaintFrancisOfAssisi #LiveTheGospel

"God can truly heal us; God can give us the strength that we need; and God can be the source of the hope that we all need in our lives." #PopeLeoXIV

"In the face of new forms of impoverishment...We too may have less than before and are losing what once seemed secure: a home, sufficient food for each day, access to healthcare and a good education, information, religious freedom and freedom of expression." #PopeLeoXIV

"It may be that the Lord uses our sacrifices to shower blessings on another part of the world which we will never visit (279)." #PopeFrancis #EvangeliiGaudium #WeAreFrancis

"In God's name, and in the name of our tormented people who have suffered so much, and whose laments cry out to heaven. I implore you. I beg you, I order you. Stop the repression (1980)!" #SaintOscarRomero #PrayForAmerica

"We Christians need to do some soul-searching. It is of little value to proclaim a doctrine or an event if no one can see that teaching has an impact upon the way we live." #BishopSeitz #LiveTheGospel #LoveEachOther #PrayForAmerica

"History will teach us...that of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people; commencing demagogues and ending tyrants (1)." #AlexanderHamilton #FederalistPapers #NoKings #PrayForAmerica

"So while today will be marked by a parade...of tanks and uniforms and a gospel wrapped in the flag, the parade with real purpose happened long ago, on a dusty road, led by a man on a donkey. No weapons. No spectacle. Just love." #PrayForAmerica www.ncronline.org/opinion/trum...

"No soldier is obliged to follow an order contrary to the law of God (1980)." #SaintOscarRomero #PrayForAmerica

"Exposure to atmospheric pollutants produces a broad spectrum of health hazards, especially for the poor, and causes millions of premature deaths (20)." #PopeFrancis #LaudatoSi #WeAreFrancis #PrayForAmerica www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"I recommit myself and I challenge you to live [Christ's] Gospel of love of God and neighbor in such a way that the world will know that the truth can be found, hope restored, and this broken world made new." #BishopSeitz #PrayForAmerica

"Tenderness is not weakness: It is a true force. It is the road that the strongest and bravest men and women have taken. Let us take it." #PopeFrancis #WeAreFrancis assisiproject.com

In spiritual communion with the soul of Pope Francis, we dedicate ourselves to pray and work for peace, health for all, work for all, food for all, and care for our common home. Pope Francis, pray for us! #PopeFrancis #WeAreFrancis assisiproject.com/francis

"Diversity, equity and inclusion are not anathema to Christian life and discipleship, they are found in the very heart of what it means to be a Christian." #DEI #LiveTheGospel #PrayForAmerica www.ncronline.org/opinion/what...

"If the indiscriminate mass deportation being reported were to be carried out, this would be an affront to the dignity of all people and communities, and deny the legacy of what it means to be an American (1-19-25)." #PopeFrancis #WeAreFrancis #PrayForAmerica

"If we don't show up, democracy dies." #PrayForAmerica

“If the Church is the tree that grew from the tiny mustard seed of the cross, this tree is destined to produce mustard seeds in turn, and therefore fruits that repeat the shape of the cross, because it is precisely to the cross that they owe their existence." #HUvonBalthsar #LiveTheGospel

"The Trump administration, like barbarians and terrorists, is capable of destroying but not building. It has turned on its head the Gospel imperative of caring for the most vulnerable, and cares only for the rich and powerful." #PrayForAmerica www.ncronline.org/opinion/gues...

"There are some persons whose great gift, in a dark age, is simply to maintain a candlelight of humanity and so to guarantee that darkness should not have the final word." #RobertEllsberg #PrayForAmerica

"The earth herself, burdened and laid waste, is among the most abandoned and maltreated of our poor (2)." #PopeFrancis #LaudatoSi #WeAreFrancis #PrayForAmerica www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"It may or may not be possible to turn the US around through nonviolent revolution. But one thing favors such an attempt: the total inability of violence to change anything for the better." #DanielBerrigan #PrayForAmerica

"Honor the hands that harvest your crops." #DoloresHuerta #PrayForAmerica

“Tenderness means...using your eyes to see the other, using your ears to hear the other, the cry of the young, the cry of the poor, the cry of those who fear for the future. And after seeing, after listening, there is no saying. There is doing.” #PopeFrancis #WeAreFrancis assisiproject.com/podcast

In his latest column for the Gloucester Daily Times, Brother Patrick reflects on the Parable of the Good Samaritan and the call to be merciful in an increasingly cruel and callous world. #BrotherPatrick #GoodSamaritan #HaveMercy gloucestertimes-cnhi.newsmemory.com?publink=031a...

"It is time our church leaders seek some creative ways to show solidarity with unjustly targeted migrants." #PrayForAmerica www.ncronline.org/opinion/stan...

"Let no one use God as a shield while planning and carrying out acts of violence and oppression (2014)." #PopeFrancis #WeAreFrancis #PrayForAmerica

Why should I fear in evil days the malice of the foes who surround me, men who trust in their wealth and boast of the vastness of their riches (Psalm 49:5-6). #PrayForAmerica

"Let us keep marching forward; let us give God everything, allowing him to make our efforts bear fruit in his good time (279)." #PopeFrancis #EvangeliiGaudium #WeAreFrancis

"There is no need for the government to carry out enforcement actions in a way that provokes fear and anxiety among ordinary, hard-working immigrants and their families." #ArchbishopGomez #PrayForAmerica www.ncronline.org/news/la-arch...

"The earth will rest, justice will prevail, the poor will rejoice and peace will return, once we no longer act as predators but as pilgrims. No longer each of us for ourselves, but walking alongside one another. Not greedily exploiting this world, but cultivating it and protecting it." #PopeLeoXIV

"No single act of love for God will be lost, no generous effort is meaningless, no painful endurance is wasted. All of these encircle our world like a vital force (279)." #PopeFrancis #EvangeliiGaudium #WeAreFrancis

"The real test of nonviolence lies in its being brought in contact with those who have contempt for it." #Gandhi #PrayForAmerica

"The Holy Spirit opens borders, first of all, in our hearts. He is the gift that opens our lives to love. His presence breaks down our hardness of heart, our narrowness of mind, our selfishness, the fears that enchain us and the narcissism that makes us think only of ourselves (6-8-25)." #PopeLeoXIV

In our latest podcast, Brother Patrick reflects on the extraordinary encounter between #PopeFrancis and Vinicio Riva; and on the Holy Father's timeless wisdom: "We are created to be together, not alone." #PilgrimsOfHope #WeAreFrancis assisiproject.com

"Christ's resurrection is not an event of the past; it contains a vital power that has permeated the world. Where all seems to be dead, signs of resurrection suddenly spring up (276)." #PopeFrancis #EvangeliiGaudium #WeAreFrancis

"The Trump administration's cuts to humanitarian aid have resulted in deaths around the world...As of midday June 7th, 104,382 adults and 217,808 children worldwide had died because of the cuts." #GodHelpUs www.ncronline.org/news/its-jus...

"We cannot let people drive wedges between us…because there is only one human race." #DoloresHuerta #PrayForAmerica

“Military power is as corrupting to the man who possesses it as it is pitiless to its victims. Violence is just as devastating to the soul of the perpetrator as it is to the body and souls of those who are victims of it.” #Quakers #PrayForAmerica

"Where there is love, there is no room for prejudice, for 'security' zones separating us from our neighbors, for the exclusionary mindset that, tragically, we now see emerging also in political nationalisms (6-8-25)." #PopeLeoXIV #Pentecost

"Often it seems that God does not exist: all around us we see persistent injustice, evil, indifference, and cruelty. But it is also true that in the midst of darkness, something new is always springing to life and sooner or later produces fruit (276)." #PopeFrancis #EvangeliiGaudium #WeAreFrancis

"Freedom of speech is under attack. An insidious fear is reaching through our schools, our businesses, our homes and into our private thoughts. The fear to speak. In America?" #ScottPelley #PrayForAmerica