Fr. John Burns
@FatherJohnBurns
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Friend of the Bridegroom.
Joined November 2014
I understand that one of the topics under consideration at the Consistory of Cardinals is synodality. I’m speaking as a bishop who was an elected delegate to both rounds of the Synod and Synodality in Rome and who has just presided over a local synod in my own diocese. Synods are
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The Kingdom that Jesus comes to inaugurate is a shoot, a small branch sprouting from a trunk that promises rebirth when everything else seems to be dying. The coming of the Messiah was announced in the smallness of a shoot, because He can only be recognized by the little ones, by
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This might honestly be the best lineup of guides we’ve ever had for a challenge. They just all fit together so well. We’ve got @JonathanRoumie as our main guide through the book The Reed of God, as always, but this year, we paired him with @onegroovynun, and the two of them
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We live as if life were never enough. We rush to produce, to prove ourselves, to keep up. But the Gospel teaches us that knowing how to stop is an act of trust that we must learn to perform. Life does not always depend on what we do, but also in knowing how to let go of what we
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Humility is really freedom from ourselves. Those who exalt themselves think that nothing is more interesting than themselves. Yet, those who know they are precious in God’s eyes have greater things of which to boast, and a dignity that shines on its own. #GospelOfTheDay (Lk
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We often defend our lives, our plans, our securities, without realizing that doing so causes us to remain alone. The logic of the Gospel is different. Only what is given away flourishes; only love that is freely given can restore trust, even where everything seems lost.
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Today, Pope Leo invites everyone around the world to commemorate the feast day of the Queenship of Mary by fasting and offering up prayers for peace in places ravaged by violence. "I invite all the faithful to devote the day of 22 August to fasting and prayer, imploring the Lord
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To forgive does not mean to deny evil, but to prevent it from generating further evil. It is not to say that nothing has happened, but to do everything possible to ensure that resentment does not determine the future.
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The exact reason we played with metal detectors as kids.
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Secular sports account with 1.8M followers posting pics of the Roman Catholic Pontiff. And for good reason. Absolutely delightful.
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The world has lost a giant today with the passing of Alasdair MacIntyre. Such a fertile and profound mind. I first encountered his work as an undergrad (After Virtue) but got to know it much better when at ND for grad school. My favorites of his books below. May he rest in peace.
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I announce to you a great joy; we have a Pope: The Most Eminent and Most Reverend Lord, Lord Robert Francis Cardinal of the Holy Roman Church Prevost who has taken the name Leo XIV. Cardinal Protodeacon Dominique Mamberti announces that the Cardinals have elected Cardinal Robert
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“In our restlessness, we look to another person to save us from our isolation and fear… But it often just hurts us more. Notice, in the ruptures, how much of your sense of self is shaped by the world around you, and by encounters with people who didn’t see you for your
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It’s time ☘️ Send a volley cheer on high, Shake down the thunder from the sky. What though the odds be great or small Old Notre Dame will win over all, While her loyal sons and daughters March on to victory!
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Chicken little. Slippery slope. Tip of the iceberg. Calm down, they said. It’s fine. Then one day you have to say, “Ban men from women’s sports.” Out loud. Because men are playing women’s sports and actually hurting women. And somehow, they say, that’s fine.
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