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Catholic | Texan | Conservative | @Baylor | Likes: nachos, dim sum, pizza, sushi, tennis, college football/basketball | Luke 22:42 | #ProLife
Alexandria, VA
Joined April 2010
I was confirmed a year ago today on Easter vigil. Best decision I ever made 🙌🏼
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The Diocese of Arlington is now investigating a sainthood cause for Tom Vander Woude, whose heroic sacrifice continues to inspire. https://t.co/8qEchRHNAj
catholicherald.com
Former Christendom College athletic director Tom Vander Woude gave his life to save his son, Josie, in 2008 — an act that has continued to inspire people across the globe.
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A progressive Swiss billionaire spent $57 million during the 2024 election cycle exploiting loopholes around foreign spending on American politics in order to promote left-wing causes. | @jameslynch32
https://t.co/bPNdJ2xufO
nationalreview.com
Wyss spent heavily to support pro-abortion ballot initiatives.
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“My ninety-year-old mother can put on a pair of army boots, but that does not make her a marine. Likewise, no amount of lace and Latin makes the Society ‘traditional’ in any meaningful sense so long as it persists in its rejection of the authority of the modern magisterium.”
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In the NYT, Bret Stephens cites the National Association of Scholars to argue that universities have replaced Western Civ with "pedagogy in civilizational self-loathing." It’s time to defend the Great Conversation. https://t.co/Pk5kNOWANK
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Marco Rubio reminds an audience in Munich of what still unites us.
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Not surprisingly, legalizing #assistedsuicide makes people more likely to kill themselves for non-medical reasons. And it makes it harder to tell them they shouldn't do it. My latest on @Crux
cruxnow.com
There were already 12 U.S. states that legalized assisted suicide, and Oregon, the first state to approve assisted suicide, had a dramatic spike in non-medicalized suicide afterwards that peaked at...
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Trump wants to double down on tariffs, but that means doubling down on tax increases at a time when consumers are most worried about affordability. It’s a fool’s errand, writes @jasonrileywsj
https://t.co/bwCUwiG3eD
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Import duties are driving up prices, voters worry about affordability, and November is approaching.
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Gen Z is reviving DVDs and Blu-rays, with local video rental shops reporting record months and membership numbers as young people embrace physical media. Read more: https://t.co/C5ULZYwv1G
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Cardinal Timothy Dolan: Vance Apologized; Socialism Is ‘the Opposite of What America Is’; Abortion Begets Assisted Suicide — Thank You, Catholic Politicians | @kathrynlopez
https://t.co/oLHVXNX6o1
nationalreview.com
The one thing Vance may have been trying to get at is that Catholics have, in many ways, lost a sense of the duties of subsidiarity.
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📍The Papal Basilica of Saint Mary Major in Rome is the Roman Station Church for Wednesday of the First Week of Lent. Discover more of this Marian Basilica and the Roman Station Church pilgrimage on the EWTN Travel Jubilee App. 💙Explore this Church in Rome and more with EWTN's
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Born in 1974 in southern Norway, Bishop Varden grew up in a non-practicing Lutheran family. As he recounted in a recent interview with the Napa Institute, Bishop Varden went through a period of agnosticism and skepticism during his teenage years and relished his personal
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When Trump Mentioned IVF at the State of the Union, He Said More Than He Intended
nationalreview.com
The GOP has abandoned ending abortion in America. And by its inaction and miseducation, this administration is adding to abortions in America.
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College profs are so liberal students have to pretend to be, too — viewpoint diversity in crisis https://t.co/chWBnhJrQj
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The local bishop of the University of Notre Dame led an on-campus prayer service Feb. 24, praying for the university’s faithfulness to its Catholic mission amid ongoing controversy over the appointment of a pro-abortion professor to a leadership position. Bishop Kevin Rhoades of
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“The reality is such that as long as deep pockets continue to fund bizarre public campaigns to gray the most basic and necessary lines of human existence—including the very basic and necessary line between the male and female sexes—our culture will continue to follow suit.”
A Landmark Lawsuit, But Let’s Not Cheer Too Soon by Mary Kate Zander @marykateknorr
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My mom asked me to watch my little siblings so she could go with my dad to the State of the Union… here’s how it went 🇺🇸😅 @SecDuffy @RCamposDuffy
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“Fr. Pagliarani’s stance makes it clear that further discussions will be as pointless as a defibrillator in a morgue... If the SSPX proceeds with its plans to consecrate new bishops without papal approval in July, its excommunication seems all but guaranteed.” @LarryChappGS22
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The Apostolic Vicariate of Southern Arabia’s celebration of the jubilee year dedicated to St. Francis of Assisi is marked by the presence of a distinctive relic — a stone from the altar of the Church of the Portiuncula, a place central to Franciscan sp...
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A stone from Assisi’s Portiuncula has become a sign of communion for Catholics in the Gulf.
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A sprawling Chinese influence operation — accidentally revealed by a Chinese official using ChatGPT — focused on intimidating Chinese dissidents abroad, including by impersonating US immigration officials, per a new report from OpenAI, @snlyngaas reports.
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A sprawling Chinese influence operation — accidentally revealed by a Chinese law enforcement official’s use of ChatGPT — focused on intimidating Chinese dissidents abroad, including by impersonating...
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