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Deacon Mark

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Catholic Deacon & Paulist Deacon Affiliate. Deacons Pod co-host. Proud Vermonter of French-Canadian heritage. The Atlantic: "not only clever—and dark—but really funny." Cinephile; Chinese culture is my other thing. 我实在告诉你们, 这些事你们既做在我这弟兄中一个最小的身上, 就是做在我身上了。

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 13h
While papal health scares are nothing new, when they do come they are jarring. That said, beginning with John Paul’s and through Francis’ papacy, there’s a new level of transparency when it comes to papal health. Let’s continue to pray for Pope Leo as he undergoes surgery this week and recovery.
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
MAGA: The woke Pope Leo XIV is contradicting 2,000 years of Catholic teaching on the death penalty. Pope Nicholas I in 866 AD:
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/10/2026
Wow — listen to these new comments from Trump. Thanking Putin, trashing Zelenskyy, characterizing Russia as eager for peace and Ukraine as intransigent. The mask is totally off.
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
“A Catholic cannot truly claim to be ‘pro-life’ by maintaining a stance against abortion while simultaneously advocating in favor of the death penalty. “That would not be consistent with the social doctrine of the Church.” — the future Pope Leo XIV
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LAFAYETTE @lastudiolafayette.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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𝐊𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐧 𝐎'𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐬, 𝐒.𝐉. @kohsj.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Cardinal Parolin on US public execution: Death must not be turned into a spectacle - Vatican News
Speaking on the sidelines of an event in Rome on John Henry Newman, Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin comments on plans to livestream the ...
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Deacon Mark @grnmtnby.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This is outrageous and needs to be stopped by court order immediately
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 10/10/2026
Next Saturday will be the largest early vote activation in American history. No Kings Day is how we build historic turnout for the midterms and get our communities ready to organize against Trump’s election sabotage.
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Deacon Mark @grnmtnby.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Wow--thank you, Sisters!
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Deacon Mark @grnmtnby.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Amen! I speak of my hometown of Northfield, Vermont...but Minnesota is nice, too.
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Deacon Mark @grnmtnby.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
That's not our religion and our religion, Catholicism, isn't exactly tiny.
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Pope Leo XIV has posted on his official X account that the Catholic Church holds the death penalty to be “inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person.” www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...
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Pope Leo XIV rejects death penalty as attack on dignity of human person - Vatican News
Pope Leo XIV reaffirms the Catholic Church’s rejection of the death penalty, recalling that the common good can be “safeguarded and the requirements ...
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Deacon Mark @grnmtnby.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Was there ever any doubt?
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Deacon Mark @grnmtnby.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Yes, almost surprisingly they had a few!
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Deacon Mark @grnmtnby.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Lot of sh-t posting when in fact the Church has been leading the struggle for the rights of labor, the right to organize, the condemnation of nuclear weapons, the opposition to capital punishment, the right of a people to eat and have proper health care, and actually providing for the poor.
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Deacon Mark @grnmtnby.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Or, you could celebrate those things that the Catholic Church does that you applaud as well. It's good to have allies even if you don't always agree with them.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
"The depravity and degradation continues to expand...The decision to let the public watch a man's execution is a barbaric new low for these ugly men who continue to ratchet down any basic human decency." open.substack.com/pub/america/...
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How Much Lower Can Hegseth and Trump Go?
A Saturday Prompt
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Pope to Greek-Melkite Bishops: “In many of the traditional lands of your Church, the faithful are beset by war, unrest, religious extremism and economic distress. Through you, I would like to say to your beloved Church: I am with you. The entire Catholic Church is with you.”
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Deacon Mark @grnmtnby.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
We spend our lives trying to hold on to what cannot last: youth, beauty, wealth, power, reputation. And we recoil from aging, illness, poverty, and death. St. Francis Borgia was awakened by gazing upon the face of death. That awakening did not leave him in despair, but led him toward Christ.
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Deacon Mark @grnmtnby.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Immoral and fundamentally un-Christian. We Catholics must speak loudly against this.
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𝐊𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐧 𝐎'𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐬, 𝐒.𝐉. @kohsj.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Holy See at UN: Moratorium on executions must pave the way for abolition - Vatican News
Archbishop Christophe Z. El-Kassis addresses the UN General Assembly on the protection of human rights, calling for the abolition of the death ...
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Eddie Smith @eddsmitty.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
If you plan to watch a livestreamed public execution, chances are you would have attended a lynching 100 years ago. This is no different. Shame on you—whoever you are. #ProudBlue #ResistanceUnited #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory www.newsweek.com/pete-hegseth...
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Pete Hegseth pushes for public firing squad execution for Fort Hood shooter
Hegseth says Hasan's firing-squad execution should be public, potentially the first U.S. public execution in nearly 90 years.
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Pope Leo XIV: Someone who says 'I'm against abortion' but says 'I'm in favor of the death penalty' is not really pro-life. Someone who says that 'I'm against abortion but I'm in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants who are in the United States,' I don't know if that's pro-life.
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Tech billionaire Peter Thiel is escalating his attacks on critics of artificial intelligence, accusing former President Barack Obama and the pope of exploiting the public’s fears about AI, according to exclusive recordings of closed-door lectures. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
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Peter Thiel slams Obama, Pope Leo in new ‘Antichrist’ lectures
The tech billionaire accused them of using AI concerns to “boost their own popularity,” according to recordings obtained by POLITICO.
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Deacon Mark @grnmtnby.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Thou shalt not bear false witness.
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
ISIS also engages in public executions.
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Deacon Mark @grnmtnby.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Hear, hear!
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Deacon Mark @grnmtnby.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Man, you're my favorite follow.
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Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration @benedictinesisters.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
[PIC] Two young Ukrainian refugees wait at a train station [TEXT] Lord Jesus, You welcomed the stranger and cared for those in need. Open our hearts to see each person as our neighbor and friend. Give us the courage to offer kindness, hospitality and compassion. Help us to serve others with generosity and humility. May our actions reflect Your love and bring hope to the world. Amen.
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Jon M. Sweeney @jonmsweeney.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A sincere and open heart #MeisterEckhart From “Meister Eckhart’s Book of Secrets”📚🙏
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Millions of Americans literally bet their life that RFK Jr, a complete crackpot, knew science better than the CDC and Jonas Salk and just about every living doctor
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Deacon Mark @grnmtnby.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Amen. And I don't think you get the Peace Prize for blowing up 121 school kids (incl an unborn child), financing a war of aggression by buying a despot's oil, stealing a country's oil and gold, blowing up fishermen in their boats. Yeah, I don't think you get a Peace Prize for that. Except from FIFA.
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Paulist Fathers @paulistfathers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
In this week's new episode of @deaconspod.bsky.social, Deacon Patrick Murphy-Racey and @deaconmike.bsky.social (both Paulist Deacon Affiliates) speak about recent issues in the news. In this clip, they note the failed execution on September 30 of convicted murderer Christa Pike in #Tennessee:
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Deacon Mark @grnmtnby.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Yes!
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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
ALA stands with library workers, readers, and communities working to keep books available. Our work helps ensure everyone can seek information and make their own reading choices. Your gift makes that work possible. Helps us protect the freedom to read at ala.org/protect. #BannedBooksWeek
Colorful art of various monsters and creatures reading books. Art by Hyesu Lee, copyright ALA. Text reads: "HELP US PROTECT THE FREEDOM TO READ." ALA.ORG/PROTECT. American Library Association logo
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Deacon Mark @grnmtnby.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Buying diesel from a country that attacked and is currently at war with Ukraine is basically supporting the aggressor for the sake of buying votes in the midterms.
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Deacon Mark @grnmtnby.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Public execution, making a spectacle of a man's daeth, is a compounding of the moral evil of capital punishment. wapo.st/4yElwyB
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Fort Hood shooter’s execution will be live-streamed, Defense Dept. says
“We’ll make sure that people are able to watch it,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Thursday about the firing squad execution of convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan.
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Deacon Mark @grnmtnby.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Because we're obsessed (in a bad way) with sex when we should be obsessed (in a good way) with love.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026
It’s really remarkable to me that 10 years into this people feel compelled to “clarify” Trump’s homicidal and often genocidal fantasies. It is deranged for the president to daydream about American cities in states he hates getting blown up. Full stop.
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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 07/10/2026
"Our destinies –– immigrant and non-immigrant, first generation, second generation, seventh and eighth generation –– we're all in this together." #PrayForAmerica #SolidarityForever www.ncronline.org/news/across-...
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Across US, Catholics take to streets as momentum builds for immigrant solidarity
"I think we're going to go through a dark night of the soul as a country on this issue," said Dylan Corbett, executive director of the Hope Border Institute. "But I do have a lot of hope."
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Paulist Fathers @paulistfathers.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Today, the Church celebrates the Memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary. On July 1, 2026, we prayed the #Rosary during our "America 250 Pilgrimage in Support of Immigrants" through New York City's Financial District. Here are some glimpses from that blessed prayer time:
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Pope Leo at General Audience: “The believer cannot accept the oppression of the weak and the poor, nor the unjust structures that perpetuate conditions of dependence and injustice.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 07/10/2026
"We are losing our soul as a nation...We must act now and act together. For Jesus weeps, and he will continue to weep until we go to the side of the road, lift up the victim, embrace him and make his pain our own." #CardinalMcElroy #PrayForAmerica
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Deacon Mark @grnmtnby.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Through the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul, I recently encountered two cases of lovely working people, who are *homeless* and living with their children in their cars. This, in America.
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Deacon Drew @deacondrew.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Say the word and you'll be free Say the word and be like me Say the word I'm thinking of Have you heard the word is love? It's so fine, it's sunshine It's the word, love In the beginning I misunderstood But now I've got it, the word is good The Beatles I approve this message.
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quiltersblock.bsky.social @quiltersblock.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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