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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 12m

"Is the undocumented woman who contributes tirelessly to our parish, caring for the church, leading the daily rosary our neighbor?" #CardinalMcElroy #LiveTheGospel #LoveThyNeighbor #PrayForAmerica www.cathstan.org/voices/text-...

Text of Cardinal McElroy’s homily for World Day of Migrants and Refugees - Catholic Standard

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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 3h

"The nonviolence of my conception is a more active and a more real fighting than retaliation, whose very nature is to increase wickedness." #Gandhi #MakePeace #NoViolence

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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 8h

"Love for the Lord is one with love for the poor (5)." #PopeLeoXIV #DilexiTe #RememberThePoor

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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 23h

"The Church teaches, in the light of the Gospel, that the death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person, and she works with determination for its abolition worldwide (CCC 2267)." #PopeFrancis #PrayForAmerica

ACLU @aclu.org · 1d

The government has executed more people in 2025 than any year in over a decade — and there are five more executions scheduled over the next week.

Just a handful of states are responsible for these executions, and they’re increasingly out of step with public opinion.

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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 1d

"Those who suffer know how great even a small gesture of affection can be (4)." #PopeLeoXIV #DilexiTe #RememberThePoor

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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 1d

"Where are the disappeared?" #PrayForAmerica www.ncronline.org/opinion/its-...

It's Latino Heritage Month. Where are the disappeared?

"Collective Heritage: Honoring the Past, Inspiring the Future" is the theme for this year's Latino Heritage Month. While our communities continue to be surveilled, detained and disappeared, we remembe...

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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 1d

"I pray and counsel you...to live always a most holy and simple life. Be careful to avoid anyone who would teach or guide you in any other way." #SaintFrancisOfAssisi #LiveTheGospel

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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 1d

"No one today can say, ‘I did not know.'" #PopeLeoXIV www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

Pope: In this age of communication, nobody can say 'I did not know' - Vatican News

Addressing a global network of leading news agencies, Pope Leo thanks reporters who every day work to share the truth, often risking their lives. It ...

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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 1d

"The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist." #HannahArendt

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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 2d

"I share the desire of my beloved predecessor that all Christians come to appreciate the close connection between Christ’s love and his summons to care for the poor." #PopeLeoXIV #DilexiTe #RememberThePoor

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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 2d

"In a world where the poor are increasingly numerous, we paradoxically see the growth of a wealthy elite, living in a bubble of comfort and luxury, almost in another world compared to ordinary people." #PopeLeoXIV #DilexiTe #RememberThePoor www.ncronline.org/pope-leo-bla...

Pope Leo blasts elitism, indifference toward poor in first major document

"I am convinced that the preferential choice for the poor is a source of extraordinary renewal both for the church and for society," the pope wrote in Dilexi Te.

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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 2d

"At least the church cannot be silent." #PopeLeoXIV #PrayForAmerica elpasomatters.org/2025/10/08/e...

In Vatican meeting with El Pasoans, Pope Leo XIV offers support to migrants facing deportation - El Paso Matters

During a Vatican meeting, Pope Leo XIV expressed solidarity with migrants after hearing firsthand accounts gathered by El Paso’s Hope Border Institute and La Mujer Obrera about the human toll of U.S. ...

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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 3d

"The conversion to the Lord to which solidarity with the oppressed brings us calls for stubbornness and constancy on the road we have undertaken." #GustavoGutierrez #LiveTheGospel #RememberThePoor #PrayForAmerica

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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 3d

“We’re a faith of immigrants — Jesus was an immigrant." #LiveTheGospel #WelcomeTheStranger #PrayForAmerica religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago

(RNS) — Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who w...

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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 3d

"Merciful God and Father of all people, wake us from the slumber of indifference, open our eyes to their suffering, and free us from the insensitivity of worldly comfort and self-centeredness." #PopeFrancis #LiveTheGospel #RememberThePoor #WelcomeTheStranger

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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 3d

"Is the young adult who came here as a child and loves this nation as the only country he has ever known our neighbor?" #CardinalMcElroy #LiveTheGospel #LoveThyNeighbor #PrayForAmerica www.cathstan.org/voices/text-...

Text of Cardinal McElroy’s homily for World Day of Migrants and Refugees - Catholic Standard

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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 4d

“We are either with the victims or we are with the aggressors; and there is no neutrality." #BishopTapiwa #LiveTheGospel cruxnow.com/church-in-af...

African bishop demands a just society in which ‘there are no Lazaruses’

“Some of our leaders are blind to the destitution of our people, and to the plight of Lazaruses who lie skin and bones on the streets,” said Bishop Raymond Tapiwa Mupandasekwa.

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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 4d

"Nothing is more precious than the person next to us." #PopeFrancis

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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 4d

"The scriptures point unswervingly to the need to keep the poor and the powerless at the forefront of our thoughts and actions." #CardinalMcElroy #LiveTheGospel #RememberThePoor

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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 5d

“When the community opens its doors to those who suffer the most. It grows. It discovers Jesus in new ways and receives his blessing.” #LiveTheGospel #RememberThePoor www.vaticannews.va/en/church/ne...

Where despair meets mercy: Church’s mission in Colombian slum - Vatican News

In the south of Bogotá, in what was once a middle-class Colombian neighborhood, lies the “Barrio San Bernardo.” Today, this area bears the marks of ...

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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 5d

"I, Brother Francis, little one, want to follow the life and poverty of the Most High, our Lord Jesus Christ, and of his Most Holy Mother, and to persevere in this to the end." #SaintFrancisOfAssisi

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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 5d

"Christians are not those who go backward." #PopeFrancis #Hope

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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 5d

"Is the man being deported despite the fact that he has three sons who serve in the Marines because of the values he taught them our neighbor?" #CardinalMcElroy #LiveTheGospel #LoveThyNeighbor #PrayForAmerica www.cathstan.org/voices/text-...

Text of Cardinal McElroy’s homily for World Day of Migrants and Refugees - Catholic Standard

www.cathstan.org

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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 6d

"It is interesting to consider the phenomenon of traditionalism, this 'backwardism' that regularly returns each century, this reference to a supposed perfect age that each time is another age." #PopeFrancis #Hope

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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 6d

“Someone who says I am against abortion, but I am in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States, I don’t know if that’s pro-life.” #PopeLeoXIV #RespectLife #PrayForAmerica

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