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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 11h

"I am convinced that the preferential choice for the poor is a source of extraordinary renewal both for the Church and for society, if we can only set ourselves free of our self-centeredness and open our ears to their cry (7)." #PopeLeoXIV #DilexiTe #RememberThePoor

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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 20h

"When we read the Gospel, we find very clear guidance. We should not favor friends, neighbors, equals, ours, so much as the poor, the sick, and those despised and forgotten, those who are unable to repay us." #PopeFrancis #Hope

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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 21h

"Courage and sacrifice must be the hallmark of our actions at this moment of historic and deliberate suffering being visited upon people living truly good lives that are a credit to our society. As citizens, we must not be silent." #CardinalMcElroy #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 · 22h

"They don't want anyone going in there, seeing the horrible conditions inside and offering any support to these people that they are detaining." #LiveTheGospel #ShareGodsLove #RememberThePoor #PrayForAmerica www.ncronline.org/news/activis...

Activists in Chicago, barred from giving Communion to ICE detainees, plan next actions

A group of Catholics who marched to a Chicago immigration processing center and were prevented from giving Communion to detainees said they are not about to back down.

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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 1d

"The church must be very flexible, dynamic and not have any set paths, but recognize Christ in the poor, but the poor of today. The one who is at our doorstep, who is completely different than he was a few years ago." #LiveTheGospel #RememberThePoor www.ncronline.org/news/cardina...

Cardinal says joy over Israel-Hamas ceasefire overshadowed by 'pain' of loss in war

Just remember the children that died there, almost 70,000 civilians died, and to this there is no solution," Cardinal Konrad Krajewski said.

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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 1d

"Contact with those who are lowly and powerless is a fundamental way of encountering the Lord of history. In the poor, he continues to speak to us (5)." #PopeLeoXIV #DilexiTe #RememberThePoor

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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 2d

"True shepherds walk with their people: sometimes in front, sometimes in the middles, sometimes behind. In front to guide, in the middle to encourage and to not forget the smell of the flock, and behind because the people have a nose for finding new paths for the journey." #PopeFrancis #Hope

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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 2d

"We commit ourselves to the service of the poor. In making our way through life, we are guided by simplicity, humility, and littleness rather than by power, prestige, and status." #LiveTheGospel #ShareGodsLove #RebuildMyChurch assisiproject.com/mission

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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 3d

"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 · 3d

"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 · 3d

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

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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 4d

"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 · 4d

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 · 4d

"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 · 4d

"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 · 4d

"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 · 5d

"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 · 5d

"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 · 5d

"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 · 5d

"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 · 6d

"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 · 6d

"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 · 6d

“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 · 7d

"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 · 7d

"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 · 7d

“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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