Krysia
@krysiab.bsky.social
Expat in Europe. Returned Catholic. History, art, archeology. Mozart, Puccini.
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'Strong Catholic identity' is widely interpreted as meaning 'reactionary' or 'conservative'.
Authentic Catholic education must promote a post-Vatican II understanding of Church, emphasising links between faith & practice (<- Catholic Social Teaching) and preferential care for the poor & vulnerable.
Authentic Catholic education must promote a post-Vatican II understanding of Church, emphasising links between faith & practice (<- Catholic Social Teaching) and preferential care for the poor & vulnerable.
December 1, 2025 at 5:12 PM
'Strong Catholic identity' is widely interpreted as meaning 'reactionary' or 'conservative'.
Authentic Catholic education must promote a post-Vatican II understanding of Church, emphasising links between faith & practice (<- Catholic Social Teaching) and preferential care for the poor & vulnerable.
Authentic Catholic education must promote a post-Vatican II understanding of Church, emphasising links between faith & practice (<- Catholic Social Teaching) and preferential care for the poor & vulnerable.
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Advent, Advent ein Lichtlein brennt...
November 30, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Advent, Advent ein Lichtlein brennt...
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“God toils in all things.”
- Ignatius of Loyola
- Ignatius of Loyola
November 27, 2025 at 2:43 PM
“God toils in all things.”
- Ignatius of Loyola
- Ignatius of Loyola
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Le Sommeil de l'Enfant Jésus 1e moitié du XVIe siècle
Il Garofalo (Musée du Louvre)
Il Garofalo (Musée du Louvre)
November 27, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Le Sommeil de l'Enfant Jésus 1e moitié du XVIe siècle
Il Garofalo (Musée du Louvre)
Il Garofalo (Musée du Louvre)
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Pope Leo meets online with over 16,000 teenagers gathered in Indianapolis, Indiana, and invites young Catholics to grow in friendship with Jesus Christ, use technology healthily to deepen their faith, and avoid using political categories to speak about the Church. www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...
Pope Leo to young people: Technology can help us live our Christian faith - Vatican News
Pope Leo XIV meets online with over 15,000 teenagers gathered in Indianapolis, Indiana, and invites young Catholics to grow in friendship with Jesus ...
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November 21, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Pope Leo meets online with over 16,000 teenagers gathered in Indianapolis, Indiana, and invites young Catholics to grow in friendship with Jesus Christ, use technology healthily to deepen their faith, and avoid using political categories to speak about the Church. www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...
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“Survival of the fittest”
is often used to justify capitalist society, but this wasn’t a phrase that Darwin used.
He described it as “better designed for an immediate, local environment" and wrote of groups that survived through empathy and sharing rather than greed.
We must change
Or die
is often used to justify capitalist society, but this wasn’t a phrase that Darwin used.
He described it as “better designed for an immediate, local environment" and wrote of groups that survived through empathy and sharing rather than greed.
We must change
Or die
November 20, 2025 at 1:18 PM
“Survival of the fittest”
is often used to justify capitalist society, but this wasn’t a phrase that Darwin used.
He described it as “better designed for an immediate, local environment" and wrote of groups that survived through empathy and sharing rather than greed.
We must change
Or die
is often used to justify capitalist society, but this wasn’t a phrase that Darwin used.
He described it as “better designed for an immediate, local environment" and wrote of groups that survived through empathy and sharing rather than greed.
We must change
Or die
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In de buurt van de Sint-Jan van Lateranen. Een stadsbus zit klem door een foutparkeerder. Een non op kekke sneakers lost het op. De verkeerspolitie is ver te zoeken #Rome
November 19, 2025 at 7:02 PM
In de buurt van de Sint-Jan van Lateranen. Een stadsbus zit klem door een foutparkeerder. Een non op kekke sneakers lost het op. De verkeerspolitie is ver te zoeken #Rome
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🧵 As I read lots of social media responses to the US bishops' recent statements on immigration, I think lots of Catholics forget: not all rights are equally weighted or implemented.
And this isn't something new. This isn't moral relativism.
This goes back for centuries if not millennia.
And this isn't something new. This isn't moral relativism.
This goes back for centuries if not millennia.
November 19, 2025 at 4:48 AM
🧵 As I read lots of social media responses to the US bishops' recent statements on immigration, I think lots of Catholics forget: not all rights are equally weighted or implemented.
And this isn't something new. This isn't moral relativism.
This goes back for centuries if not millennia.
And this isn't something new. This isn't moral relativism.
This goes back for centuries if not millennia.
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Take for example private property.
Church doctrinal documents pretty clearly affirm the right to private property.
But it's not an ultimate or total right. Several doctors of the Church point out that if you have five coats and the poor man has none, you don't have a right to all those coats.
Church doctrinal documents pretty clearly affirm the right to private property.
But it's not an ultimate or total right. Several doctors of the Church point out that if you have five coats and the poor man has none, you don't have a right to all those coats.
November 19, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Take for example private property.
Church doctrinal documents pretty clearly affirm the right to private property.
But it's not an ultimate or total right. Several doctors of the Church point out that if you have five coats and the poor man has none, you don't have a right to all those coats.
Church doctrinal documents pretty clearly affirm the right to private property.
But it's not an ultimate or total right. Several doctors of the Church point out that if you have five coats and the poor man has none, you don't have a right to all those coats.
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"The first job of the Christian…is to grow in faith in God, in his power, in the conviction that we are all held in the hollow of his hand." #DorothyDay #ShareGodsLove
November 17, 2025 at 3:14 AM
"The first job of the Christian…is to grow in faith in God, in his power, in the conviction that we are all held in the hollow of his hand." #DorothyDay #ShareGodsLove
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November 15, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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"In each, goodness appears fragile, naïve, almost out of place—and yet precisely for that reason, revolutionary."
My take on ordinary goodness in Pope Leo's four favorite films | Commonweal www.commonwealmagazine.org/ordinary-goo...
My take on ordinary goodness in Pope Leo's four favorite films | Commonweal www.commonwealmagazine.org/ordinary-goo...
Ordinary Goodness
The protagonists of Pope Leo's favorite movies are ordinary people who, against all evidence, still believe in the possibility of goodness.
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November 15, 2025 at 7:26 AM
"In each, goodness appears fragile, naïve, almost out of place—and yet precisely for that reason, revolutionary."
My take on ordinary goodness in Pope Leo's four favorite films | Commonweal www.commonwealmagazine.org/ordinary-goo...
My take on ordinary goodness in Pope Leo's four favorite films | Commonweal www.commonwealmagazine.org/ordinary-goo...
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This is the feast–in all the churches!–of Willibrord, Apostle to the Frisians, d. 739. 🕯️ First up: the Calendar of Willibrord, BNF lat 10837, an early-8c manuscript written on the Continent, probably at Echternach, mainly in Insular majuscule. #medievalsky 🧵
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November 7, 2025 at 2:39 PM
This is the feast–in all the churches!–of Willibrord, Apostle to the Frisians, d. 739. 🕯️ First up: the Calendar of Willibrord, BNF lat 10837, an early-8c manuscript written on the Continent, probably at Echternach, mainly in Insular majuscule. #medievalsky 🧵
portail.biblissima.fr/en/ark:/4309...
portail.biblissima.fr/en/ark:/4309...
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Flight into Egypt with extra-cute baby J. By Francisco de Zurbaran, whose day is today.
November 7, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Flight into Egypt with extra-cute baby J. By Francisco de Zurbaran, whose day is today.
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East & West ends of Catharinakathedraal in #Utrecht. Built in the late 15thC returned to Catholic ownership in 1815 & gradually reconstructed in a 'High Victorian Gothic Revival' style. Under the altar are relics of St Willibrord, Yorkshire monk evangelist of the low countries.
November 22, 2024 at 12:22 PM
East & West ends of Catharinakathedraal in #Utrecht. Built in the late 15thC returned to Catholic ownership in 1815 & gradually reconstructed in a 'High Victorian Gothic Revival' style. Under the altar are relics of St Willibrord, Yorkshire monk evangelist of the low countries.
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St. Willibrord a Bishop who Begged the Pope to Preach in Non-Christian Nations! Patron Saint of Convulsions; Epilepsy; Netherlands - #FeastDay Saint of November 7
www.catholicnewsworld.com/2025/11/st-w...
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St. Willibrord a Bishop who Begged the Pope to Preach in Non-Christian Nations! Patron Saint of Convulsions; Epilepsy; Netherlands - Saint of November 7
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November 7, 2025 at 4:01 AM
St. Willibrord a Bishop who Begged the Pope to Preach in Non-Christian Nations! Patron Saint of Convulsions; Epilepsy; Netherlands - #FeastDay Saint of November 7
www.catholicnewsworld.com/2025/11/st-w...
www.catholicnewsworld.com/2025/11/st-w...
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Tonight, in a massive rebuke of Trump, Democrats have so far won:
- the governors of VA and NJ
- three Supreme Court seats in PA
- two statewide public service commission seats in GA
- a statewide ballot measure in CA to fight Trump's election-rigging
- and a Democratic Socialist won for NYC Mayor
- the governors of VA and NJ
- three Supreme Court seats in PA
- two statewide public service commission seats in GA
- a statewide ballot measure in CA to fight Trump's election-rigging
- and a Democratic Socialist won for NYC Mayor
November 5, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Tonight, in a massive rebuke of Trump, Democrats have so far won:
- the governors of VA and NJ
- three Supreme Court seats in PA
- two statewide public service commission seats in GA
- a statewide ballot measure in CA to fight Trump's election-rigging
- and a Democratic Socialist won for NYC Mayor
- the governors of VA and NJ
- three Supreme Court seats in PA
- two statewide public service commission seats in GA
- a statewide ballot measure in CA to fight Trump's election-rigging
- and a Democratic Socialist won for NYC Mayor
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BREAKING: After ICE refuses to allow detained migrants to receive the Eucharist, Pope Leo calls on Trump and Vance to respect migrants‘ dignity and religious liberty.
“They must allow ministers to assist with their needs. They've been separated from their families and no one knows what happens.”
“They must allow ministers to assist with their needs. They've been separated from their families and no one knows what happens.”
November 4, 2025 at 8:14 PM
BREAKING: After ICE refuses to allow detained migrants to receive the Eucharist, Pope Leo calls on Trump and Vance to respect migrants‘ dignity and religious liberty.
“They must allow ministers to assist with their needs. They've been separated from their families and no one knows what happens.”
“They must allow ministers to assist with their needs. They've been separated from their families and no one knows what happens.”
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This was painted in the 1420/1430s in a workshop in Bruges. The level of detail was very much unmatched and Jan van Eyck truly was one of the greatest painters ever.
October 30, 2025 at 8:00 AM
This was painted in the 1420/1430s in a workshop in Bruges. The level of detail was very much unmatched and Jan van Eyck truly was one of the greatest painters ever.
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Shivelight and shadowtackle
Fast changing shafts of sunlight piercing or filtering through foliage and the canopy of a wood
The words were created by the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins in 1888
Fast changing shafts of sunlight piercing or filtering through foliage and the canopy of a wood
The words were created by the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins in 1888
October 28, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Shivelight and shadowtackle
Fast changing shafts of sunlight piercing or filtering through foliage and the canopy of a wood
The words were created by the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins in 1888
Fast changing shafts of sunlight piercing or filtering through foliage and the canopy of a wood
The words were created by the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins in 1888
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It is a horror that our nation would re-reward medals for the atrocity of genocide at wounded knee.
Grateful that the #Catholic response aligns with Jesus' message. Let's reject the choice every celebration of violence and desecreation of the sacred.
www.rapidcitydiocese.org/wounded-knee...
Grateful that the #Catholic response aligns with Jesus' message. Let's reject the choice every celebration of violence and desecreation of the sacred.
www.rapidcitydiocese.org/wounded-knee...
A Faithful Response to the Wounded Knee Decision - Diocese of Rapid City
www.rapidcitydiocese.org
October 29, 2025 at 7:25 PM
It is a horror that our nation would re-reward medals for the atrocity of genocide at wounded knee.
Grateful that the #Catholic response aligns with Jesus' message. Let's reject the choice every celebration of violence and desecreation of the sacred.
www.rapidcitydiocese.org/wounded-knee...
Grateful that the #Catholic response aligns with Jesus' message. Let's reject the choice every celebration of violence and desecreation of the sacred.
www.rapidcitydiocese.org/wounded-knee...
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I don't think we understand just how bad the decline of the Internet is to knowledge.
3 years ago, I could perform a very basic search in any engine and get an absurd number of relevant links, research articles, etc.
Today, I can perform the same search and find absolutely nothing.
3 years ago, I could perform a very basic search in any engine and get an absurd number of relevant links, research articles, etc.
Today, I can perform the same search and find absolutely nothing.
October 26, 2025 at 1:26 AM
I don't think we understand just how bad the decline of the Internet is to knowledge.
3 years ago, I could perform a very basic search in any engine and get an absurd number of relevant links, research articles, etc.
Today, I can perform the same search and find absolutely nothing.
3 years ago, I could perform a very basic search in any engine and get an absurd number of relevant links, research articles, etc.
Today, I can perform the same search and find absolutely nothing.
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It is worth mentioning that in a recent legal case Google divulged that they make more money from obfuscating search results than delivering them. That’s a large part of why search results are both monopolised snd appalling at currently. They sell more ads if you rage click or trawl through results
October 26, 2025 at 2:30 PM
It is worth mentioning that in a recent legal case Google divulged that they make more money from obfuscating search results than delivering them. That’s a large part of why search results are both monopolised snd appalling at currently. They sell more ads if you rage click or trawl through results
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Vandaag bestaat Amsterdam 750 jaar.
Laat het een stad zijn:
- Vastberaden: tot ruimte voor meerstemmigheid
- Heldhaftig: in verzet wat mensen kleineert
- Barmhartig: in haar oordeel en in haar daden
Dat Amsterdam meer en meer een plaats wordt waar alle mensen vrij en in vrede samen kunnen leven.
Laat het een stad zijn:
- Vastberaden: tot ruimte voor meerstemmigheid
- Heldhaftig: in verzet wat mensen kleineert
- Barmhartig: in haar oordeel en in haar daden
Dat Amsterdam meer en meer een plaats wordt waar alle mensen vrij en in vrede samen kunnen leven.
October 27, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Vandaag bestaat Amsterdam 750 jaar.
Laat het een stad zijn:
- Vastberaden: tot ruimte voor meerstemmigheid
- Heldhaftig: in verzet wat mensen kleineert
- Barmhartig: in haar oordeel en in haar daden
Dat Amsterdam meer en meer een plaats wordt waar alle mensen vrij en in vrede samen kunnen leven.
Laat het een stad zijn:
- Vastberaden: tot ruimte voor meerstemmigheid
- Heldhaftig: in verzet wat mensen kleineert
- Barmhartig: in haar oordeel en in haar daden
Dat Amsterdam meer en meer een plaats wordt waar alle mensen vrij en in vrede samen kunnen leven.