Sister Mary Jo Sobieck threw the first pitch and every fan got a mitre. And I’m told a meeting between Pope Leo XIV and Barack Obama — the club’s two most famous fans — is moving closer.
I hope I remember this story tomorrow. I always go to mass and Bible study on Thursdays. A guy I know is a huge White Sox fan. I think this was an awesome thing for the White Sox to do.
I am not Catholic. I was raised as a RC, but left many years ago over several issues, including women’s priesthood. I am now an Episcopalian. But I love this pope and his message of love. And I now subscribe to this site. (An aside, I grew up a few blocks away from Bishop Barron’s home and went to the same grade school.)
Gee Ian, you took quite possibly the best feel good piece we’ve seen in a long while and decidedly threw a buzzkill wrench right in the middle. Perhaps being at the game would have done you some good.
I was raised Catholic and attended Mass into my late teens when I studied the Bible in college and the scales fell from my eyes.
I'm sure many such as yourself feel the same way, but if my lifelong belief is not expressed where it is unexpected and even unwanted what is the use of any conversation?
As a questioning cradle Catholic myself, I totally get it. My point was merely the placement. I’m always down for a conversation. But notice I never said I disagreed with what you said. 😉
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains. In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own. It is easier to acquire them, and to effect this, they have perverted the best religion ever preached to man into mystery and jargon, unintelligible to all mankind, and therefore the safer engine for their purposes. With the lawyers it is a new thing. They have, in the mother country, been generally the primest supporters of the free principles of their constitution. But there, too, they have changed.
I hope I remember this story tomorrow. I always go to mass and Bible study on Thursdays. A guy I know is a huge White Sox fan. I think this was an awesome thing for the White Sox to do.
Darn— they mitre won!
Reading this made me happy, gave me fresh hope. Thank you!
Note: Not just "Peace be with you," but "Peace be with ALL of you." Leo knows.
Thank you for sharing this story. It really gave me a moment of joy.
Thank you, Nancy Faust!
May God bless our Papa Leo and Thanks so much to Letters From Leo for sharing with us. Amen.
Awww what a great story!! Thx!!!
I am not Catholic. I was raised as a RC, but left many years ago over several issues, including women’s priesthood. I am now an Episcopalian. But I love this pope and his message of love. And I now subscribe to this site. (An aside, I grew up a few blocks away from Bishop Barron’s home and went to the same grade school.)
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Share my experience last night at the Sox game here: https://substack.com/@pamelamcnamara/note/c-313682280?r=4o60s&utm_source=notes-share-action&utm_medium=web
Religious belief of any sort ultimately serves men as a tool of control which for the most part works across all creeds.
Unfortunately it also keeps women in bondage.
Gee Ian, you took quite possibly the best feel good piece we’ve seen in a long while and decidedly threw a buzzkill wrench right in the middle. Perhaps being at the game would have done you some good.
I was raised Catholic and attended Mass into my late teens when I studied the Bible in college and the scales fell from my eyes.
I'm sure many such as yourself feel the same way, but if my lifelong belief is not expressed where it is unexpected and even unwanted what is the use of any conversation?
As a questioning cradle Catholic myself, I totally get it. My point was merely the placement. I’m always down for a conversation. But notice I never said I disagreed with what you said. 😉
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains. In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own. It is easier to acquire them, and to effect this, they have perverted the best religion ever preached to man into mystery and jargon, unintelligible to all mankind, and therefore the safer engine for their purposes. With the lawyers it is a new thing. They have, in the mother country, been generally the primest supporters of the free principles of their constitution. But there, too, they have changed.
Thomas Jefferson