The Assisi Project
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A Fellowship of Franciscans in Spirit
Live the Gospel. Share God's Love. Rebuild the Church.
Maine - Massachusetts - Assisi
assisiproject.com
Live the Gospel. Share God's Love. Rebuild the Church.
Maine - Massachusetts - Assisi
assisiproject.com
“Many of us are afraid to go to work, to go to a restaurant, to go to church because everyone, everybody is afraid of encountering ICE and perhaps being deported to another country." #PrayForAmerica religionnews.com/2025/11/10/f...
Fear of deportation keeps Chicago Latino immigrants home from Mass
CHICAGO (RNS and NPR) — Some immigrants have made the emotionally fraught decision to give up church attendance.
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November 11, 2025 at 3:38 AM
“Many of us are afraid to go to work, to go to a restaurant, to go to church because everyone, everybody is afraid of encountering ICE and perhaps being deported to another country." #PrayForAmerica religionnews.com/2025/11/10/f...
"For an organization that spent untold millions over decades to influence national politics on a single life issue, the response to real terror in our streets and government-driven deprivation of basic needs has been embarrassingly inadequate." #RebuildMyChurch www.ncronline.org/opinion/edit...
What is American Catholicism in this moment of political crisis?
U.S. bishops have spent untold millions to influence national politics on abortion, but their response to real terror in our streets and government-driven deprivation of basic needs has been embarrass...
www.ncronline.org
November 11, 2025 at 12:45 AM
"For an organization that spent untold millions over decades to influence national politics on a single life issue, the response to real terror in our streets and government-driven deprivation of basic needs has been embarrassingly inadequate." #RebuildMyChurch www.ncronline.org/opinion/edit...
"Nothing withstands the influence of wealth. Everything submits to its tyranny, everything cowers at its dominion." #SaintBasil #Resist
November 10, 2025 at 6:24 PM
"Nothing withstands the influence of wealth. Everything submits to its tyranny, everything cowers at its dominion." #SaintBasil #Resist
"When poor people are driven back, peace is driven back; and when this happens, we create our own ruin with our own hands." #PopeFrancis #Hope #RememberThePoor
November 10, 2025 at 2:13 PM
"When poor people are driven back, peace is driven back; and when this happens, we create our own ruin with our own hands." #PopeFrancis #Hope #RememberThePoor
"It does not matter whether some of our brothers and sisters have proper documentation or not. They are our brothers and sisters in the body of Christ." #PrayForAmerica www.ncronline.org/news/portlan...
Portland archbishop on ICE activity: Human dignity comes from God, not government
"It does not matter whether some of our brothers and sisters have proper documentation or not," Archbishop Alexander Sample declared in a Nov. 8 statement. "They are our brothers and sisters in the bo...
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November 10, 2025 at 3:19 AM
"It does not matter whether some of our brothers and sisters have proper documentation or not. They are our brothers and sisters in the body of Christ." #PrayForAmerica www.ncronline.org/news/portlan...
"We have learned from the bitter lesson of history that closure and extreme nationalism always bring disastrous consequences for those who implement them." #PopeFrancis #Hope
November 9, 2025 at 3:44 PM
"We have learned from the bitter lesson of history that closure and extreme nationalism always bring disastrous consequences for those who implement them." #PopeFrancis #Hope
"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
November 9, 2025 at 12:04 PM
"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
“Jesus calls you to be witnesses of communion, builders of bridges, and sowers of trust in a world often marked by division and suspicion.” #PopeLeoXIV #LiveTheGospel www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...
Pope to young people: be bridge builders in a world marked by division - Vatican News
Pope Leo XIV sends a videomessage to the young people gathered the Cathedral of Košice in Slovakia and encourages them to bring the light of Christ to ...
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November 8, 2025 at 9:08 PM
“Jesus calls you to be witnesses of communion, builders of bridges, and sowers of trust in a world often marked by division and suspicion.” #PopeLeoXIV #LiveTheGospel www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...
"The illusion of happiness derived from a comfortable life pushes many people towards a vision of life centered on the accumulation of wealth and social success at all costs, even at the expense of others (11)." #PopeLeoXIV #DilexiTe #RememberThePoor
November 8, 2025 at 1:43 PM
"The illusion of happiness derived from a comfortable life pushes many people towards a vision of life centered on the accumulation of wealth and social success at all costs, even at the expense of others (11)." #PopeLeoXIV #DilexiTe #RememberThePoor
"We must feed hope through the force of gestures, instead of placing our hope in gestures of force." #PopeFrancis #Hope
November 7, 2025 at 5:35 PM
"We must feed hope through the force of gestures, instead of placing our hope in gestures of force." #PopeFrancis #Hope
"What the world expects of Christians is that Christians should speak out, loud and clear...that they should get away from abstractions and confront the blood-stained face history has taken today." #Camus
November 7, 2025 at 12:51 PM
"What the world expects of Christians is that Christians should speak out, loud and clear...that they should get away from abstractions and confront the blood-stained face history has taken today." #Camus
"My devotion to Truth has drawn me into the field of politics; and I can say without the slightest hesitation, and yet in all humility, that those who say that religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion means." #Gandhi
November 6, 2025 at 5:16 PM
"My devotion to Truth has drawn me into the field of politics; and I can say without the slightest hesitation, and yet in all humility, that those who say that religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion means." #Gandhi
"We must at all costs shun any propaganda that instills fear of other people in the public mind." #PopeFrancis #Hope
November 6, 2025 at 12:21 PM
"We must at all costs shun any propaganda that instills fear of other people in the public mind." #PopeFrancis #Hope
"In hearing the cry of the poor, we are asked to enter into the heart of God...If we remain unresponsive to that cry, the poor might well cry out to the Lord against us, and we would incur guilt and turn away from the very heart of God (8)." #PopeLeoXIV #DilexiTe #RememberThePoor
November 6, 2025 at 12:05 AM
"In hearing the cry of the poor, we are asked to enter into the heart of God...If we remain unresponsive to that cry, the poor might well cry out to the Lord against us, and we would incur guilt and turn away from the very heart of God (8)." #PopeLeoXIV #DilexiTe #RememberThePoor
We pray for Cardinal McElroy! #PrayTogether www.ncronline.org/news/dc-card...
DC Cardinal McElroy diagnosed with cancer, plans to resume 'full duties' 2 weeks after surgery
He said he hopes and believes "that in God's grace I will be Archbishop of Washington for many years to come."
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November 5, 2025 at 9:22 PM
We pray for Cardinal McElroy! #PrayTogether www.ncronline.org/news/dc-card...
"By a long course of prayerful discipline, I have ceased...to hate anybody. I know this is a big claim. Nevertheless, I make it in all humility." #Gandhi #LoveEachOther
November 5, 2025 at 4:55 PM
"By a long course of prayerful discipline, I have ceased...to hate anybody. I know this is a big claim. Nevertheless, I make it in all humility." #Gandhi #LoveEachOther
"If there is any way to terrify a despot, it is by dismantling the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power." #ZohranMamdani #PrayForAmerica #RememberThePoor
November 5, 2025 at 12:12 PM
"If there is any way to terrify a despot, it is by dismantling the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power." #ZohranMamdani #PrayForAmerica #RememberThePoor
“This is kidnapping — plain and simple." #PrayForAmerica www.boston.com/news/local-n...
‘This is kidnapping — plain and simple’: ICE arrests 9 employees at Allston car wash
The employees were detained Tuesday morning before they could present their documents, according to the car wash’s manager.
www.boston.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:29 AM
“This is kidnapping — plain and simple." #PrayForAmerica www.boston.com/news/local-n...
“Jesus says very clearly: At the end of the world, we are going to be asked, how did you receive the foreigner? Did you receive him, and welcome him, or not?” #PopeLeoXIV #LiveTheGospel #WelcomeTheStranger www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...
Pope: ‘Spiritual rights’ of migrant detainees must be respected - Vatican News
In remarks to journalists in Castel Gandolfo, Pope Leo calls for “deep reflection” on the treatment of migrants in the United States, urges
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November 5, 2025 at 3:19 AM
“Jesus says very clearly: At the end of the world, we are going to be asked, how did you receive the foreigner? Did you receive him, and welcome him, or not?” #PopeLeoXIV #LiveTheGospel #WelcomeTheStranger www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...
"Wanting to inaugurate a kingdom of justice, fraternity and solidarity, God has a special place in his heart for those who are discriminated against and oppressed, and he asks us, his Church, to make a decisive and radical choice in favor of the weakest (16)." #PopeLeoXIV #DilexiTe #RememberThePoor
November 4, 2025 at 4:55 PM
"Wanting to inaugurate a kingdom of justice, fraternity and solidarity, God has a special place in his heart for those who are discriminated against and oppressed, and he asks us, his Church, to make a decisive and radical choice in favor of the weakest (16)." #PopeLeoXIV #DilexiTe #RememberThePoor
"By you, Most Holy Lord, and by the whole celestial court, and by me, too, your little one, cursed be those who by their bad example disrupt and destroy what you have built up." #SaintFrancisOfAssisi
November 4, 2025 at 12:52 PM
"By you, Most Holy Lord, and by the whole celestial court, and by me, too, your little one, cursed be those who by their bad example disrupt and destroy what you have built up." #SaintFrancisOfAssisi
Pope Francis, pray for us and for our suffering world! #PopeFrancis #SantoSubito www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...
Pope Leo visits Basilica of St. Mary Major; prays at Pope Francis' tomb - Vatican News
On his way to Castel Gandolfo, the Pope stopped at the Basilica of St. Mary Major to pray at the tomb of his predecessor and in front of the image of ...
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November 4, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Pope Francis, pray for us and for our suffering world! #PopeFrancis #SantoSubito www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...
"Migration is always a double right: a right to find the conditions for a respectable existence in your own country, and a right to move away when those minimum conditions do not exist." #PopeFrancis #Hope
November 4, 2025 at 5:04 AM
"Migration is always a double right: a right to find the conditions for a respectable existence in your own country, and a right to move away when those minimum conditions do not exist." #PopeFrancis #Hope
"Even its loudest outcry might not be enough to change policy or sway elections—but then again, it might. At the very least, it would demonstrate that the U.S. Church can still bear prophetic witness to the Gospel’s most basic demands." #PrayForAmerica www.commonwealmagazine.org/bishops-and-...
The Bishops and ICE
Trump's political theater, which threatens the dignity and safety of Chicago migrants, calls for condemnation by the bishops.
www.commonwealmagazine.org
November 3, 2025 at 1:18 PM
"Even its loudest outcry might not be enough to change policy or sway elections—but then again, it might. At the very least, it would demonstrate that the U.S. Church can still bear prophetic witness to the Gospel’s most basic demands." #PrayForAmerica www.commonwealmagazine.org/bishops-and-...
"What is worst of all is using God and religion to bolster up our own greed, our own attachment to property, and putting God and country on an equality (1961)." #DorothyDay #PrayForAmerica
November 3, 2025 at 12:20 PM
"What is worst of all is using God and religion to bolster up our own greed, our own attachment to property, and putting God and country on an equality (1961)." #DorothyDay #PrayForAmerica