Kate Connolly for New Port Richey

I hope everyone had a wonderful Easter 🌷 Sharing from my personal side:

I’m deeply grateful to Pope Francis. He guided me back to my Catholic faith, the Church, and what it truly means: love for the poor and marginalized.

He transformed hearts through his calls for love of my kind (LGBT people), for peace in the Middle East, and of dignity for the displaced.

But he moved me most personally for embracing families like mine, living with Huntington’s Disease:

“The pope was there to do something no other world leader has done before… meeting people with Huntington’s disease, a rare and incurable neurological disorder that has long been shrouded in shame and discrimination.”

“He then spent nearly an hour with about 150 patients, their families and their carers, greeting and hugging them one by one.”

Thank you, Pope Francis. May we rise together 🕊️

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/may/27/huntingtons-disease-pope-steps-in-to-raise-awareness