Just posted the latest episode of my YouTube series Lifting the Veil on Annulments. Please share with anyone you know who is presenting, or is thinking of presenting, a marriage-nullity case before a Catholic diocesan tribunal. youtu.be/752pCxA-eQE

Two days prior to his arrest in Birmingham, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. thanked a Jesuit priest for his support and asked for his prayers. matterstwomey.substack.com/p/we-need-pr...

HBD MLK 🎂

Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”

Who is Jesus? John the Baptist identifies him as the Lamb of God and the Son of God. Jesus is also Savior, Messiah, Second Person of the Trinity. For me, in addition to all those things, Jesus is someone who stands with us. And for you? A meditation on today's Gospel www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1...

three guys who are constantly slapping each other and poking each other in the eyes. youd have to be like okay fellas you can't be friends with each other any more, if that is indeed what this is

The Trump admin is moving to quickly deport two men who witnessed, they say, ICE guards choke a fellow detainee to death. The admin moved to deport men right after they spoke the Washington Post. This is the death that the medical examiner has already ruled likely homicide. wapo.st/4qR1T1U

Destroying institutions is easy, building them is hard. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

#ICE #ConstitutionalRights #Black

"Officers threw flash bangs and tear gas in my car. I got six kids in the car" "His wife, Destiny Jackson, told FOX 9 their 6-month-old infant stopped breathing and lost consciousness. She then performed CPR on her baby."

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Franklin Foer expresses what I myself have thought for a long time. Evil triumphs when good people do nothing. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

BREAKING: We filed a class action lawsuit against ICE and CBP challenging federal agents’ unconstitutional and illegal stops and arrests of people in Minnesota. We'll see the Trump administration in court.

It’s actually three guys but they’re all Peter Sellers

Renee Good’s final words to the ICE agent were: “That’s fine, dude. I’m not mad at you.” A woman facing a harassment still chose calm over rage. Her words now call for justice, accountability, and a world where no one meets power like that at the end of a barrel. #HumanRights #StopFascism

The Daily had an interview with the MPD chief. They’re getting regular 911 calls because federal agents are leaving cars in the street after detaining people. Local officers are overwhelmed, feel ICE/BP are putting them at risk with dangerous tactics, unraveling progress made since George Floyd.

Last week, I looked into the record of the federal prosecutor in Minnesota who was leading the work on the Somali daycare fraud case. He struck me as a straight shooter, not a partisan hack. Well here's confirmation: He has quit after DOJ pressure to investigate Renee Good's widow. (#giftlink 🎁)

Stares from Minneapolis.

Episode 3 of Lifting the Veil on Annulments just dropped! Thanks for all the encouraging comments. I am so happy to see that folks are watching the series and benefiting from it in the US, UK, and Australia! www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTEA...

Episode 3 of Lifting the Veil on Annulments just dropped! Thanks for all the encouraging comments. I am so happy to see that folks are watching the series and benefiting from it in the US, UK, and Australia! www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTEA...

if you had a livejournal, you likely have lived in a world without ICE

Preparing for Carmel, Thérèse entrusts her young vocation to the prayers of a parish priest.

Lovely idea. Postal Prayer Service. 🕊️🙏

Marysol from Woodside, NY, mailed an envelope to the address I use for PrayerByMail.com. But there's no SASE inside—the envelope's empty! Marysol, if you're reading, let me know if you wanted me to send you a prayer through the postal service. Otherwise I'll just send it up the old-fashioned way.

Just posted Episode 2 of my new series aimed at demystifying the marriage-nullity process. youtu.be/OZxkcy1u93s?...

Pope Leo XIV will soon travel to Spain and to the Canary Islands, a major migrant entry point into Europe, a Spanish cardinal said, shedding light on the pope's travel plans for 2026.

Just posted Episode 2 of my new series aimed at demystifying the marriage-nullity process. youtu.be/OZxkcy1u93s?...

i’m so happy for him

Editorial in the National Catholic Reporter: "The vice president's comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith. His repeated attempts to blame Good for her own death are fundamentally incompatible with the Gospel."

For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies

Larger context on the ICE shooting of Renee Nicole Good in Minnesota: Fed. officers have fatally shot at least 3 other people in the last 5 months & wounded or threatened others. We describe a few of the recent incidents and patterns we've noticed here. www.themarshallproject.org/2026/01/07/i...

Today once again proved that everyday citizens protesting their government are braver than the titans who own the largest media corporations, run the biggest law firms and lead the most powerful technology companies.

I'd say his high point was the Millennium album Begin, but in any case I'm glad to see him remembered. 💙

“Morning Has Broken” – Cat Stevens’ elegant single – was released today in 1972. Molded from a religious hymn (with lyrics by Eleanor Farjeon), it was recrafted by keyboardist Rick Wakeman – and his refined piano performance helps elevate the song. “Morning Has Broken” reached #6 (pop) in the U.S.

Born 82 years ago today. I donated to @amfarofficial.bsky.social last night in his memory. 💙

“Far from making us more powerful, the pursuit of American dominance will make us weaker, eventually leaving us with no sphere, and no influence, at all,” @anneapplebaum.bsky.social argues:

“'Might is right' has engendered immense inequality, injustice and acts of violence against the majority of humanity. ... Completely at odds with this model are the ideals of harmony, justice, fraternity and peace as proposed by Jesus." — Francis, Laudato si', no. 82 www.vatican.va/content/fran...

“'Might is right' has engendered immense inequality, injustice and acts of violence against the majority of humanity. ... Completely at odds with this model are the ideals of harmony, justice, fraternity and peace as proposed by Jesus." — Francis, Laudato si', no. 82 www.vatican.va/content/fran...

"Might makes right" is an immature morally repugnant ethical framework...should go without saying...just saying.

Congress - what can it do? Here is a primer from Congressional Research Service: "A body of constitutional and statutory provisions provides Congress with perhaps its most important legislative tool: the power to direct and control federal spending." www.congress.gov/crs-product/...

A counterpoint to this would be HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER, where the creators did have the endpoint in mind from the beginning but refused to change it even after the story and characters had evolved in ways where the original ending no longer made sense.

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

Edith Renfrow Smith was born in Iowa two weeks before the start of World War I. She met aviator Amelia Earhart while an undergraduate at Grinnell College, where she became the first Black female graduate. After graduation, she came to Chicago. Mrs. Smith died at the age of 111.

Long before Mandani in 2026, Harry S. Truman in 1934, like many other New Dealers, spoke out against the ideology of "rugged individualism."

It is important to note that in his inaugural address, Mamdani singled out not "individualism" but "rugged individualism," a phrase associated with Herbert Hoover. Many critics, including here a Dayton, OH editor in 1931, condemned that "system" as ill-equipped to deal with the economic crisis.

What you have seen him do, and heard him speak, Beating your officers, cursing yourselves, Opposing laws with strokes, and here defying Those whose great power must try him—

Be it thy course to busy giddy minds With foreign quarrels, that action, hence borne out, May waste the memory of the former days

A scepter snatch’d with an unruly hand Must be as boisterously maintain’d as gain’d; And he that stands upon a slipp’ry place Makes nice of no vild hold to stay him up