Interest & Working Groups #3 #sofcethics26 Liturgy, Nationalism, and the Ritualization of Power in the Liturgy and Ethics Interest Group. @xaviermontecel.bsky.social convenes. @sofcethics.bsky.social @stmarysu.bsky.social

Congratulations to Professor Mark Massa, SJ, the Director of BC's Boisi Center for Religion & American Public Life, on the publication of his new book 'Catholic Fundamentalism in America' (Oxford University Press) @boisicenter.bsky.social, @bostoncollege.bsky.social @oxfordunipress.bsky.social

The writers & editors at @commonweal.bsky.social are rising to meet this moment of democratic crisis in the United States with strong like this one by Terrence Sweeney: forthright, critical, and clear without equivocation. Please follow and support this work!

“They [students] are not anonymous members of a group. They are protagonists in a journey of learning in which professors play the role of stewards and companions rather than enforcers and guards.” churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/we-...

A concentration camp. It’s like watching a horrifying script play out.

“We are a people of resurrection faith, and though fear may darken the days ahead, we stand rooted in the promise that light shines in the darkness and the darkness cannot overcome it. Our churches are called to be sanctuaries-places of refuge, accompaniment, and courage.”

Come, Lord Jesus. "He has shown might with his arm, dispersed the arrogant of mind and heart. He has thrown down the rulers from their thrones but lifted up the lowly. The hungry he has filled with good things; the rich he has sent away empty." May we enact the Good News.

In Vol. 14, no. 1, Nicholas Hayes-Mota reviews David Chiwon Kwon's "Justice After War: Jus Post Bellum in the 21st Century." jmt.scholasticahq.com/article/1279...

An interesting thing about the Christianity currently providing ideological support for the GOP and the fictional Christianities found in Butler’s Parable series and Atwood’s Handmaid‘s Tale series is that Christ is conspicuously missing from all of them.

This is extremely helpful re: the USCCB and in general on how money moves through the institutional church.

Happy DEI Sunday!

Vance, a ‘traditionalist’ Catholic, actually suggests the bishops only help out immigrants for the financial upside. #JDVance #Catholic #immigration www.ncronline.org/news/vice-pr...

Or, why teaching natural law theory properly matters.

What did Gregory of Nyssa do?!??

From the US Conference of Catholic Bishops: “Human Dignity is Not Dependent on a Person's Citizenship or Immigration Status” www.usccb.org/news/2025/hu...