Preliminary reports of Synod’s 10 study groups have been published; on female diaconate: “The Dicastery [for the Doctrine of the Faith] expects to deliver, without delay, the final outcome of its work in the coming months.” Final reports will be sent to Leo Dec 31. www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-c...

It’s a loss for our field. #Bioethics

NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find: - NONE of the arrested were criminally charged - NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists." - ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.

As reports of overcrowded conditions, poor sanitation and supervision and rotten food at ICE detention facilities circulate, the physical well-being of detainees comes under increasing scrutiny. More immigrants are dying in ICE detention www.americamagazine.org/weekly-dispa...

I haven’t seen details but from the start…proposing a 50 yr mortgage as solution to affordability crisis is a new form of predatory lending. It is not addressing affordability or inequality in a real or just way.

I got back to my office after the vote last night and recorded this. There's no way to sugarcoat what happened. And my fear is that Trump gets stronger, not weaker, because of this acquiescence. I'm angry - like you. But I choose to keep fighting.

No agreement that house will take a vote or that pres will sign. Its not enough

In response to this claim that the "strategy didn't work." The people were on our side. We were building momentum to help save our democracy. We could have won - the premium increase notices were just starting. And giving in now will embolden him. Things will likely get worse.

Bishop Seitz: “Even for people who feel that crossing a border is a serious crime…are they really willing to say it’s worth [risking people’s lives]? People who have not committed a crime, people who have lived here peaceably for years?” www.americamagazine.org/weekly-dispa...

Tonight was a very bad night.

If you got NOTHING real, it is not a “deal”

So here's where we are, Sunday morning: Trump is trying to starve hungry kids in order to bully Democrats into abandoning our fight against health care premium increases. So Trump is starving kids in order to deny families health care. Dystopian.

Bullies gain power when their misconduct succeeds in causing righteous people to yield in the face of wrongdoing. That’s why voting for Trump's continuing resolution - without any protection against his health care cuts or his growing illegality - is a mistake. I voted NO.

Just a reminder.

People are very aware of how the Senate “works,” and that’s exactly why they are so angry

Red-Blue thinking dominates media cvrg to tell you abt Trump or Dems winning/losing the shutdown. That's wrong. Trump inflicts pain to win. Dems holding out for healthcare or trying to get SNAP are abt the ppl of the US for whom we have a govt. This all is clarifying when you see it right.

“I thought I knew what it meant to love Chicago. … I love this place, and I thought I knew how much, until you made me love it more.”

ICE officials reported 18 deaths among detainees, but advocates at the American Immigration Council reached a count of 23 after reviewing ICE press releases and believe the actual loss of life could be higher.

"Pope Leo said Scripture emphasizes the question that will be posed at the end of the world: 'How did you receive the foreigner, did you receive him and welcome him, or not? I think there is a deep reflection that needs to be made about what is happening'..." chicago.suntimes.com/pope-leo-xiv...

I hope @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social starts with the baby basket program - it is low hanging fruit & will have massive impact on lives. Everyone should learn about them - Finland gives them to all babies. & babies can sleep in the boxes safely. slate.com/human-intere...

“The New York City Labor Movement celebrates Zohran Mamdani’s victory and the clear message New Yorkers have sent about the kind of city we want to build together. 1/

They want poor people to suffer. It is unconscionable

At Broadview ICE detention facility for Mass today, Fr. David Inczauskis, SJ reveals “tragic” and “devastating” news that a member of group bearing Guadalupe Banner to Mass today, was detained by ICE this morning in procession to detention facility.

Remember: The fundamental issue isn’t the size of the government or how to make government more “efficient.” It’s who our government is for. Should it work mainly for big corporations and billionaires — or for the rest of us?

Federal judge orders Trump administration to pay SNAP benefits out of contingency fund The ruling came one day before funding for SNAP, more commonly known as food stamps, was set to lapse.

USAID was the lead American agency in disaster response. Now that it's been dismantled, questions are arising about how effective U.S. relief efforts will be in Jamaica after the hurricane. n.pr/47ePf5R

America in 2025: A judge has to tell a Border Patrol officer to only tear gas adults after warning them, not kids who are out on Halloween

Have you noticed plane turbulence is getting worse? It’s not your imagination. It’s climate change.

Chris Murphy: "There's a lot of history that has taken place in the East Wing & it was just destroyed without any conversation in the public, without any consent of Congress. It's absolutely illegal. That visual is powerful b/c you're watching destruction of the rule of law as those walls come down"

200+ Chicago-area clergy — Protestants, Catholics, and evangelicals — have signed a letter decrying ICE's efforts and voicing a willingness to put their "bodies on the line" for migrants. The titled the letter: “Jesus is Being Tear Gassed at Broadview" religionnews.com/2025/10/21/a...

"Families are being torn apart. Children are left in fear, and communities are shaken by immigration raids and detentions. These actions wound the soul of our city. Let me be clear. The Church stands with migrants." - Cardinal Blase Cupich, Archbishop of Chicago

Trump destroying Eleanor Roosevelt‘s legacy (the east wing) feels a little on the nose.

Pope Leo has named Boston Auxiliary Bishop Mark O’Connell (61) as Bishop of Albany. He succeeds Bishop Ed Scharfenberger whose retirement was accepted by the Pope.

Pope Leo: Those “who in commerce engage in usurious and mercantile practices that cause hunger and death among their brothers and sisters in humanity, create ‘structures of sin’ and carry ‘grave responsibility.’” www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

If you think the problem in this city is that my rent is too low, vote for Andrew Cuomo. If you know the problem in this city is that your rent is too high, vote for me.

Solidarity is the only way

He is 13. A 7th grader w/ a pending asylum case. Being held more than 500 miles from home & housed w/ adults. He called his mom crying, & reported that he’s sleeping on concrete w/ an aluminum blanket. How is this anything other than sick & shameful? www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

As the procession reaches Broadview, priests have been denied access to ICE detention facility in order to bring the Eucharist to detainees.

Pope Leo in Dilexi te: Christians who “dismiss or ridicule charitable works, as if they were an obsession on the part of a few and not the burning heart of the Church’s mission, convinces me of the need to go back and re-read the Gospel, lest we risk replacing it with the wisdom of this world.”

Today, with Bishop Seitz and members of the immigrant community, Hope Border met Pope Leo and gave him messages and a video from those fearing Trump’s mass deportations. ‘The church cannot stay silent before injustice. You stand with me. And I stand with you’, the pope said.

Chicago is once again the center of the Catholic universe -- they have Pope Leo, Cardinal Cupich, Mock Conclave, cute kids: www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Where a baby happens to be born should not determine his or her access to safe, clean conditions to come into the world. Every birth, every baby, is a miracle from God, and we should treat it as such.

"Vought warned that the federal government likely can only support [WIC] for another week.... After that, states will have to reach into their own coffers to cover the costs." Isn't that the long-term plan anyway, to make states decide whether to starve people? s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?tra...

Pope Leo: “At the doorstep of today’s opulence stands the misery of entire peoples…Through the centuries, nothing seems to have changed: how many Lazaruses die before the greed that forgets justice, before profits that trample on charity, and before riches that are blind to the pain of the poor!”

We can't afford 12 cents a day to keep HIV-positive children alive. We can't afford $2 mosquito nets to keep kids from dying of malaria. But we can afford $20 billion to bail out Trump's buddy in Argentina, and millions more to bring generals for a Hegseth pep talk. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/o...

NEW: I arrived in the U.S. eight weeks ago to report on how the administration’s immigration crackdown was playing out from the front lines. What I saw Thursday was the culmination of ICE’s aggressive behavior. By @tilleckert.com

This is what Ice is doing in front of the cameras, imagine what they’re doing when no one is filming

Vatican’s Chief Foreign Minister: Violence against women “whenever it occurs, at home, during trafficking, or in conflict and humanitarian settings, it constitutes an affront to their dignity and is a grave injustice.” www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-c...