This cannot stand.

We need justice and a reckoning far beyond the tepid stance of "lamentation" or being "deeply concerned." We need to name it (Fascism) and call out those responsible (Donald Trump, US Supreme Court, and Republicans). #USCCB. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/15/l...

This practice was endorsed by a Supreme Court Justice. #KavanaughStop

Another note to Vincentians from our National President in which he doubles on down on his assessment that the current crisis is a bipartisan moral failure. I have attached my reply. members.ssvpusa.org/news/11-6-20...

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

As a member of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul I objected to National President John Berry's statement on the government shutdown and withholding SNAP as "bipartisan moral failure". I replied, but 6 days later my comment is awaiting moderation. Why? ssvpusa.org/uncategorize...

1 in 8 people or 42 million people in the U.S. will go to bed hungry again tonight because they rely on SNAP. We are living through an affordability crisis. There is no reason so many of our children will go to school hungry. Tell Congress to restore SNAP now. actionnetwork.org/letters/take...

More fascism in progress with ICE Gestapo accosting people with disabilities and abandoning him in the suburbs. blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/03/f...

Fascism is here. We are not a free country. ICE is our gestapo. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/c...

unbelievable

Immigration judge releases Chicago dad Ruben Torres Maldonado whose 16-year-old daughter Ofelia is fighting cancer. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/30/i...

Trump Says He Won’t Rule Out Third Reich

From this morning's psalm: The Lord hears the cry of the Poor. The Lord confronts the evil doers to destroy remembrance of them from the earth. Let us pray for our nation and our sins of violence against migrants, and for killing people without legal justification or due process on the high seas.

Ald. Timmy Knudsen reports immigration activity throughout his ward, which is a lot of Lincoln Park, one of wealthiest neighborhoods in city and home to DePaul University

Thou shall not kill. He is a criminal, a murderer.

This Sunday we wake to see POTUS responding to those resisting racism, hate and cruelty with a literal shit posting. Meanwhile Bishop "Liturgy of Democracy" Barron and Cardinal "Kirk is St. Paul" Dolan remain on DJT's Presidential Commission. Time to resign. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

An astonishingly large crowd! Chicago

“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...” apnews.com/article/pope...

Merton to Czeslaw Milosz, September 1959: “The only thing to be regretted without qualification is for a man to adapt perfectly to totalitarian society.”

Dolan is a scandal. We condemn murder, including the murder of Kirk. Would St. Paul have been like Kirk against Civil Rights or a supporter of Paul Pelosi's attacker, or call for the death penalty for Joe Biden or call Pope Francis a heretic? www.ncronline.org/opinion/card...

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

We elected an insane, racist, idiot over a competent, Black female. We paid the ticket, and now we are taking the ride. Of course the poor and vulnerable will suffer more, and we now going to have more poor and vulnerable.

I just sent the NYT a news tip, and you can as well. Here is the tip, DJT has not been heard from and barely seen in the last 4 days, and media has not covered this as a major news event. Why? Fear? Don't Care? You too can share a news tip. www.nytimes.com/tips

At 7:30 Mass our priest said humility is being grounded in reality and we act as Christ instructs, favoring the poor and forsaken. The priest also chose Eucharistic Prayer for Various Needs IV that asks us to stand as a living witness to truth and freedom, to peace and justice.

Please for the love of God and all that is holy, don’t go to Starbucks

From today's @giveusthisdaylp.bsky.social - may we follow Dom Helder and get close to the poor, and form Abrahamic communities to provide hope as we confront White Christian Nationalism and American Fascism.

The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...

Only a maniac would be proud to display a picture of himself with a murderer and kidnapper who continues his carnage of civilians. DJT is a sick person, and we are a sick country to allow this insanity to continue. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/u...

Shelter is a basic necessity, we are failing as a people.

Last week, President Donald Trump deployed National Guard troops to D.C., claiming that crime there is out of control — despite violence plummeting in the city. David Kennedy, one of the country’s leading crime prevention experts, explains what a more effective policing strategy might look like.

Absolutely disgusting. Rolling out the red carpet and clapping for a war criminal and kidnapper. Only a person of ill repute like a rapist, whose best friend was a child rapist would do such a thing.

"If we read the Gospel, we also see that Jesus favors those who are marginalized: lepers, widows, orphan children...and sinners too...and this is my consolation. Because sin too is a poverty to be redeemed, a slavery from which to be delivered." #PopeFrancis #Hope #WeAreFrancis

we know what solves homelessness: more housing we know what solves medical debt: universal healthcare I'm 48 years old and I've never heard a single pundit say this on national/corporate TV fuck yes.

OPINION: The behavior of the president’s Cabinet and his minions demonstrates extraordinary character deficiencies. religionnews.com/2025/07/08/i...

And without due process this Georgia-born American citizen spends the rest of his life disappeared in a jail in Jamaica. Do you get it yet?

@quigley.house.gov ov, @durbin.senate.gov, @duckworth.senate.gov As my elected officials I urge you to voice strong opposition to US military involvement in the Israeli/Iranian conflict. Congress must act now, and immediately stop any unilateral war making decision by the Executive Branch.

What is our citizenship worth? We have no choice but to resist.

America’s Generals are terrified. They are cowed. They seem unlikely to hold the line and live up to their oaths to serve the U.S. Constitution. Trump violated the law (the Hatch Act) conducting a political rally at Fort Bragg, rousing the troops to cheer his slogans but the Generals stay silent.

As a lifelong city resident, and now retired CPD member this largest use of deadly force by the CPD was never taught as I attended K-12 or the police academy. Today marks the 88th Anniversary of the Memorial Day Massacre. www.chicagohistory.org/memorial-day...

This is sick, and should be the number one news story everyday until we get this right. How can anyone be proud to be an American when we are doing this? Disgusting!

8+6+4+7 = 25. Think the 25th Amendment. In early biblical days, seashells arranged in this way would be a sign ....get the hint?

As we approach this weekend Cubs-Sox series remember that before last week the most (in)famous Leo in Chicago baseball belonged to the Cubs. Leo the Lip told us that "nice guys finish last", while Leo XIV will tells us the last will be first. Go Cubs! @chicagotribune.com @chicago.suntimes.com

No mention in the article that the National Park Service cited Kennedy or if he was reported for child abuse. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/u...

AOC: We need to be talking about ICE agents and the cowardly policy of covering their faces — and, in many cases, their identification… The idea that we’re going to allow a paramilitary force to bloom, one that isn’t accountable to the Constitution… we’ve got another thing coming.

We can't look away. No identifiers, masking, and no charge/information during arrest is abhorrent. No one knows if there is a warrant or probable cause; due process is absent from the start. PC and Due Process are bedrocks of police legitimacy. We are at the "I was only following orders stage."

By selecting the name Leo, the new pope signaled his solidarity with working people and gave a nod to his South Side working class roots. We congratulate Pope Leo XIV, the first American and Chicagoan to be named pope!

1. Donald, Fuck you and kiss my large white Irish Catholic ass! 2. You know nothing about it? You posted it and the White House reposted it. I went to Catholic school, I'm not as stupid as your cult. 3. Where the fuck is the USCCB and in particular your buddy Bishop Barron? Do they all love it?

Community Violence Intervention (CVI) saves lives. Yet, federal funding is being stripped away. We’re standing up on May 7—will you join us? Let's tell Congress to fund CVI! #ProtectCVI #CVIDayOfAction