If your parish doesn't sing Marty Haugen's "Eye Has Not Seen" this weekend, what are you even doing?

Pretty sure a good rule of thumb is if you’re buying warehouses to store people you’re not the good guys.

Driving to work pastime: singing the Barenaked Ladies breakthrough album "Stunt" (1998) by memory. I still got (most of) it!

"I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting," writes a woman now in hiding from the federal government for witnessing a state-sanctioned street execution

My friend. Sir. We women KNOW that things with men can escalate into violence. Boy howdy do we know.

2025 reading list. Yes, most were children's fiction, which I read aloud to my son. I regret nothing. Of the two other books, Patrick Stewart's autobiography and Elle Reeve's expose about right wing radicalism were both excellent. All books courtesy of my local library.

Whatever you may hear on TV, solidarity with the oppressed is non-negotiable for anyone who believes in the Gospel. Regardless of what any majority might think..honoring the dignity of all people is an imperative to any1 who professes the Catholic faith. That is not liberalism. That is Christianity.

Well said John.

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.

Five years ago today, Donald Trump urged his supporters to attack Congress and the Capitol over a proven lie. More than 140 police officers were injured. Trump then pardoned the attackers. He betrayed his oath and his country, and we won't ever forget it.

A good confession leaves me feeling overwhelmed with God's mercy, humbled, and full of grace. A bad confession leaves me feeling like, "why bother?" (both with confession and the Church itself), judged, and hopeless. I had a one-off encounter with a priest tonight 🧵

It might be nice if we spent more time feeding the hungry & less time killing peoples in international waters. Perhaps more time healing the sick and less time cutting off the funding for healing the sick. Work for economic justice, not gotcha trade wars that only hurt the most vulnerable. Grow up.

I’ve been through a lot worse than anything Donald Trump or Pete Hegseth can throw at me. And I'm not backing down, because this isn't about me — it's about you and every American's First Amendment right.

Rationally, I know the all coffee no food diet is literally the worst thing for my anxiety... But here we are again.

Reminder about Jan 6: it really happened It was a horror 140+ police were injured A range of violent weapons were used by attackers Chants to hang Mike Pence were heard There was a gallows and guns Pipe bombs diverted police as mob approached

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'oh the church shouldn't close parishes in these neighborhoods' 'oh the church should care more for the sick and homebound and immigrant' 'oh the church should do more to feed the hungry and house the homeless' DAMNIT YOU ARE THE CHURCH

Alex Padilla lays it plain.

Another Marty Haugen, Michael Joncas, John Foley special at my FIL's small-town Catholic parish. This time with ---gasp--- a single cantor singing and playing guitar. And I'll tell you, it was earnest and beautiful and I could sing every song by heart. Trads in shambles.

JD Vance is very consistent… in saying or doing whatever it takes to get ahead politically.

Christmas Elf Hank Hill be like "that toy ain't right"

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“The government doesn’t need to get involved in feeding hungry kids,” ... “That’s the business of churches. Neighbors. People like me who pay for the Starbucks order of the Range Rover in line behind me. We just need to let people be good to one another, heart hands emoji.” Go read the whole thing!

If the survey is of congressional Republicans? All of it, clearly

No no no, you're a Cafeteria Catholic if you use birth control and have gay friends. You're a *Traditional* Catholic if you ignore the poor, persecute immigrants, and support the death penalty. Am I understanding this right?

I'm sorry but it's just wild we are in the middle of a government shutdown and the House Republicans are REFUSING TO SHOW UP FOR WORK so they can protect billionaire pedophiles and billionaire tax breaks.

Christ’s resurrection teaches us that no story is ever so marked by disappointment or sin that it cannot be visited by hope. No fall is definitive, no night is eternal, no wound is destined to bleed forever. 1/

Sorry your religion isn’t working out for you.

“Someone who says I am against abortion but says I am in favor of the death penalty is not really pro-life (9-30-25)." #PopeLeoXIV #RespectLife

Okay, the jukebox in my head has moved on to "O Spirit All Embracing". Still don't know why, other than the assumption that I need to focus my energy on this part of the Trinity. Just Catholic things I guess.

Taxpayer-funded exclusion of students with disabilities. That's what charter schools are.

The hymn "Come Holy Ghost" has been intractably stuck in my head for days. Okay Holy Spirit, I'm listening... What??

Marty Haugen's greatest hits at my father-in-law's small town parish tonight.

I don’t want to see a video or TikTok over your thing. I want to read the article or a text

Dessert mode ACTIVATE: Best pie: key lime Best ice cream: Talenti Roman raspberry Best donut: yeast donut with chocolate icing Best bar: cheesecake swirl brownies Best cake: KAF chocolate mousse cake Best other: NY style cheesecake with raspberries

Curious how many parishes are singing "Lift High the Cross" this weekend. Catholic mutuals, what's your status?

Super weird that the guy who was Practicing Politics The Right Way somehow magically seems to have a following so racist against Black people that him getting shot by a white person in the whitest state in USA results in 7 Black universities receiving terror threats. What's this got to do with us?!

Happy 71st Birthday to Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated the New Orleans public schools. She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama. The past isn’t past.

About this Florida vaccine story: When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough. We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated. “Oh, they’d have died.”

Factually institutions like CDC, DoD and FEMA form a wall of security around Americans and their children, lessening incredibly dangerous threats from deadly forces (climate, storms, disease, foreign enemies, etc). Many top nonpartisan experts now believe that wall is being torn down.

President Trump says he want to enter heaven. As a Catholic priest, I take that seriously. www.americamagazine.org/faithinfocus...

The fangirl life is being so obsessed with a fictional character that it hurts. The way to cope with it is taking that pain and turning it into stories / art.

In an NPR video interview, @petebuttigieg.bsky.social leans into the idea that Democrats should oppose the status quo —and if they regain power they may not want to “just tape the pieces together.”

RIP Chuck Mangione

This is the power of justice, access and inclusion. We all benefit when we all support each other. op: chronicallyjenni (via IG)

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The "Jesus" sign in Loogootee Indiana still stands.

Where should I flee before You, when all my yearning for the unbounded, even my bold trust in my littleness, is really a confession of You? Karl Rahner

Sometimes I feel like my house isn't Catholic-coded enough because I don't have a home altar. But then I take stock and see that I have: 4 crucifixes, 2 decorative non-crucifix crosses, 3 Palm Sunday palm crosses, 4 Jesus & Mary paintings, 1 Jesus & Joseph painting... (/continued)