The Catholic Church leads in defending migrants against policies that allow mistreatment and harm. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/o...

I'm not sure these are difficult questions. Even EWTN, hardly a left-leaning organization, rejects Fuentes' antisemitis.

Or Mary Ann

Fascinating interview by my brother Deacons Pod co-hosts with Colleen Dulle of the "Inside the Vatican" podcast and author of "Struck Down, Not Destroyed." Her book and her podcast are superb, and her observations here insightful. (N.B. some discussion of suicide.) open.spotify.com/episode/4J4J...

man Pope Leo’s statement on cinema is 🔥🔥🔥. especially this first line in this paragraph

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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

It's a revealing moment... J.D. Vance welcomes a two-legged robot helping on the job site. But if that helper is a person named Jose, he calls it a threat. Same tasks, same productivity boost. The inconsistency reveals this isn’t about economics.

Fortunately, Megyn Kelly doesn't get to define pedophilia.

As immigrants strive to integrate into our communities, we must offer them our kindness and compassion as they navigate this new world. As Bishop Menjivar’s words remind us, immigration is more than moving from one place to another. It is about transformation and adaptation.

I'm not religious, but this Pope seems like a really good dude. ground.news/article/pope...

i just read something about grief from C.S. Lewis and his book, “A Grief Observed” basically, when someone you love dies, it isn’t just them that you miss, but the parts of yourself that person brought out of you that can never be brought out again. i feel that with my dad.

This World Day of the Poor, you can make a real difference. 🌟 I’m running the Santa Run to support De Mazenod Door Outreach - your gift brings meals, dignity, and compassion to our neighbours in need. ❤️🙏 Thank you for considering to donate and make a difference: raceroster.com/events/2025/...

Amazon announced 14,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $40M last year. UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year. Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M. This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

"The longer I live, the more I see God at work in people who do not have the slightest interest in religion and never read the Bible and would not know what to do if they were persuaded to go inside a church." #DorothyDay

Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops

He has shown the strength of his arm/He has scattered the proud in their conceit/He has cast down the mighty from their thrones/ And has lifted up the lowly/He has filled the hungry with good things/And the rich he has sent away empty. Magnificat wapo.st/4qLEG1X

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice. It doesn't have to be this way.

In another era, ICE raids would be described as persecution of Catholics.

This painting just really captures it for me.

"In making our way through life, we are guided by simplicity, humility, and littleness rather than by power, prestige, and status." #LiveTheGospel #ShareGodsLove #RebuildMyChurch assisiproject.com/mission

States warned to undo efforts to give full benefits. (Gift article) www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...

Gift article. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...

"If you do not see Christ in the homeless, you will not see him on the altar." Saint John Chrysostom

Pope Leo XIV intends to call all the cardinals to the Vatican for a two-day meeting on Jan. 7-8, 2026, the Vatican Secretariat of State has told them. www.americamagazine.org/vatican-disp...

“It is important that our Catholic detainees are able to receive pastoral care and have access to the sacraments. Their religious liberty, part of their human dignity, needs to be respected.” religionnews.com/2025/11/04/c...

Solidarity, my friends, solidarity.

"Almsgiving touches and softens our hardened hearts. ...we give alms as a way of reaching out and touching the suffering flesh of the poor." Pope Leo XIV, Dilexi Te. (Image: YMCA of Greater Houston)

“Federal authorities told demonstrators Friday that there would be ‘no more prayer’ in front of or inside the Broadview ICE facility, in a move that mystified local leaders and raised legal questions.” blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/07/f...

"What the world expects of Christians is that Christians should speak out, loud and clear...that they should get away from abstractions and confront the blood-stained face history has taken today." #Camus

The Paulists and parishioners of Old St. Mary's Church in Chicago celebrate the life of Paulist Fr. Brad Schoeberle (1956 - 2025):

Ah, America

"Black Catholics bring a unique voice to the Church and world. There are many Catholics who, if they experienced the indifference and rejection suffered by their African Americans co-religionists, would have left the Church. Yet we remain."

For the unaware: these are two conservative Catholic bishops who sit on President Trump's religious liberty commission, and have been publicly warm to Trump. Voicing open criticism of the administration on religious freedom here, even narrowly, is a break from the past few months.

Also, Google "Society of Saint Vincent de Paul" and your home town to find a local conference (chapter) near you. We're a Catholic organization over 200 years old that seeks to help people who are hungry or have housing and other material needs. And we don't proselytize.

"The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty." #PopeLeoXIV #DilexiTe #RememberThePoor

“Organizers said they followed Department of Homeland Security protocol and formally requested access more than one week ahead of the Mass and emailed and hand-delivered a second letter on Thursday. The request was denied,” chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Surrounded, led and guided by the friends of God… I do not have to carry alone what, in truth, I could never carry alone. All the saints of God are there to protect me, to sustain me and to carry me. Pope Benedict XVI

"An economy that kills, that excludes, that starves, that concentrates enormous wealth in a few to the detriment of the many, that multiplies poverty and grinds down salaries, that pollutes, that produces war, is not an economy: It is just an emptiness, an absence, a sickness." #PopeFrancis #Hope

Wow! It’s not even close. Food banks can’t keep up with the need… Question: “How long is this sustainable.” Food bank director: “It’s not… for every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There’s no way we can meet that gap.”

Pray for sanity because this is truly insane.

Signal boosting but also: there are also food deserts in the city (like here in DC) and many, many people who are homebound. Please help food banks with delivery where available. Thank you!

An estimated 15.7 million workers use SNAP. It’s a lifeline for those in low-wage jobs. Meanwhile, CEOs are paid 280x as much as the typical worker. Don’t be angry at workers for using food stamps. Be angry at the corporations paying them so little that they need them.