Misuse of Matt.27:25 in Christian interpretations gave rise to a conspiracy theory born of fake news. Grappling w/the fraught legacy of Matt. 27:25 takes on urgency in an age of unmitigated hate & rising antisemitism. It becomes a sacred obligation. learn.ctu.edu/palm-sunday-7/

Freeze ICE! Pay TSA!!!

Excellent editorial on the unforced error that is the global tragedy unleashed by the unstable, dangerous, and incompetent USA political administration. Important and necessary read, provides clarity.

Poetic justice: Venezuela gets revenge on the WBC diamond, beating team USA in the 250 anniversary of the USA @ home at the "national pastime!" To borrow from Bad Bunny, in Latin America, “El béisbol es casi religión.” Baseball is nearly religion! www.commonwealmagazine.org/baseball-wor...

Pre-Oscar cinema interview with mis CTU amig@s y colegas C Vanessa White & Ton Sison!

Big day for faculty in theology & popular culture @ Catholic Theological Union, Chicago! Anticipating the Oscars, Ton Sison & @cvanessawhite.bsky.social talk cinema @uscatholic.bsky.social & w/World Baseball Classic final rounds starting tonight, I talk beisbol @commonwealmagazine.org. Links below.

"For this Puerto Rican artist, baseball is not only culturally embedded both at home and in diaspora; it is resistance performed, worn, and retold." @cnankofernandez.bsky.social on Bad Bunny, imperialism, and the World Baseball Classic:

Really thoughtful and interesting piece on the "all American game" by @cnankofernandez.bsky.social now at @commonwealmagazine.org www.commonwealmagazine.org/baseball-wor...

@br-gilberto.bsky.social see this?

The man started a war. Has not shown his face or said a public, proper, accountable word. @ms.now @cnn.com @nbcnews.com @abc7.bsky.social @cbsnews.com Truth Social is NOT a an official, government platform. Stop quoting it w/authority. Enough talking heads speculating. Where is press conference?

Urban balcony snowbeing. Just because ...

Of 10 amendments in bill of rights, maybe 2 left: speedy trial & protection from self-incrimination. Gone: Freedom of speech. Rights to: bear arms, fair trial, practice religion, peacefully assemble. Gone are protections: of private property, from cruel punishment, from unreasonable searches.

"Trump has made clear his intention to turn the United States into a reflection of himself: not a leader of the free world or a dependable ally, but a rogue nation with the methods and morals of a mob boss, concerned only for its own narrow interests and ever more greedy for spoils."

Beautiful inaugural speech by Mayor Mamdani. By a New Yorker to New Yorkers with images and references relatable still esp. if you were born and raised in NYC. Transcript here: www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...

My take on today's Advent gospel, the genealogy of Jesus (Mt. 1:1-17). In an age of violent disappearances, memory of belonging matters.

So has the Military Archdiocese seen this one yet? Religious liberty under assault again by the current administration. www.stripes.com/branches/arm...

Feliz 89th Birthday Pope Francis.

Privileged to be in company of 7 Latinas preaching Advent-Christmas season @cwpreach.bsky.social Catholic Women Preach. W/ @nicholemflores.bsky.social y @drcecilia.bsky.social, 1 of 3 from ACHTUS & CTSA @thectsa.bsky.social Video & text - Gaudete Sunday www.catholicwomenpreach.org/preaching/12...

A privilege to prepare for the 3rd Sunday of Advent (Gaudete Sunday) for Catholic Women Preach. @cwpreach.bsky.social

USA is not in a declared war--so please explain how blowing little boats up and killing unknown people is legal? You want to deal with drugs--address addictions at home, in humane and supportive environments. Right now it feels like we are living in an immoral madman's bad video game.

Honored to be included in this conjunto of preachers!

At what point did anyone in that cabinet meeting consider speaking up against the vile racist, dehumanizing language tr$mp used against Somali people? How many Catholics around that table--devil caught your tongue? Ya basta!

On this All Souls Day...we remember...

In these days of remembering those we have lost... "Through memorial days & rituals of commemoration we navigate (what Pope Francis called} the "tension between memory & hope.' We affirm that where there is remembrance there is mañana!" learn.ctu.edu/the-commemor...

@stevenpmillies.com have you seen this yet? A classic!

Spend Sunday afternoon chatting with some of the faculty who taught Pope Leo XIV! Registration: ctu.edu/event/sunday... Onsite in Chicago/Online on Zoom!

Great work by my friend @kenjenkinsny.bsky.social. More public officials should stand up the way Ken has in Westchester.

Catholics showed up today. More of this. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

So 400 unpaid troops are being sent from Texas to occupy Chicago and Portland during a govt shutdown. Hmm this pay mess started in Portland too, www.va.gov/northeast-oh...

Like many, I was surprised to hear a Catholic cardinal compare Charlie Kirk to St. Paul... Thankful to @thenation.com for asking me to identify some of the problems with this www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Prayers w/3 people attacked by a sniper today in TX while detained by ICE. 1 person died & 2 are hospitalized. Apparently they get no names, no stories & not even perfunctory thoughts & prayers from politicians. Prayers w/ their families who may not even know the fate of their loved ones. PRESENTE!

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Highlights of tr$mp 'speech' at UN: «No more cows, we don’t want cows anymore,» «I guess they want to kill all the cows.» «I’m really good at this stuff. Your countries are going to hell.» That pretty much sums it up. Are we mortified yet? Release his school transcripts!

"noisy gong or a clanging cymbal" (1 Cor 13:1). Just because the name of Jesus trips easily off the tongue of government officials @ a memorial, w/o love, faith is nada. Love of people on the move & kin pushed to the edges. Love of vecines & strangers & people too easily labeled "different." 1/3

Seriously @mets.com why do you pull your successful pitchers. These kids are pitching their hearts out w/minimum runs & you put in rent-a-reliever to blow it? Have you no sense of urgency? Why July trades are stupid. It's on PBO. How's that Iglesias move working out for you? smh

So it seems I appeared in US Catholic a month ago. Gracias for the shout out @uscatholic.bsky.social and Cassidy Klein. uscatholic.org/articles/202...

Popular culture is a reservoir of languages-w/evolving dialects. Watching pundits @msnbc.com try to make sense w/o conversing w/ native speakers is stunning. Stop interpreting casing engravings w/o researching a language you clearly do not understand. Consult gaming culture scholars before opining.

Misdirection left serves to conceal the intra-right hostilities between 3 powers who share(d) 1 sun: Loomer, Turning Point, Groypers.

This is not a press conference.

A psalm for this day. Gracias @martinespadapoet.bsky.social ...¡Alabanza! youtu.be/H3anIr7vAIQ?...

Recordamos...WTC@NYC, Pentagon, Shanksville, y thousands still sick or dying-1st responders, clean-up crews (including over 2000 undocumented immigrants), residents, media... 24 years yet still relive it in real time. Still see the bluest sky over DC y remember every minute that pauses for silence.

Hagiography cannot sanitize hate speech.

This. 👇👇👇 JB Pritzker: "Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: Once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next?”

Powerful speaking of truth to authoritarian power grab. Worth watching! They out the ugly in clear terms! Gracias @govpritzker.illinois.gov @mayorofchicago.bsky.social. youtu.be/hhYShkfT848

The city of my residence is under occupation. The city where I work prepares to resist occupation. The city where I was born, raised, educated is under threat of occupation. All in a country that thought of itself as a "shining city upon a hill."

@nicollewallace.bsky.social Sadly, Pope Leo XIV is not the first pope to respond to a school-shooting in USA. Pope Francis responded in May 2022 to the massacre at Robb Elementary in Uvalde by tweet (X) & remarks in General Audience. x.com/VaticanNews/...

It appears the FBI must think the entire Epstein file is at Bolton's house and they want to be able to release it today so they were sent to pick it up. Only possible explanation for today's Distraction Theatre presents....

6 Republican-led states have agreed to send troops to occupy DC. 5/6 are former confederate states. ponder that....