Is deportation “intrinsically evil”? Is illegal immigration always morally wrong? What does Catholic social teaching really say? Revised, expanded, and more relevant than ever: 21 points on immigration, deportation, and Catholic principles

He's really done it.

good thing groceries are so cheap that we don’t have to worry about a little bump in gas prices

What a month it’s been!

How Hard Could Getting Voter ID Be? Read more cartoons! ---> #PoliCartoon Help us make more! ----> patreon.com/barry

First rewatch of the LOTR trilogy in years, confirming long-held opinions: 1. greatest performance: Ian Holm 2. also obviously magnificent, Ian McKellen, Sean Bean 3. best film: FOTR 4. Viggo is a better Strider than an Aragorn 4. everyone who thinks ROTK has too many endings can soak their head

*extreme Blazing Saddles townsperson voice* Sam Adams is RIGHT!

Every accusation is a confession.

Pope Leo XIV exhorted clergy not to use A.I. to write homilies. I wrote some thoughts on what a homily is and isn’t. (Homiletics 101: You don’t know how to write a homily … and neither do I!)

It is incredibly funny to me that Takei and Shatner remain so incredibly petty toward one another even at their ages.

The intention seems to have been to be as cruel, punitive, and humiliating as possible.

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we finally reached the end of this calendar event i accidentally made 12 years ago

so fun fact: recently during the fraud investigations being redone by this season’s feds, MN’s rate of medicaid/medicare fraud was well below the national average nationally, it’s ≈ 6% each year; in minnesota it’s like ≈ 2.5% we know this is vindictive at this point

“Much of organised Catholicism these days simply revels in bringing the high low” God. It’s God who revels in that. “The great in height will be hewn down, and the lofty will be brought low” “Every mountain and hill shall be made low” “He has brought down rulers from their thrones”

Hey, The Bulwark featured my Bishop Barron piece in this edition of the Triad

Never a big Narnia guy but this 6 seconds typifies everything I love about British television.

not only, of course, in Spain

Apropos of nothing but if the Vatican explicitly accuses you of colonialism, you really done effed up.

More than 400 federal judges have ruled that ICE is breaking the law. Not once. Not a handful of times. 4,400+ TIMES. That's 4,400+ illegal detentions. 4,400+ violations of the Constitution. And in many cases, ICE has kept people locked up even AFTER judges ordered their release.

Ben Affleck’s zero-fucks-given audio commentary is one of the funniest things I’ve ever heard. youtu.be/-ahtp0sjA5U?...

JD Vance personally invited Pope Leo to the U.S. 250th celebration on the 4th of July. Today the Vatican announced Leo will be spending the day with migrants instead.

The weakness of the msm and their failure to even try to keep doing real journalism during a criminal regime has been one of my greatest disappointments over the last ten years. And they are so much weaker now than they were 8-10 years ago.

reminder that JD Vance knows *exactly* what he has joined forces with and what he is enabling

I’ve been saying for months that a unanimous ruling against Trump on birthright citizenship wouldn’t surprise me and I’d be surprised if it were less than 7–2, so I’m very happy to agree with the president for once

Earlier this year, apparently, an NJ state committee confirmed what many New Jerseyans probably already knew anecdotally: Our snowiest winter on record was 30 years ago, the winter of 1996. As of today, I’m pretty sure 2026 is our region’s snowiest winter since then!

JERSEY STRONG

Shoes that belonged to victims of Auschwitz. Each one represents one person, one life, and one tragic story. Each one we need to preserve. --- (Photo: https://www.instagram.com/aimlessarrow.art/)

As a homilist, I’m meant to have convictions, but no opinions when I preach. This Sunday, given the vocal concerns of Pope Leo and so many bishops, I knew I had to address the war on immigrants—but I had weave it into the readings and the Lenten theme. One good move: Just quote the pope and bishops.

COMICS ARE GOOD

Make The Military-Industrial Complex Great Again, if you’re worried about school cuts you should have thought of that before you had kids or cared about education

attention world the U.S. is not safe at the moment, for your own safety please travel elsewhere

Pope Leo XIV’s Lenten message: “The condition of the poor is a cry that, throughout human history, constantly challenges our lives, societies, political and economic systems, and … the Church.” Leo has been particularly concerned about the cry of immigrants. My homily for the First Sunday of Lent

Trump and … Louisiana? Sending a hospital boat to … Greenland? Obvious questions about what the purported healthcare issue in Greenland is supposed to be aside, I’m pretty sure there are more people IN LOUISIANA than in most U.S. states who could use better access to medical care.

A MN protester accused of assaulting ICE officer had case dropped after vids showed no assault. LA protester accused of assaulting ICE w/ “hat” had case dropped; judge said govt acted in “bad faith” In Chicago, 92 ppl were arrested for assault/impeding ICE; 0 convicted DOJ keeps lying and losing:

Can't help noticing that when these scum feel like attacking somebody, they tend to go after people, smaller than them, women, or both

This 53 year old man who lived in my neighborhood w/no criminal record & who had been in the US for 30 years, was detained and thrown into a cold cell for days, caught pneumonia and COVID there and deported. He finally died. I am so angry. www.kptv.com/2026/02/21/n...

This is the kind of thing a rich CEO says at the beginning of a science fiction movie to establish for the audience that he is a sociopath and the villain.

This was a painful piece to research and write. More to come.

How to type “Pope Benedict XVI” or “Pope Leo XIV”: 1. Type “Pope Benedict X” or “Pope Leo X” 2. Stop and think

your regular reminder that #ThisIsNotOkay

SIX TO THREE. Chief Justice Roberts, who wrote the decision, was joined by Amy Coney Barrett and Neil Gorsuch, along with, of course, the three liberal justices. Clarence Thomas dissented, naturally, joined by Samuel Alito and Brett Kavanaugh. A satisfyingly persuasive victory.

This was a painful piece to research and write. More to come.

Here is some history on the Emmett Till memorial

Can’t have that wrongthink, I guess.

This is the kind of thing white supremacists have been doing to Emmett Till’s memorial for decades. It’s wild to see them do this to a white woman who the entire world saw extrajudicially murdered.

I wrote about BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S; a spoiled potential masterpiece vjmorton.wordpress.com/2026/02/14/w...

Suz and me at the @papermillplayhouse.bsky.social for Come From Away … we loved it on Broadway and are very happy to be seeing it again!

notes on Catholic social activist and Servant of God Dorothy Day and the Catholic practice of praying to people who have died, including those who are not canonized saints