Vance hasn't really "remade" anything in US Catholicism. He's just a lost guy in search of a father. Also his flawed theology is critiqued in @ncronline.bsky.social not the Register which is a...different beast : ) nymag.com/intelligence...

"But 'reclaiming Christianity for the left' is different from winning in Texas." @dominicpreziosi.bsky.social on the faith-first politics of James Talarico:

that’s right

I was so happy to be invited to speak on the Commonweal Magazine podcast with Griffin Oleynick about my new book, "Work in Progress," about "humble work" and about humor. It was such a fun conversation, thanks to his great questions. www.commonwealmagazine.org/podcast/humb...

New @commonwealmagazine.org podcast ep with two great guests: @jamesmartinsj.bsky.social on his book "Work in Progress," and our own @heidischlumpf.bsky.social with her assessment of the Leo-Trump relationship & the "conversion wave" www.commonwealmagazine.org/podcast/humb...

HEGSETH: I know that there is no country on planet earth that takes more measures to ensure that civilian harm or casualties are minimized than the United States of America and this War Department. And that is a fact. TOKUDA: You eliminated the department's civilian harm reduction staff

my latest article in Commonweal magazine on the rising number of adults receiving baptism www.commonwealmagazine.org/massimo-fagg...

Finally got my voice back (literally, after being sick) so was able to give my two cents about the Trump v. Pope brouhaha: www.fox32chicago.com/video/fmc-p8...

"Not many who stand next to Trump walk away with their dignity intact. Smart people avoid it altogether." @mollieoreilly.bsky.social explains why Pope Leo should keep his distance from the United States: www.commonwealmagazine.org/leo-trump-wa...

NYT: “The first thing that came to my mind is that I think Trump is under a lot of pressure, and that he has lost his mind,” said Lili, who works in the arts scene in the Iranian capital, Tehran. (who has a link to lili's substack? i think she has a handle on this.)

NEW: Recently ordained Jesuit priest Fr. Doug Jones joins the Commonweal podcast from Beirut to speak about the growing humanitarian crisis amid Israel's siege on Lebanon. 'My First War'

Congratulations! Yesterday, Commonweal published a powerful Palm Sunday essay by Corbett, reflecting on faith, solidarity, and mass deportation. Read it here! www.commonwealmagazine.org/corbett-dyla...

"If, as it’s said, the Church thinks in centuries, the fifty-year-old women’s ordination advocacy movement is already halfway there." My piece on @ordainwomen.bsky.social in @commonwealmagazine.org www.commonwealmagazine.org/women-priest...

Dame Mullally’s participation in Becket Camino represents a sign of ecumenism as she prepares to become the first woman to lead the Church of England. Analysis from Vanessa R. Corcoran: www.commonwealmagazine.org/canterbury-a...

"Homan offers a uniformed-services, God-and-country conservatism that many American Catholics can identify with." @paulbmoses.bsky.social on the Catholic faith of Trump's 'border czar':

"The bishops’ support for immigrants began long before Homan took up his Catechism as a schoolboy." @paulbmoses.bsky.social: 'The Gospel According to Tom Homan'

MY LATEST @latimes.com ‬⁩ COLUMNA: The grief behind the cascade of online Dolores Huerta photos. Share, porfas!

No objective, no planning, and with little thought for consequences: Trump's unjust war of whim alienates allies and further degrades the moral standing of the U.S. New from the editors @commonwealmagazine.org www.commonwealmagazine.org/trump-war-ir...

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.

New Jersey, Museum of Trucking

my latest for “Commonweal” magazine Bad for the Church, and the World There’s danger in U.S. bishops’ reluctance to criticize Trumpism www.commonwealmagazine.org/faggioli-vat...

Right now, unfolding around us on a global scale, is a rich and unambiguous lesson on the dangers of fossil fuel dependence. The most obvious solution is for the affected countries to reduce their dependence through clean energy. Are you seeing that message in media?

The war on Iran is yet another reminder that the world will never be safe until the United States accepts and abides by international law. Analysis of Trump's criminal war by George Scialabba:

WSJ: The likelihood of Iran closing the strait was discussed, Gen Caine predicted it, and Trump decided “Tehran would likely capitulate before closing the strait — and even if Iran tried, the U.S. military could handle it.” www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

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

Mamdani is considering ending free street parking in NYC. This would be another huge boost to NYC residents' quality of life, reducing traffic in ways that would be comparable to congestion pricing. And it would be another step in ending suburban free-riding on NYC.

"AI is a loaded gun in the hands of children." Good piece in @commonweal.bsky.social by @johnslatteryphd.bsky.social

No clear objective & no exit strategy, Trump's war in Iran also violates the Constitution and just-war principles: from the editors of @commonweal.bsky.social www.commonwealmagazine.org/trump-editor...

We live under a government of 13-year-olds.

I covered Rudy Giuliani .. then a rising Republican star … endorsing Mario Cuomo …a liberal lion detested by the right. This is more head-spinning:

For my February column @commonweal.bsky.social, I wrote on Dan Chiasson's "Bernie for Burlington" www.commonwealmagazine.org/bernie-sande...

The March issue is here! Feat.: - @regmunch.bsky.social & Patricia Hampl on the crisis in Minnesota - The Editors on Epstein - Frederick Bauerschmidt on Erik Varden's theology - @heidischlumpf.bsky.social interviews John Carr And more! www.commonwealmagazine.org/issues/2026-...

Jeffrey Epstein’s elite pals treated the sexual abuse of hundreds of girls as a joke or a PR hiccup. The man may be dead—but the ethos of the Epstein network is ascendant in American public life. NEW from the Editors: www.commonwealmagazine.org/editorial-ep...

This serial killing spree has been completely normalized. I consider this in many ways the single worst thing going on because it’s getting zero resistance from the media, Congress, everywhere. Everyone has seemingly accepted he can commit mass murder on boats for… fun, basically.

THIS FRIDAY in Washington, D.C.: Commonweal is thrilled to be co-sponsoring a conversation at Georgetown exploring Pope Francis's call for a culture of encounter. Feat: @roberttalisse.bsky.social, Nadia Urbinati, and @paulelie.bsky.social. RSVP today! berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/events/democ...

An article from one of America's leading Catholic publications.

As I've said many times, this is an awful thing that we are doing to ourselves for no discernible reason.

Those Project Firewall posters are certainly the creepiest Hitler Youth–type graphics made since 1945 cc @paulbmoses.bsky.social @dominicpreziosi.bsky.social

Seven years ago yesterday, this ad ran during the Super Bowl.

Solidarity with our union siblings at The Washington Post.

this is a wicked man who knows he is being wicked and does it anyway

Here to note that we've introduced some changes to the @commonweal.bsky.social homepage... why not take a look? www.commonwealmagazine.org

My January column on Christopher Ricks for @commonweal.bsky.social www.commonwealmagazine.org/twice-blest-...

I know what the actual trouble with men is, but I’ll only reveal it next week, at the @92ndstreety.bsky.social

The administration's assault on civil rights should be seen as part of a pattern beginning with Trump's pardon of Jan 6 rioters - and perhaps as prelude to interfering w midterm elections: the editors of @commonweal.bsky.social on the siege on Minneapolis www.commonwealmagazine.org/editorial-tr...

"Trump said in a January interview that the only limit on his power is his own morality. That would be a catastrophe were it true." The Editors on Trump's thuggish suppression of civil rights in Minneapolis: www.commonwealmagazine.org/editorial-tr...

I admit I'm a little confused as to why a consensus seems to have formed that SCOTUS will strike down Trump's obviousl illegal tariffs. That would be correct on the law, sure, but what does that have to do with anything? They'll strike it down if they feel that it saves Trump from himself (possible)

What does Catholic Social Teaching have to say about the Renee Good killing? My latest for Commonweal: