Bridget O’Brien

148 people at a girls’ school.

As 'border czar' challenges Pope Leo, Archbishop Wester warns of 'Bonhoeffer moment' Two U.S. Catholics, 'border czar' Tom Homan and Archbishop John Wester, agree that immigration remains a challenge — but each has starkly different viewpoints about what their faith demands of them du...

Catholic Archbishop John Wester (Santa Fe) "told [journalist Michael O'Loughlin] in a recent phone interview that he believes we're living in 'a Dietrich Bonhoeffer moment.'"

Transgender youths are targeted in Scouting America changes pushed by the Pentagon Hegseth has criticized Scouting America's historic rebrand in 2024 from the Boy Scouts and other changes he sees as part of "woke culture."

"The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality." - James Baldwin

Worms in food, poor medical care, lights on 24/7: Families tell of life in Texas detention center When ICE officers in Minneapolis detained a 5-year-old boy and his father last month and sent them to a Texas detention center, many Americans were alarmed.

"The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality." - James Baldwin

US-Israeli strike on girls' school kills at least 85 students, Iran's judiciary says At least 85 students have been killed in US-Israeli strikes that hit an Iranian girls' school in Hormozgan province, Iran's judiciary said on Saturday. Washington has not commented on the reported str...

"The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality." - James Baldwin

Brother Jayson, Sister Cayleigh

40 people at a girls’ school.

Santa Fe Archbishop John Wester on why he's imploring the White House to change course on immigration, why he sees this as "a Bonhoeffer moment," and why Catholics must keep speaking up. Read more at @ncronline.bsky.social: www.ncronline.org/news/border-...

Also, Interesting to me that they can choose any sort of anachronism that suits their idea of how society should be…

but no one thinks to say, “Hey maybe it was JOHN who couldn’t have children.”

some! kind! of! CHOICE!

That and ‘the worst thing strangers have said to the bereaved is “I’m sorry for your loss.”’

lolllllllllll

I’ve been screaaaaaaaaaaming.

“It’s 1816. Everyone is grieving. No one has said a single prayer and the word ‘God’ has not once been uttered.”

More perturbed than I should be that the writers of Bridgerton seem to think a luncheon is a funeral.

kevin... are you safe?

Press conference at the conclusion of the meetings of the bishops of the Texas/Mexico border.
“In these massive detention centers, migrants are relegated to anonymity and oblivion. Their own families do not know where they are. This is fundamentally unjust.”

(draws an arc) So the sacristan's gonna come in from here
(and several Xs) and the EMs line up here

I know I have said this several times BUT it really is funny to me how much of my job at this time of year involves watching tape (re-watching livestream recordings of last year's patronal feast Mass & Triduum liturgies).

I REALLY want a big screen I can mark up like a football coach.

Universal Prayer (Prayer of the Faithful) From the General Instruction of the Roman Missal: 69.  In the Universal Prayer or Prayer of the Faithful, the people respond in some sense to the Word of Go...

Es verdad!

www.usccb.org/prayer-and-w...

"I asked Chat GPT and -" ok, I asked the exhumed corpse of Pope Formosus during the Cadaver Synod and he went "... ... ..." and then his jaw fell off and it was still a better answer

just eat the liver with some fava beans ($1.99 / lb)

no, obviously you can't afford a nice chianti.

THAT'S FINE,

but send one of the many emails i send each week asking someone if they would or would not like to be prayed for during Mass, and my brain will INSIST that it can't POSSIBLY be PRAYER of the Faithful (but it is.)

wake me up at 3am, spin me around 7 times, and hand me a pencil and some paper and i can draw a diagram of rahner's theological anthropology for you; decide we can't continue playing dungeons & dragons until i have drunkenly explained the theological questions involved in whether to baptize aliens,

I've been Catholic for, what, 42 and a half years? And I've been either studying theology or in ministry for... 25 years?

And yet multiple times each month I must look up whether it is Prayer of the Faithful or Prayers of the Faithful.

I do not know why my brain works so hard to reject this info.

ROGUE THEOLOGY PROFESSOR ACCURATELY PRESENTS BISHOPS' TEACHING--AND THEN ENDORSES IT

i don't think you're qualified to make statements about how prayer works!

MY PRAYERS HAVE BEEN ANSWERED.

But he didn’t, actually: he didn’t “America’s most influential,” which would carry some implicit messages about what is taken seriously in the US; he described it as “the leading Catholic,” which assigns it value in the Catholic Church / among Catholics.

HAH, you are right and I had fully forgotten that.

(sorry, SPEAKING OF ACCURACY, “the leading Catholic magazine of religion and public life,” not “religion & culture.” my apologies!!)