Vince Miller

This is beautiful to see:

www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

Independent religious, human rights & legal-aid organizations should have regular access to federal immigrant detention centers, including & especially those privately operated. Humane conditions & treatment need to be verified. Assertions that everything is fine are not enough.

Pope Leo: “We perceive in the ashes imposed on us the weight of a world that is ablaze, of entire cities destroyed by war. This is also reflected in the ashes of international law and justice among peoples, the ashes of entire ecosystems and harmony among peoples, the ashes of critical thinking.”

"Fr. Paul Keller, provincial superior of the Claretians, noted the irony of the day, stating he felt he was "representing a society with dirty hands" and asking the detainees for forgiveness rather than the other way around."

“Families affected by immigration enforcement were among the first to receive ashes from Cupich, in a highly symbolic reversal of the marking and tracking many say defines their daily lives.”

Unexpected vertiginous depth of meta... they were amazing. Im afraid to connect the dots to where this was being performed.

This is my new home page.

*Saint Thomas

A Dry, Warm January Leaves the West With the Worst Snowpack in Decades
www.drought.gov/drought-stat...

Dear God...thank you Sir Thomas, Shakespeare and Sir Ian.

The February issue is here! Feat:
- A dispatch by @kevjg.bsky.social from a DHS protest
- Rita Ferrone on Leo and the liturgy
- @catholicclod.bsky.social on universalism and forgiveness
- James Chappel on Charles Murray and Christianity
And more!
www.commonwealmagazine.org/issues/2026-...

screenshot of text from Adam Serwer in The Atlantic: "The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they're the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive - because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about "Western civilization," while armed brutes try to tear it down by force."

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Long live neighborism.

"Minnesotans are insisting that their neighbors are their neighbors whether they were born in Minneapolis or Mogadishu. That is, arguably, a deeply Christian philosophy, one apparently loathed by some of the most powerful Christians in America."

The original post was deleted, but this was the video it had.

A refreshing counterbalance to the cruel optimism of so much AI and pedagogy discourse.

Thanks for this Steve ... read at lunch over gnocchi...
So good to hear of students wresting with LLM's theologically...thank you for this work.

After the Brown Shooting 'The Catholic chaplain, Fr. Justin, had announced a Mass for the two students killed yesterday during a pre-exam review session.'

'The Catholic chaplain, Fr. Justin, had announced a Mass for the two students killed yesterday during a pre-exam review session.'

Max Foley-Keene writes from Providence on a campus shooting—and a Gaudete Sunday Mass:
www.commonwealmagazine.org/brown-shooti...

A black and white picture of Fergus Kerr

Fergus Kerr OP passed away on Sunday. Learning about Wittgenstein from him was one of the highlights of my education
He wasn't just a fiercely brilliant philosopher and theologian, but also distinctive for his kindness. He was a real light in my academic sojourn. Rest in peace.

What does it really mean to be a pilgrim of hope? What does it really mean to be a pilgrim of hope? We all know what hope is, more or less. The Gospels call Christians to hope countless times, and Pope Francis, planning ahead, invited Catholics to…

“Hope is a great stripping away,” he said. “What I hope for is to see the face of God, and whatever else I thought I needed, I don’t really need.” www.simchafisher.com/2025/11/17/w...

Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops

My review of these two wonderful books is greatly enhanced by @davidsankey.bsky.social's astounding cover art. So honored to be on this cover!

Thinking with Rivers In the face of the awesome and lifegiving power of rivers, human beings may be the real terror.

My review of @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social's "beautifully written riverine tangle" - "Is a River Alive?" & James Scott's "In Praise of Floods" is in this month's @commonweal.bsky.social.

www.commonwealmagazine.org/vincent-mill...

Pope: ‘Spiritual rights’ of migrant detainees must be respected - Vatican News In remarks to journalists in Castel Gandolfo, Pope Leo calls for “deep reflection” on the treatment of migrants in the United States, urges

www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

YouTube video by Vatican News Usa-Venezuela, il Papa: con la violenza non si trovano soluzioni

Vatican News YouTube channel:

youtu.be/taCiSsheWPc?...

It's good to get science on these extreme heat events. I was there when this began, studying the impact of the Holiday Farm Fire the previous year. I'll always remember the crack in one scientist's voice as they described the new damage upon damage that followed this heatwave.

‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...

‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...

From a crewmember on yesterday's Teal 74 mission into now-Category 5 Hurricane #Melissa. As clear of an eye as you will see in the Atlantic basin.

I cannot tell you how many tech journalists at prominent media organizations do not understand this

‪“The supreme rule in the Church is love. No one is called to dominate; all are called to serve. No one should impose his or her own ideas; we must all listen to one another. No one is excluded; we are all called to participate. - Pope Leo

Pope Leo: “We must dream of and build a more humble Church; a Church that does not stand upright….triumphant and inflated with pride, but bends down to wash the feet of humanity; a Church that does not judge.,,but becomes a welcoming place for all.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...