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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.”

The Vast Bay Leaf Conspiracy by Kelly Conaboy Maybe you’ve had this experience: You throw a bay leaf into a broth, and it doesn’t do anything. Then you throw the rest of the bay leaves you bought into the broth, too, because you...

sure but the skepticism gave the internet one of its hall of fame blog posts www.theawl.com/2016/03/the-...

I've seen enough: It's Dave Wasserman. Or John Milhiser if you prefer early 2010s SNL to encyclopedic political coverage.

women will be better than this year at least.

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Our Lady of the Neighborhood by Allan Rohan Crite, 1948.

Incredible art of gritty playing fiddle on the roof of a west Philadelphia row home. In Yiddish it says Fidler Oyfn Fakh פֿידלער אױפֿן דאַך)

We put on an all-Yiddish community production of fiddler on the roof in Philadelphia and cast member and local artist Sofie Rose Seymour created the most amazing show poster that ever was

“Unconscionable,” Jon thought as he found an email address online for the lead prosecutor, Joseph Dernbach, who was named in the story. Peering through metal-rimmed glasses, Jon opened Gmail on his computer monitor. “Mr. Dernbach, don’t play Russian roulette with H’s life,” he wrote. “Err on the side of caution. There’s a reason the US government along with many other governments don’t recognise the Taliban. Apply principles of common sense and decency.” That was it. In five minutes, Jon said, he finished the note, signed his first and last name, pressed send and hoped his plea would make a difference. Five hours and one minute later, Jon was watching TV with his wife when an email popped up in his inbox. He noticed it on his phone. “Google,” the message read, “has received legal process from a Law Enforcement authority compelling the release of information related to your Google Account.”

A retiree wrote this email to a DHS attorney. Within five hours, DHS demanded Google turn over records for his account.

A Kafkaesque form of domestic surveillance, intimidating Americans for lawful speech.

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The very best. RIP.

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Self Portrait with Jewish Identity Card by Felix Nussbaum, 1943. He would be arrested the following year at the age of 39 and murdered at Auschwitz along with his family.

Cardinal Tobin: Pray, mourn and say 'no' to ICE funding In a reflection delivered during an online interfaith prayer service hosted by Faith in Action, Tobin employed some of the strongest language yet by a U.S. cardinal to condemn the Trump administration...

Cardinal Tobin regarding ICE funding: "I think if we are serious about putting our faith in action, we need to say 'no,' each one of us. What saying ‘no’ looks like today is by telling the truth about what is happening and honoring those whose lives are upended.” www.ncronline.org/news/cardina...

dang prose-poetry masquerading as a basketball newsletter

Catholic sisters, clergy & lay leaders have been standing with immigrants in the US since the beginning. When I worked for a diocese in '13, a group of nuns led an immigration reform prayer vigil outside our local rep's office for 30 days in a row. Rising to the moment now because it's in the DNA.

Having seen several abductions up close, it is really hard to convey how much the thing they’re doing is roaming in military convoys until they see someone who is alone and isn’t white, and then jumping out in large numbers, pulling them into a van, and screeching off, all in 90 seconds or so.

The 5 Most Beautiful Gothic Churches In Missouri Missouri’s Gothic churches showcase faith, craftsmanship, and history, from grand city stone cathedrals to rural wooden parish gems.

Posting to save the headline for posterity:

THE 5 MOST BEAUTIFUL GOTHIC CHURCHES IN MISSOURI

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praying the one with the questions about the commercial with that anthropomorphic tree still exists somewhere

prayers up for you

I had all the LaGuardia/Spellman albums before they were cool

it was fun to learn decades after falling in love with this book that feiffer had been married into my (distant) family for a while

Extract from Rob Reiner's Wikipedia Filmography 1986 - Stand By zme 1987 - The Princess Bride 1989 - When Harry Met Sally 1990 - Misery 1992 - A Few Good Men

Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama.

Us: Across your entire career?

Reiner: In a 6 year period.

Us: That sounds-

Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.

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There’s a weird way in which the West Wing is about a sort of proto-Trumpian governance style. Everyone on that show is constantly violating the Hatch Act and a small crew of viziers are deciding government policy on the fly.

I think the through line is “administration as good TV.“

we'd take it at the jesuit media lab!

Original watercolor illustration for Tomie dePaola’s The Lady of Guadalupe, at the Marian Library at the University of Dayton, Ohio.

What I Learned During My Visit to an Immigration Detention Center - Jesuits.org Harrison Hanvey, Jesuit Conference Office of Justice and Ecology, reflects on his visit to an immigration detention center in Virginia.

I'm privileged to work with Harrison, who spent a day off as a volunteer interpreter at an immigration detention center. He wrote about the experience for Jesuits.org, and I can't recommend it enough for your Our Lady of Guadalupe feast day reading.

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Nativity by Allan Rohan Crite, 1978.