Nashville reporter who has covered ICE activity has been detained after Nashville stop nashvillebanner.com/2026/03/05/j...
Nashville reporter who has covered ICE activity has been detained after Nashville stop nashvillebanner.com/2026/03/05/j...
🎉 Big news for local news: @rcfp.org is expanding our Local Legal Initiative to Louisiana, Mississippi, Michigan, and Minnesota!
This nearly doubles the size of the LLI, adding four in-state attorneys who will provide legal help to journalists pursuing ambitious stories in their communities.
Rhode Island attorney general's investigation identified over 300 documented victims who reported allegations of child sexual misconduct against 75 Catholic clergy members in the Diocese of Providence. Appendix A has some pretty horrific details. www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...
“We ask for a halt to the spiral of violence, and a return to multilateral diplomatic engagement that seeks to uphold the ‘well-being of peoples, who yearn for peaceful existence founded on justice.'” x.com/osvnews/stat...
“Stability and peace are not built through mutual threats, nor with weapons that sow destruction, pain, and death, but only through reasonable, authentic, and responsible dialogue,” the pope said.
www.cathstan.org/us-world/pop...
Citing comments made by Pope Leo XIV at Castel Gandolfo Nov. 18, the US bishops friend of the court brief says, “These teachings extend to immigrants in the United States without legal status and their American children who were born in the United States.”
www.osvnews.com/us-bishops-a...
The great Colman McCarthy has died. His first @ncronline.bsky.social article was in 1966. Former monk, he wrote for @washingtonpost.com for years. Insanely good golfer, my son said, he could drive a golf ball across Turtle Park to hit the scoreboard. www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...
20 Catholic bishops call for ‘Human Dignity’ in immigration enforcement ahead of #SOTU (two more added their names later) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/u...
Exciting news for those of us who love churches (and sons of architects) that Pope Leo will inaugurate the recently completed main tower of the Basilica of the Sagrada Familia www.ncronline.org/pope-charts-...
Colbert, Talarico and a better kind of Christian politics
www.americamagazine.org/short-take/2...
Meta chips-for-stock megadeal with AMD www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/b...
Good. Like this, www.ncronline.org/opinion/gues... which some have criticized, saying affiliation is not complicity. Red herring. Visitation took money and let him lead a fundraising campaign. Would Visitation take $$ from a firm that rents to clinics that perform abortions or assist suicides?
Trump puts US on a war footing. War with Iran. Hello, Congress. Call your office www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/u... via @NYTimes
@pelosi.house.gov to endorse Jack Schlossberg, backing a Kennedy for Congress running vs. a @nadler.house.gov acolyte.(Photo of Nancy D’Alesandro with JFK is a classic.) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...
a dangerous escalation of attacks on press freedom with the indictments of @donlemonofficial.bsky.social and Georgia Fort
Open criticism of bishops and popes has become standard among a small but growing minority of traditional U.S. Catholics who are gaining political and cultural influence. wapo.st/3ZH9rsq smart analysis from @mboorstein
Superb analysis about the threats posed to all Americans. Thanks Ted and Katie.
Nothing to see here and almost no one to see it. www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...
“the ill-conceived and incompetently-implemented government pursuit of daily deportation quotas, apparently even if it requires traumatizing children.” apnews.com/article/immi...
Bovino is said to have mocked the US attorneys’ Jewish faith on phone call, using the term “chosen people” in a mocking way, and asked the prosecutor, sarcastically, whether he understood that Orthodox Jewish criminals don’t take weekends off www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/u...
Echoing concerns of Pope Leo XIV over a new era of unilateralism and warfare, the three highest-ranking U.S. Catholic archbishops on Monday said “the moral foundation for America’s actions in the world” has been thrown into question
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
“Most of the United States and the world are adrift morally in terms of foreign policy,” my archbishop, Cardinal McElroy told @apnews.com “I still believe the United States has a tremendous impact upon the world.”
This is an outrageous escalation in the Trump administration’s intrusions into the independence of the press. Read @rcfp.org statement.