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Executive editor of the National Catholic Reporter. Winner of Pulitzer Prizes. KCMO. DC. Dad. Husband. Roman Catholic.

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ICE detains reporter Estefany Rodríguez in Nashville - Nashville Banner Reporter Estefany Rodríguez, detained by ICE with no arrest warrant, may face deportation. Her attorneys seek immediate review of the legality of her case.

Nashville reporter who has covered ICE activity has been detained after Nashville stop nashvillebanner.com/2026/03/05/j...

06.03.2026 14:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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RCFP expands free legal support to local newsrooms in Gulf states and upper Midwest Expansion nearly doubles the Local Legal Initiative, building on six years of success supporting local journalism

🎉 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.

04.03.2026 17:21 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1
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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...

04.03.2026 18:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“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...

01.03.2026 21:21 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Pope Leo warns of ‘irreparable abyss,’ if diplomacy doesn’t take over violence in Iran, Middle East - Catholic Standard

“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...

01.03.2026 16:52 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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US bishops among supporters of lawsuit against Trump birthright citizenship executive order - OSV News Oral argument in the case, Trump v. Barbara, is scheduled for April 1.

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...

28.02.2026 14:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Colman McCarthy, who preached peace as a Post columnist and teacher, dies at 87 After training as a monk, he left the monastery to go into journalism, writing a syndicated Post column that made him a prominent voice in the peace movement.

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...

27.02.2026 16:46 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Catholic Clergy Call for ‘Human Dignity’ in Immigration Enforcement

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...

25.02.2026 18:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Pope charts 2026 travel with sweeping Africa tour, visits to Spain, Monaco Nearly a year into a pontificate largely anchored in Rome, Pope Leo XIV is preparing to launch a sweeping series of international trips that will carry him across Africa, to Spain and to the tiny prin...

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-...

25.02.2026 14:41 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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James Talarico’s Colbert cancellation and glimpses of a better kind of Christian politics What might be most important about James Talarico as a political figure is that he understands the pitfalls of political identification and chooses to lead with his faith rather than his political all...

Colbert, Talarico and a better kind of Christian politics
www.americamagazine.org/short-take/2...

24.02.2026 14:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Meta Announces Major Chips-for-Stock Deal With AMD

Meta chips-for-stock megadeal with AMD www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/b...

24.02.2026 14:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Catholic brothers are making a Kansas City ICE facility possible. Will institutions they support care? Two Kansas City brothers are big Catholic donors. But now that they're also making a vast ICE detention facility possible, will the institutions they support look away?

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?

21.02.2026 16:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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ICE ‘mega centers’ for mass detention ‘challenge the conscience,’ says USCCB bishop (OSV News) -- A Texas bishop and head of the U.S. Catholic bishops' migration committee is sounding the alarm over the Trump administration's plans to acquire massive warehouses all over the country, ...

no precedent in American history www.osvnews.com/ice-mega-cen...

20.02.2026 23:13 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Traditionalist Catholic group doubles down on illicit consecrations, setting course for potential schism Despite a Vatican offer of renewed theological dialogue, the Society of St. Pius X says it will consecrate bishops without papal approval, presenting the pope with a major test of church unity.

on a path to excommunication www.ncronline.org/vatican/trad...

19.02.2026 17:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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U.S. Military Moves Into Place for Possible Strikes in Iran

Trump puts US on a war footing. War with Iran. Hello, Congress. Call your office www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/u... via @NYTimes

19.02.2026 01:13 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Pelosi to Endorse Jack Schlossberg, Again Backing a Kennedy for Congress

@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...

07.02.2026 17:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Long Beach Catholic school vandalized, religious articles destroyed overnight Long Beach police are searching for suspects in the case.

sad www.dailynews.com/2026/02/02/l...

03.02.2026 13:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

a dangerous escalation of attacks on press freedom with the indictments of @donlemonofficial.bsky.social and Georgia Fort

02.02.2026 19:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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For traditional Catholics, Charlotte Communion dispute is a battle line A seemingly esoteric dispute over the proper way to take Communion signals the rising power of more traditional voices within the Catholic Church.

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

02.02.2026 19:13 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Superb analysis about the threats posed to all Americans. Thanks Ted and Katie.

02.02.2026 19:13 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Column | ‘Melania’ promises to take us behind the scenes. There’s nothing to see. “Melania,” the new Amazon documentary about the enigmatic first lady Melania Trump, mostly celebrates her zealous dedication to her external presentation.

Nothing to see here and almost no one to see it. www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...

01.02.2026 02:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Judge orders US to release 5-year-old and dad taken into custody in Minnesota crackdown A judge has ordered the U.S. to release a father and 5-year-old son who were taken into custody during the immigration crackdown in Minnesota.

“the ill-conceived and incompetently-implemented government pursuit of daily deportation quotas, apparently even if it requires traumatizing children.” apnews.com/article/immi...

31.01.2026 20:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Bovino Is Said to Have Mocked Prosecutor’s Jewish Faith on Call With Lawyers

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...

31.01.2026 17:17 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Shooting Aftermath Leaves Homeland Security Department in Turmoil

Turmoil www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/u...

29.01.2026 13:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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ClutchPoints The "Holy See(hawks)" streak is officially 3-for-3. Every time the Vatican elects a new Pope, Seattle punches a ticket to the Super Bowl. In 2005, Pope Benedict XVI was elected and the Seahawks...

HOLY SEE(hawks)! www.facebook.com/ClutchPoints...

27.01.2026 00:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Top Catholic cardinals say U.S. foreign policy raises moral questions Three senior archbishops said recent events raise “basic questions about the use of military force” and have put America’s moral role “under examination.”

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...

19.01.2026 18:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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US Catholic cardinals urge Trump administration to embrace a moral compass in foreign policy Three U.S. Catholic cardinals have urged the Trump administration to use a moral compass in foreign policy.

apnews.com/article/vati...

19.01.2026 17:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“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.”

19.01.2026 17:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

This is an outrageous escalation in the Trump administration’s intrusions into the independence of the press. Read @rcfp.org statement.

14.01.2026 15:52 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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F.B.I. Searches Home of Washington Post Journalist for Classified Material

exceedingly rare www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/u...

14.01.2026 15:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0