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David DeCosse, Catholic theologian, journalist, teacher @daviddecosse.bsky.social · 20h

Amen for this beautiful Paul Baumann remembrance of a great soul and good friend, Pat Jordan. Deo gratias for your beautiful life, Pat, and every consolation to your family. @commonweal.bsky.social
www.commonwealmagazine.org/paul-baumann...

A Great Soul

"I worked with Patrick Jordan at Commonweal for more than twenty years. Pat was one of the most decent people I have ever known."

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David DeCosse, Catholic theologian, journalist, teacher @daviddecosse.bsky.social · 1d

Love this doc from Pope Leo on love for the poor: "Lives can actually be turned around by the realization that the poor have much to teach us about the Gospel and its demands. By their silent witness, they make us confront the precariousness of our existence."
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Apostolic Exhortation Dilexi te of the Holy Father Leo XIV on Love for the Poor (4 October 2025)

APOSTOLIC EXHORTATION DILEXI TE OF THE HOLY FATHER LEO XIV TO ALL CHRISTIANS ON LOVE FOR THE POOR [ Multimedia ] _____________________

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 4d

Amen

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 4d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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David DeCosse, Catholic theologian, journalist, teacher @daviddecosse.bsky.social · 4d

This is the classic Kavanaugh stop praised by Justice Brett Kavanaugh as a justification for giving ICE free rein to detain anyone that looks the part: In his view, ICE will briefly detain you and question you and then send you on your way. No big deal. Wake up, sir!

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David DeCosse, Catholic theologian, journalist, teacher @daviddecosse.bsky.social · 5d

Thiel's anti-Christ is really just anti-libertarian: A vast government that limits the lonely freedom of the uber-wealthy. But the anti-Christ of the Gospels is the one who denies that Christ became a fully human being: poor, bound to all, loving beyond death.
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Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

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David DeCosse, Catholic theologian, journalist, teacher @daviddecosse.bsky.social · 6d

"Authoritarian regimes need civil society — the realm of people and organizations outside government control — to acquiesce to their rule."
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Opinion | Where Trump Is Vulnerable and How to Act on It

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David DeCosse, Catholic theologian, journalist, teacher @daviddecosse.bsky.social · 9d

@davidfrenchjag.bsky.social on hope and "Lord of the Rings": "'For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty forever beyond its reach.'”
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Opinion | There’s a Path Out of This Divide

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David DeCosse, Catholic theologian, journalist, teacher @daviddecosse.bsky.social · 14d

This guy is very good. Very well said, Mr. Mamdani

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 14d

Zohran Mamdani calling it a genocide on The View and getting applause.

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David DeCosse, Catholic theologian, journalist, teacher @daviddecosse.bsky.social · 16d

what a bunch of losers...

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Dustin @hareandthere.bsky.social · 18d

War ravaged Portland.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 19d

Liberalism has atomized & Balkanized the national community & robbed us of a common national project, no one trusts anyone anymore. We’ll fix this this by forcing your coworker Raul to carry his papers everywhere for random questioning, closing your closest hospital, & bankrupting the local college

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David DeCosse, Catholic theologian, journalist, teacher @daviddecosse.bsky.social · 24d

An aching, beautiful interview with Erika Kirk, Charlie Kirk's wife. May she and her children be consoled today and forever. I invite everyone to read this to get to know Mrs. Kirk and her loving life with her husband.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/u...

For Erika Kirk, a Husband’s Life Cut Short by Violence He Seemed to Foresee

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David DeCosse, Catholic theologian, journalist, teacher @daviddecosse.bsky.social · 26d

According to MAGA theory and Stephen Miller's vision of humanity, London is not supposed to work; nor is LA; or NYC; or so forth. Surely the equivalent of the National Guard is patrolling London as we speak...

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David DeCosse, Catholic theologian, journalist, teacher @daviddecosse.bsky.social · 27d

Excellent and important piece, Dominic. Thank you

Dominic Preziosi @dominicpreziosi.bsky.social · 27d

We were lucky to live in a country where Kirk could say anything, ugly as it was; now we're in one where talk-show hosts can say nothing. This admin yearns to criminalize dissent, and as I note at @commonweal.bsky.social, Kirk's death is one more pretext www.commonwealmagazine.org/preziosi-kir...

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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 28d

They cry “free speech” when it’s hate, violence, and lies. But the second we tell the truth or call them out, suddenly we’ve gone too far. That, my friends, is what you call selective outrage.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 29d

The amount of shit I got for this segment at the time was astronomical, and it was all from people who now stalk CVS employees to get them fired for insufficient online sadness.

Cheering on political violence is both evil and not new, an outgrowth of an internet intentionally dismantled years ago.

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · Sep 14

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

Their waists and hands were tied together, forcing them to bend down and lick water to drink. The unscreened bathrooms contained only a single sheet to cover their lower bodies. Sunlight barely penetrated through a fist-sized hole, and they were only allowed access to the small yard for two hours. Detained by US immigration authorities for eight days, the workers and their families expressed shock, describing human rights violations and absurdities they could not have imagined as ordinary Koreans living in 2025.

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David DeCosse, Catholic theologian, journalist, teacher @daviddecosse.bsky.social · Sep 13

Thanks so much, Tom

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Thomas Reese @thomasreesesj.bsky.social · Sep 13

“Unguarded Eyes”: The Doorway to a Politics of Conscience - Markkula Center for Applied Ethics www.scu.edu/ethics/all-a... @daviddecosse.bsky.social

“Unguarded Eyes”: The Doorway to a Politics of Conscience

We need to develop a shared sense of conscience that binds people together across divides and becomes the basis of a story that leads to the renewal of our political world.

www.scu.edu

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Annette Marie @twistedrose64.bsky.social · Sep 12

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David DeCosse, Catholic theologian, journalist, teacher @daviddecosse.bsky.social · Sep 12

I think these intense, reality-averse screeds from MAGA are at bottom driven by the intensity of their self-hatred for going along with Trump's world of endless lies that they know is wrong and for failing to be courageous enough to get out. Double down on crazy because you can't face yourself.

David DeCosse, Catholic theologian, journalist, teacher @daviddecosse.bsky.social · Sep 12

Well said: I have been so struck by the way the word "Left" and "they" point toward some imagined reality that always delivers one thing: A reason to attack, dismiss, vilify, resent, be enraged, etc.

David DeCosse, Catholic theologian, journalist, teacher @daviddecosse.bsky.social · Sep 11

In the spirit of seeking peace, here's an essay of mine calling for the development in the United States of a shared politics of #conscience. I welcome further conversation on this topic and honor all of those courageous people already engaged in the work of peace.
www.scu.edu/ethics/all-a...

“Unguarded Eyes”: The Doorway to a Politics of Conscience

We need to develop a shared sense of conscience that binds people together across divides and becomes the basis of a story that leads to the renewal of our political world.

www.scu.edu

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David DeCosse, Catholic theologian, journalist, teacher @daviddecosse.bsky.social · Sep 11

The narrative that accuses the Left consumes everything into an ever-expanding story of victimization...there's no room for including both the moral outrage of Kirk's killing and the moral outrage of the assassination of Democratic Minnesota state senators by a right-wing zealot...and more.

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LexUltimaVeritas @lexultimaveritas.bsky.social · Sep 10

ICE = Deaths Head SS, literally

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