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Dr. Brian Flanagan @brianpflanagan.bsky.social · 3d

Listening to Catholic Theological Union professor (and @loyolachicago.bsky.social Theology alum) Dr Kevin Considine give the Luzbetak Lecture on mission and “orthopathema,” the work of “suffering rightly”

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New Ways Ministry @newwaysministry.bsky.social · 18d

Thanks to the folks at the God Talk Podcast, you can have a sneak peak of one of the first "Walking Together: LGBTQ+ Catholics in a Synodal Church" workshops hosted by New Ways Senior Fellow @brianpflanagan.bsky.social.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8Vc...

Medene and James Attend LGBTQ Inclusion Workshop at a Catholic Church

YouTube video by God Talk with Medene and James

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Dr. Brian Flanagan @brianpflanagan.bsky.social · Sep 5

Show me an image on your phone that has your energy but is not a selfie.

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Dr. Brian Flanagan @brianpflanagan.bsky.social · Sep 4

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Dr. Brian Flanagan @brianpflanagan.bsky.social · Aug 20

Join us at @newwaysministry.bsky.social tonight!

Dr. Brian Flanagan @brianpflanagan.bsky.social · Aug 15

Excited to be in conversation for @newwaysministry this Wednesday, August 20, with Christopher White about his new book from @loyolapress about the election of Pope Leo. More info and register at

www.newwaysministry.org/2025/07/28/w...

Webinar: Vatican Journalist on Pope Leo, LGBTQ+ Issues, and the Conclave - New Ways Ministry

Join us Aug. 20 to hear from Christopher White and discuss what LGBTQ+ Catholics can expect from Leo's papacy.

www.newwaysministry.org

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Doctor Jeff Hawn 🌻🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇦 @jhawn.bsky.social · Aug 16

Hearing a armed federal agent declare “Liberals have ruined the country” after violently arresting someone without cause. Is extremely chilling and speaks to a total lack of professionalism

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Adrian Monck @amonck.bsky.social · Aug 16

🧵 THREAD: What the leaked Alaska summit documents really reveal (excellent scoop by @NPR) 1/

NPR just broke some big news: US government documents were accidentally left in a hotel printer in Anchorage, revealing the actual plan for the Trump-Putin summit. They show exactly what Trump intended.

NPR @npr.org · Aug 16

Documents with sensitive details about the meeting between President Trump and Russian President Putin were left behind on a public hotel printer.

Government papers found in an Alaskan hotel reveal new details of Trump-Putin summit

Documents with sensitive details about the meeting between President Trump and Russian President Putin were left behind on a public hotel printer.

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andy staron @andystaron.bsky.social · Aug 16

I-90 just east of downtown Cleveland. Brought to you by Catholic Sisters of Northeastern Ohio.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Aug 16

No agency insignia at all on their uniforms, so this is likely not DEA or ATF or FBI or Border Patrol. So probably it’s DHS, most likely ICE.

And yeah, the comment about “liberal” is really telling. These guys are wildly unprofessional.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Aug 16

While masked agents were violently attacking a delivery worker this morning, bystanders repeatedly asked to see their badge numbers but they refused.

Bystander: You guys are ruining this country, you know that, right?

Agent: Liberals already ruined it.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Aug 16

While masked agents were violently attacking a delivery worker this morning, bystanders repeatedly asked to see their badge numbers but they refused.

Bystander: You guys are ruining this country, you know that, right?

Agent: Liberals already ruined it.

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Dr. Brian Flanagan @brianpflanagan.bsky.social · Aug 15

Excited to be in conversation for @newwaysministry this Wednesday, August 20, with Christopher White about his new book from @loyolapress about the election of Pope Leo. More info and register at

www.newwaysministry.org/2025/07/28/w...

Webinar: Vatican Journalist on Pope Leo, LGBTQ+ Issues, and the Conclave - New Ways Ministry

Join us Aug. 20 to hear from Christopher White and discuss what LGBTQ+ Catholics can expect from Leo's papacy.

www.newwaysministry.org

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · Aug 12

As someone who has lived my whole adult life in cities deemed “dangerous”—NYC, NOLA, and SF—I think a lot about how dense cities require patience, calm, and tolerance in the midst of social difference, which are of course exactly the civic virtues that the right resents being told to cultivate.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · Aug 11

I just can’t believe our Reichstag Fire is the Big Balls Beatdown.

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Dr. Brian Flanagan @brianpflanagan.bsky.social · Aug 11

‪Really great to see Jesuit mission and identity being foregrounded as the first main presentation of the day. 👏👏👏‬

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Dr. Brian Flanagan @brianpflanagan.bsky.social · Aug 11

First day of new faculty orientation at @loyolachicago.bsky.social. Decided to cosplay as a Jesuit.

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Dr. Brian Flanagan @brianpflanagan.bsky.social · Aug 10

Day to Day Brian: "Love your neighbor as yourself."
Driving Brian: "I am mean because I grew up in New England."

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I prefer the term Artificial Person myself @maddavenport.bsky.social · Aug 9

Please do not ask me to defend my choice of most readily applicable heresy, I just wanted to make the meme

Donnie Darko Meme: I found a new heresy. New or Docetism again? Docetism again

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Dr. Brian Flanagan @brianpflanagan.bsky.social · Aug 7

I don’t need a lububu. (Thanks to Francis DeBernardo for the new Ignatius of Loyola to hang out with Francis…)

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Aug 1

Today is August 1.

Asking an academic how their book is going is a felony.

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Dr. Brian Flanagan @brianpflanagan.bsky.social · Jul 30

Oh my goodness, that’s praise from Caesar Matt. I’d prob pick one of these two:

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · Jul 17

VATICAN “His Holiness Pope Leo XIV has learned with deep sorrow of the loss of human lives and the injuries caused by the military attack on the Holy Family Catholic Church in Gaza, and assures the parish priest, Father Gabriele Romanelli, and the entire parish community of his spiritual closeness.”

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Dr. Brian Flanagan @brianpflanagan.bsky.social · Jul 8

Just saw a truck for “Manella’s Poultry”.
You gotta think the name Salvatore is just off the table in that family.

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · Jul 5

Santa Fe’s Archbishop Wester: “The passage of HR1 by the United States Congress marks a sad moment for the well-being of many in our country. It promises many things, but it delivers very little unless you are among an elite few.”

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · Jul 4

Please believe me when I tell you:

Double the fuck down on your spiritual practice now.

You are going to need it.

And no, that doesn't have to be a prayer-god thing.

The thing that sustains and nourishes you.

That makes you more alive to yourself, the world, others.

More present.

More:

fortify inside

why spiritual practice matters during the rising authoritarian tide

www.lifeisasacredtext.com

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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · Jul 3

"This bill forsakes the most vulnerable among us, widens both the economic and human gap between the rich and poor, and ignores the common good to benefit only the wealthiest in our country." #ArchbishopWester #PrayForAmerica losalamosreporter.com/2025/06/08/a...

Archbishop Wester: Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Betrays The Poor. The Church Must Oppose It

John C. Wester, Archbishop of Santa Fe. Photo by Susan Montoya Bryan/AP BY MOST REVERENT JOHN C. WESTERArchbishop of Santa Fe Editor’s note: Most Reverend John C. Wester’s Op-Ed, &#8220…

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