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STD in moral theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. Long-time professor in institutions in Asia, Europe and the USA. Author of 7 books and scores of articles. Ordained a Jesuit priest in 1981.
Catholic military archbishop calls 'intentional killing of noncombatants' illegal and immoral. He has been reticent to criticize the Trump administration, both in his role as shepherd for Catholic troops & as president of the USCCB www.ncronline.org/node/318801 via @NCRonline
Catholic military archbishop calls 'intentional killing of noncombatants' illegal and immoral
Archbishop Timothy Broglio, who heads the Catholic Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA, said in a statement Wednesday (Dec. 3) that an order to kill survivors of an attack by U.S. forces on a b...
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December 5, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Catholic military archbishop calls 'intentional killing of noncombatants' illegal and immoral. He has been reticent to criticize the Trump administration, both in his role as shepherd for Catholic troops & as president of the USCCB www.ncronline.org/node/318801 via @NCRonline
The USCCB opted for national security as the counterpart to human dignity instead of the common good. What the bishops give with biblical defense of dignity for the stranger, they take away with the political defense of national security. www.ncronline.org/node/318736 via @NCRonline
For Catholics, mass deportations are immoral
A robust pastoral plan across the country that recognizes Christ in the migrant is needed urgently for the even darker days ahead.
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December 5, 2025 at 7:51 PM
The USCCB opted for national security as the counterpart to human dignity instead of the common good. What the bishops give with biblical defense of dignity for the stranger, they take away with the political defense of national security. www.ncronline.org/node/318736 via @NCRonline
Some good reflections from the reliably conservative cultural pundit Andrew Sullivan: open.substack.com/pub/andrewsu...
The Military As A Murder Weapon
No congressional vote. No legal defense. Just a strongman's madness and missiles.
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December 5, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Some good reflections from the reliably conservative cultural pundit Andrew Sullivan: open.substack.com/pub/andrewsu...
Dissension in the ranks? Mahanna appeared several times as a guest on EWTN television programs such as EWTN News Nightly & The World Over with Raymond Arroyo, as an expert voice discussing the plight of Christians in the Middle East www.ncregister.com/cna/former-m...
UPDATED: Former Maronite Priest Still Presenting Himself as a Cleric, Denver Archdiocese Warns
Andre Mahanna is continuing to present himself as a priest despite having been dismissed from the clerical state for financial impropriety, the Archdiocese of Denver announced Thursday.
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December 5, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Dissension in the ranks? Mahanna appeared several times as a guest on EWTN television programs such as EWTN News Nightly & The World Over with Raymond Arroyo, as an expert voice discussing the plight of Christians in the Middle East www.ncregister.com/cna/former-m...
"In their military campaign in South America, Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth aren’t just defying the Constitution and breaking the law. They are attacking the very character and identity of the American military." The Laws of War Are Not Woke www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/o...
Opinion | The Laws of War Are Not Woke
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December 4, 2025 at 2:55 PM
"In their military campaign in South America, Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth aren’t just defying the Constitution and breaking the law. They are attacking the very character and identity of the American military." The Laws of War Are Not Woke www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/o...
Thought for the day:
December 2, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Thought for the day:
With my book in the Exhibit Hall of the AAR/SBL in Boston
November 22, 2025 at 4:13 PM
With my book in the Exhibit Hall of the AAR/SBL in Boston
Nick Fuentes appeals to young Catholics: “EWTN and the rest of them really proved that there could be a space for someone to define Catholicism apart from the church, apart from the canonical authority of a bishop or a pastor." www.americamagazine.org/news/2025/11...
Nick Fuentes appeals to young Catholics. Is the church prepared to push back?
As bishops remain mostly silent on Christian nationalist Nick Fuentes’s growing influence, Catholic media leaders and scholars are left to explain what his rise says about the church’s shrinking autho...
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November 21, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Nick Fuentes appeals to young Catholics: “EWTN and the rest of them really proved that there could be a space for someone to define Catholicism apart from the church, apart from the canonical authority of a bishop or a pastor." www.americamagazine.org/news/2025/11...
"We’ll always need to have functional relationships with unsavory allies, including ones implicated in murders. But Trump’s special talent is to treat their very unsavoriness as their greatest virtue." Marjorie Taylor Greene Was Not on Our Bingo Card www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/o...
Opinion | Marjorie Taylor Greene Was Not on Our Bingo Card
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November 21, 2025 at 2:50 AM
"We’ll always need to have functional relationships with unsavory allies, including ones implicated in murders. But Trump’s special talent is to treat their very unsavoriness as their greatest virtue." Marjorie Taylor Greene Was Not on Our Bingo Card www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/o...
Winner of Meme of the Day for me:
November 19, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Winner of Meme of the Day for me:
Just finished watching this on the new Pope and it's very well done. “Leo from Chicago” – Documentary youtu.be/nYzssRwE7Gg?... via @YouTube
“Leo from Chicago” – Documentary
YouTube video by Vatican News - English
youtu.be
November 19, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Just finished watching this on the new Pope and it's very well done. “Leo from Chicago” – Documentary youtu.be/nYzssRwE7Gg?... via @YouTube
Many of my college students cannot answer basic questions about the Civil War, Jim Crow laws, the Homestead Act and its relation to immigration, etc. So if we Want to MAGA maybe we need to revise our curricula. What if Every American Had to Take It? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/o...
Opinion | Trump Made the Citizenship Test Harder. What if Every American Had to Take It?
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November 18, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Many of my college students cannot answer basic questions about the Civil War, Jim Crow laws, the Homestead Act and its relation to immigration, etc. So if we Want to MAGA maybe we need to revise our curricula. What if Every American Had to Take It? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/o...
Vatican study groups cite women's diaconate among priorities in new synod reports www.ncronline.org/vatican/vati...
Vatican study groups cite women's diaconate among priorities in new synod reports
A future Vatican document will address questions surrounding the possibility of women serving as deacons in the Catholic Church, according to one of several interim reports released Nov. 17 by the Vat...
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November 18, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Vatican study groups cite women's diaconate among priorities in new synod reports www.ncronline.org/vatican/vati...
“The court is finding that the government’s actions in this case — whether purposeful, reckless or negligent — raise genuine issues of misconduct, are inextricably linked to the government’s grand jury presentation and deserve to be fully explored by the defense" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/u...
Judge Says Justice Dept. May Have Committed ‘Misconduct’ in Comey Case
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November 17, 2025 at 6:57 PM
“The court is finding that the government’s actions in this case — whether purposeful, reckless or negligent — raise genuine issues of misconduct, are inextricably linked to the government’s grand jury presentation and deserve to be fully explored by the defense" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/u...
MSW acknowledging Trump's mouthpiece: "It is astonishing to watch Leavitt at the podium. Politicians often lie with ease, but Leavitt has taken the art of mendacity to a whole new level." The Epstein saga is creepy and worse than creepy www.ncronline.org/opinion/ncr-...
The Epstein saga is creepy and worse than creepy
A trove of emails from Jeffrey Epstein was released by House members, both Democrats and Republicans, shining more light on a sordid story that gives everyone the creeps. Except President Trump.
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November 17, 2025 at 6:24 PM
MSW acknowledging Trump's mouthpiece: "It is astonishing to watch Leavitt at the podium. Politicians often lie with ease, but Leavitt has taken the art of mendacity to a whole new level." The Epstein saga is creepy and worse than creepy www.ncronline.org/opinion/ncr-...
Bishop Cantú "hoped for something stronger," but said the group’s hesitancy to call out Trump may be because “a lot of Catholics voted for him—and a lot of Catholics who have been supportive of many of our dioceses.”https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/bishops-statement-immigration-falls-short
November 14, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Bishop Cantú "hoped for something stronger," but said the group’s hesitancy to call out Trump may be because “a lot of Catholics voted for him—and a lot of Catholics who have been supportive of many of our dioceses.”https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/bishops-statement-immigration-falls-short
Trump administration prepares to fire worker for TV interview about SNAP
November 14, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Trump administration prepares to fire worker for TV interview about SNAP
Liberals and conservatives shy away from this core Catholic teaching
November 14, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Liberals and conservatives shy away from this core Catholic teaching
Napa Institute has been engaged in a systematic effort to dilute & distort Catholic teaching about the economy & has utterly ignored the moral failures of President Donald Trump's politics[&] subservient to the ethos of the dominant culture.https://www.ncronline.org/node/316611 via @NCRonline
November 13, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Napa Institute has been engaged in a systematic effort to dilute & distort Catholic teaching about the economy & has utterly ignored the moral failures of President Donald Trump's politics[&] subservient to the ethos of the dominant culture.https://www.ncronline.org/node/316611 via @NCRonline
Documentary on Pope Leo: Leo from Chicago: youtu.be/nYzssRwE7Gg?...
“Leo from Chicago” – Documentary
YouTube video by Vatican News - English
youtu.be
November 13, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Documentary on Pope Leo: Leo from Chicago: youtu.be/nYzssRwE7Gg?...
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AOC: "It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give 8 senators over $1 million a piece & we're robbing people of their food assistance & healthcare to pay for it. How can we vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people?"
November 12, 2025 at 10:39 PM
AOC: "It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give 8 senators over $1 million a piece & we're robbing people of their food assistance & healthcare to pay for it. How can we vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people?"
Excellent article by Massimo Faggioli on the political theology of the fringe of Catholic conservatism www.commonwealmagazine.org/catholic-tra...
Catholic Traditionalism After Francis
Traditionalism today is less about questioning Vatican II theology and liturgy and more about waging broader culture wars.
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November 13, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Excellent article by Massimo Faggioli on the political theology of the fringe of Catholic conservatism www.commonwealmagazine.org/catholic-tra...
USCCB president Coakley on Viganò: "I was simply trying to protect the reputation of a man who I knew to be a churchman who had served the conference of Catholic bishops here in the United States admirably & faithfully." www.americamagazine.org/interviews/2...
New USCCB president Coakley talks immigration, Viganò criticism and Pope Leo
Archbishop Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City was elected as the next president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
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November 13, 2025 at 1:05 AM
USCCB president Coakley on Viganò: "I was simply trying to protect the reputation of a man who I knew to be a churchman who had served the conference of Catholic bishops here in the United States admirably & faithfully." www.americamagazine.org/interviews/2...
USCCB President Coakley has not retracted his statement where he expressed his "deepest respect" for Viganò's "personal integrity." In that statement, Coakley also called for an investigation and a "purification" of the church. www.ncronline.org/node/316386 via @NCRonline
Bishops elect new president, stress need to support immigrants in first day of meeting
The U.S. Catholic bishops on Nov. 11 elected Oklahoma City Archbishop Paul Coakley as the new president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops during the conference's annual fall plenary assembly.
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November 11, 2025 at 9:13 PM
USCCB President Coakley has not retracted his statement where he expressed his "deepest respect" for Viganò's "personal integrity." In that statement, Coakley also called for an investigation and a "purification" of the church. www.ncronline.org/node/316386 via @NCRonline
I hope that MS Winters is "wrong" about the new USCCB President, but fear he is largely on target. Prayers nevertheless for His Grace. The depressing result of the US bishops' conference presidential election ncronline.org/node/316451 via
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The depressing result of the US bishops' conference presidential election
The vote for a new president of the U.S. bishops' conference was close. Close and deeply disappointing. In choosing Archbishop Paul Coakley, the bishops had to overlook the disrespect he demonstrated ...
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November 11, 2025 at 8:51 PM
I hope that MS Winters is "wrong" about the new USCCB President, but fear he is largely on target. Prayers nevertheless for His Grace. The depressing result of the US bishops' conference presidential election ncronline.org/node/316451 via
@NCRonline
@NCRonline