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Joe Ferullo
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CEO/Publisher National Catholic Reporter, an independent progressive news outlet; previous: EVP of Programming CBS; media columnist at The Hill; producer NBC News/Dateline; ABC News; Rolling Stone
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Via NCR - Pope Leo's trip Turkey and Lebanon will spotlight political, religious unity in time of fracture
#PopeLeoXIV #Turkey #Lebanon
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Pope Leo's first trip to spotlight political, religious unity in time of fracture
The Nov. 27-Dec. 2 trip will show how the leader of the Catholic Church steps into the international stage and sets his tone as greets crowds and the press.
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November 25, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Via @camillobarone.bsky.social in NCR- Chicago's immigrant workforce and employers confront new era of fear
#Chciago #immigrants #ICE
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Chicago's immigrant workforce and employers confront new era of fear
In this tense environment, both faith-based advocates and labor leaders have found themselves working in tandem.
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November 24, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Via NCR Opinion - Democratic mayors and governors need to see education as part of a larger social contract that is frayed and unjust.
#education #Democrats
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Starting to pay attention to education reform
Education is one of those issues that rarely captures headlines. Two recent stories raised the issue in ways that are interesting and, hopefully, will generate discussion on how to improve our nation'...
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November 24, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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A real President ……….

Sixty-two years ago today, November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. He was shot while riding in an open-top car and died later at Parkland Hospital. The event, which occurred at 12:30 p.m. CST, was a moment of national tragedy.
November 22, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Punctuating Pope’s quality as a “good listener,” Leo met privately this morning with Katharina Westerhorstmann, a professor of theology at Franciscan University campus in Austria. In 2022 Westerhorstmann resigned from the German Synodal Way forum on sexual morality.
November 22, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Via NCR - Author interrogates government role in assassinations of JFK, Malcolm X, King, RFK. “The murders involved mobsters, shadowy characters and sordid collusions between local law enforcement, the FBI and the CIA.”
#JFK #RFK #MLK #MalcolmX #FBI #CIA
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Author interrogates government role in assassinations of JFK, Malcolm X, King, RFK
Book review: In Martyrs to the Unspeakable, James Douglass tells of four Americans who challenged the established violence of the U.S. government — and were killed for it.
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November 22, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Via @oliviabardo.bsky.social in NCR - UK Catholic school calls 'KPop Demon Hunters' songs 'uncomfortable.' I beg to differ.
#KpopDemonHunters #Kpop #Netflix
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UK Catholic school calls 'KPop Demon Hunters' songs 'uncomfortable.' I beg to differ.
There's a reason this film won the hearts of so many people. Music, community and vulnerability operate as channels for being freed from our internal and external demons.
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November 22, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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"The Church, if she wants to be Christ’s Church, must be a Church of the Beatitudes, one that makes room for the little ones and walks poor with the poor, a place where the poor have a privileged place (21)." #PopeLeoXIV #DilexiTe #LiveTheGospel #RememberThePoor
November 21, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Of course they did.
November 22, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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Via @jimmcd.bsky.social in NCR - The challenging moral landscape of author Gregory Maguire's 'Wicked' … “I found myself confronted with a murky world filled with unsettlingly modern events and situations.”
#Wicked #WickedForGood
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The challenging moral landscape of author Gregory Maguire's 'Wicked'
For Catholic author Gregory Maguire, the magic of life is not to be found in some technicolor fantasyland somewhere over a rainbow, but in the goodness that we discover and reveal in this world throug...
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November 22, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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via @alejacorazonhm.bsky.social in NCR - Viral warnings of planned ICE raids on churches have pastors worried. "Maybe we shouldn't be doing this in America."
#ICE #church #raids #faith
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Viral warnings of planned ICE raids on churches have pastors worried
Rumors and viral reports about potential ICE raids have immigrant church leaders worried about their congregations. DHS says it doesn’t have plans to raid churches — but won't rule it out.
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November 21, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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NCR Survey: Catholic college students say they keep up with news, and here's how. (Spoiler alert: TikTok & Instagram.)
#media #news #GenZ
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Survey: Catholic college students say they keep up with news, and here's how
A new study shows that a majority of Catholic college and university students say they are informed about the news, which they get primarily through social media, TV or online videos. Only a small per...
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November 21, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Via NCR in the West Bank - Amid an uncertain peace in Gaza, Palestinians in the West Bank still suffer. “We live today and hope for peace tomorrow. But how will it come?”
#peace #WestBank #Palestinians
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Amid an uncertain peace in Gaza, Palestinians in the West Bank still suffer
For Palestinians living in the West Bank the occupation is a source of continued anger that has not stopped them from hoping and working for a better future.
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November 21, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Via @rhinaguidos.bsky.social in Cuba for NCR - After hurricane, mosquito-transmitted diseases pile on top of Cuba's troubles. “You can't go anywhere on the island without hearing about ‘el virus.’”
#Cuba #virus #health #Catholic
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After hurricane, mosquito-transmitted diseases pile on top of Cuba's troubles
The viral illness comes on the heels of Cuba's slow recovery from Hurricane Melissa, which made landfall Oct. 29 in Santiago de Cuba in the eastern part of the island as a Category 3 storm.
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November 21, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Via @phylliszagano.bsky.social in NCR - The dangers of letting AI represent Catholic teaching. “Like a self-driving car, it could end up taking us nowhere.”
#AI #Catholic
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The dangers of letting AI represent Catholic teaching
Magisterium AI's programmers and bots seem to look for documents it likes and to ignore those it does not.
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November 20, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Via NCR from the West Bank - In a divided Holy Land, Comboni Missionary Sisters act as a bridge. “In the end, walls don’t separate. They only divide.”
#Palestinian #Catholic #WestBank #MiddleEast
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In a divided Holy Land, Comboni Missionary Sisters act as a bridge
The Comboni sisters in the West Bank try to create the kind of connection symbolized by Jesus' life, with a persistent belief that, as Sr. Mariolina Cattaneo said, "if you build a wall, we find a solu...
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November 20, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Via @gustavoarellano.bsky.social in NCR - To fight for immigrants, Pope Leo XIV should highlight his own heritage. “Here was a truly American pope, and not a moment too soon.”
#PopeLeoXIV #immigrants #Catholic #American
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To fight for immigrants, Pope Leo XIV should highlight his own heritage
There's one key issue Leo still hasn't spoken much about: his own family's story. I hope he does, because it represents the church at its best and one the faithful and outsiders need to hear more than...
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November 20, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Via @camillobarone.bsky.social in NCR - After ICE shooting, Chicago suburb parish turns prayer into protection for immigrant families.
"If we shut down, people will have nowhere to go to meet the Lord and to find courage."
#ICE #Chicago #immigration #Catholic
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After ICE shooting, Chicago suburb parish turns prayer into protection for immigrant families
"We decided from day one not to shut down any ministry, because we do not live in fear — we have faith," the pastor said.
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November 20, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Exclusive NCR Survey finds subtle differences in faith approaches at Catholic and non-Catholic campuses - but many similarities.
#Catholic #college #faith #religion
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Survey finds subtle differences in faith approaches at Catholic and non-Catholic campuses
Students at Catholic higher institutions place more of an emphasis on church activities than students at non-Catholic colleges and universities, according to a new survey conducted for the National Ca...
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November 20, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Via @alejacorazonhm.bsky.social in NCR - US Catholic leaders push forward on Pope Francis' signature theme of synodality, with its emphasis on open dialogue as a way of making church decisions
#Catholic #PopeFrancis #PopeLeoXIV #PopeLeo
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US Catholic leaders push forward on Pope Francis' signature theme of synodality
In his first speech from the loggia of St. Peter's Basilica, the newly elected Pope Leo XIV took the opportunity to endorse synodality, signaling that this cornerstone theological idea of Pope Francis...
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November 19, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Via NCR Opinion - Trump and America cannot save Nigerian Christians… and this is why
#Trump #Nigeria #Christians
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Trump and America cannot save Nigerian Christians — and this is why
The U.S. cannot heal Nigeria because it has not yet healed itself. The loudest champions of freedom abroad have allowed fear and resentment to corrode freedom at home.
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November 19, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Via NCR Opinion - To address affordability, look at wages not just prices, via minimum wage, unions, more.
#affordability #inflation #Trump #tariffs
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To address affordability, look at wages not just prices
Supporting workers' efforts to unionize has the potential to raise wages, writes NCR's Michael Sean Winters.
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November 19, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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EXCLUSIVE NCR survey: Catholic college students regularly attend Mass, pray, and value church's social teachings on poverty, immigrants, climate
#Catholic #young #college #climate #immigration
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NCR survey: Catholic college students regularly attend Mass, value church's social teachings
A majority of U.S. Catholic college students regularly participate in Mass and consider their Catholic beliefs and identity important, according to a survey conducted for NCR and the Wittcoff Foundati...
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November 19, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Via NCR - Polish, German bishops remember 'great act of forgiveness' that happened 20 years after WWII
#WWII #Poland #Germany #Catholic
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Polish, German bishops remember 'great act of forgiveness' that happened 20 years after WWII
When bishops from Poland and Germany gather to commemorate one of Europe's most famous acts of reconciliation, discussion will focus on its historic significance and continued meaning for the present.
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November 18, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Via NCR - Vatican study groups cite women's diaconate among priorities in new synod reports. Groups will also examine "critical tensions regarding clericalism and male chauvinism."
#Vatican #women #Catholic
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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 2:48 PM