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chris 🍉 @landericus.bsky.social · 1d

My reaction to this was “is Francis really the most Italian saint?” and it turns out he is.

(He’s so central to my spirituality that I would hate to have his day become Italian American cultural day, like St Pat’s, but I can accept your ironclad reasoning)

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From the CatholicMemes community on Reddit: Saint Francis: the most Italian of all saints, and the most saintly of all Italians

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Jake @jakeall.bsky.social · 3d

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chris 🍉 @landericus.bsky.social · 3d

One Battle Everywhere All At Once

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 3d

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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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3d

Father Larry attempts to walk toward the detention center.

ISP prevent people from moving forward. Lieutenant Col Bradley says he's making a call and dialing the ICE facility, but also says people may be waiting a while.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3d

Request denied/unanswered.

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 3d

As the procession reaches Broadview, priests have been denied access to ICE detention facility in order to bring the Eucharist to detainees.

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collin cornell @collincornell.bsky.social · 5d

“One of the chants that has become ubiquitous at these protests at Broadview is, ‘Love your neighbor, love your God, save your soul and quit your job,’” said Black, who pastors at the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago. “Everybody chants that.”

RNS @rns.org · 7d

The pastors’ efforts are part of rising faith-based pushback to the Trump administration as the president seeks to implement plans for mass deportation of immigrants.
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Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago

(RNS) — Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who…

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chris 🍉 @landericus.bsky.social · 6d

I agree how bad and dangerous this is

But it’s not “crossing the Rubicon” because public institutions are *not* certain to hold Trump to account

When Caesar crossed the Rubicon with his armed forces, he knew he must conquer or be put to death as a traitor. We had no Rubicon, only capitulation

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 7d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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chris 🍉 @landericus.bsky.social · 7d

Unlocking the secrets of the church fathers for building your brand and passive income generation

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 9d

"The hundreds of billions of dollars companies are investing in AI now account for an astonishing 40 per cent share of US GDP growth this year... In a way, then, America has become one big bet on AI."

America is now one big bet on AI

It’s seen as the magic fix for every threat to the US economy

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chris 🍉 @landericus.bsky.social · 11d

Right wing conspiracy theory: the economy and government are controlled by Jewish lizards

Left wing conspiracy theory: the Feds are targeting my 7-person anarchist party. (Probably true)

Liberal elite conspiracy theory: they’re making the seltzer less fizzy

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chris 🍉 @landericus.bsky.social · 15d

(Tbc even if that’s true, I support vandalizing anything a”i“ related)

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 15d

NEW: Rachel Maddow drops unseen bodycam footage of feds coordinating the arrest of Newark Mayor Baraka.

I REPEAT: the feds ordered his arrest even though he wasn’t breaking any laws.

Federal agent: “We are arresting the mayor right now per the Deputy Attorney General of the United States.”

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chris 🍉 @landericus.bsky.social · 15d

My partner’s theory is these ads with plenty of white space are meant to be vandalized to get us to post photos. Viral marketing from a company whose ceo tweets out the awful reviews their product gets

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 15d

Speaking as a practicing Catholic here we desperately need to criminalize my religion. Kamala Harris please close the churches like they promised me you would.

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chris 🍉 @landericus.bsky.social · 15d

Posting an unrelated greeting under a joke tweet might be the most boomer coded thing I’ve done in months

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chris 🍉 @landericus.bsky.social · 15d

Also really excited to see you!

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chris 🍉 @landericus.bsky.social · 15d

Thank you for your service

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 15d

🇾🇪 Yemen welcomes Colombian President Gustavo Petro’s call for an “army of humanity” to liberate Palestine.

➤ Yemen’s Deputy Chairman of Media said President Mahdi al-Mashat, the Yemeni people, and the armed forces “are proud” of Petro’s stance.

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 20d

Italy has moved me to tears for 3 days straight. Bravo ❤️

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chris 🍉 @landericus.bsky.social · 18d

Now a good journalist or anthropologist can be expected to speak of “Christianities” or contested claims within and among communities.

But Christians who are disgusted by Kirk hagiography can’t blame lazy journalism and call it a day. We have to contest the claims inside and outside the churches

chris 🍉 @landericus.bsky.social · 18d

Normatively speaking, Charlie Kirk is is closer to an antichrist than to “the apostle Paul” as Dolan would have him. As a Christian I will say that with authority.

But descriptively—as a journalist or ethnographer must see—Kirk is arguably the consummate Christian.

chris 🍉 @landericus.bsky.social · 18d

A journalist who is not personally embedded in a Christian community would reasonably look at the public response of American Christian churches across the board and see a mixture of praise for Kirk’s Christian witness and relative silence

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chris 🍉 @landericus.bsky.social · 18d

For me, the most painful is obviously Dolan, my own bishop as a Catholic New Yorker. His statement was also just so humiliating in its obsequiousness and superfluousness. There was no reason for him to say anything at all

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