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James Martin, SJ @jamesmartinsj.bsky.social · 1d

After repeatedly requesting permission and following all the official guidelines, Catholic bishop, priests, sisters and lay people were refused permission to distribute Communion to migrants in ICE detention center, on All Saints Day. A religious freedom issue: www.ncronline.org/news/ice-aga...

ICE again prevents Chicago Catholics from bringing Eucharist to immigrant detainees

More than 2,000 faithful gathered to pray outside the Broadview ICE Detention Center Nov. 1, but the group's main request — to bring Communion to detainees — was rejected by federal immigration offici...

www.ncronline.org

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Andrew McGowan @praxeas.bsky.social · 9d

Bully. Thug. Liar. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Trump punishes Canada with 10pc tariff increase over TV ad stoush

US President Donald Trump says he plans to hike tariffs on imports of Canadian goods by an extra 10 per cent because of an anti-tariff television ad aired by the province of Ontario.

www.abc.net.au

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Andrew McGowan @praxeas.bsky.social · 9d

The private bribe being paid for defense forces, just like Trump’s treatment of the White House as private property, reveal the basic agenda for this regime - to align political power completely and directly with ownership of capital.

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Andrew McGowan @praxeas.bsky.social · 10d

The US armed forces are being paid for by a wealthy individual rather than the state. What could go wrong?

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Andrew McGowan @praxeas.bsky.social · 17d

Further to this it’s now become clear that the Gafcon primates’ meeting was held in…Sydney.

Andrew McGowan @praxeas.bsky.social · 18d

Why the Global South isn’t leaving the Anglican communion : abmcg.blogspot.com/2025/10/no-g...

No, the "Global South" Has Not Left the Anglican Communion

Part of the DNA of Anglicanism is the autonomy of national churches. This principle led English church leaders of the 16th century to suppor...

abmcg.blogspot.com

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Andrew McGowan @praxeas.bsky.social · 17d

These do seem to be the options don't they. Either way I am sorry for her.

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Andrew McGowan @praxeas.bsky.social · 18d

Why the Global South isn’t leaving the Anglican communion : abmcg.blogspot.com/2025/10/no-g...

No, the "Global South" Has Not Left the Anglican Communion

Part of the DNA of Anglicanism is the autonomy of national churches. This principle led English church leaders of the 16th century to suppor...

abmcg.blogspot.com

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Andrew McGowan @praxeas.bsky.social · 22d

So sorry to read this.

Andrew McGowan @praxeas.bsky.social · 22d

To anticipate next week's Gospel, "pray always and [don't] lose heart"!

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · Oct 2

We stand together — elected officials, business leaders, the faith community, law enforcement, educators, and more — in our opposition to the abuses of power by Donald Trump's administration.

We're telling this unwarranted and unconstitutional occupation to stay out of Chicago.

Governor JB Pritzker hosted a press conference with elected officials, community advocates, and local leaders to condemn the significant escalation over the weekend of aggressive and alarming tactics used by the Trump Administration’s ICE and Customs and Border Patrol federal agents against journalists, peaceful protesters, and families across the city of Chicago and surrounding suburbs.

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Will Saletan @saletan.bsky.social · Oct 3

One of the most effective things you can do to damage Christianity is to stand before the world, with a crucifix around your neck, and lie.

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David Johnston @dljohnston.bsky.social · Oct 3

Bishop Sarah Mullally has been named the next Archbishop of Canterbury. What gifts does she bring to the role? What does this mean for the Church of England and the Anglican Communion? Helen King ( @helenking.bsky.social ) & Andrew McGowan ( @praxeas.bsky.social ) share their thoughts ⚓

The Next Archbishop of Canterbury: Hopes, Challenges, and the Future of Anglicanism

YouTube video by All Things Necessary

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Andrew McGowan @praxeas.bsky.social · Oct 3

…the shared disapproval of same-sex marriage etc., not on women’s ordination, but those have been trying to use one for leverage with the other. 2/

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Andrew McGowan @praxeas.bsky.social · Oct 3

The sulky GAFCON response to Mullally for Cantuar reeks of grumpy old white men not getting their way. Those lurking with the check books know it will weaken their attempts to stop other national churches ordaining women as priest and bishop. Their coalition depends on…1/

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Andrew McGowan @praxeas.bsky.social · Oct 3

Reminder:

Andrew McGowan @praxeas.bsky.social · Sep 5

The Canterbury election thing may be a mess, but the Archbishop of Canterbury is not a quasi-pope, and the Communion functions perfectly well without one. Pray for your diocesan bishop first anyway, not Cantuar.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · Sep 30

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Andrew McGowan @praxeas.bsky.social · Sep 30

Back now. No real explanation.

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Andrew McGowan @praxeas.bsky.social · Sep 30

Trump's “peace” plan shows Netanyahu has outmanoeuvred yet another American president

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Benjamin Netanyahu has outmanoeuvred yet another American president

For all US President Donald Trump's boasts about ending wars and being a worthy candidate for a Nobel Peace Prize, he has failed to end the war in Gaza and build a sustainable future for both Israelis...

www.abc.net.au

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Gary R Simonds @garys79.bsky.social · Sep 28

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Andrew McGowan @praxeas.bsky.social · Sep 29

Anyone else been put in Facebook jail recently? I remain suspended for no apparent reason.

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Andrew McGowan @praxeas.bsky.social · Sep 29

Slip of the tongue led to the Trump version of Morning Prayer, Suffrages A: “Let not the greedy, O Lord, be forgotten…”

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Andrew McGowan @praxeas.bsky.social · Sep 28

This Ryder Cup fiasco is a foretaste of a generation of young men whose have been told that Charlie Kirk’s views and Donald Trump’s integrity provide an acceptable example. This is going to get much worse.

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Andrew McGowan @praxeas.bsky.social · Sep 27

Note that these deployments, and the increasingly-exaggerated descriptions of cities as war zones, are the prelude to declaring (and creating, if needed), circumstances where (e.g.) free elections could not be held.

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Andrew McGowan @praxeas.bsky.social · Sep 27

On Luke's Gospel and Kirk, among other things: substack.com/profile/2099...

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Andrew McGowan @praxeas.bsky.social · Sep 27

I wake to the near-tragedy of a Geelong loss in the AFL Grand Final and here is Nick Hornsby in @nytimes.com reviewing (very nicely) Helen Garner’s “The Season” and telling me, the reader, that Australian footy is a game “in which you almost certainly have no interest.” The irony.

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