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Commonweal @commonweal.bsky.social · 3h

TOMORROW: Join us as we host Matthew Sitman and Tara Isabella Burton in dialogue at the Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary!

RSVP here:
cwlmag.org/rootsdialogue

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Commonweal @commonweal.bsky.social · 14d

The October issue is here! Feat:
- Ellen Wayland-Smith on eating Christ's body
- Jason Blakely on expertise and Covid-19
- A symposium on caring for the mentally ill
- The Editors on an authoritarian Supreme Court
And more!
www.commonwealmagazine.org/issues/2025-...

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Joe Ferullo @joeferullo.bsky.social · 2h

El Paso bishop brings Pope Leo XIV desperate letters from migrants in crosshairs of US crackdown. "The pope needs to talk to Trump.”
#PopeLeo #Trump #immigration
www.ncronline.org/vatican/el-p...

El Paso bishop brings Pope Leo XIV desperate letters from migrants in crosshairs of US crackdown

The Texas bishop on the front lines of the U.S. immigration crackdown met Wednesday with Pope Leo XIV and brought him a packet of letters from immigrant families "terrorized" by fear that they and the...

www.ncronline.org

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Massimo Faggioli @massimofaggioli.bsky.social · 5h

on the other hand, around minute 42 what he says about abortion

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Massimo Faggioli @massimofaggioli.bsky.social · 5h

minutes 30 to 33, what Billy Graham says about racial reconciliation, Kingdom of God and theocracy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoaU...

Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.: The Decline of Christianity

YouTube video by Hoover Institution Library & Archives

www.youtube.com

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Massimo Faggioli @massimofaggioli.bsky.social · 7h

it would be interesting to see Church historians and canon lawyers in America organize something about what the Catholic tradition says (since the 11th century more or less) about the limits to the power of the sovereign

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Massimo Faggioli @massimofaggioli.bsky.social · 10h

my interview with Edward Augustyn for "Tygodnik Powszechny", October 7, 2025
www.tygodnikpowszechny.pl/od-trumpa-do...

Od Trumpa do Boga. Jak odbić katolicyzm z rąk konserwatywnej prawicy

Massimo Faggioli, teolog: Gdy biskupi mówią to, co chcą usłyszeć politycy i ich wyborcy, mamy do czynienia z religijnym populizmem.

www.tygodnikpowszechny.pl

Massimo Faggioli @massimofaggioli.bsky.social · 1d

Gaza etc

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Massimo Faggioli @massimofaggioli.bsky.social · 1d

figlio che recensisce il suo libro di religione a scuola:
"My religion book says 'God loves you' on almost every page. But I already know that!"

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Massimo Faggioli @massimofaggioli.bsky.social · 1d

lasciando Castel Gandolfo oggi, Leone XIV afferma che il cardinale Parolin "ha espresso molto bene le posizioni della Santa Sede" nell'intervista ai media vaticani.

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Gloria Purvis @iamgloriapurvis.bsky.social · 1d

www.americamagazine.org/faith-and-re...

What are Black Catholics hearing when church leaders praise Charlie Kirk?

For many Black Catholics familiar with Charlie Kirk's full record, endorsements of his message by Catholic leaders can be devastating.

www.americamagazine.org

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Massimo Faggioli @massimofaggioli.bsky.social · 2d

il card Parolin sulle manifestazioni dei giorni scorsi:
"Anche se a volte queste iniziative, a causa delle violenze di pochi facinorosi, rischiano di far passare a livello mediatico un messaggio sbagliato, mi colpisce positivamente la partecipazione alle manifestazioni, e l’impegno di tanti giovani”

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Massimo Faggioli @massimofaggioli.bsky.social · 2d

da omelia del card. McElroy alla "Red Mass" di ieri: “we live at a moment in which politics is tribal, not dialogical [...] The result is explosive, within politics, family life, and friendships."

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Massimo Faggioli @massimofaggioli.bsky.social · 3d

breve risposta all'articolo di Federico Rampini sul "Corriere" oggi: gli agenti dell'ICE stanno terrorizzando le città americane; il Dipartimento di Giustizia sta diventando il dipartimento per le vendette personali di Trump; il Congresso è completamente inerte. E c'e' molto altro.

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Massimo Faggioli @massimofaggioli.bsky.social · 3d

60 years ago exactly one of the most important papal speeches about peace and the international community

www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-c...

"Never again war!" Pope Paul VI's unheeded and still urgently relevant appeal - Vatican News

Sixty years ago Pope Paul VI addressed the United Nations.

www.vaticannews.va

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Massimo Faggioli @massimofaggioli.bsky.social · 4d

ho visto e ascoltato il discordo della presidente del Consiglio Giorgia Meloni ad Assisi oggi: un discorso studiato, da professionista. Credo e temo che stara’ al potere per un bel pezzo, visti i dilettanti dall’altra parte.

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Massimo Faggioli @massimofaggioli.bsky.social · 4d

mio articolo oggi su “L’Osservatore Romano”, supplemento “Donne Chiesa Mondo”
www.osservatoreromano.va/it/news/2025...

La Chiesa cattolica americana tra ideologie di genere e machismo autoritario - L'Osservatore Romano

Il difficile equilibrio tra la difesa della dignità femminile e il rifiuto degli estremi ideologici in un contesto di crescente polarizzazione ...

www.osservatoreromano.va

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Joshua McElwee @joshmcelwee.org · 4d

Pope Leo will publish the first document of his tenure on October 9, the Vatican said on Saturday, with a text that is likely to offer hints about the new pontiff's priorities for the 1.4-billion-member Catholic Church. For @reuters.com

Pope Leo to release first document, on world's poor, on Oct 9

Pope Leo will publish the first document of his tenure on October 9, the Vatican said on Saturday, with a text that is likely to offer hints about the new pontiff's priorities for the 1.4-billion-member Catholic Church.

www.reuters.com

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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 4d

Seamus Heaney’s Ribbons: A beautiful poem about his sisters, published for the first time

The reader is transported by Heaney’s illuminating memory: we’re in a school, a photographer is visiting and the girls are having their picture taken

www.irishtimes.com

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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 4d

“The fact that drugs are a scourge in the US in no way gives the president the authority to start killing drug dealers.” —@davidcole-gtown.bsky.social on extrajudicial killings at sea buff.ly/BssivYg

Getting Away with Murder | David Cole

During his first presidential campaign Donald Trump famously claimed that he could “stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody” and not lose

buff.ly

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Massimo Faggioli @massimofaggioli.bsky.social · 4d

www.irishcatholic.com/europe-and-t...

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National Catholic Reporter @ncronline.bsky.social · 5d

Conservative Catholics must reckon with the fact that it is they, not the pope or Cardinal Cupich, who need a course correction. -Michael Sean Winters

Pope Leo's Francis-aligned take on Durbin controversy backfires on conservatives

Conservative Catholics had hoped that Pope Francis' reforms would follow him into the tomb, but they must reckon with the fact that it is they, not Pope Leo or Cardinal Cupich, who need a course corre...

www.ncronline.org

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Massimo Faggioli @massimofaggioli.bsky.social · 5d

the Catholic bishop of Brownsville, Texas

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Massimo Faggioli @massimofaggioli.bsky.social · 6d

Pope Leo XIV, ice, and ICE: this could be the second beginning of his pontificate

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