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John Kenneth White
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Professor Emeritus, Catholic University. Author of Grand Old Unraveling. Columnist for The Hill.

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“Christ was poor at his birth, poor during the course of his life, and poor at his death.” ~ St. Bonaventure

Source: Financial Times
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‘A lot of gold’: the business of dressing priests for Christmas
Family-run Watts & Co serves places of worship, UK state occasions such as coronations and even Hollywood studios
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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 1d
"In the face of the suffering of the poor, he sends one who is defenseless to be the strength to rise again. Before violence and oppression, he kindles a gentle light that illumines with salvation all the children of this world.” #PopeLeoXIV #MerryChristmas www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...
Pope Leo: Announce the joy of Christmas, a feast of faith, charity, and hope - Vatican News
During the Christmas Mass during the Night on the Solemnity of the Nativity of the Lord, Pope Leo XIV encourages us to announce
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John Kenneth White @jkennethwhite.bsky.social · 11d
My latest column in The Hill: Are We Good and Decent People? thehill.com/opinion/whit...
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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 23d
“ICE was here. The Holy Family is safe in the Sanctuary of our Church." #PrayForAmerica www.boston.com/news/local-n...
'ICE was here': Dedham church's Nativity scene protests immigration crackdown
The Nativity scene at St. Susanna Parish in Dedham holds "the mirror up to what’s happening," Father Stephen Josoma said.
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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 23d
“They are clearly violating people’s rights." #PrayForAmerica www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
Trump’s Immigration Forces Deploy “Less Lethal” Weapons in Dangerous Ways, Skirting Rules and Maiming Protesters
Civil rights and weapons experts cite the consequences of federal agents’ use of crowd control weapons: religious leaders shot with pepper balls and noxious chemicals. A nurse nearly blinded by tear g...
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Rosa DeLauro @delauro.house.gov · 23d
This is a win for Pratt & Whitney and the 23,000 workers across our state that work on the F135 engine.
 
This funding will protect thousands of local jobs and ensure F-35 mission readiness for our military and allies across the globe.

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Representative Jim McGovern @repmcgovern.bsky.social · 23d
Trump pardoned the ex-president of Honduras who shoveled hundreds of tons of cocaine into the U.S. He pardoned the founder of a black market who imported fentanyl from China.

These men poisoned America & killed millions. Whatever Trump’s illegal boat strikes are about, it sure isn’t drugs.
Trump move to pardon Honduras’s ex-president shows counter-drug effort is ‘based on lies and hypocrisy’
Why has Trump blown up alleged narco boats in the Caribbean and at the same time decided to let a big-time trafficker off the hook?
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 23d
Gupta: These are the most credentialed radiologists in the country. No one is aware of any type of screening guideline that says as you age you should get an MRI of the heart and abdomen.

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 24d
The Next One Here's what's going to happen next. Somewhere, right now, a trans person is teaching a class, or coaching a team, or working at a library, or providing healthcare. They're doing their job. They're probably good at it. And at some point, someone is going to have a problem with them. Maybe a parent, maybe a student, maybe a coworker. The problem won't really be about job performance. The problem will be that they're trans. That person, or someone connected to them, will take their grievance to social media. If they're lucky, Libs of TikTok will pick it up. Or Turning Point. Or one of the other accounts that have built massive followings by turning trans people into content. The post will frame the trans person as a predator, or a groomer, or a bully, or a tyrant. It won't matter what actually happened. The framing is the point. Then the calls will start. To the school board, to the administration, to the HR department. Local news will cover the "controversy." A state legislator will demand an investigation. The institution, desperate to make the problem go away, will put the trans person on leave. Maybe they'll be fired outright. Maybe they'll resign because the harassment makes it impossible to do their job. Either way they're gone. And then the person who started it all will go on Fox News. They'll get a GoFundMe. Maybe a speaking gig at a conservative conference. If the story is big enough, if it goes viral enough, they might get something more. A podcast. A book deal. A center with their name on it. This is not a guess. This is a pattern. We've watched it happen over and over again, and we will keep watching it happen until the institutions that capitulate to these campaigns start recognizing them for what they are: coordinated attempts to purge trans people from public life, dressed up as individual controversies.

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Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon @scanlon.house.gov · 24d
Our schools should be focusing on teaching our kids, not dealing with more unnecessary bureaucracy.

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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 24d
"Let us all choose peace as a way, and not just as a goal!" #PopeLeoXIV #LiveTheGospel #LoveEachOther

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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 24d
"We know that peace will never result from the building of walls.." #PopeFrancis #Hope #PrayForPeace

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John Kenneth White @jkennethwhite.bsky.social · 25d
My latest column in The Hill: "MAGA Declares War on the Catholic Church." thehill.com/opinion/cong...
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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 26d
"Reject every form of corruption that diverts resources from the poor." #PopeFrancis #RememberThePoor

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As a future elderpoor let me assure you, despite everything else, elderpoverty will be the defining midcentury issue. Its inevitability is the best evidence we've lost the capacity for self-govt.

Oh. And undoc migrants paid in for decades w/o ever drawing benefits.

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Social Security's day of reckoning is nearly here
There is a tug-of-war between the benefits future retirees receive and the taxes that working-age people pay.
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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 26d
"We must look at the world through God's eyes, with the gaze of the small, the humble, those without power." #LiveTheGospel #BeHumble #LoveEachOther #RememberThePoor www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...
The strength of littleness - Vatican News
As Pope Leo XIV visits Turkish Christians in Istanbul, our Editorial Director reflects on how his words offer a message for the whole Church.
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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 26d
"As long as there is any resentment, bitterness, or lack of love in my own heart, I am powerless. God must help me." #DorothyDay assisiproject.com

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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 27d
"We are all children of God, and this has personal, social and political implications. Those with hearts docile to the will of God always promote the common good and respect for all." #PopeLeoXIV #ApostolicJourney #Turkey

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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 27d
"We know that a real and lasting peace is the consequence of an economy that does not kill, that does not produce death, that cultivates justice, that never yields to technocratic models or to the culture of profit at any cost." #PopeFrancis #Hope

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Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon @scanlon.house.gov · 27d
The death of Specialist Sarah Beckstrom of the West Virginia National Guard is a devastating loss for our country.

My heart is with her loved ones as they face this unfathomable tragedy, and I’m praying for the full recovery of Staff Sergeant Andrew Wolfe.

Such violence cannot be normalized.

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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 28d
"Don’t forget about me. Don’t leave me alone." #PrayForAmerica www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
ICE detains Texas father as son’s health declines: ‘Don’t forget about me’
Maher Tarabishi was arrested at a routine visit despite decades in the US, leaving his son with Pompe disease
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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · Nov 22
"Blessed are those servants of God who are reluctant to excuse themselves and humbly endure shame and criticism for sins they have not committed." #SaintFrancisOfAssisi #BeHumble

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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · Nov 19
"Any solution built upon revenge and violence...can never bring peace, and will only scatter new seeds of hatred and resentment, generation after generation, in an endless chain of subjugation." #PopeFrancis #Hope

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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · Nov 19
"We must love only God. And that sets up the triangle: God, the soul, and the world." #DorothyDay assisiproject.com

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Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon @scanlon.house.gov · Nov 19
It was truly amazing to be at a candlelight vigil in solidarity with the Epstein survivors when word broke about the Senate's passage of the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

Tears, cheers, and relief.

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Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon @scanlon.house.gov · Nov 18
8 million Americans rely on SSI to survive. Cutting these benefits will plunge thousands of Americans, including disabled adults and children, into poverty.

Rep. Danny Davis and I are demanding that the SSA provide the American people with information on how these cuts will impact them.
Scanlon Presses Social Security Administration Regarding Rule Changes Threatening Ability of Supplemental Security Income Recipients to Live With Family
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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · Nov 18
"Those who hoped an American pope would be more supportive of unregulated capitalism will be very disappointed in #PopeLeoXIV. He is not afraid to embrace the Catholic social teaching concern for workers and the poor, rather than the invisible hand of the market." religionnews.com/2025/11/17/p...
Pope Leo embraces the radical challenge of Catholic social teaching
(RNS) — Those who hoped an American pope would be more supportive of unregulated capitalism will be very disappointed in Leo.
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Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon @scanlon.house.gov · Nov 18
The American people will remember who tried to prevent the release of the Epstein files.

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Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon @scanlon.house.gov · Nov 18
Americans deserve a Congress that works to improve their health and lower their costs, not line the pockets of oil and gas executives at their expense.

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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · Nov 17
"In the midst of persecution, suffering, struggles and oppression in our personal lives and in society, God does not abandon us (11-17-25)." #PopeLeoXIV