Carmen Nanko-Fernández
cnankofernandez.bsky.social
Carmen Nanko-Fernández
@cnankofernandez.bsky.social
latin@́, hispan@́, hurban@́ theologian, profe
Mi sueño de ser un beisbolista remains an elusive dream...so I write about sport y theology instead.
On this All Souls Day...we remember...
In these days of remembering those we have lost... "Through memorial days & rituals of commemoration we navigate (what Pope Francis called} the "tension between memory & hope.' We affirm that where there is remembrance there is mañana!" learn.ctu.edu/the-commemor...
The Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed (All Souls)
Learn@CTU
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November 2, 2025 at 2:09 PM
In these days of remembering those we have lost... "Through memorial days & rituals of commemoration we navigate (what Pope Francis called} the "tension between memory & hope.' We affirm that where there is remembrance there is mañana!" learn.ctu.edu/the-commemor...
The Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed (All Souls)
Learn@CTU
learn.ctu.edu
October 30, 2025 at 1:43 PM
@stevenpmillies.com have you seen this yet? A classic!
ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert
October 15, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Spend Sunday afternoon chatting with some of the faculty who taught Pope Leo XIV! Registration: ctu.edu/event/sunday...
Onsite in Chicago/Online on Zoom!
October 13, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Great work by my friend @kenjenkinsny.bsky.social. More public officials should stand up the way Ken has in Westchester.
October 11, 2025 at 3:06 PM
So 400 unpaid troops are being sent from Texas to occupy Chicago and Portland during a govt shutdown. Hmm this pay mess started in Portland too, www.va.gov/northeast-oh...
WWI Veterans marched on Washington for promised payment in 1932 | VA Northeast Ohio health care | Veterans Affairs
Did you know that the U.S. Government dispatched 3,500 Army troops onto Washington D.C. streets under leadership of General Douglas MacArthur to drive off an assembled ‘army’ of WWI Veteran demonstrat...
www.va.gov
October 6, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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Like many, I was surprised to hear a Catholic cardinal compare Charlie Kirk to St. Paul... Thankful to @thenation.com for asking me to identify some of the problems with this
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
The Archbishop of New York Should Know Charlie Kirk Was No Saint
Cardinal Dolan’s recent remarks on Fox News were playing to the Catholic Church’s most reactionary elements.
www.thenation.com
October 3, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Prayers w/3 people attacked by a sniper today in TX while detained by ICE. 1 person died & 2 are hospitalized. Apparently they get no names, no stories & not even perfunctory thoughts & prayers from politicians. Prayers w/ their families who may not even know the fate of their loved ones. PRESENTE!
September 24, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site
As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.
www.miamiherald.com
September 23, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Highlights of tr$mp 'speech' at UN:
«No more cows, we don’t want cows anymore,» «I guess they want to kill all the cows.»
«I’m really good at this stuff. Your countries are going to hell.»
That pretty much sums it up. Are we mortified yet? Release his school transcripts!
September 24, 2025 at 3:13 AM
"noisy gong or a clanging cymbal" (1 Cor 13:1). Just because the name of Jesus trips easily off the tongue of government officials @ a memorial, w/o love, faith is nada. Love of people on the move & kin pushed to the edges. Love of vecines & strangers & people too easily labeled "different." 1/3
September 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Seriously @mets.com why do you pull your successful pitchers. These kids are pitching their hearts out w/minimum runs & you put in rent-a-reliever to blow it? Have you no sense of urgency? Why July trades are stupid. It's on PBO. How's that Iglesias move working out for you? smh
September 14, 2025 at 7:52 PM
So it seems I appeared in US Catholic a month ago. Gracias for the shout out @uscatholic.bsky.social and Cassidy Klein. uscatholic.org/articles/202...
The ballpark is a great place for theology
Baseball and theology find a profound intersection in the work of Carmen Nanko-Fernández.
uscatholic.org
September 14, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Popular culture is a reservoir of languages-w/evolving dialects. Watching pundits @msnbc.com try to make sense w/o conversing w/ native speakers is stunning. Stop interpreting casing engravings w/o researching a language you clearly do not understand. Consult gaming culture scholars before opining.
September 13, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Misdirection left serves to conceal the intra-right hostilities between 3 powers who share(d) 1 sun: Loomer, Turning Point, Groypers.
September 13, 2025 at 2:11 PM
This is not a press conference.
September 12, 2025 at 2:28 PM
A psalm for this day. Gracias @martinespadapoet.bsky.social ...¡Alabanza!
youtu.be/H3anIr7vAIQ?...
Martin Espada - Alabanza
YouTube video by splitthisrock
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September 11, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Recordamos...WTC@NYC, Pentagon, Shanksville, y thousands still sick or dying-1st responders, clean-up crews (including over 2000 undocumented immigrants), residents, media... 24 years yet still relive it in real time. Still see the bluest sky over DC y remember every minute that pauses for silence.
September 11, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Hagiography cannot sanitize hate speech.
September 11, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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This. 👇👇👇

JB Pritzker: "Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: Once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next?”
September 6, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Powerful speaking of truth to authoritarian power grab. Worth watching! They out the ugly in clear terms! Gracias @govpritzker.illinois.gov @mayorofchicago.bsky.social. youtu.be/hhYShkfT848
Breaking News: Gov. Pritzker addresses Trump's threats of deployments to Chicago | CBS News Chicago
YouTube video by CBS Chicago
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September 2, 2025 at 8:55 PM
The city of my residence is under occupation. The city where I work prepares to resist occupation. The city where I was born, raised, educated is under threat of occupation. All in a country that thought of itself as a "shining city upon a hill."
September 1, 2025 at 2:32 PM
@nicollewallace.bsky.social Sadly, Pope Leo XIV is not the first pope to respond to a school-shooting in USA. Pope Francis responded in May 2022 to the massacre at Robb Elementary in Uvalde by tweet (X) & remarks in General Audience. x.com/VaticanNews/...
Vatican News on X: ""My heart is broken over the mass shooting at the elementary school in Texas. I am praying for the children and adults who were killed, and for their families. It is time to say enough to the indiscriminate trafficking of arms." - Pope Francis https://t.co/1NAzZptURD" / X
"My heart is broken over the mass shooting at the elementary school in Texas. I am praying for the children and adults who were killed, and for their families. It is time to say enough to the indiscriminate trafficking of arms." - Pope Francis https://t.co/1NAzZptURD
x.com
August 27, 2025 at 8:47 PM