James V. Grimaldi
@jamesvgrimaldi.bsky.social
Executive editor of the National Catholic Reporter. Winner of Pulitzer Prizes. KCMO. DC. Dad. Husband. Roman Catholic.
@pelosi.house.gov to endorse Jack Schlossberg, backing a Kennedy for Congress running vs. a @nadler.house.gov acolyte.(Photo of Nancy D’Alesandro with JFK is a classic.) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...
Pelosi to Endorse Jack Schlossberg, Again Backing a Kennedy for Congress
www.nytimes.com
February 7, 2026 at 5:49 PM
@pelosi.house.gov to endorse Jack Schlossberg, backing a Kennedy for Congress running vs. a @nadler.house.gov acolyte.(Photo of Nancy D’Alesandro with JFK is a classic.) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...
Open criticism of bishops and popes has become standard among a small but growing minority of traditional U.S. Catholics who are gaining political and cultural influence. wapo.st/3ZH9rsq smart analysis from @mboorstein
For traditional Catholics, Charlotte Communion dispute is a battle line
A seemingly esoteric dispute over the proper way to take Communion signals the rising power of more traditional voices within the Catholic Church.
wapo.st
February 2, 2026 at 7:13 PM
Open criticism of bishops and popes has become standard among a small but growing minority of traditional U.S. Catholics who are gaining political and cultural influence. wapo.st/3ZH9rsq smart analysis from @mboorstein
Superb analysis about the threats posed to all Americans. Thanks Ted and Katie.
"The extraordinary arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort last week are a dangerous escalation in the Trump administration’s attacks on the press and pose a clear threat to First Amendment freedoms," write @tboutrous.bsky.social and @ktownsend.bsky.social. [via @us.theguardian.com]
The arrests of Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are a danger to all Americans | Theodore J Boutrous, Jr and Katie Townsend
We are witnessing a dangerous escalation in the Trump administration’s attacks on the press and a clear threat to first amendment freedoms
www.theguardian.com
February 2, 2026 at 7:13 PM
Superb analysis about the threats posed to all Americans. Thanks Ted and Katie.
Nothing to see here and almost no one to see it. www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...
Column | ‘Melania’ promises to take us behind the scenes. There’s nothing to see.
“Melania,” the new Amazon documentary about the enigmatic first lady Melania Trump, mostly celebrates her zealous dedication to her external presentation.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 1, 2026 at 2:00 AM
Nothing to see here and almost no one to see it. www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...
“the ill-conceived and incompetently-implemented government pursuit of daily deportation quotas, apparently even if it requires traumatizing children.” apnews.com/article/immi...
Judge orders US to release 5-year-old and dad taken into custody in Minnesota crackdown
A judge has ordered the U.S. to release a father and 5-year-old son who were taken into custody during the immigration crackdown in Minnesota.
apnews.com
January 31, 2026 at 8:50 PM
“the ill-conceived and incompetently-implemented government pursuit of daily deportation quotas, apparently even if it requires traumatizing children.” apnews.com/article/immi...
Bovino is said to have mocked the US attorneys’ Jewish faith on phone call, using the term “chosen people” in a mocking way, and asked the prosecutor, sarcastically, whether he understood that Orthodox Jewish criminals don’t take weekends off www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/u...
Bovino Is Said to Have Mocked Prosecutor’s Jewish Faith on Call With Lawyers
www.nytimes.com
January 31, 2026 at 5:17 PM
Bovino is said to have mocked the US attorneys’ Jewish faith on phone call, using the term “chosen people” in a mocking way, and asked the prosecutor, sarcastically, whether he understood that Orthodox Jewish criminals don’t take weekends off www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/u...
Turmoil www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/u...
Shooting Aftermath Leaves Homeland Security Department in Turmoil
www.nytimes.com
January 29, 2026 at 1:32 PM
Turmoil www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/u...
HOLY SEE(hawks)! www.facebook.com/ClutchPoints...
ClutchPoints
The "Holy See(hawks)" streak is officially 3-for-3. Every time the Vatican elects a new Pope, Seattle punches a ticket to the Super Bowl.
In 2005, Pope Benedict XVI was elected and the Seahawks...
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January 27, 2026 at 12:17 AM
HOLY SEE(hawks)! www.facebook.com/ClutchPoints...
Echoing concerns of Pope Leo XIV over a new era of unilateralism and warfare, the three highest-ranking U.S. Catholic archbishops on Monday said “the moral foundation for America’s actions in the world” has been thrown into question
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Top Catholic cardinals say U.S. foreign policy raises moral questions
Three senior archbishops said recent events raise “basic questions about the use of military force” and have put America’s moral role “under examination.”
www.washingtonpost.com
January 19, 2026 at 6:29 PM
Echoing concerns of Pope Leo XIV over a new era of unilateralism and warfare, the three highest-ranking U.S. Catholic archbishops on Monday said “the moral foundation for America’s actions in the world” has been thrown into question
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
“Most of the United States and the world are adrift morally in terms of foreign policy,” my archbishop, Cardinal McElroy told @apnews.com “I still believe the United States has a tremendous impact upon the world.”
January 19, 2026 at 5:26 PM
“Most of the United States and the world are adrift morally in terms of foreign policy,” my archbishop, Cardinal McElroy told @apnews.com “I still believe the United States has a tremendous impact upon the world.”
This is an outrageous escalation in the Trump administration’s intrusions into the independence of the press. Read @rcfp.org statement.
This morning, the FBI executed a search warrant at a @washingtonpost.com reporter’s home.
@rcfp.org President Bruce D. Brown called it “a tremendous escalation in the administration’s intrusions into the independence of the press.”
Read his full statement: www.rcfp.org/fbi-search-w...
@rcfp.org President Bruce D. Brown called it “a tremendous escalation in the administration’s intrusions into the independence of the press.”
Read his full statement: www.rcfp.org/fbi-search-w...
RCFP statement on FBI search of Washington Post reporter’s home
“[T]his is a tremendous escalation in the administration’s intrusions into the independence of the press,” said RCFP President Bruce D. Brown.
www.rcfp.org
January 14, 2026 at 3:52 PM
This is an outrageous escalation in the Trump administration’s intrusions into the independence of the press. Read @rcfp.org statement.
exceedingly rare www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/u...
F.B.I. Searches Home of Washington Post Journalist for Classified Material
www.nytimes.com
January 14, 2026 at 3:18 PM
exceedingly rare www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/u...
3 federal prosecutors quit after DOJ leaders pushed for criminal investigation into the widow of Renee Nicole Good, who was slain by an ICE officer
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...
3 Prosecutors Quit After Push to Investigate ICE Shooting Victim’s Widow
www.nytimes.com
January 13, 2026 at 5:37 PM
3 federal prosecutors quit after DOJ leaders pushed for criminal investigation into the widow of Renee Nicole Good, who was slain by an ICE officer
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...
unprecedented
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/u...
Federal Prosecutors Are Said to Have Opened Inquiry Into Fed Chair Powell
www.nytimes.com
January 12, 2026 at 1:40 AM
unprecedented
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/u...
Feds obstruct state investigators from evidence in ICE shooting. apnews.com/article/minn...
Minneapolis protesters vent their outrage after an ICE officer kills a woman
Minneapolis is on edge following the fatal shooting of a woman by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer taking part in the Trump administration’s latest immigration crackdown.
apnews.com
January 8, 2026 at 4:37 PM
Feds obstruct state investigators from evidence in ICE shooting. apnews.com/article/minn...
The Pope expresses concern over US intervention and calls for the “good of the Venezuelan people to prevail, for the rule of law to be upheld, and for the human and civil rights of all to be respected.”
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Vatican News on X: "Pope Leo XIV expresses his concern over recent developments in Venezuela, after United States forces arrested Nicolás Maduro in Caracas on Saturday and brought him to New York for trial. The Pope calls for the good of the Venezuelan people to prevail, for the rule of law to be https://t.co/CmOE1WIJPP" / X
Pope Leo XIV expresses his concern over recent developments in Venezuela, after United States forces arrested Nicolás Maduro in Caracas on Saturday and brought him to New York for trial. The Pope calls for the good of the Venezuelan people to prevail, for the rule of law to be https://t.co/CmOE1WIJPP
x.com
January 4, 2026 at 6:33 PM
The Pope expresses concern over US intervention and calls for the “good of the Venezuelan people to prevail, for the rule of law to be upheld, and for the human and civil rights of all to be respected.”
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Pope Leo XIV expressed his concern on Sunday over recent developments in Venezuela
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x.com
January 4, 2026 at 1:15 PM
Pope Leo XIV expressed his concern on Sunday over recent developments in Venezuela
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Former U.S. senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell of Colorado, the first Native American chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs and a leader of the effort to build the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, died Dec. 30. He was 92.
Ben Nighthorse Campbell, Native American senator, dies at 92
The Coloradan was the only American Indian in the Senate during his tenure and helped lead the effort to build the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 31, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Former U.S. senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell of Colorado, the first Native American chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs and a leader of the effort to build the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, died Dec. 30. He was 92.
It has been generally understood that the power to change the
Kennedy Center’s name lies with Congress. smid=nytcore-ios-share
Kennedy Center’s name lies with Congress. smid=nytcore-ios-share
Trump and His Loyalists Move to Name the Kennedy Center for Him
www.nytimes.com
December 18, 2025 at 9:32 PM
It has been generally understood that the power to change the
Kennedy Center’s name lies with Congress. smid=nytcore-ios-share
Kennedy Center’s name lies with Congress. smid=nytcore-ios-share
Rob and Michele Singer Reiner were to have dinner with Barack and Michelle Obama and others in just a few hours when a massage therapist arrived and got no answer at the gate of the home in tony Brentwood. The couple’s daughter walked into a gruesome tableau.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...
Reiner Family Associate Details Events Before and After Killings Were Discovered
www.nytimes.com
December 17, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Rob and Michele Singer Reiner were to have dinner with Barack and Michelle Obama and others in just a few hours when a massage therapist arrived and got no answer at the gate of the home in tony Brentwood. The couple’s daughter walked into a gruesome tableau.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...
back-to-back failures
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/u...
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A Grand Jury Again Declines to Re-Indict Letitia James
www.nytimes.com
December 11, 2025 at 8:43 PM
back-to-back failures
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/u...
N.Y. Archdiocese Will Negotiate Sex-Abuse Settlement for 1,300 Accusers www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/n...
N.Y. Archdiocese Will Negotiate Sex-Abuse Settlement for 1,300 Accusers
www.nytimes.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:48 PM
N.Y. Archdiocese Will Negotiate Sex-Abuse Settlement for 1,300 Accusers www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/n...
Keep asking questions, keep digging, pursue the truth without fear or favor www.ncronline.org/vatican/excl... @bfragancr.bsky.social began this investigation and @McLellan_Js went to Peru to answer questions
Exclusive: Pope Leo critic now says her lawyer might have had a secret agenda
A lawyer seemed to have a conflict of interest when he represented sisters who claimed the future pope covered up their abuse allegations against two priests. Now, one sister says her lawyer "didn't r...
www.ncronline.org
September 29, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Keep asking questions, keep digging, pursue the truth without fear or favor www.ncronline.org/vatican/excl... @bfragancr.bsky.social began this investigation and @McLellan_Js went to Peru to answer questions