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Joe Ferullo
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CEO/Publisher National Catholic Reporter, an independent progressive news outlet; previous: EVP of Programming CBS; media columnist at The Hill; producer NBC News/Dateline; ABC News; Rolling Stone
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In a normal government, this results in the resignation of multiple cabinet officials (Transportation, Defense, and Homeland Security), and the closure or (at least!) radical reorg of the cartoonishly incompetent agency at the center of it: CBP.

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February 12, 2026 at 3:18 PM
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Via NCR - Catholic advocates speak out as ICE data shows just 14% arrested have violent criminal records. Almost 40% of those arrested lacked a criminal record altogether.
#ICE #Trump #immigrants #Catholic
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Catholic advocates speak out as ICE data shows just 14% arrested have violent criminal records
Catholic immigration advocates are speaking out after an internal federal document obtained by CBS News showed most individuals arrested in Trump administration immigration crackdowns over the past ye...
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February 12, 2026 at 4:23 PM
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MUST-READ via NCR - Epstein files reveal ties to Catholic conservatives' anti-Francis campaign. Epstein and former Trump aide Steve Bannon discussed strategies to undermine Pope Francis.
#EpsteinFiles #Trump #SteveBannon #PopeFrancis
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Epstein files reveal ties to Catholic conservatives' anti-Francis campaign
The newly released Epstein files show that Jeffrey Epstein and Steve Bannon discussed opposition to Pope Francis, including a move that Bannon claimed would ‘take down Francis.’
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February 12, 2026 at 2:42 PM
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Via GSR - Women religious serve on the front lines of Vietnam's shifting HIV crisis. Over the past five years, Vietnam has detected, on average, more than 13,000 new HIV cases each year.
#HIV #AIDS #Vietnam #Catholic
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Sisters serve on the front lines of Vietnam's shifting HIV crisis
Catholic sisters in Vietnam volunteer as nurses, counselors and emotional anchors for HIV/AIDS patients — many of whom arrive frightened, ashamed and utterly alone.
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February 12, 2026 at 2:18 PM
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Via NCR Opinion - The Epstein files and before: How do we process political scandals? ‘One of the things that defines a culture is what it will not tolerate in its leaders.’
#EpsteinFiles #Trump
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The Epstein files and before: How do we process political scandals?
One of the things that defines a culture is what it will not tolerate in its leaders. In U.S. history, our nation has handled scandals differently and also changed what does, and does not, constitute ...
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February 12, 2026 at 2:12 PM
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Must-read via @jeromiahtaylor.bsky.social in NCR - Dear fellow Gen Z Catholic converts: Don't settle for fundamentalism
#GenZ #Catholic #fundamentalism
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Dear fellow Gen Z Catholic converts: Don't settle for fundamentalism
Our desire for satisfying alternatives to modernity and a sense of meaning shouldn't turn us against all questioning. Questioning is what brought us to the faith in the first place.
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February 12, 2026 at 2:08 PM
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“People are being killed by the staff here, by the security staff, you know? & you just don’t know what’s going to happen on a day-to-day basis. You don’t know if there’s going to be riots, you don’t… You don’t know what’s going to happen. It’s a nightmare down here.
Irish Man Detained By ICE Describes 'Torture' In 'Modern-Day Concentration Camp'
Seamus Culleton, who is married to an American woman, says he’s “in fear for my life” in a Texas detention center.
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February 11, 2026 at 9:14 PM
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Via NCR - Cardinal Cupich says feds stopped priests, demanded citizenship proof. "I've had some priests who are of a different color being targeted and arrested — stopped — because of their color."
#ICE #Trump #Chicago #Catholic
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Cardinal Cupich says feds stopped priests, demanded citizenship proof
"I've had some priests who are of a different color being targeted and arrested — stopped — because of their color and asking them to prove that they're citizens. That's not America," the Chicago card...
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February 11, 2026 at 7:10 PM
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Every day we're striving to make Idiocracy a documentary
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Burgum: "CO2 was never a pollutant. When we breathe, we emit CO2. Plants need CO2 to survive and grow. They thrive with more CO2. So the whole endangerment thing opens up an opportunity for the revival of clean, beautiful, American coal."
February 11, 2026 at 4:05 PM
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One of my soulmates, wartime consigliere @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social

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February 11, 2026 at 5:01 PM
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Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground
photo of Pam Bondi testifying in the foreground as a group of 7 women and 1 men raise their hands
February 11, 2026 at 5:15 PM
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BREAKING via NCR in Rome - Villanova, Notre Dame, eye basketball season opener in Rome, with a papal cameo (from Villanova's #1 fan)
#PopeLeo #NotreDame #basketball #NCAA #Catholic
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Villanova, Notre Dame, eye basketball season opener in Rome, with a papal cameo
Organizers have invited Pope Leo XIV to attend the Nov. 1 basketball doubleheader featuring his alma mater.
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February 11, 2026 at 6:54 PM
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Via NCR Opinion - Speaker Johnson's response to Pope Leo reveals Christian nationalism. “Johnson is performing a real sleight of hand, a sorcerer's trick.”
#GOP #MAGA #PopeLeo #Christian
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Speaker Johnson's response to Pope Leo reveals Christian nationalism
"This rebuke is designed to support a political agenda, with specific beneficiaries and targets. Christian obligation is individualized; the state's coercive power is maximized. In fact, the dynamics ...
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February 11, 2026 at 2:40 PM
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Via NCR - Kansas ICE detention center poised to open despite objections from local Catholics. (DOJ shut it down 5 years ago due to chronic violence and other problems.)
#ICE #immigrants #Trump #Kansas
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Kansas ICE detention center poised to open despite objections from local Catholics
Kansas ICE detention center poised to open despite objections from local CatholicsTeaser: Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth say CoreCivic has a record of not treating immigrants with dignity.
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February 11, 2026 at 2:31 PM
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It’s a growing movement… Via @bfragancr.bsky.social - More US bishops condemn political tension, Trump immigration tactics
#Trump #ICE #immigrants #Catholic
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More US bishops condemn political tension, Trump immigration tactics
"The political crisis of our time is, at its root, a spiritual crisis," Baltimore Archbishop William Lori wrote, adding that the political atmosphere becomes "toxic" when souls become "untethered from...
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February 11, 2026 at 2:26 PM
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Via @helgaleija.bsky.social in NCR - Bad Bunny's Super Bowl performance delivered a message for such a time as this: Latinos belong.
#BadBunny #SuperBowl #Latinos #Benito
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Bad Bunny's Super Bowl performance delivered a message for such a time as this
GSR columns editor Helga Leija reflects on the role of Bad Bunny in Latin American culture.
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February 10, 2026 at 5:19 PM
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Via NCR - As ICE operations rattle Minneapolis, Catholic women step forward. "They are essential to this movement."
#ICE #Minneapolis #Catholic #women
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As ICE operations rattle Minneapolis, Catholic women step forward
Some Catholic women are expressing disappointment that local clergy have kept mostly silent about what's happening in their parishes.
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February 10, 2026 at 4:04 PM
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Beautiful via @camillobarone.bsky.social in NCR - Heidi Kühn had a vision. Crops now flourish in past war zones once planted with mines.
#war #peace #mines #Catholic
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Heidi Kühn had a vision. Crops now flourish in past war zones once planted with mines.
Roots of Peace has a straightforward proposition: remove lethal land mines and replace them with agriculture. Clear contaminated land, then plant high-value crops that can support families and local e...
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February 10, 2026 at 1:55 PM
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February 9, 2026 at 6:22 PM
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Via NCR - Catholic bishops call on Trump to apologize for racist meme. “Our shock is real. So is our outrage. Nothing less than an unequivocal apology — to the nation and to the persons demeaned — is acceptable.”
#Trump #Obama #racist #meme #Catholic
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Catholic bishops call on Trump to apologize for racist meme
Two Catholic bishops are calling on President Donald Trump to apologize for posting a racist meme on social media that depicted former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama as ap...
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February 9, 2026 at 10:45 PM
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via @mikeoloughlin.bsky.social in NCR - As Trump shared racist memes, NYC Archbishop Hicks preached Bad Bunny. He began his homily in Spanish and praised the multicultural crowd.
#NYC #BadBunny #SuperBowl #Trump
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As Trump shared racist memes, NYC Archbishop Hicks preached Bad Bunny
Archbishop Ronald Hicks' style — mirroring Pope Leo XIV and more subdued than his predecessor Cardinal Timothy Dolan — might be what the church and the world needs today, writes NCR's editor, Michael ...
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February 9, 2026 at 9:31 PM
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THIS
mollyjongfast.bsky.social Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 3d
You know what they’re going to store in those warehouses?

People
reichlinmelnick.bsky.social Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3d
In the last month ICE has bought warehouses in:

- Hagerstown, MD: $102 million
- Surprise, AZ: $70 million
- Hamburg, PA: $87 million
- Tremont, PA: $120 million
- San Antonio, TX: $82 million
- El Paso, TX: $123 million
- Social Circle, GA: price unknown

This is unprecedented.
February 9, 2026 at 9:13 PM
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I love that quote: “the soul of our nation is being saved by the poets”
February 8, 2026 at 6:04 PM
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Via @bfragancr.bsky.social - Despite legal setbacks and border closures, Annunciation House continues ministry. "We're witnessing a wave of persecution against people of faith who want to stand up for justice.”
#Texas #border #Catholic #immigrants
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Despite legal setbacks and border closures, Annunciation House continues ministry
Ruben Garcia, the shelter's executive director, said the Trump administration's hardline immigration policies reflect a belief that all migrants are criminals.
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February 9, 2026 at 2:26 PM
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Fun fact via NCR - A new pope has been elected three times this century. Each time it's happened, the Seahawks have gone to the Super Bowl that season.
#SuperBowl #Seattle
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Patriots vs. Seahawks: 3 faith storylines to follow during Super Bowl LX
Each time a new pope has been elected this century, the Seahawks have gone to the Super Bowl that season.
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February 8, 2026 at 11:22 PM