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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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Trump Opens Up Nation’s Aquariums To Commercial Fishing
WASHINGTON—Claiming that preservation efforts had impeded U.S. seafood production for far too long, President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he had opened up the nation’s aquariums to commercia...
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December 27, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Merry Christmas Scum.
December 26, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Pope Leo XIV urges the faithful on Christmas to shed indifference in the face of suffering. "There will be peace when our monologues are interrupted and, enriched by listening, we fall to our knees before the humanity of the other."
#PopeLeo #Christmas2025
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Pope Leo XIV urges the faithful on Christmas to shed indifference in the face of suffering
Pope Leo XIV during his first Christmas Day message urged the faithful to shed indifference in the face of those who have lost everything, such as in Gaza, those who are impoverished, such as in Yemen...
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December 26, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Via Michael Sean Winters in NCR - A look back at the world of politics in 2025. “This is not how it is done in America, but this is America and it is being done.”
#politics #Trump #ICE
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A look back at the world of politics in 2025
As the year ends, much of American democracy seems to be in ruins with self-inflicted devastation, writes NCR's Michael Sean Winters.
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December 26, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Pope Leo’s homily on Christmas Eve: "While a distorted economy leads us to treat human beings as mere merchandise, God becomes like us, revealing the infinite dignity of every person.”
#PopeLeo #Christmas
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To turn away others is to turn away God, pope says on Christmas Eve
If people refuse to make room for others -- like the poor, children and the stranger -- then they also refuse to make room for God, Pope Leo XIV said as he celebrated the birth of Jesus.
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December 25, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Before Christmas Eve Mass, Pope Leo appeared outside St. Peter’s to greet and overflow crowd of some 5,000 people, gathered in the square under the cold, pouring rain.
#PopeLeo #Christmas #Christmas2025
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To turn away others is to turn away God, pope says on Christmas Eve
If people refuse to make room for others -- like the poor, children and the stranger -- then they also refuse to make room for God, Pope Leo XIV said as he celebrated the birth of Jesus.
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December 25, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Beautiful, via @jimmcd.bsky.social - At the NYC jazz club Birdland, I encountered an unlikely nativity
#jazz #music #ChristmasEve #Kermit
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At a NYC jazz club, I encountered an unlikely nativity
In this dark room, there is something inexpressibly fragile and tender being born.
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December 24, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Via Michael SeanWinters in NCR -Let's reclaim the gift of Christmas. Only God's grace can close the infinite distance between us and God, and that is precisely what God did at Christmas.
#Christmas2025
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Let's reclaim the gift of Christmas
"Only God's grace can close the infinite distance between us and God, and that is precisely what God did at Christmas," writes NCR's Michael Sean Winters.
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December 24, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Via NCR - Posada at the US-Mexico border highlights plight of migrants. 200 from both sides of wall participate.
#Catholic #Christmas #Mexico #immigration
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Posada at the US-Mexico border highlights plight of migrants
In the shadow of the U.S.-Mexico border wall, more than 200 people from both countries participated in a traditional yuletide procession reenacting the search for shelter where Jesus could be born.
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December 24, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Via NCR - White House rebuffs Catholic bishops' appeal for a Christmas pause in immigration enforcement.
#ICE #Christmas #immigration
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White House rebuffs Catholic bishops' appeal for a Christmas pause in immigration enforcement
Florida's Catholic bishops appealed to President Donald Trump on Monday to pause immigration enforcement activities during the Christmas holidays. The White House, in response, said it would be busine...
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December 24, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Via NCR - NYC's incoming archbishop inherits dispute with insurer over clergy abuse claims. Cardinal Dolan faulted its insurers for "accepting millions in premiums from the archdiocese" and then declining to cover abuse cases.
#NYC #Catholic #insurance
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NYC's incoming archbishop inherits dispute with insurer over clergy abuse claims
The New York Archdiocese is seeking a universal settlement with abuse survivors, with a deal that could break legal gridlock involving the archdiocese and its insurer Chubb, which has refused to cover...
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December 23, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Via @camillobarone.bsky.social in NCR - Catholics demand Communion for immigration detainees at Christmas. Council. "Every human being has a sacred right to pastoral care, especially on Christmas.”
#ICE #immigration #Catholic #Christmas
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Catholics demand Communion for immigration detainees at Christmas
Catholic religious and others made a public appeal outside a federal field office Dec. 19 in Chicago: They wanted permission to bring Communion and pastoral care to immigration detainees on Christmas.
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December 23, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Via Michael Sean Winters in NCR - Why Hicks is the right choice for New York
#NYC #NewYork #Catholic
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Why Hicks is the right choice for New York
When you think about the needs of the Archdiocese of New York, and the enormity of the task of leading more than 2 million Catholics, Bishop Ronald Hicks seems tailor-made to fill that niche.
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December 22, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Via NCR - Anxiety and hope mark Advent for Palestinian Christians. “Uncertainty is still the word I would use to describe this moment.”
#Palestinians #Christians #Bethlehem
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Anxiety and hope mark Advent for Palestinian Christians
Following two years of absence, public Christmas festivities, like holiday lights in Bethlehem and other locales, are returning. Also making an appearance, say some observers, are dribbles of visitors...
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December 22, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Via @bostonbill.bsky.social in NCR - ICE nativity offers Boston archbishop a leadership opportunity: An apology. “There's nothing like an apology to serve as a gateway to getting at the truth.”
#Boston #ICE #Catholic
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ICE nativity offers Boston archbishop a leadership opportunity: An apology
"What's the truth of Christ's birth that we need to focus on today?" writes Bill Mitchell.
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December 21, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Via NCR - Cardinal Pizzaballa visits Gaza City's Holy Family Parish before Christmas. “We are rooted here and we remain here. We want to be here."
#Gaza #Catholic #Christmas
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Cardinal Pizzaballa visits Gaza City's Holy Family Parish before Christmas
"We cannot forget what happened ... But now we have to look forward," the patriarch said. "We will rebuild. We will rebuild our schools. We (will) rebuild our houses ... our life. We are rooted here a...
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December 20, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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CIA Realizes It’s Been Using Black Highlighters All These Year
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CIA Realizes It’s Been Using Black Highlighters All These Year
December 19, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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via NCR Opinion - Jimmy Lai will likely die in a Chinese prison, a martyr to both democracy and Catholicism.
#China #Catholic #democracy #religion
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Jimmy Lai was convicted for his faith and his pro-democracy work
The Catholic Church, especially its insistence on human dignity, is a bulwark against the ambitions of tyrants. Catholics across the political spectrum should embrace religious liberty as the foundati...
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December 19, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Terrific column via @carolmaczim.bsky.social in NCR, about one of her mother’s favorite books… that’s also a Pope Leo all-time favorite.
#PopeLeo #books #prayer #Catholic
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A Pope Leo book club? Count me in
Twice recently Pope Leo XIV has brought up a book that spells out his spiritual MO. The short book, The Practice of the Presence of God by 17th-century lay Carmelite Brother Lawrence, seems to pack a ...
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December 19, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Pope Leo appoints Dominican Republic immigrant from Queens to be the new bishop of Trump’s adopted home town, Palm Beach Florida.
#Trump #Florida #immigrants #Catholic
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Pope Leo appoints Queens pastor as Palm Beach bishop, and Vietnam-born priest as auxiliary in Phoenix
Pope Leo XIV has accepted the resignation of Bishop Gerald Barbarito of Palm Beach, Florida, and named as his successor Fr. Manuel de Jesús Rodríguez, currently pastor of Our Lady of Sorrows Parish, C...
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December 19, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Via @rhinaguidos.bsky.social in NCR: At Salvadoran organization, Archbishop-elect Hicks made mark. “We didn't want him to leave and we said to him, 'Ask them to let you stay a few more years.'"
#NYC #NewYork #Catholic #ElSalvador
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At Salvadoran organization, Archbishop-elect Hicks made mark as 'committed pastor'
From the moment he arrived in El Salvador to work with Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos, a program for underprivileged children, "Padre Ron," now archbishop-elect of New York, seemed to fit in, recalls a fo...
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December 19, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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This is mental illness.
December 18, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Stunning read via Jason Berry in NCR - A moral order has been broken, and clergy abuse survivors still quest for justice. ''What monetary figure applies when a figure of God has abused someone?'
#Catholic #abuse #NewOrleans
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A moral order has been broken, and clergy abuse survivors still quest for justice
As we face a changing past, Jason Berry looks back on years of reporting on clerical abuse, and reflects on the influence of the beloved dead: a jazz-playing Jesuit, and Berry's daughter Ariel, whose ...
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December 18, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Via NCR - California bishops celebrate 'very powerful' Mass for detainees in Mojave desert ICE facility. "For God there are no barriers, there are no fences, there are no walls."
#ICE #immigrants #Catholic #detention
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California bishops celebrate 'very powerful' Mass for detainees in ICE facility
With Communion bowls in hand, a group of California bishops walked through the barbed wire gates of the ICE Processing Center and offered Jesus to the men locked inside. This moment of the Mass, celeb...
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December 18, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Via NCR - Is Pope Leo 'based?' The culture war compliment doesn't quite fit. (‘Based’ places a premium on confrontation and favors rigid condemnation over genuine discernment or good faith disagreement.)
#PopeLeoXIV #Catholic #based
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Is Pope Leo 'based?' The culture war compliment doesn't quite fit
The pontiff had barely stepped onto the loggia wearing the mozzetta and papal stole before social media was ablaze with traditionalists claiming "we're so back."
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December 18, 2025 at 1:58 PM