Thomas Reese
@thomasreesesj.bsky.social
Senior Analyst at Religion News Service, Jesuit priest, author of "Inside the Vatican: The Politics and Organization of the Catholic Church" https://religionnews.com/author/tomreese/ https://bsky.app/profile/rns.org
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US bishops must face challenges in the American church and society
(RNS) — If the bishops could speak with one voice united with the pope, they would project a moral voice worth listening to.
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My @rns.org column: US bishops must face challenges in the American church and society religionnews.com/2025/11/05/u... @usccbofficial.bsky.social
Jewish identity doesn't need a disclaimer religionnews.com/2025/11/11/j...
Jewish identity doesn't need a disclaimer
(RNS) — On being Jewish without equivocation.
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November 11, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Jewish identity doesn't need a disclaimer religionnews.com/2025/11/11/j...
US bishops must face the challenges of a church and nation falling apart www.ncronline.org/opinion/gues...
US bishops must face the challenges of a church and nation falling apart
If the U.S. bishops, meeting in Baltimore this week, could speak with one voice united with the pope, they would project a moral voice worth listening to.
www.ncronline.org
November 11, 2025 at 4:47 PM
US bishops must face the challenges of a church and nation falling apart www.ncronline.org/opinion/gues...
Pope calls for courage, consensus as COP30 climate summit opens in Brazil www.ncronline.org/news/pope-ca...
Pope calls for courage, consensus as COP30 climate summit opens in Brazil
The U.N. meeting in the Amazon runs Nov. 10-21. It comes a decade after the Paris Agreement, a historic deal where for the first time nearly 200 countries committed to reducing heat-trapping greenhous...
www.ncronline.org
November 11, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Pope calls for courage, consensus as COP30 climate summit opens in Brazil www.ncronline.org/news/pope-ca...
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UK journalist Sami Hamdi to be released from ICE detention
(RNS) — Lawyers representing Hamdi challenged his detention in federal court, arguing that holding a journalist after an unexplained visa revocation raised First Amendment and due process concerns.
religionnews.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Meet the missionaries who are living the ‘Ignatius option’ - America Magazine www.americamagazine.org/faith/2017/0... @usccbofficial.bsky.social #USCCB25
Meet the missionaries who are living the ‘Ignatius option’
The motivation for withdrawal in the Ignatius option is formation for mission rather than countercultural resistance.
www.americamagazine.org
November 10, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Meet the missionaries who are living the ‘Ignatius option’ - America Magazine www.americamagazine.org/faith/2017/0... @usccbofficial.bsky.social #USCCB25
How the Trump Administration Is Giving Even More Tax Breaks to the Wealthy www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
How the Trump Administration Is Giving Even More Tax Breaks to the Wealthy
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November 10, 2025 at 3:45 PM
How the Trump Administration Is Giving Even More Tax Breaks to the Wealthy www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
Cruelty, Bigotry and Rage. What’s Not to Like? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/o... @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social
Opinion | Cruelty, Bigotry and Rage. What’s Not to Like?
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Cruelty, Bigotry and Rage. What’s Not to Like? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/o... @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social
What is American Catholicism in this moment of political crisis? www.ncronline.org/opinion/edit... @usccbofficial.bsky.social #USCCB25
What is American Catholicism in this moment of political crisis?
U.S. bishops have spent untold millions to influence national politics on abortion, but their response to real terror in our streets and government-driven deprivation of basic needs has been embarrass...
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November 10, 2025 at 2:59 PM
What is American Catholicism in this moment of political crisis? www.ncronline.org/opinion/edit... @usccbofficial.bsky.social #USCCB25
"Courage is the New Currency": Skye Perryman and Democracy Forward religionnews.com/2025/11/08/4...
"Courage is the New Currency": Skye Perryman and Democracy Forward
Host Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush talks with Democracy Forward President Skye Perryman about the organization's successful court challenges to unconstitutional administration actions. Paul also talk...
religionnews.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:50 PM
"Courage is the New Currency": Skye Perryman and Democracy Forward religionnews.com/2025/11/08/4...
Vatican-based Catholic Archbishop Decries Killings of Christians in Nigeria, Calls CPC Designation “shameful” www.aciafrica.org/news/18525/v...
Vatican-based Catholic Archbishop Decries Killings of Christians in Nigeria, Calls CPC Designation “shameful”
The Secretary of the Vatican Dicastery for Evangelization, Archbishop Fortunatus Nwachukwu, has described the suffering and persecution of Christians in Nigeria as “painful” and ...
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November 10, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Vatican-based Catholic Archbishop Decries Killings of Christians in Nigeria, Calls CPC Designation “shameful” www.aciafrica.org/news/18525/v...
#PopeLeo calls for courage, consensus as #COP30 climate summit opens in Brazil www.ncronline.org/news/pope-ca...
Pope calls for courage, consensus as COP30 climate summit opens in Brazil
The U.N. meeting in the Amazon runs Nov. 10-21. It comes a decade after the Paris Agreement, a historic deal where for the first time nearly 200 countries committed to reducing heat-trapping greenhous...
www.ncronline.org
November 9, 2025 at 3:14 PM
#PopeLeo calls for courage, consensus as #COP30 climate summit opens in Brazil www.ncronline.org/news/pope-ca...
Sunday gospel, John:
He made a whip out of cords & drove them all out of the temple area, with the sheep & oxen, & spilled the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables bible.usccb.org/bible/readin...
He made a whip out of cords & drove them all out of the temple area, with the sheep & oxen, & spilled the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables bible.usccb.org/bible/readin...
Feast of the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica in Rome
Daily Bible Readings, Podcast Audio and Videos and Prayers brought to you by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
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November 9, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Sunday gospel, John:
He made a whip out of cords & drove them all out of the temple area, with the sheep & oxen, & spilled the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables bible.usccb.org/bible/readin...
He made a whip out of cords & drove them all out of the temple area, with the sheep & oxen, & spilled the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables bible.usccb.org/bible/readin...
Sunday, 2nd reading 1 Corinthians
Do you not know that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy that person; for the temple of God, which you are, is holy. bible.usccb.org/bible/readin...
Do you not know that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy that person; for the temple of God, which you are, is holy. bible.usccb.org/bible/readin...
Feast of the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica in Rome
Daily Bible Readings, Podcast Audio and Videos and Prayers brought to you by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
bible.usccb.org
November 9, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Sunday, 2nd reading 1 Corinthians
Do you not know that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy that person; for the temple of God, which you are, is holy. bible.usccb.org/bible/readin...
Do you not know that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy that person; for the temple of God, which you are, is holy. bible.usccb.org/bible/readin...
Sunday psalm:
God is our refuge and our strength, an ever-present help in distress. Therefore, we fear not, though the earth be shaken and mountains plunge into the depths of the sea. bible.usccb.org/bible/readin...
God is our refuge and our strength, an ever-present help in distress. Therefore, we fear not, though the earth be shaken and mountains plunge into the depths of the sea. bible.usccb.org/bible/readin...
Feast of the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica in Rome
Daily Bible Readings, Podcast Audio and Videos and Prayers brought to you by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
bible.usccb.org
November 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Sunday psalm:
God is our refuge and our strength, an ever-present help in distress. Therefore, we fear not, though the earth be shaken and mountains plunge into the depths of the sea. bible.usccb.org/bible/readin...
God is our refuge and our strength, an ever-present help in distress. Therefore, we fear not, though the earth be shaken and mountains plunge into the depths of the sea. bible.usccb.org/bible/readin...
Sunday 1st reading, Ezekiel:
The angel brought me back to the entrance of the temple, and I saw water flowing out from beneath the threshold of the temple toward the east bible.usccb.org/bible/readin...
The angel brought me back to the entrance of the temple, and I saw water flowing out from beneath the threshold of the temple toward the east bible.usccb.org/bible/readin...
Feast of the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica in Rome
Daily Bible Readings, Podcast Audio and Videos and Prayers brought to you by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
bible.usccb.org
November 9, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Sunday 1st reading, Ezekiel:
The angel brought me back to the entrance of the temple, and I saw water flowing out from beneath the threshold of the temple toward the east bible.usccb.org/bible/readin...
The angel brought me back to the entrance of the temple, and I saw water flowing out from beneath the threshold of the temple toward the east bible.usccb.org/bible/readin...
Reposted by Thomas Reese
Two American Jews who were part of a Rabbis for Human Rights team helping Palestinians with the olive harvest were deported as Israel cracks down on anyone helping or advocating for Palestinians.
religionnews.com/2025/11/03/i...
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Israel deports two US Jews who volunteered to help Palestinians pick olives
(RNS) — Israel has ramped up deportations of foreigners involved in advocacy for Palestinians or demonstrations against the occupation, but the deportation of US Jews sets a precedent.
religionnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Two American Jews who were part of a Rabbis for Human Rights team helping Palestinians with the olive harvest were deported as Israel cracks down on anyone helping or advocating for Palestinians.
religionnews.com/2025/11/03/i...
religionnews.com/2025/11/03/i...
Reposted by Thomas Reese
“Wanting to inaugurate a kingdom of justice, fraternity and solidarity, God has a special place in his heart for those who are discriminated against and oppressed, and he asks us, his Church, to make a decisive and radical choice in favor of the weakest.” Pope Leo XIV
Pope Leo stresses Scripture as foundation of Christian concern for poor religionnews.com/2025/10/14/p...
Pope Leo stresses Scripture as foundation of Christian concern for poor
(RNS) — Leo wonders, ‘even though the teaching of Sacred Scripture is so clear about the poor, why many people continue to think that they can safely disregard the poor.’
religionnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:32 AM
“Wanting to inaugurate a kingdom of justice, fraternity and solidarity, God has a special place in his heart for those who are discriminated against and oppressed, and he asks us, his Church, to make a decisive and radical choice in favor of the weakest.” Pope Leo XIV
#Trump Aid Cuts Kill More Christians Than Jihadists Do www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/o... @nickkristof.bsky.social #Nigeria
Opinion | Trump Aid Cuts Kill More Christians Than Jihadists Do
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November 9, 2025 at 2:42 PM
#Trump Aid Cuts Kill More Christians Than Jihadists Do www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/o... @nickkristof.bsky.social #Nigeria