Dr. Brian Flanagan
@brianpflanagan.bsky.social
Cardinal Cody Chair of Catholic Theology@Loyola University Chicago, Senior Fellow at New Ways Ministry🏳️🌈, he/him, knitter, fifer. Views my own. Repost≠endorsement. Author of _Stumbling in Holiness: Sin and Sanctity in the Church_.
Listening to Catholic Theological Union professor (and @loyolachicago.bsky.social Theology alum) Dr Kevin Considine give the Luzbetak Lecture on mission and “orthopathema,” the work of “suffering rightly”
October 7, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Listening to Catholic Theological Union professor (and @loyolachicago.bsky.social Theology alum) Dr Kevin Considine give the Luzbetak Lecture on mission and “orthopathema,” the work of “suffering rightly”
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Thanks to the folks at the God Talk Podcast, you can have a sneak peak of one of the first "Walking Together: LGBTQ+ Catholics in a Synodal Church" workshops hosted by New Ways Senior Fellow @brianpflanagan.bsky.social.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8Vc...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8Vc...
Medene and James Attend LGBTQ Inclusion Workshop at a Catholic Church
YouTube video by God Talk with Medene and James
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September 22, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Thanks to the folks at the God Talk Podcast, you can have a sneak peak of one of the first "Walking Together: LGBTQ+ Catholics in a Synodal Church" workshops hosted by New Ways Senior Fellow @brianpflanagan.bsky.social.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8Vc...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8Vc...
Join us at @newwaysministry.bsky.social tonight!
Excited to be in conversation for @newwaysministry this Wednesday, August 20, with Christopher White about his new book from @loyolapress about the election of Pope Leo. More info and register at
www.newwaysministry.org/2025/07/28/w...
www.newwaysministry.org/2025/07/28/w...
Webinar: Vatican Journalist on Pope Leo, LGBTQ+ Issues, and the Conclave - New Ways Ministry
Join us Aug. 20 to hear from Christopher White and discuss what LGBTQ+ Catholics can expect from Leo's papacy.
www.newwaysministry.org
August 20, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Join us at @newwaysministry.bsky.social tonight!
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Hearing a armed federal agent declare “Liberals have ruined the country” after violently arresting someone without cause. Is extremely chilling and speaks to a total lack of professionalism
August 16, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Hearing a armed federal agent declare “Liberals have ruined the country” after violently arresting someone without cause. Is extremely chilling and speaks to a total lack of professionalism
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🧵 THREAD: What the leaked Alaska summit documents really reveal (excellent scoop by @NPR) 1/
NPR just broke some big news: US government documents were accidentally left in a hotel printer in Anchorage, revealing the actual plan for the Trump-Putin summit. They show exactly what Trump intended.
NPR just broke some big news: US government documents were accidentally left in a hotel printer in Anchorage, revealing the actual plan for the Trump-Putin summit. They show exactly what Trump intended.
Documents with sensitive details about the meeting between President Trump and Russian President Putin were left behind on a public hotel printer.
Government papers found in an Alaskan hotel reveal new details of Trump-Putin summit
Documents with sensitive details about the meeting between President Trump and Russian President Putin were left behind on a public hotel printer.
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August 16, 2025 at 5:43 PM
🧵 THREAD: What the leaked Alaska summit documents really reveal (excellent scoop by @NPR) 1/
NPR just broke some big news: US government documents were accidentally left in a hotel printer in Anchorage, revealing the actual plan for the Trump-Putin summit. They show exactly what Trump intended.
NPR just broke some big news: US government documents were accidentally left in a hotel printer in Anchorage, revealing the actual plan for the Trump-Putin summit. They show exactly what Trump intended.
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No agency insignia at all on their uniforms, so this is likely not DEA or ATF or FBI or Border Patrol. So probably it’s DHS, most likely ICE.
And yeah, the comment about “liberal” is really telling. These guys are wildly unprofessional.
And yeah, the comment about “liberal” is really telling. These guys are wildly unprofessional.
While masked agents were violently attacking a delivery worker this morning, bystanders repeatedly asked to see their badge numbers but they refused.
Bystander: You guys are ruining this country, you know that, right?
Agent: Liberals already ruined it.
Bystander: You guys are ruining this country, you know that, right?
Agent: Liberals already ruined it.
August 16, 2025 at 4:23 PM
No agency insignia at all on their uniforms, so this is likely not DEA or ATF or FBI or Border Patrol. So probably it’s DHS, most likely ICE.
And yeah, the comment about “liberal” is really telling. These guys are wildly unprofessional.
And yeah, the comment about “liberal” is really telling. These guys are wildly unprofessional.
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While masked agents were violently attacking a delivery worker this morning, bystanders repeatedly asked to see their badge numbers but they refused.
Bystander: You guys are ruining this country, you know that, right?
Agent: Liberals already ruined it.
Bystander: You guys are ruining this country, you know that, right?
Agent: Liberals already ruined it.
August 16, 2025 at 3:56 PM
While masked agents were violently attacking a delivery worker this morning, bystanders repeatedly asked to see their badge numbers but they refused.
Bystander: You guys are ruining this country, you know that, right?
Agent: Liberals already ruined it.
Bystander: You guys are ruining this country, you know that, right?
Agent: Liberals already ruined it.
Excited to be in conversation for @newwaysministry this Wednesday, August 20, with Christopher White about his new book from @loyolapress about the election of Pope Leo. More info and register at
www.newwaysministry.org/2025/07/28/w...
www.newwaysministry.org/2025/07/28/w...
Webinar: Vatican Journalist on Pope Leo, LGBTQ+ Issues, and the Conclave - New Ways Ministry
Join us Aug. 20 to hear from Christopher White and discuss what LGBTQ+ Catholics can expect from Leo's papacy.
www.newwaysministry.org
August 15, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Excited to be in conversation for @newwaysministry this Wednesday, August 20, with Christopher White about his new book from @loyolapress about the election of Pope Leo. More info and register at
www.newwaysministry.org/2025/07/28/w...
www.newwaysministry.org/2025/07/28/w...
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As someone who has lived my whole adult life in cities deemed “dangerous”—NYC, NOLA, and SF—I think a lot about how dense cities require patience, calm, and tolerance in the midst of social difference, which are of course exactly the civic virtues that the right resents being told to cultivate.
August 12, 2025 at 7:06 PM
As someone who has lived my whole adult life in cities deemed “dangerous”—NYC, NOLA, and SF—I think a lot about how dense cities require patience, calm, and tolerance in the midst of social difference, which are of course exactly the civic virtues that the right resents being told to cultivate.
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I just can’t believe our Reichstag Fire is the Big Balls Beatdown.
August 11, 2025 at 9:51 PM
I just can’t believe our Reichstag Fire is the Big Balls Beatdown.
First day of new faculty orientation at @loyolachicago.bsky.social. Decided to cosplay as a Jesuit.
August 11, 2025 at 2:15 PM
First day of new faculty orientation at @loyolachicago.bsky.social. Decided to cosplay as a Jesuit.
Day to Day Brian: "Love your neighbor as yourself."
Driving Brian: "I am mean because I grew up in New England."
Driving Brian: "I am mean because I grew up in New England."
August 10, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Day to Day Brian: "Love your neighbor as yourself."
Driving Brian: "I am mean because I grew up in New England."
Driving Brian: "I am mean because I grew up in New England."
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Please do not ask me to defend my choice of most readily applicable heresy, I just wanted to make the meme
August 9, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Please do not ask me to defend my choice of most readily applicable heresy, I just wanted to make the meme
I don’t need a lububu. (Thanks to Francis DeBernardo for the new Ignatius of Loyola to hang out with Francis…)
August 7, 2025 at 1:56 PM
I don’t need a lububu. (Thanks to Francis DeBernardo for the new Ignatius of Loyola to hang out with Francis…)
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Today is August 1.
Asking an academic how their book is going is a felony.
Asking an academic how their book is going is a felony.
August 1, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Today is August 1.
Asking an academic how their book is going is a felony.
Asking an academic how their book is going is a felony.
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VATICAN “His Holiness Pope Leo XIV has learned with deep sorrow of the loss of human lives and the injuries caused by the military attack on the Holy Family Catholic Church in Gaza, and assures the parish priest, Father Gabriele Romanelli, and the entire parish community of his spiritual closeness.”
July 17, 2025 at 11:30 AM
VATICAN “His Holiness Pope Leo XIV has learned with deep sorrow of the loss of human lives and the injuries caused by the military attack on the Holy Family Catholic Church in Gaza, and assures the parish priest, Father Gabriele Romanelli, and the entire parish community of his spiritual closeness.”
Just saw a truck for “Manella’s Poultry”.
You gotta think the name Salvatore is just off the table in that family.
You gotta think the name Salvatore is just off the table in that family.
July 8, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Just saw a truck for “Manella’s Poultry”.
You gotta think the name Salvatore is just off the table in that family.
You gotta think the name Salvatore is just off the table in that family.
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Santa Fe’s Archbishop Wester: “The passage of HR1 by the United States Congress marks a sad moment for the well-being of many in our country. It promises many things, but it delivers very little unless you are among an elite few.”
July 5, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Santa Fe’s Archbishop Wester: “The passage of HR1 by the United States Congress marks a sad moment for the well-being of many in our country. It promises many things, but it delivers very little unless you are among an elite few.”
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Please believe me when I tell you:
Double the fuck down on your spiritual practice now.
You are going to need it.
And no, that doesn't have to be a prayer-god thing.
The thing that sustains and nourishes you.
That makes you more alive to yourself, the world, others.
More present.
More:
Double the fuck down on your spiritual practice now.
You are going to need it.
And no, that doesn't have to be a prayer-god thing.
The thing that sustains and nourishes you.
That makes you more alive to yourself, the world, others.
More present.
More:
fortify inside
why spiritual practice matters during the rising authoritarian tide
www.lifeisasacredtext.com
July 4, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Please believe me when I tell you:
Double the fuck down on your spiritual practice now.
You are going to need it.
And no, that doesn't have to be a prayer-god thing.
The thing that sustains and nourishes you.
That makes you more alive to yourself, the world, others.
More present.
More:
Double the fuck down on your spiritual practice now.
You are going to need it.
And no, that doesn't have to be a prayer-god thing.
The thing that sustains and nourishes you.
That makes you more alive to yourself, the world, others.
More present.
More:
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"This bill forsakes the most vulnerable among us, widens both the economic and human gap between the rich and poor, and ignores the common good to benefit only the wealthiest in our country." #ArchbishopWester #PrayForAmerica losalamosreporter.com/2025/06/08/a...
Archbishop Wester: Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Betrays The Poor. The Church Must Oppose It
John C. Wester, Archbishop of Santa Fe. Photo by Susan Montoya Bryan/AP BY MOST REVERENT JOHN C. WESTERArchbishop of Santa Fe Editor’s note: Most Reverend John C. Wester’s Op-Ed, “…
losalamosreporter.com
July 3, 2025 at 12:02 PM
"This bill forsakes the most vulnerable among us, widens both the economic and human gap between the rich and poor, and ignores the common good to benefit only the wealthiest in our country." #ArchbishopWester #PrayForAmerica losalamosreporter.com/2025/06/08/a...
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The Holy Father met with the Synodal Council today. He spent about 90 minutes with us. It was a great grace to be able to greet him, to see and hear him.
Pope Leo’s opening remarks in Italian can be found here:
www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
Pope Leo’s opening remarks in Italian can be found here:
www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
June 26, 2025 at 6:22 PM
The Holy Father met with the Synodal Council today. He spent about 90 minutes with us. It was a great grace to be able to greet him, to see and hear him.
Pope Leo’s opening remarks in Italian can be found here:
www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
Pope Leo’s opening remarks in Italian can be found here:
www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
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INBOX: Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio, head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, is urging lawmakers to change the GOP-led “Big, Beautiful Bill” budget proposal, citing Pope Leo to argue that the bill “takes from the poor to give to the wealthy.”
It’s the strongest language USCCB has used yet
It’s the strongest language USCCB has used yet
June 26, 2025 at 7:54 PM
INBOX: Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio, head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, is urging lawmakers to change the GOP-led “Big, Beautiful Bill” budget proposal, citing Pope Leo to argue that the bill “takes from the poor to give to the wealthy.”
It’s the strongest language USCCB has used yet
It’s the strongest language USCCB has used yet
"The church is contradicted, but the church should not contradict—at least, not as its primary way of meeting the world. Who would accept our ministry when we do that? Who would accept the outstretched hand of someone constantly contradicting them?"
I agreed to give this talk before Pope Francis died. Pope Leo's election didn't change it much, but I did bend its conclusion toward Leo to explain a little more the situation we find ourselves in. It's good news, too.
open.substack.com/pub/millies/...
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Confrontation or Synodality? The New Parallel Magisterium against Pope Francis in the Twenty-First Century
Remarks for the Society of the Divine Word, May 28, 2025
open.substack.com
June 4, 2025 at 6:44 PM
"The church is contradicted, but the church should not contradict—at least, not as its primary way of meeting the world. Who would accept our ministry when we do that? Who would accept the outstretched hand of someone constantly contradicting them?"
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