John T. Grosso
@jtgrosso.bsky.social
He must increase; I must decrease. [John 3:30]
After participating in "Good Morning America" co-anchor Gio Benitez’s confirmation Mass, some conservative Catholics unleashed a barrage of online attacks on @jamesmartinsj.bsky.social. It begs the question: Why are traditionalists so obsessed with him?
Why are traditionalists on Catholic Twitter still so obsessed with Jim Martin?
After participating in "Good Morning America" co-anchor Gio Benitez's confirmation Mass, some conservative Catholics unleashed a barrage of online attacks on Jesuit Fr. James Martin. Martin's crime? B...
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November 14, 2025 at 10:07 PM
After participating in "Good Morning America" co-anchor Gio Benitez’s confirmation Mass, some conservative Catholics unleashed a barrage of online attacks on @jamesmartinsj.bsky.social. It begs the question: Why are traditionalists so obsessed with him?
Feels like a good time to re-share this column I wrote about how @christopherjhale.bsky.social and other partisan progressives use hyperbolic and often embellished language to frame Pope Leo as a convenient tool for their political agenda.
Letters (not) from Leo: Progressive efforts to claim Pope Leo misunderstand his mission
As political tensions reach their boiling point in the United States, progressives have anointed Pope Leo XIV as their foil to President Donald Trump. The problem? Leo doesn't see himself that way.
www.ncronline.org
November 6, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Feels like a good time to re-share this column I wrote about how @christopherjhale.bsky.social and other partisan progressives use hyperbolic and often embellished language to frame Pope Leo as a convenient tool for their political agenda.
Progressives online are falling in love with a version of Pope Leo that doesn’t exist - and one that the pope explicitly rejects - thanks to the partisan efforts of @christopherjhale.bsky.social and @occupydemocrats.bsky.social.
My latest column: www.ncronline.org/opinion/lett...
My latest column: www.ncronline.org/opinion/lett...
Letters (not) from Leo: Progressive efforts to claim Pope Leo misunderstand his mission
As political tensions reach their boiling point in the United States, progressives have anointed Pope Leo XIV as their foil to President Donald Trump. The problem? Leo doesn't see himself that way.
www.ncronline.org
October 23, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Progressives online are falling in love with a version of Pope Leo that doesn’t exist - and one that the pope explicitly rejects - thanks to the partisan efforts of @christopherjhale.bsky.social and @occupydemocrats.bsky.social.
My latest column: www.ncronline.org/opinion/lett...
My latest column: www.ncronline.org/opinion/lett...
“The death of truth is the ultimate victory of evil. When truth leaves us, when we let it slip away, when it is ripped from our hands, we become vulnerable to the appetite of whatever monster screams the loudest.”
September 16, 2025 at 1:37 PM
“The death of truth is the ultimate victory of evil. When truth leaves us, when we let it slip away, when it is ripped from our hands, we become vulnerable to the appetite of whatever monster screams the loudest.”
Some noted a Kirk appearance in 2023 in which he said that gun deaths were "unfortunately" worth it for the right to bear arms.
“I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights.”
“I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights.”
Shock and prayers after conservative activist Charlie Kirk shot and killed
Conservative activist Charlie Kirk was killed after being shot Sept. 10 during an event at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, the president announced on social media.
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September 11, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Some noted a Kirk appearance in 2023 in which he said that gun deaths were "unfortunately" worth it for the right to bear arms.
“I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights.”
“I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights.”
I wrote about this sacrilege for @ncronline.bsky.social. www.ncronline.org/opinion/home...
July 12, 2025 at 1:14 AM
I wrote about this sacrilege for @ncronline.bsky.social. www.ncronline.org/opinion/home...
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National Catholic Reporter ran an opinion piece. “The video uses an audio clip from the 2014 movie "Fury … Had anyone involved in the creation of this video had any Scripture IQ, no doubt the irony would have been clear.” Lazy, clownish and amateur considering DHS’ $43.8 billion budget.
Homeland Security weaponizes Bible verse to justify Trump's immigration tactics
"Here am I, send me," from Isaiah, is the caption on a DHS promotional video, which also used a clip from the movie "Fury." The message is clear: It is glorifying Trump's military intervention at the ...
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July 11, 2025 at 5:28 PM
National Catholic Reporter ran an opinion piece. “The video uses an audio clip from the 2014 movie "Fury … Had anyone involved in the creation of this video had any Scripture IQ, no doubt the irony would have been clear.” Lazy, clownish and amateur considering DHS’ $43.8 billion budget.
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The blasphemous post is the latest in a series of heretical use of Scripture to christen an agenda that is an affront not just to the Christian faith, but to God himself.
Homeland Security weaponizes Bible verse to justify Trump's immigration tactics
"Here am I, send me," from Isaiah, is the caption on a DHS promotional video, which also used a clip from the movie "Fury." The message is clear: It is glorifying Trump's military intervention at the ...
www.ncronline.org
July 9, 2025 at 1:19 AM
The blasphemous post is the latest in a series of heretical use of Scripture to christen an agenda that is an affront not just to the Christian faith, but to God himself.
The blasphemous post is the latest in a series of heretical use of Scripture to christen an agenda that is an affront not just to the Christian faith, but to God himself.
Homeland Security weaponizes Bible verse to justify Trump's immigration tactics
"Here am I, send me," from Isaiah, is the caption on a DHS promotional video, which also used a clip from the movie "Fury." The message is clear: It is glorifying Trump's military intervention at the ...
www.ncronline.org
July 9, 2025 at 1:25 AM
The blasphemous post is the latest in a series of heretical use of Scripture to christen an agenda that is an affront not just to the Christian faith, but to God himself.
Reposted by John T. Grosso
Homeland Security weaponizes Bible verse to justify Trump's immigration tactics. Another Digital Dunces from the inimitable John Grosso. He can spot hypocrisy a mile away. www.ncronline.org/node/305681 via @NCRonline
Homeland Security weaponizes Bible verse to justify Trump's immigration tactics
"Here am I, send me," from Isaiah, is the caption on a DHS promotional video, which also used a clip from the movie "Fury." The message is clear: It is glorifying Trump's military intervention at the ...
www.ncronline.org
July 9, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Homeland Security weaponizes Bible verse to justify Trump's immigration tactics. Another Digital Dunces from the inimitable John Grosso. He can spot hypocrisy a mile away. www.ncronline.org/node/305681 via @NCRonline
To love one’s country does not mean wearing an American flag T-shirt and pretending it has no flaws or shortcomings. That is not patriotism. That’s delusion.
Does America even deserve a birthday this year?
Every year on the Fourth of July for as long as I can remember, my family has gotten an ice cream cake, adorned it with candles, and sang 'happy birthday' to America. This resilient tradition has look...
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July 3, 2025 at 7:58 PM
To love one’s country does not mean wearing an American flag T-shirt and pretending it has no flaws or shortcomings. That is not patriotism. That’s delusion.
In showing exactly what it takes to resist the ever-growing power of a fascist empire, Disney's "Andor" serves as both a prophetic example — and a desperate warning cry.
My latest for NCR.
My latest for NCR.
Star Wars' 'Andor' takes on the American empire
In showing exactly what it takes to resist the ever-growing power of a fascist empire, Disney's "Andor" serves as both a prophetic example — and a desperate warning cry.
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June 14, 2025 at 2:35 PM
In showing exactly what it takes to resist the ever-growing power of a fascist empire, Disney's "Andor" serves as both a prophetic example — and a desperate warning cry.
My latest for NCR.
My latest for NCR.
Clout-chasers and rumormongers falsely claimed that Pope Leo XIV was going to “log off” social media.
Turns out, that was fake news.
Turns out, that was fake news.
Pope Leo XIV is staying on social media
Despite rumors to the contrary, Pope Leo XIV will be keeping the papal social media presence on X and Instagram. He shared his first post Tuesday afternoon Rome time.
www.ncronline.org
May 13, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Clout-chasers and rumormongers falsely claimed that Pope Leo XIV was going to “log off” social media.
Turns out, that was fake news.
Turns out, that was fake news.
Reposted by John T. Grosso
Reposted by John T. Grosso
The NCR article that now Pope Leo XIV retweeted on February 3rd: www.ncronline.org/opinion/gues...
JD Vance is wrong: Jesus doesn't ask us to rank our love for others
In a viral Fox News interview, the vice president suggested that it is more Christian to prioritize your family over a stranger, but Jesus wanted us to demolish the categories that keep us from seeing...
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May 8, 2025 at 6:18 PM
The NCR article that now Pope Leo XIV retweeted on February 3rd: www.ncronline.org/opinion/gues...
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You know how we all said we knew something would be different with Pope Francis when he appeared in white and asked us to pray for him?
Well my moment with this new Pope Leo XIV is him praying the Hail Mary and swallowing back tears
#HabemusPapam
#LeoXIV
Well my moment with this new Pope Leo XIV is him praying the Hail Mary and swallowing back tears
#HabemusPapam
#LeoXIV
May 8, 2025 at 5:41 PM
You know how we all said we knew something would be different with Pope Francis when he appeared in white and asked us to pray for him?
Well my moment with this new Pope Leo XIV is him praying the Hail Mary and swallowing back tears
#HabemusPapam
#LeoXIV
Well my moment with this new Pope Leo XIV is him praying the Hail Mary and swallowing back tears
#HabemusPapam
#LeoXIV
Pope Leo XIV has read NCR. We took a deep dive into the tweets of Pope Leo XIV, from when he was Cardinal Robert Prevost, to begin to understand the man who will now lead 1.4 billion Catholics.
What can we learn about Pope Leo XIV from his X account?
Pope Leo XIV has read NCR. We took a deep dive into the tweets of Pope Leo XIV, from when he was Cardinal Robert Prevost, to begin to understand the man who will now lead 1.4 billion Catholics.
www.ncronline.org
May 9, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Pope Leo XIV has read NCR. We took a deep dive into the tweets of Pope Leo XIV, from when he was Cardinal Robert Prevost, to begin to understand the man who will now lead 1.4 billion Catholics.
Trump could have apologized. He had the opportunity to acknowledge his error and move on. He could have issued one of those "I am sorry you were offended" non-apologies. Instead, he chose the language of a bully. It was not enough to mock us; he wants to tell the world that we liked it, too.
'Catholics loved it' says Trump over sacrilegious AI image of himself as pope
Despite the firestorm surrounding his "Pope Trump" post, President Donald Trump claimed that the outrage was not from the millions of Catholics offended by his actions, but instead engineered by the "...
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May 6, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Trump could have apologized. He had the opportunity to acknowledge his error and move on. He could have issued one of those "I am sorry you were offended" non-apologies. Instead, he chose the language of a bully. It was not enough to mock us; he wants to tell the world that we liked it, too.
Happy Star Wars Day! Here’s a reminder that Bishop Barron cares more about feminism in The Last Jedi than he does the poor and marginalized.
Word extinguished: Bishop Barron's digital silence
When confronted with a perceived slight to his brand of Catholicism, Bishop Robert Barron is quick to post on social media. But when it comes to those on the margins, his alleged prophetic voice is co...
www.ncronline.org
May 4, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Happy Star Wars Day! Here’s a reminder that Bishop Barron cares more about feminism in The Last Jedi than he does the poor and marginalized.
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Though he is absent from the proceedings in Rome, Barron is in luck. His Rose Garden gathering this week included a pope.
On the official White House X account, Trump shared an AI-generated image of himself in full papal regalia.
Maybe Trump thinks it is funny. Millions do not.
On the official White House X account, Trump shared an AI-generated image of himself in full papal regalia.
Maybe Trump thinks it is funny. Millions do not.
Digital Dunces: Bishop Barron championed First Amendment at White House, but has he forgotten the First Commandment?
"Thou shalt not worship false Gods" seems an apropos warning in Donald Trump's America.
www.ncronline.org
May 3, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Though he is absent from the proceedings in Rome, Barron is in luck. His Rose Garden gathering this week included a pope.
On the official White House X account, Trump shared an AI-generated image of himself in full papal regalia.
Maybe Trump thinks it is funny. Millions do not.
On the official White House X account, Trump shared an AI-generated image of himself in full papal regalia.
Maybe Trump thinks it is funny. Millions do not.
Reposted by John T. Grosso
Gen Z is adding their own unique take on the upcoming conclave and reacting in their own language: memes.
How Gen Z is meme-ifying the conclave
Gen Z is adding their own unique take on the upcoming conclave and reacting in their own language: memes.
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April 29, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Gen Z is adding their own unique take on the upcoming conclave and reacting in their own language: memes.
Pope Trump? That’s what the President suggested when talking to reporters at the White House yesterday.
It is imperative, according to canon law, that any candidate is of sound mind.
This, along with not being a baptized Catholic, would rule out the President.
It is imperative, according to canon law, that any candidate is of sound mind.
This, along with not being a baptized Catholic, would rule out the President.
LIVE UPDATES: Catholic Church at the crossroads
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April 30, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Pope Trump? That’s what the President suggested when talking to reporters at the White House yesterday.
It is imperative, according to canon law, that any candidate is of sound mind.
This, along with not being a baptized Catholic, would rule out the President.
It is imperative, according to canon law, that any candidate is of sound mind.
This, along with not being a baptized Catholic, would rule out the President.
Reposted by John T. Grosso
Pope Trump? That’s what the president of the United Stated suggested when talking to reporters at the White House yesterday.
It is imperative, according to canon Law, that any candidate is of sound mind.
This, along with not being a baptized Catholic, would rule out President Trump.
It is imperative, according to canon Law, that any candidate is of sound mind.
This, along with not being a baptized Catholic, would rule out President Trump.
LIVE UPDATES: Catholic Church at the crossroads
The Independent News Source
www.ncronline.org
April 30, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Pope Trump? That’s what the president of the United Stated suggested when talking to reporters at the White House yesterday.
It is imperative, according to canon Law, that any candidate is of sound mind.
This, along with not being a baptized Catholic, would rule out President Trump.
It is imperative, according to canon Law, that any candidate is of sound mind.
This, along with not being a baptized Catholic, would rule out President Trump.
The proliferation of social media use since the last conclave has plunged us into uncharted territory — as conservatives campaign online for one cardinal and smear another.
Social media conservatives attempt to smear a papal contender
The proliferation of social media use since the last conclave has plunged us into uncharted territory — as conservatives campaign online for one cardinal and smear another.
www.ncronline.org
April 30, 2025 at 2:55 PM
The proliferation of social media use since the last conclave has plunged us into uncharted territory — as conservatives campaign online for one cardinal and smear another.
When he was elected in 2013, Pope Francis was celebrated as the first Latin American pope. It seems only fitting that such a groundbreaking pope would be the one to charge fearlessly into the digital continent as well.
In my latest for NCR, I explore the late Holy Father’s digital legacy.
In my latest for NCR, I explore the late Holy Father’s digital legacy.
The 1st all-in social media pope: How an octogenarian dragged the church into digital age
When he was elected in 2013, Pope Francis was celebrated as the first Latin American pope. It seems only fitting that such a groundbreaking pope would be the one to charge fearlessly into the digital ...
www.ncronline.org
April 24, 2025 at 7:46 PM
When he was elected in 2013, Pope Francis was celebrated as the first Latin American pope. It seems only fitting that such a groundbreaking pope would be the one to charge fearlessly into the digital continent as well.
In my latest for NCR, I explore the late Holy Father’s digital legacy.
In my latest for NCR, I explore the late Holy Father’s digital legacy.