Natalia Imperatori-Lee
@nimperatori.bsky.social
Catholic theologian, professor, feminist. Cuban-American mom in NYC. Church nerd, cross-stitcher, romance reader. She/her.
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In 1920s, Pius XI explained how he had approached negotiations with Mussolini: "When it comes to saving souls, we feel the courage to negotiate even with the devil." In later years, Pius XI understood the cost of those negotiations. Some US bishops seems to have learned nothing.
November 7, 2025 at 8:17 AM
In 1920s, Pius XI explained how he had approached negotiations with Mussolini: "When it comes to saving souls, we feel the courage to negotiate even with the devil." In later years, Pius XI understood the cost of those negotiations. Some US bishops seems to have learned nothing.
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If I was working at the Times (would never happen lol) I would be talking to my women colleagues and perhaps outside counsel about whether this constitutes a Title VII violation.
November 6, 2025 at 5:00 PM
If I was working at the Times (would never happen lol) I would be talking to my women colleagues and perhaps outside counsel about whether this constitutes a Title VII violation.
BINGO! fanfics is spot-on.
JD didn’t convert to Catholicism to do what the pope says. He did it to unite with the fundamentalist trad Caths living fan fics about oppressing people from the Church before Vatican 2 reforms & the Crusades & colonizing the world forcing them to convert at the barrel of a gun.
November 6, 2025 at 6:41 PM
BINGO! fanfics is spot-on.
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Women should have jobs, but Ross Douthat shouldn’t.
November 6, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Women should have jobs, but Ross Douthat shouldn’t.
You can't talk about a big tent party and do this too.
All Democrats should get in the habit of supporting other Democrats no matter how much they might disagree in the background. This kind of behavior won’t win hearts and minds. More like contempt from both sides.
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Democratic Rep. Tom Suozzi explains why he's not backing Zohran Mamdani for NYC mayor
YouTube video by CBS News
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November 5, 2025 at 7:05 PM
You can't talk about a big tent party and do this too.
Bingo. Remember this, Catholics. Learn your American Catholic history.
The irony is that a century ago, the exact same kind of religious bigotry that Cuomo’s embraced down the stretch — we can’t elect someone from that faith or they’ll impose it on all of us! — was aimed squarely at Catholics like Cuomo.
Boy Mamdani's race is really a vivid reminder that anti-Islamic bigotry is 100% accepted in US public discourse. People don't even bother dog whistling, it's just right out in the open.
November 5, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Bingo. Remember this, Catholics. Learn your American Catholic history.
I wrote an undergraduate senior thesis on this co-redemptrix movement in 1998. Who says undergraduate research isn't important ;)
Jesus may have heard words of wisdom from his mother Mary, but she did not help him save the world from damnation, the Vatican said on Tuesday. For @reuters.com
Jesus, not Virgin Mary, saved the world, Vatican says
Jesus may have heard words of wisdom from his mother Mary, but she did not help him save the world from damnation, the Vatican said on Tuesday.
www.reuters.com
November 4, 2025 at 1:36 PM
I wrote an undergraduate senior thesis on this co-redemptrix movement in 1998. Who says undergraduate research isn't important ;)
Mollie, Susan, Rita, Heidi? DREAM TEAM of writers (to say nothing of Claudia, part of the dream team of editors). Catholic lay-led journalism that values women's voices and analysis is exactly what the church/world needs.
Please join us in welcoming the great @heidischlumpf.bsky.social to Commonweal! We’re delighted to announce that Heidi will be coming on board as Senior Correspondent.
Read more about it here!
www.commonwealmagazine.org/news/heidi-s...
Read more about it here!
www.commonwealmagazine.org/news/heidi-s...
November 4, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Mollie, Susan, Rita, Heidi? DREAM TEAM of writers (to say nothing of Claudia, part of the dream team of editors). Catholic lay-led journalism that values women's voices and analysis is exactly what the church/world needs.
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Social media amplifies our worst tendencies: bloodlust, baseless speculation, the hunger for vengeance. We were not made to see people repeatedly murdered on camera. We were not meant to read every person's unfiltered opinions. It is corrosive to the soul.
September 12, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Social media amplifies our worst tendencies: bloodlust, baseless speculation, the hunger for vengeance. We were not made to see people repeatedly murdered on camera. We were not meant to read every person's unfiltered opinions. It is corrosive to the soul.
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“It’s not that traditional liberal arts is out of step with student demand. Instead, it’s out of step with the priorities values desires of a powerful board of trustees with no apparent commitment to liberal education, an administrative class.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/o...
Opinion | Students Want the Liberal Arts. Administrators, Not So Much.
www.nytimes.com
July 17, 2025 at 11:52 AM
“It’s not that traditional liberal arts is out of step with student demand. Instead, it’s out of step with the priorities values desires of a powerful board of trustees with no apparent commitment to liberal education, an administrative class.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/o...
and three in some disciplines!
That kind of money could cover two tenure-track lines in most disciplines.
The University of Texas will waste $325,000 of public money on a speechwriter for the President.
July 17, 2025 at 7:30 PM
and three in some disciplines!
Thank you, @jackjenkins.me and @alejacorazonhm.bsky.social for this article. Bishops speaking freely & forcefully in defense of the vulnerable should be the norm, not the exception.
NEW from me and @alejacorazonhm.bsky.social: Last month something odd happened: Catholic bishops signed two conflicting statements on the GOP budget bill.
It’s a split emerging among Catholic leaders — and nuns! — that’s years in the making, accelerated by Trump. religionnews.com/2025/07/09/t...
It’s a split emerging among Catholic leaders — and nuns! — that’s years in the making, accelerated by Trump. religionnews.com/2025/07/09/t...
Trump's immigration agenda is widening fissures in Catholic hierarchy's consensus
(RNS) — ‘Francis-aligned’ bishops are following the late pope’s lead in stirring debate where politics and pastoral issues meet.
religionnews.com
July 10, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Thank you, @jackjenkins.me and @alejacorazonhm.bsky.social for this article. Bishops speaking freely & forcefully in defense of the vulnerable should be the norm, not the exception.
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Departments should better track male versus female true workloads— including ALL service work—and make this info transparent.
A *huge* problem. It also includes search committee positions, review requests, letters of recommendation, P&T reviews (so, so many of these post tenure)—it goes on and on. And the social penalties for women saying no are so dramatically higher than when men say no.
In a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 weeks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising & teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties & ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...
July 8, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Departments should better track male versus female true workloads— including ALL service work—and make this info transparent.
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Posting this 1967 Birmingham News editorial cartoon for all the people who don't realize that this is how MLK was viewed by a big chunk of white America.
June 10, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Posting this 1967 Birmingham News editorial cartoon for all the people who don't realize that this is how MLK was viewed by a big chunk of white America.
Never a bad day when I get to talk church with @mollieoreilly.bsky.social (my favorite interlocutor, like, ever) and @dominicpreziosi.bsky.social! Tune in for some thoughts on Pope BAAHB from ChicAAAHgow.
New on the Commonweal podcast: @nimperatori.bsky.social, @mollieoreilly.bsky.social and @dominicpreziosi.bsky.social review and reflect on Pope Leo’s first week on the chair of St. Peter.
Listen now!
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Listen now!
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The First U.S. Pontiff
Natalia Imperatori-Lee and Mollie Wilson O’Reilly reflect on Pope Leo’s first week.
www.commonwealmagazine.org
May 21, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Never a bad day when I get to talk church with @mollieoreilly.bsky.social (my favorite interlocutor, like, ever) and @dominicpreziosi.bsky.social! Tune in for some thoughts on Pope BAAHB from ChicAAAHgow.
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As I said on MSNBC, in 1960 white evangelical christians accused JFK that he would put the Pope over our Constitution. Today we have a new Pope who supports our Constitution more than our current President. And the white christians support this anti-constitutional President and attack the Pope.
May 14, 2025 at 12:52 PM
As I said on MSNBC, in 1960 white evangelical christians accused JFK that he would put the Pope over our Constitution. Today we have a new Pope who supports our Constitution more than our current President. And the white christians support this anti-constitutional President and attack the Pope.
Pope Bob-From-Chicago!
May 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Pope Bob-From-Chicago!
Everyone should listen to my friend Mollie preach. And support Catholic Women Preach! Because exposure to Catholicism shouldn't only come in one kind of voice.
Since there's not much going on in the Catholic world, I thought it'd be a good time to make my debut as a contributor to Catholic Women Preach. Get ready with me for Good Shepherd Sunday! www.catholicwomenpreach.org/preaching/05...
Fourth Sunday of Easter: May 11, 2025
Mollie Wilson O’Reilly reflects on the readings for Fourth Sunday of Easter. Acts 13:14, 43-52 | Revelation 7:9, 14b-17 | John 10:27-30
www.catholicwomenpreach.org
May 9, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Everyone should listen to my friend Mollie preach. And support Catholic Women Preach! Because exposure to Catholicism shouldn't only come in one kind of voice.
Two women were lectors at the pope's first mass? 👀
May 9, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Two women were lectors at the pope's first mass? 👀
omg @antheabutler.bsky.social !!!!!!!
who called it woke pope and not Opus DEI
May 9, 2025 at 3:26 PM
omg @antheabutler.bsky.social !!!!!!!
on point.
May 9, 2025 at 3:23 PM
on point.
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In Lincoln Park: "He has eaten our dogs"
May 8, 2025 at 10:11 PM
In Lincoln Park: "He has eaten our dogs"
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Whoever it was who posted that Woke Marxist Pope tracks onto Pink Pony Club has given me absolute brainrot, because I woke up singing it, thank you very much.
May 9, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Whoever it was who posted that Woke Marxist Pope tracks onto Pink Pony Club has given me absolute brainrot, because I woke up singing it, thank you very much.
omg FLORA!
Ha.
To be honest, I don’t think he has that guilt, which is a deep socialization process. And that probably explains a lot.
To be honest, I don’t think he has that guilt, which is a deep socialization process. And that probably explains a lot.
Ok but imagine if you (JD Vance) convert to Catholicism, the pope calls you wrong on main, you meet the pope, the pope immediately dies, then there is a new pope, and half of this new pope’s only 5 tweets from 2025 are ALSO about how you’re wrong. JD go feel that Catholic guilt, girl!
May 9, 2025 at 1:22 PM
omg FLORA!
Derek Guy retweeting NCR, the pope retweeting NCR--why aren't YOU reading @ncronline.bsky.social ???
Raniero Mancinelli, 86, has been a tailor for about 70 years. He made the robes that welcomed the Pope today. You can read about him in the National Catholic Reporter (check the links in the IG handles below).
IG sistersreport and ncronline
IG sistersreport and ncronline
May 9, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Derek Guy retweeting NCR, the pope retweeting NCR--why aren't YOU reading @ncronline.bsky.social ???