'Italy’s hard Right pushes a reactionary ideology drawing from 'paternal Catholic modernism'...But describing Meloni’s Fratelli d’Italia merely as 'populist' obscures its neo-fascist origins and nature.'
~Massimo Faggioli in Commonweal Magazine
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Finally something to unify Catholics.

My latest. The governors of FL, TX and AZ are Catholics who claim to be 'pro-life' and defend family values. But they are using migrants as props in cruel political stunts. Pope Francis: 'Migrants and refugees are not pawns on the chessboard of humanity.' nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-ope…

Terrific obit for a legendary journalist.

'When the pre-Roe abortion bans were enacted, a culture of trust in the medical profession gave doctors wide latitude to make abortion decisions in medical emergencies, even with highly restrictive abortion laws on the books. But this level of trust no longer exists...'

My story today in NCR

“While leaving Venezuela, they had to go on a boat, and at one point they had to jump off the boat and swim underwater. It was terrifying. They didn't know what was going to happen to them.”

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Didn’t take long for social media Catholic hate monger to use his channel to demonstrate his lack of character and Christian charity.

Meaning “back to relatively normal.” Americans have lived with nearly-free credit so long that they don’t realize what an aberration it was.

This is Pro-Life Catholicism, like it or not:

A spectacularly idiotic editorial. The Pope is refraining from publicly criticising China over Zen not because of the Basic Agreement but because Zen has asked him not to, for his own sake. catholicherald.co.uk/pope-francis-h…

Francis said today that Ukrainians were being subjected to savageness, monstrosities and torture, calling them a 'noble' people being martyred reuters.com/world/europe/p…

Bishop John Stowe: 'It is shameful to see the governors of Florida and Texas adding new dimensions of abuse and cruelty to the plight of #migrants in our nation.'

'In the United States, a whole current of Thomism is very marked by logic and the rigor of reasoning, which somewhat forgets the historical dimension of Aquinas,' says the Angelicum's dean of philosophy.

“Thomists” gather in Rome for major congress international.la-croix.com/news/religiont…

The Flemish-speaking bishops of Belgium have appointed a contact person for ministry to and with gay Catholics and have authorized prayer for committed gay couples on the condition it is clear that it is not equivalent to a wedding blessing.
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