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Joe Ferullo
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CEO/Publisher National Catholic Reporter, an independent progressive news outlet; previous: EVP of Programming CBS; media columnist at The Hill; producer NBC News/Dateline; ABC News; Rolling Stone
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Joe Ferullo @joeferullo.bsky.social · 2h
Via @rhinaguidos.bsky.social in NCR - At Washington conference, attorneys address an unsettling new era on immigration. "We gather today in unprecedented times."
#immigration #law #Catholic #migrants
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At Washington conference, attorneys address an unsettling new era on immigration
Panelists at the 22nd Annual Immigration Law and Policy Conference painted a picture of migrants consumed by fear and a legal community seeking to defend them, but suffering from a lack of resources.
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Via @jimmcd.bsky.social - Wondering about the sign of peace? Worried you’re ’doing it wrong’? Here's what to know.
#Catholic #Mass #peace
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Wondering about the sign of peace? Here's what to know.
Years out from social distancing practices, the form for exchanging peace during Mass is often unclear. Jim McDermott turns to liturgical experts to find out what parishioners need to know about the s...
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Joe Ferullo @joeferullo.bsky.social · 4h
Via NCR Opinion - Trump's assault on democratic norms is only getting worse. “Trump's presidency has corrupted everything that is good and shared about our political life, and he seems to relish his own divisiveness.”
#Trump
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Trump's assault on democratic norms is only getting worse
In America, electoral politics has often been spectacularly nasty. But Trump's corruption and divisiveness will destroy many of the things that helped keep the country stable and sane for decades and ...
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Joe Ferullo @joeferullo.bsky.social · 4h
Via NCR - Removing unexploded ordnance, workers bring life back to Vietnam's 'dead land' … "Before I enter a minefield, I whisper an Our Father and three Hail Marys.”
#Vietnam #war #mines
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Removing unexploded ordnance, workers bring life back to Vietnam's 'dead land'
In central Vietnam's Quang Tri province, once one of the fiercest battlefields of the Vietnam War, workers walk the land finding hidden unexploded ordnance.
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Joe Ferullo @joeferullo.bsky.social · 22h
Much worse than you imagined
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‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
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Joe Ferullo @joeferullo.bsky.social · 1d
Via NCR - Monastery where St. Carlo Acutis received first Communion in ruins after massive fire. All 22 nuns residing at the monastery have survived the devastating blaze.
#CarloAcutis #catholic #Italy
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Monastery where St. Carlo Acutis received first Communion in ruins after massive fire
A 17th-century monastery in northern Italy where recently canonized St. Carlo Acutis received his first Communion was in ruins after a massive fire ravaged the historic building.
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Joe Ferullo @joeferullo.bsky.social · 1d
Via @camillobarone.bsky.social in NCR - #Catholic activists in Chicago, barred from giving Communion to ICE detainees, plan next actions. “We must rely upon our God and our faith to be resilient people.”
#ICE #Chicago #Trump
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Activists in Chicago, barred from giving Communion to ICE detainees, plan next actions
A group of Catholics who marched to a Chicago immigration processing center and were prevented from giving Communion to detainees said they are not about to back down.
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Joe Ferullo @joeferullo.bsky.social · 1d
Via NCR - These 2 medieval #Catholic ideas on war are even more relevant today: The ‘Peace of God’ and the ‘Truce of God’ emerged from the trauma of the 10th century.
#Israel #Gaza #Ukraine #war
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These 2 medieval Catholic ideas on war are even more relevant today
Retrieving the concepts, writes Tobias Winright, "will raise attention to, and accountability for, indiscriminate and disproportionate civilian casualties."
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 1d
Shitty vibe reporting is not new — but its shoddy practitioners usually spell the name of person they are inaccurately sliming correctly. Breaking news: The Tiffany Network is now silver plate.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 2d
CBS News would never put a thinly sourced 'story' by a rookie blogger like this on it's air. Until now. The Free Press isn't a journalism outlet, it's bloggers aren't reporters. This piece is more NYPost than Tiffany Network but I guess that's the goal.

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Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming the NYC mayor, The Free Press reports
The Free Press spoke to several New York City Police Department officers who are worried about Zohran Mamdani becoming mayor. Olivia Reingold joins CBS News with more.
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Joe Ferullo @joeferullo.bsky.social · 1d
Via NCR Culture - Jelly Roll's #Vatican performance offers hope to those impacted by addiction. “Jelly Roll writes about the disease of addiction from the inside out: stuck, sick on floors and in church pews, pining to fly away.”
#PopeLeo
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Jelly Roll's Vatican performance offers hope to those impacted by addiction
Jelly Roll's growing, worldwide fanbase is populated with people like me: ordinary, struggling people whose lives have been impacted by addiction. His returning to, and offering of, light is why we seek out his music.
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Joe Ferullo @joeferullo.bsky.social · 2d
Via NCR - Amid historic deal, Gaza pastor says little is left after 'tsunami' of destruction. ""There's fear that there will be other waves. The fear is there."
#Gaza #Israel #Trump
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Amid historic deal, Gaza pastor says little is left after 'tsunami' of destruction
Historic momentum is felt across the Middle East as thousands gathered Oct. 11 in Tel Aviv, Israel, for the last mass gathering before the hostage release expected to take place Oct. 13, and tens of t...
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Joe Ferullo @joeferullo.bsky.social · 2d
St. Katharine Drexel's legacy endures as Black Catholic university she founded turns 100 www.globalsistersreport.org/ministry/st-...
St. Katharine Drexel's legacy endures as Black Catholic university she founded turns 100
Xavier was established in 1925 by St. Katharine Drexel on the financial strength of the multimillion-dollar inheritance she received from her Philadelphia father's banking estate. Stories are legendar...
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Joe Ferullo @joeferullo.bsky.social · 2d
Via @bfragancr.bsky.social - Boston exhibit highlights Pope Leo's family tree, tracing his ties to freedom fighters, nobility, slave owners, slaves and celebrities that include #AngelinaJolie and #JustinBieber.
#PopeLeo
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Boston exhibit highlights Pope Leo's family tree
The exhibit "The Ancestry of Pope Leo XIV: An American Story" features a chart of the pope's lineage that spans 14 generations. The exhibit also aims to shed light on the pope's ancestral ties to othe...
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Joe Ferullo @joeferullo.bsky.social · 2d
Via NCR Opinion - Can the ceasefire lead to genuine peace in the Mideast? ‘We can hope that people are more tired of war and hatred than they are consumed with a desire for vengeance.’
#Israel #Gaza #Trump
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Can the ceasefire lead to genuine peace in the Mideast?
With so much suffering on both sides of the divide these past two years, we can hope that people are more tired of war and hatred than they are consumed with a desire for vengeance, writes columnist M...
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Joe Ferullo @joeferullo.bsky.social · 3d
NCR Editorial: Pope Leo delivers breathtakingly bold salvo on wealth, elitism and poverty. It’s both risky and courageous, given current conditions in the church and society.
#PopeLeo #Catholic #money #wealth #poverty
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Editorial: Pope Leo delivers breathtakingly bold salvo on wealth, elitism and poverty
Prophetic in the truest sense, Dilexi Te is an uncompromising assessment of how wealth and faith in contemporary economic ideologies and markets have misshapen Christianity.
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Joe Ferullo @joeferullo.bsky.social · 3d
Via NCR - From pulpit to picket line: Religion and labor rights long connected in coal country.
#coal #religion #work
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From pulpit to picket line: Religion and labor rights long connected in coal country
For over a century, coal has transformed central Appalachia. All the while, religion has been transforming in the mountains, too. Labor and religion are deeply entangled here.
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Joe Ferullo @joeferullo.bsky.social · 4d
Oops.
Via WaPo - Trump administration says immigration enforcement threatens higher food prices. In an unusual acknowledgement, the Labor Department said that tougher immigration enforcement is hurting farmers and the food supply.
#Trump #food #farmers #immigration
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Joe Ferullo @joeferullo.bsky.social · 4d
Via NCR Culture - Golf and God: How the game can take us on the path to Ultimate Mystery, by containing three elements of spirituality: humility, hope …and humor.
#golf #sports #God #spirituality
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Golf and God: How a game can take us on the path to Ultimate Mystery
The game of golf, writes Pierre Eau Claire, contains three elements of spirituality: humility, hope and humor.
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Joe Ferullo @joeferullo.bsky.social · 4d
Via NCR Culture - Jelly Roll's #Vatican performance offers hope to those impacted by addiction. How has a man who's declared that he's nothing but a "broken down car on a side street" ended up shaking the hand of #PopeLeo?
#JellyRoll #addiction #drugs
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Jelly Roll's Vatican performance offers hope to those impacted by addiction
Jelly Roll's growing, worldwide fanbase is populated with people like me: ordinary, struggling people whose lives have been impacted by addiction. His returning to, and offering of, light is why we se...
www.ncronline.org
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Joe Ferullo @joeferullo.bsky.social · 4d
NCR Editorial: Pope Leo delivers breathtakingly bold salvo on wealth, elitism and poverty. It was courageous and risky in equal measure
#PopeLeo #Catholic #Christianity
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Editorial: Pope Leo delivers breathtakingly bold salvo on wealth, elitism and poverty
Prophetic in the truest sense, Dilexi Te is an uncompromising assessment of how wealth and faith in contemporary economic ideologies and markets have misshapen Christianity.
www.ncronline.org
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Joe Ferullo @joeferullo.bsky.social · 5d
Judge bars ICE from taking some violent actions against religious activists, journalists. Court rules that the use of force against people praying at ICE sites "substantially burdens their exercise of religion."
#ICE #Trump #religion
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Judge bars ICE from taking some violent actions against religious activists, journalists
The suit was primarily brought by journalists who allege they have been targeted by federal agents, but the list of plaintiffs also included the Rev. David Black, a Chicago-area Presbyterian minister.
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Joe Ferullo @joeferullo.bsky.social · 5d
Via NCR - Holy Land patriarch Cardinal Pizzaballa welcomes announcement of initial peace deal 'with joy' as 'first step'
#Trump #Gaza #Israel #Catholic
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Holy Land patriarch welcomes announcement of initial peace deal 'with joy' as 'first step'
The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem welcomed "with joy" the announcement of an initial agreement between Hamas and Israel in an Oct. 9 statement, but also stressed the "absolute urgency" for the "imme...
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Joe Ferullo @joeferullo.bsky.social · 5d
via NCR Opinion - It's time to wake up: The Catholic Church needs women deacons now. The Church's current refusal to ordain women as deacons increases human suffering.
#women #Catholic
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It's time to wake up: The Catholic Church needs women deacons now.
Daryl Grigsby on the burning need for ordained female ministry to honor Christian tradition and enliven a stagnant, monolithic permanent diaconate.
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Joe Ferullo @joeferullo.bsky.social · 5d
Via NCR - Sr. Jean Dolores Schmidt, Loyola Chicago's beloved basketball chaplain, dies at 106. She became one of the most talked-about personalities during the 2018 NCAA Tournament.
#NCAA #basketball #Chicago #Catholic
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Sr. Jean Dolores Schmidt, Loyola Chicago's beloved chaplain, dies at 106
Sr. Jean Dolores Schmidt, the chaplain for the men's basketball team at Loyola Chicago who became a beloved international celebrity during the school's fairy-tale run to the Final Four of the NCAA Tou...
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Joe Ferullo @joeferullo.bsky.social · 5d
Via NCR Opinion - It's US Latino Heritage Month. Where are the disappeared? “Even as the administration celebrates our presence, it continues to orchestrate our disappearance.”
#Trump #ICE #immigrants #Latinos
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It's Latino Heritage Month. Where are the disappeared?
"Collective Heritage: Honoring the Past, Inspiring the Future" is the theme for this year's Latino Heritage Month. While our communities continue to be surveilled, detained and disappeared, we remembe...
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