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Bridget 🧟‍♀️ Oooo Brains @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 3h

I chuckled!!

Bridget 🧟‍♀️ Oooo Brains @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 3h

The week of “Why am I so detestably emotionally flimsy this week? Oh, I guess it’s the anniversary of my father’s death and that works on me in a subconscious level. God, get a grip and get over yourself, O’Brien; grow up, you baby,” repeat x1000.

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Bridget 🧟‍♀️ Oooo Brains @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 8h

lollllllll

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Bridget 🧟‍♀️ Oooo Brains @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 8h

Papa Leone has moved inside and I have now jump-scared myself no fewer than 6 times, aka “every single time I have left a room and walked into the hallway.”

An interior photo. A life-sized cardboard cutout of Pope Leo XIV wearing a white cassock and zucchetto stands next to the wall. Three large photos are on the wall just above his head. Behind him is a wooden door framed with stained glass; across from him is an open interior door. The floor is hardwood with an oriental rug.

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 11h

Whistling when ICE is about to kidnap someone for no reason is incredibly effective. They know what they are doing is wrong and will scatter in the wind when too many witnesses gather.

FORM A CROWD
STAY LOUD
PROTECT EACH OTHER
CODE I:
ICE NEARBY
BLOW QUICKLY IN A BROKEN RHYTHM:
PRE-PRE-PRE!
→ ALERTS THE COMMUNITY THAT ICE AGENTS ARE IN THE AREA.
ROGERS PARK WHISTLE PROTOCOLS
WHY A WHISTLE? ON THE STREETS
• A SIMPLE TOOL FOR FAST ALERTS.
• LOUD.
RECOGNIZABLE.
IMPOSSIBLE TO IGNORE.
• OUR VOICES ARE
STRONGER TOGETHER.
WHISTLES GUIDE
PEOPLE TO:
• FOLLOW ICE CARAVANS
• CATCH UP WITH THE CROWD
• ALERT NEIGHBORS
TO JOIN IN
NOISE = VISIBILITY.
CODE 2:
CODE RED
BLOW THREE LONG BLASTS:
PREEEE-PREEEE-PREEEE!
→ ICE IS DETAINING SOMEONE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
DON'T STAY SILENT. STAY NONVIOLENT.
WHY IT WORKS
• INSTANT ALERT
SYSTEM
• FASTER THAN SOCIAL MEDIA
• TURNS SILENCE INTO COMMUNITY
ACTION
ORIGINAL FLYER CREATED BY:
WHAT YOU CAN DO
• WEAR YOUR WHISTLE AROUND YOUR NECK
TEACH FAMILY
EIGHBORS TH
CODES
• USE IT WHEN ICE IS
SPOTTED
• PROTECT EACH OTHER, ALWAYS
TOGETHER, WE KEEP OUR COMMUNITY SAFE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
THIS FLYER DISTRIBUTED BY:
PROTECT RP
• @PROTECTRP_

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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly @mollieoreilly.bsky.social · 9h

The Catholic Chapel and Center at Yale has added these (and more) quotations from various papal teachings about care and concern for immigrants to the windows outside its main meeting room. This is the kind of catechesis we need more of in the U.S. church.

A window pane with this text: "...No one would exchange his country for a foreign land if his own afforded him the means of living a decent and happy life." —Pope Leo XIII, Rerum Novarum (1891), no. 47

"Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, living in exile in Egypt to escape the fury of an evil king, are, for all times and all places, the models and protectors of every migrant, alien, and refugee of whatever kind, who, whether compelled by fear of persecution or by want, is forced to leave his native land, his beloved friends and relatives, his close friends, and to seek a foreign soil." —Pope Pius XII, Exsul Familia Nazarethana (1962), Apostolic Constitution

"The poverty and misfortune with which immigrants are stricken are yet another reason for coming generously to their aid... It is necessary to guard against the rise of new forms of racism or xenophobic behavior, which attempt to make these brothers and sisters of ours scapegoats for what may be difficult local situations..." John Paul II, World Migration Day (1996)

"Migrants present a particular challenge for me, since I am the pastor of a church without frontiers, a Church which considers herself a mother to all. For this reason, I exhort all countries to a generous openness which, rather than fearing the loss of local identity, will prove capable of creating new forms of cultural synthesis." Pope Francis, Evangelii Gaudium (2013)

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Bridget 🧟‍♀️ Oooo Brains @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 10h

❤️

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Bridget 🧟‍♀️ Oooo Brains @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 10h

The liturgists are both out this morning, so between printing last-minute updates to the prayers of the faithful and washing the sacred vessels, I am living this Onion article even more explicitly than I usually do. theonion.com/local-woman-...

Local Woman Devotes Life To Doing God's Busy Work

LORETTO, MN—Although you won’t see her speaking from the pulpit or spreading God’s word to the masses, St. Augustine Catholic Church parishioner Betty Salas, 46, sacrifices both her time and energy to...

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Jake @jakeall.bsky.social · 16h

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Coalition for Spiritual and Public Leadership @csplaction.bsky.social · 11h

We’re wondering the same thing. How can you deny the body of Christ and our right to extend communion to those in need of hope, solidarity and kinship. What is there to hide inside the detention center is so morally offensive that they’re unwilling to allow nuns and priests to enter?

Mezentine @mezentine.bsky.social · 15h

Why won’t they let anyone inside that building?

Keep asking the question: why won’t they let anyone inside that building?

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Bridget 🧟‍♀️ Oooo Brains @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 12h

A photograph of a balcony with two columns and, standing between those columns in front of a door with stained glass, a life-sized cardboard cutout of Pope Leo XIV wearing his white cassock and zucchetto.

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Bridget 🧟‍♀️ Oooo Brains @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 12h

(Though it’s now St. Simon of Cyrene, following a merge with St. Martin de Porres.)

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Bridget 🧟‍♀️ Oooo Brains @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 13h

What did past me ever do for me??

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Bridget 🧟‍♀️ Oooo Brains @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 13h

The church is at the halfway point for the Chicago Marathon & the rectory has a second-floor balcony; the pastor put our life-sized Pope Leo cutout on the balcony and people are really getting a kick out of it.

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Bridget 🧟‍♀️ Oooo Brains @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 16h

I have never related to anything more: Past Bridget is my worst enemy, and Future Bridget a phantasm to whom I owe no fealty.

I envisaged I’d have a job ahead of me the following morning, but that is a problem for future Séamas, who I’ve always considered something of a bore.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 17h

🏡😢

We are standing at the threshold and my daughter is distraught. Four weeks into her new nursery and she’s finding the trip there harder every day. This, despite the fact that said nursery is inside the school her brother attends, a school so close to our house that if I stand in our living room, I’m closer to my kids than I am to our kitchen sink. It’s not merely close but directly opposite. In fact, our doors line up so neatly that, were there ice on the roads, I could skim her there successfully with a single well-placed shove.

And, still, each time I depart, she wails like a wartime evacuee, appalled at being on her own. She has developed, as her brother did before her, a strain of homesickness so profound that it kicks in over distances barely measurable by science.

In his case, I cited my own rural upbringing, the hour-long trip from school each day, utilising several buses, with a two-mile walk at its terminus. When this failed to impress upon him the concept of relative hardships, I pointed to our bedroom window and told him we’d be right there. Sadly, he took this so literally that any time he looked up at our window and didn’t see us, he was devastated, since he had taken those warm words as a commitment to surrender all other responsibilities and stand at the window of our bedroom, engaged in the legally inadvisable practice of staring into a primary school for eight hours each day.

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Bridget 🧟‍♀️ Oooo Brains @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 18h

Chicago Marathon day. I live on the route and work on a different part of the route, so everyone pray for me that I can successfully get to & from work today.

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Bridget 🧟‍♀️ Oooo Brains @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 18h

www.csplaction.org

Coalition for Spiritual & Public Leadership || Chicago Faith-Based Non-Profit

As a Chicago faith-based non-profit, we merge liberation theology & community organizing to bring together Catholic & Christian people in Chicago & the western suburbs, including Maywood, Proviso, and...

www.csplaction.org

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Bridget 🧟‍♀️ Oooo Brains @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 1d

Also: I like & respect Fr. Larry A LOT, and his words are rightfully being celebrated.

But let’s not lose sight of the leadership of the Coalition for Spiritual & Public Leadership, who organized this action and continue to organize prayerful protest & action formed by liberation theology.

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Bridget 🧟‍♀️ Oooo Brains @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 1d

Geordi LaForge meme with the “no” reaction reading DnD Catholicism and the “yes” reaction reading Catholics playing DnD

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Bridget 🧟‍♀️ Oooo Brains @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 1d

Oooooooooooof.

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Bridget 🧟‍♀️ Oooo Brains @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 1d

COALITION FOR SPIRITUAL & PUBLIC LEADERSHIP

WHAT WE DO

We bring together organizations, congregations, universities, parishes, and other grassroots organizations in Chicago & the western suburbs, particularly Maywood, Melrose Park, and Proviso Township, to build power to create thriving communities.

We equip people of faith with skills to build systems that advance racial, economic, social, and environmental justice through direct action.

We help people encounter the historical Jesus, a radical disruptor of the status quo. This faith formation, rooted in liberation theology, better equips community leaders to build a movement that confronts power through non-violent resistance.

Together we create a strong, sustainable, member-led organization. We gather the people and money needed to win the goals of our communities.

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Bridget 🧟‍♀️ Oooo Brains @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 1d

The Coalition for Spiritual & Public Leadership, who organized this Eucharistic procession, also organized a People’s Mass for Justice + Peace at Broadview in September. They form Christians to act for social justice for using the spirituality of liberation theology. www.csplaction.org

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Bridget 🧟‍♀️ Oooo Brains @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 1d

I met Fr. Dowling in December, in connection with the Archdiocese of Chicago’s Pastoral Migratoria annual Posada in Solidarity with Immigrants. (Las Posadas is a devotional from Latin America that walks in the steps of the Holy Family seeking—and being denied—shelter as Mary’s labor approaches.)

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Bridget 🧟‍♀️ Oooo Brains @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 1d

Fr. Larry Dowling was the pastor of St. Agatha, a Black parish in North Lawndale (a Black neighborhood MLK lived in to protest housing discrimination.) Fr. Dowling retired in June 2024. After a 6-month sabbatical, inc travel to West Africa, he has been active in prayerful protest for immigrants.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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