I was pleased to do a podcast with the Marginalia Review of Books on the 60th anniversary of Nostra Aetate and its continuing relevance for today. Give it a listen if you like: www.youtube.com/watch?v=asGy...

Tom Shaw did this regularly as bishop of Massachusetts

I can't unsee it now

Who in academic circles is working on the intersection of ethics, politics, and the current crisis of democracy?
#academicsky

Go ahead and treat yourself.

This is a bad look for you.

My religious identity is bound up with these ideals. And my work in interreligious relations is also intertwined with many of these assumptions.
And all of those assumptions are slipping away.
What comes next is unknown. But fifty years from now we will be on the other side of a new order.
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The liberal order arrived at these things imperfectly, flawed, haltingly.
At times the effects were ruinous. Other times they were for the good. But these ideas became norms.
And now they are quickly slipping away.
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The entire liberal political order is collapsing.
By this I mean norms around rule of law, religious toleration, movements for racial and ethnic equality, and the notion that international exchange and collaboration is a good.
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Yeah, that was my immediate thought. I can only imagine the way conversations go at home.

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Congratulations!

That is awful. At my parish we just say a prayer during the prayers of the people that acknowledges the complexity. I really don't like anything to do with it in church, but some folks want to hear something.

What is the important here is that some permissions for other liturgies exist under a 2018 resolution encouraging developing new liturgies. This does not mean that anything can be done but rather what is to be done ought to be developed with an eye towards developing new liturgies for the church.

Bishops can think that. The canons say otherwise.

The Episcopal Church refuses to participate in the racist agenda of this administration.
I am proud of our leaders and grateful for the witness of Episcopal Migration Ministries.
religionnews.com/2025/05/12/e...

While the headline is that Leo XIV is the first American pope, pay attention to the fact that his ministry is informed by his long service in Peru, including being Bishop of Chiclayo.
He is a pope of the Americas.
(And note he addressed the crowd in Italian and Spanish, but not English!)

Any thoughts on likely next papal names?

I am very curious about the next papal name.
A Paul VII, for instance, would send a very interesting signal.

When in Rome . . .

The preservation of the memory of the Holocaust is being politicized.
Every president makes appointments to the board of the US Holocaust Museum. This creates over time bipartisan representation on the board.
This political purge is an abuse of power.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/u...

Well, we have no rubrics on it, just custom. I would have to look up RC custom.

I have seen dozens of Jesuit concelebrate. But I think they are more likely just wearing it because it is the mass.

For example: images.app.goo.gl/LLHQHTQGJs16...