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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 · 8h

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 · 8h

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 · 1d

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

Joe Ferullo @joeferullo.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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...

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Joe Ferullo @joeferullo.bsky.social · 2d

NCR Editorial: Pope Leo delivers breathtakingly bold salvo on wealth, elitism and poverty. It was courageous and risky in equal measure
#PopeLeo #Catholic #Christianity
www.ncronline.org/opinion/edit...

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

Joe Ferullo @joeferullo.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 3d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

Joe Ferullo @joeferullo.bsky.social · 3d

via Michael Sean Winters in NCR - Leo's exhortation enlists the old, and the new, in service to the poor. Let's hope Catholics find in this new document a reason to admire and love our new pope and embrace his encouragement and his teaching.
#PopeLeo #Catholic
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Leo's exhortation enlists the old, and the new, in service to the poor

Pope Leo's new document, Dilexi te, is an excellent summation of Catholic social teaching about the poor that reflects his commitment to the pastoral approach sketched by Francis.

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Joe Ferullo @joeferullo.bsky.social · 3d

Pope Leo: “In a world where the poor are increasingly numerous, we paradoxically see the growth of a wealthy elite, living in a bubble of comfort and luxury, almost in another world compared to ordinary people.”
#PopeLeo #poverty #poor #elitism
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Pope Leo blasts elitism, indifference toward poor in first major document

"I am convinced that the preferential choice for the poor is a source of extraordinary renewal both for the church and for society," the pope wrote in Dilexi Te.

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Joe Ferullo @joeferullo.bsky.social · 3d

BREAKING - Pope Leo blasts elitism, indifference toward poor in first major document. Pontiff calls for a church renewed by solidarity with the poor and condemns complacency within its ranks.
#PopeLeo #Cathlic
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Pope Leo blasts elitism, indifference toward poor in first major document

"I am convinced that the preferential choice for the poor is a source of extraordinary renewal both for the church and for society," the pope wrote in Dilexi Te.

www.ncronline.org

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James Martin, SJ @jamesmartinsj.bsky.social · 3d

Pope Leo XIV: "I often wonder, even though the teaching of Sacred Scripture is so clear about the poor, why many people continue to think that they can safely disregard the poor."

"Dilexi te"

Joe Ferullo @joeferullo.bsky.social · 3d

Via @thomasreesesj.bsky.social in NCR - Amos, a prophet for social justice, is a prophet for today. His words sound like a political activist on MSNBC.
#politics #Bible #MSNBC #poverty
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Amos, a prophet for social justice, is a prophet for today

"His strongest condemnations were against rulers who officiated at the gates of the city and meted out injustice," writes Fr. Thomas Reese.

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Joe Ferullo @joeferullo.bsky.social · 3d

Via @bfragancr.bsky.social - Thousands sign petition backing former Georgetown law school dean's DEI stance. “This is a time when you have to do the right thing.”
#Catholic #DEI #Trump #education
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Thousands sign petition backing former Georgetown law school dean's DEI stance

"This is a time when you also have to do the right thing," said William Treanor. "You have to stand up for your values and the values of the university."

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Joe Ferullo @joeferullo.bsky.social · 4d

Feelin’ great again…
Via @thehill.com - Fannie Mae’s National Housing Survey found that 67 percent of respondents think the economy is going in the wrong direction, with just 32 percent believing it is going in the right direction

Joe Ferullo @joeferullo.bsky.social · 4d

El Paso bishop brings Pope Leo XIV desperate letters from migrants in crosshairs of US crackdown. "The pope needs to talk to Trump.”
#PopeLeo #Trump #immigration
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El Paso bishop brings Pope Leo XIV desperate letters from migrants in crosshairs of US crackdown

The Texas bishop on the front lines of the U.S. immigration crackdown met Wednesday with Pope Leo XIV and brought him a packet of letters from immigrant families "terrorized" by fear that they and the...

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Joe Ferullo @joeferullo.bsky.social · 4d

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 4d

Today, with Bishop Seitz and members of the immigrant community, Hope Border met Pope Leo and gave him messages and a video from those fearing Trump’s mass deportations. ‘The church cannot stay silent before injustice. You stand with me. And I stand with you’, the pope said.

Joe Ferullo @joeferullo.bsky.social · 4d

This time…. It’s personal!
Via @wsj.com - ‘Trump has been critical of wind energy since at least 2011 when he unsuccessfully tried to stop construction of an offshore wind farm visible from his Scotland golf course.’

Joe Ferullo @joeferullo.bsky.social · 4d

Via @bfragancr.bsky.social - “It looks like blatant viewpoint discrimination.” Supreme Court justices seem skeptical of Colorado's ban on conversion therapy
#SCOTUS #LGBTQ
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Supreme Court justices seem skeptical of Colorado's ban on conversion therapy

A majority of the court's six conservative judges questioned arguments that the state law does not infringe on freedom of speech and the First Amendment by engaging in viewpoint discrimination.

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Joe Ferullo @joeferullo.bsky.social · 4d

Via NCR Opinion - Navy chaplain: Spiritual care must be at the core of military planning. In planning rooms, when the discussion turns to what is possible, a chaplain may ask what is right.
#chaplains #military #Catholic #war
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Navy chaplain: Spiritual care must be at the core of military planning

Technology can help chaplains reach more people through secure communication or virtual visits, says career Navy chaplain Cynthia Kane, but it cannot replace the sacramental presence or the bond forme...

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