Oh neat!

Back in March the Jesuits’ America mag noted that Frank Sheed was reporting/spying on Dorothy Day for the Brits. 😳

Twilight tonight at the windswept, derelict St. Olaf Church near Tioga, North Dakota. The old tower continues its awkward twist — but is still hanging on. Looking around: The last color of sunset is fading, and billowing clouds from thunderstorms in eastern Montana are visible on the horizon

🚨 Big news! Pope Leo XIV has donated $100,000 to support Catholic Relief Services’ clean water initiative serving rural communities in El Salvador. This papal gift affirms a shared commitment to protecting health, dignity & life. Read more from
@osvnews.bsky.social: osvnews.com/pope-leo-don...

What else has US military been doing while eyes have been on Iran? WASHINGTON – Beyond Iran, the U.S. military has ongoing commitments in Somalia, Ecuador, and Latin America, including a Cuba oil quarantine and a narco-terror strategy. Many of the operations have got...

“Instead of calling it a war on drugs, it becomes an expansion of U.S. counterterror operations.” Costs of War’s Stephanie Savell talks to Cronkite News about military operations in the Western Hemisphere under the Trump administration. cronkitenews.azpbs.org/2026/04/17/u...

R.I.P Moya Brennan.

Do we know how many of these types are nominally normal Catholics?

Breakaway groups and their sympathizers have always been disproportionately vocal online.

Everybody online is a toddler.

“O, it is excellent
To have a giant's strength;
but it is tyrannous
To use it like a giant.”
-Isabella, Measure for Measure

I do wonder how many are bots but yeah this is rough.

"Remove justice, and what are kingdoms but large gangs of robbers? ... To make war on one’s neighbors, to go on to further attacks, to crush and subjugate peoples without provocation, all out of mere lust for dominion—what else are we to call this but armed robbery on a grand scale?”

(IV.4-6)

From Catholic News Service:
1st station: "Every person in authority will have to answer to God for the way they exercise their power." Jesus says, "whatever you do to another human being, especially to the small & vulnerable, you do unto me. And it is to me that you will one day give an account."

Not as important hierarchy-wise and such, but Ed Feser -- theologian probably most famous for demanding that the Catholic Church stick with the death penalty -- also wrote about how this war is unjust. On March 11th!

www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2026/03/1004...

Media attorney and CFOIC president Steve Zansberg represented Colorado Public Radio, Aspen Public Radio and KSUT Public Radio in this lawsuit.

On first Palm Sunday, Pope Leo says Jesus cries out from the cross against war

I got this feeling when I realized I had met the new papal nuncio to the USA…

In BEIRUT!

Broglio: US troops could refuse Greenland orders The archbishop of the U.S. military services said U.S. troops in good conscience could refuse orders to invade an ally.

We recently saw a rare case of US Catholic leaders talk about troops refusing unjust military orders—targeting Greenland.

We need more leadership about conscientious objection in the conflict with Iran.
www.pillarcatholic.com/p/broglio-us...

More than a Real Estate Deal In 2016, I became a Trappist novice at St. Benedict's Monastery. Now, this place of peace is being purchased by a zealot for war: Palantir CEO Alex Karp.

In 2016, I became a Trappist novice at St. Benedict’s Monastery. Now, this place of peace is being purchased by a zealot for war: Palantir CEO Alex Karp.

An essay by Evan Bednarz:

Things to Avoid When Getting Involved in a War with Iran (Most Presidents Ignore #11)

The Pope's AI advisor is starting to ask the right questions about Thiel

More developments on the shocking shortfall in some Catholic pension plans.

Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem remains closed

“It is not right to curry favour with such as these nor to take food or drink with them, nor ought one to accept their alms, until they make amends to God” - St Patrick in Ireland’s oldest known text, urging that the Church never accept wickedly funded hospitality or support.

Cardinal Pizzaballa: Using God’s name to justify war is ‘the gravest sin’

Pope Leo XIV calls for Middle East cease-fire

Ps 119,120
Hórruit a timóre tuo caro mea;
a iudíciis enim tuis tímui.

Ma chair tremble de peur devant toi:
tes décisions m'inspirent la crainte.

mi carne se estremece con tu temor,
y me estremecen tus juicios.

My flesh trembles in terror before you;
I fear your judgments.

Probe underway of pastor who worked for Epstein | UMNews.org United Methodist leaders learned this week that an ordained elder from Missouri worked briefly as a property manager for the convicted sex offender.

Wow, big news from @umnews.bsky.social that a UMC pastor in Missouri is under suspension for working with Jeffrey Epstein in 2018-2019, including as a property manager on his island. Her name appears 1,800+ times in the Epstein files, reports Heather Hahn: www.umnews.org/en/news/prob...

While Catholics tend to have very high vaccination rates, there are some pockets of hesitancy and even vocal objections.

I’d love to get a better idea of where these subcultures are most influential.

News from Iran & Lebanon increasingly resembles years of bloodshed in Gaza—civilian areas pummeled, international law ignored & a spiral of war endangering millions. Understanding why means understanding the US-Israel dynamic in one key period: under President Joe Biden, after October 7, 2023

(1/4)

Psychopathic.

The Lebanese model: a multi-religious solution for Syria and Iraq? The apostolic nuncio to Lebanon has said the country is a model of multi-religious coexistence that could help resolve violent sectarian conflicts in the Middle East.

The new papal nuncio to the U.S. is Archbishop Gabriele Caccia. He previously served as nuncio to Lebanon, a difficult post!

I had the opportunity to meet with him there. Here’s his analysis of Lebanon, as of late 2014: www.ewtnnews.com/world/middle...