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He should have become a priest. Then they'd never have fired him...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/29/new-orleans-teacher-widower-mark-jacobs-catholic-school

New Guardian documentary
Stand up comedy helps heal a Catholic parish: Fox Chase Boy
An altar boy at St Cecilia Catholic church in north-east Philadelphia when, at age 11, he became one of the victims of paedophile James Brzyski.
He has developed a one-man stage show that he performs to his close-knit parish. He speaks directly about a crime cloaked in silence.
#childabuse

Hospitals in Maine, New Hampshire limit services after cyberattack on Catholic health org https://therecord.media/maine-new-hampshire-cyberattacks-hospital

The relationship between episcopal genealogy and ideology in the Roman Catholic Church
Marta Baratto, Ivan Casanovas, Ivan Decostanzi, Henrique M. Borges, Samuel Mart\'inez Alcal\'a, Ilaria Stanzani, Alberto Antonioni, Iacopo Iacopini, Michele Re Fiorentin, Eugenio Valdano
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22108

The relationship between episcopal genealogy and ideology in the Roman Catholic Church
In this study we investigate how hierarchical structures within the Roman Catholic Church shape the ideological orientation of its leadership. The full episcopal genealogy dataset comprises over 35,000 bishops, each typically consecrated by one principal consecrator and two co-consecrators, forming a dense and historically continuous directed network of episcopal lineage. Within this broader structure, we focus on a dataset of 245 living cardinals to examine whether genealogical proximity corre…

Ugh. Fuck the Catholic Majesties, Ferdinand and Isabella.

Vote: Who should be Register-Guard high school boys Athlete of the Year? https://www.registerguard.com/story/sports/high-school/2025/06/29/osaa-eugene-springfield-register-guard-hi…

Religion, PLpol
It's about time I elaborated on an earlier thought.
"Non-practicing Catholics" have more liberal worldview than "conservative" Catholics — and often they jeer at them. These qualities make it easy to forget that you're draining with Catholics. But when the push comes to shove, you discover that you can't rely on them. They won't openly oppose the Church, they won't protect the people who are "immoral" according to Catholic morality, and if they are forced to choose a side, they'll side with the Catholics.
The Polish PO/KO party (often perceived as "liberal") is just like that. Their views are more liberal than the conservative right wing, they love portraying themselves as an opposition to it, but in the end they are a right-wing party. When it's convenient to them, they happily present liberal postulates — but they are as fast to withdraw them to please their right-wing electorate.
#PLpol

Separation of church and state dodges a bullet — for now
https://thehill.com/opinion/education/5352594-supreme-court-catholic-school-funding/

Supreme Court rules that Catholic groups were unlawfully barred from a religious exemption (Lawrence Hurley/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-rules-catholic-groups-unlawfully-barred-religious-exempt-rcna202654
http://www.memeorandum.com/250605/p63#a250605p63

A look at the Catholic Church's decade-long dialogue with Silicon Valley on AI, as Pope Leo prepares to make AI's potential threat to humanity a signature issue (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/pope-leo-ai-te

Statement by Teresa Berger, Professor of Liturgical Studies and Thomas E. Golden Jr. Professor of Catholic Theology at YDS/ISM.
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On a panel at St. Thomas More two days ago, I said in front of a large audience that I would be truly shocked if the cardinals elected a person from the U.S.! Conventional wisdom, after all, always had it that leadership of the Roman Catholic Church would come from somewhere else than a reigning superpower. 🧵

Good news: The Oklahoma Supreme Court decision barring religious charter schools stands.
Bad news: Because SCOTUS tied on their vote. That's uncomfortably close to overturning it. I don't know which way Justice Barrett would have voted. She's Catholic, but she's surprised people in the past.

Kann euch das Buch "Opus. The Cult of Dark Money, Human Trafficking, and Right-Wing Conspiracy inside the Catholic Church" von Gareth Gore empfehlen. Sehr lesenswert. Der Zusammenhang zwischen der Besetzung des US Supreme Court und Opus Dei war mir bspw. völlig neu.
Tatsächlich sehe ich nach dem Buch Papst Benedikt XVI in einem etwas positiveren Licht und Johannes Paul II in einem noch negativeren.

After all, they called Joe Biden, the former Senator from CapitalOne and a devout Catholic, a socialist and communist.
One of the differences between the Right and Left in the USA is that the Right is dedicated to the idea of political tribal solidarity and social binaries, while the Left puts an overriding emphasis on its own diversity, that of the Right, and that of society.
It is part of how they manage to maintain themselves in power.

FBI sent anti-Catholic memo to over 1,000 employees, new records show (Kaelan Deese/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3430094/fbi-anti-catholic-memo-sent-to-over-1000-employees-new-records-show/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250604/p48#a250604p48

I'm not Catholic, but I am from the Chicago area, so I took a greater than usual interest in the new Pope's first speech earlier on.
Or, "Al Capope" as the wife spontaneously referred to him.
#pope #LeoXIV

Prominence material observed by SoloHI beyond 0.5au
C. Mac Cormack (Heliospheric Physics Laboratory, Heliophysics Science Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, MD, USA, The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, USA), S. B. Shaik (George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA), P. Hess (U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C., USA), R. Colaninno (U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C., USA), T. Nieves-Chinchilla (Heliospheric Physics Laboratory, Heliophysi…

Prominence material observed by SoloHI beyond 0.5au
With the combination of observations from in-situ and high-resolution remote sensing instruments, the Solar Orbiter (SolO) mission has become a particularly valuable mission for studying the inner heliosphere. With a field of view (FOV) of 40$^\circ$ to the east of the Sun, the Solar Orbiter Heliospheric Imager (SoloHI) is one of the six remote sensing instruments on board the Solar Orbiter (SolO) spacecraft. SoloHI's high-resolution imaging observations of the heliosphere and its higher cadenc…

Following the election of Robert Prevost as the new Pope today, YDS asked professor Teresa Berger for perspective. Teresa Berger is Professor of Liturgical Studies and Thomas E. Golden Jr. Professor of Catholic Theology.
Here is our brief exchange:
https://divinity.yale.edu/news/new-pop

Evangelical dogma says Christ changes you. Does that include your core beliefs? And how does Catholic dogma affect a new Washington law?
https://www.bobmuellerwriter.com/beyond-dogma-can-compassion-exist-without-compromise/

Beyond Dogma: Can Compassion Exist Without Compromise? – Bob Mueller
Evangelical dogma says Christ changes you. What about your core beliefs? And how does Catholic dogma affect a new Washington law?

This is quite an effort to signal a single bit of information.
https://apnews.com/article/conclave-pope-francis-cardinals-50c798caa826bbb7c913791175536add

Black smoke indicates conclave hasn't elected a new pope
Black smoke has poured out of the Sistine Chapel chimney, indicating no pope was elected on the first ballot of the conclave to choose a new leader of the Catholic Church. The smoke billowed out at 9 p.m. Wednesday, some four hours after 133 cardinals solemnly entered the Sistine Chapel, took their oaths of secrecy and formally opened the centuries-old ritual to elect a successor to Pope Francis to lead the 1.4 billion-member church. With no one securing the necessary two-thirds majority, or 89…

A U.S. Archbishop Shreds Trump's Budget Bill: "The Cruelty of This Bill Is Historic" (Charles P. Pierce/Esquire)
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a65015087/catholic-archbishop-opposes-trump-big-beautiful-bill/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250610/p6#a250610p6

Beyond Dogma: Can Compassion Exist Without Compromise?
I discuss a religious perspective on compassion, questioning the validity of core beliefs that might hinder empathy. Then I discuss new legislation in Washington State on clergy reporting child abuse, scrutinizing the Catholic Church's position on confessions.

Beyond Dogma: Can Compassion Exist Without Compromise? – Bob Mueller
Evangelical dogma says Christ changes you. What about your core beliefs? And how does Catholic dogma affect a new Washington law?