”Christian” Trump Administration BANS religious services @ Alligator Alcatraz

By Michael Shackelford, Funny Farm News

"They could build that place in less than a week, so it doesn't seem that it should take two or three weeks to tell the archbishop of Miami his priest can go in to minister to the detainees,"

- Archbishop Thomas Wenski, July 21, 2025

By Deborah Castellano Lubov, Vatican News

By Michael Shackelford, Funny Farm News

Trump Threatens to Revoke Rosie O’Donnell’s Citizenship

By Michael Shackelford, Funny Farm News

By Joe Perticone, The Bulwark

“About six months into the second Trump presidency, Republicans are charting a collision course with the Catholic Church. Stark and growing differences between their views on migrants, the poor, technology, and other issues could put the spiritual home of tens of millions of American Catholics in direct conflict with the political framework of the party that runs the U.S. government.”

By Chris Gloninger, WeatheringClimate.com via Substack

If the proposed NOAA budget is approved, tornado and hurricane prediction, air quality alerts, and climate monitoring could grind to a halt.

https://chrisgloninger.substack.com/p/breaking-if-noaas-budget-passes-congress?utm_campaign=post

By John Donvan and Caren Zucker, The Atlantic 

“If the world uses a lens that is only based on deficits and struggle rather than the complexity and nuance that is a part of any human being, including and especially autistic people, that makes true belonging really hard,” Sara Swoboda, a pediatrician in Boise, Idaho, whose daughter has an autism diagnosis, told us over email.

“As global violence continues to threaten the lives and freedom of people around the world, Merton challenges us in his essay ‘The Christian in World Crisis,’ to remember that ‘it is a special obligation of the Christian, who, as a follower of Christ, must be a peacemaker.’ The vocation to peacemaking is not for a select few, but for all the baptized, who are exhorted by Christ himself to be instruments of peace in a world of violence.” 

By Daniel P. Horan, National Catholic Reporter

“Today's readings and world events call us to become Christians of conscience and to act accordingly. After all, we are part of a church entrusted with a global mission of justice, and we must participate in that mission on behalf of all people, whose suffering cannot go unaddressed.”

- By Carol J. Dempsey, National Catholic Reporter