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PhD in English literature. Teach at Narratively and Mount St. Mary's. Author of THE UNFIT HEIRESS (2021) and GIRLS & THEIR MONSTERS (2023). Researching the Lamb of God community in Baltimore.
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Planes are crashing because Trump and Musk wanted to cut their own taxes even more. Say it over and over and over again until it sinks into people's brains and they correctly associate every crash with two billionaires who never fly commercial.

"Can you imagine if [Bishop] Barron advocated for the poor who will suffer throughout the world as passionately as he railed against feminism?" #RebuildMyChurch www.ncronline.org/opinion/ncr-...

Excellent piece on Pope Francis’s rebuke of Vance newrepublic.com/article/1914...

I am grateful to have a new essay in @wherepeteris.com. Thanks to @mfjlewis.bsky.social for giving me the opportunity to tell "A Tale of Two Converts." One of them, Julia Greeley, is featured in my upcoming book from @loyolapress.bsky.social, The Sacred Heart. wherepeteris.com/a-tale-of-tw...

I am sorry for the defamation heaped upon Dawn Eden Goldstein by the evil @ewtn.bsky.social . Read her piece about how EWTN maligned her, and many others.

@rascality.bsky.social - Thanks If you know, you know.

I just paid $10.45 for a carton of eggs.

Wait, no one asked Trump today about the Pope letter or the faith-based lawsuits? SERIOUSLY NO ONE ASKED THE PRESIDENT ABOUTah dadgummit hire more religion reporters

So, Vice President Vance once had a book deal to write "A Relevant Faith: Searching for a Meaningful American Christianity,' but it fell through in 2022. If you know anything about this book other than what is reported, feel free to reach me on Signal at: jackmjenkins.60 apnews.com/article/2022...

Imagine being so bad at Sunday school that the pope yelled at you personally

get 'em Frank

MAJOR BREAKING: Pope Francis has written a letter to US Bishops saying he’s following “major crisis” of “mass deportations;” takes on Vance saying “The true ordo amoris that must be promoted is that which we discover by meditating constantly on the parable of the “Good Samaritan”

He's not a "kid." He's an adult, with an important govt job. The posts weren't "stupid." They were hatefully racist. His life isn't "ruined." He lost a job. Holding a govt employee accountable is not a "reward" for a journalist. The reporter doesn't get a cookie.

Happy 15th to my little groundhog, kept alive thanks to insulin, one of Canada's great exports to the world. Thank you, Canada!! 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦

The bourbon and the damage done.

i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

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States' rights!

This is really good from @briankaylor.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/publicwi...

So my report on Budde's National Cathedral sermon today (I was one of the oddly few print journalists who covered it in person) was my 24th since the beginning of December. I filed my 23rd while sitting in the Cathedral balcony, just before Budde preached. Which is to say: I am very tired.

The Budde sermon, and Trump's reaction to it, distills nearly everything I've written about for the past decade. MAGA believes they define the only true version of Christianity in America. A Christianity that sees Trump as white Christian America's savior, and all other Christianities as dead.

“Elon Musk is a man of unparalleled genius who will take humanity to the stars! Also he is an innocent naive cinnamon roll who has no idea what a Nazi salute is!”

I repent for the contempt of women that I once tried to hide behind a professed love of the unborn. #Jubilee2025

So a group of mostly Christians, with NO Jews involved, think Jews aren't being Jewish the way they think we should be?! We have seen this one before, it never ends well

Opus Dei has an insidious underbelly that most of its members know little about. At its core, the organisation is an abusive cult that preys on vulnerable individuals and even children to fill its ranks. My piece for @ncronline.bsky.social www.ncronline.org/node/291186

Bishop Barron is starting a religious order in the most Bishop Barron way possible: with a press release asking people to give him 25 million dollars.

Will any lawmakers ask Hegseth about Christian nationalism? Let’s find out! (There are many reasons to expect they will absolutely not ask him about Christian nationalism.)

What is happening in small-town public schools post-election is truly diabolical. The bullies are so emboldened, foaming at the mouth over “illegals,” “n-words,” “fags.” My heart is broken for all the kids bearing the burdens of MAGA’s culture of death.

The GOP has long been a coalition of convenience between the people who hate immigrants and the people who employ them. The divorce was inevitable once the opportunity came to make policy.

Democracy dies in whatever the hell this framing is.

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Shout out to the voters who complained about the price of groceries but helped spend 10.8 billion dollars on Black Friday!

Jessi Gold's ( @drjessigold.bsky.social ) Search for Humanity in Medicine Interview by Audrey Clare Farley ( @audreycfarley.bsky.social ) www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/jessi-gold...

I’m sorry, but this is just WEIRD…. The Washington Post’s executive editor takes time out of his busy schedule to basically say that my book doesn’t include enough positive stuff about Opus Dei What the actual f**k? A THREAD 🧵 www.ncronline.org/culture/book...

I am so saddened by this news. Senator Casey did so much for Pennsylvanians, especially children with diabetes. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/u...

Anyway, hire more religion reporters.

With all the new people this week, wanted to re-up my book recommendation “Opus: Dark Money, Human Trafficking, and Right-Wing Conspiracy inside the Catholic Church” by Gareth Gore. It is startling how much influence and power this sect of Catholic Church has gained in U.S. politics & society.

My niece is a student at OSU and confirms this happened today. White supremacists have been emboldened, once again, by the election of Donald Trump. It's imperative that this type of hate, intimidation, and violence be loudly condemned every time.