Kathleen Holscher

Associate prof, American Studies / Religious Studies, University of New Mexico. Historian of Catholic stuff. Trying to do ok w 3 kids. Likes to run far.

[James Martin, SJ @JamesMartinSJ]

This is the parish in Gaza that Pope Francis would call every night.

[Kathleen Holscher @KathleenHolsche]

@Dulle048 Hooray!!!!

[Brandi Morin @Songstress28]

Dr Wilton Littlechild from Maskwacis, AB is here in NYC. I spoke with him today about the death of Pope Francis. Littlechild advocated for decades for the residential school apology and was in Rome when the pope delivered it, as was I.
“He was the most humble man I have ever met…”
Here is what Littlechild had to say:

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Netanyahu has not allowed any aid into Gaza in 22 days. He broke the ceasefire, resuming a bombing campaign that has killed more than 50,000 people. Now he is threatening a long-term occupation of Gaza.

NO MORE MILITARY AID TO NETANYAHU’S WAR MACHINE.

[Briahna Joy Gray @briebriejoy]

Israeli settlers beat and kidnapped the co-director of an Oscar winning film about Israel’s occupation of Palestine.

This spectacle is produced by America, directed by Israel, and stars a savage collection of Zionists empowered by the west’s commitment to Jewish supremacy.

[Austen Ivereigh @austeni]

At installation homily as Abp Washington, Cardinal McElroy says: “we are a Church which believes that love and truth do meet. That is precisely our glory as children of God.”

[Jacobin @jacobin]

Bernie Sanders tried something this weekend that the Democratic Party has not: actually traveling to red states to rally opposition to Donald Trump’s agenda.

https://t.co/nTgyaHGAfG

[Ignatian Solidarity @IGsolidarityNET]

Please pray for Pope Francis! The Vatican reported earlier today that his condition has worsened. #PopeFrancis @Pontifex

[🇺🇸🇮🇱🇺🇦🕉Stevie Van Zandt☮️💙 @StevieVanZandt]

REBORN!

[Annie Wu (all socials: @annie_wu_22) @Annie_Wu_22]

new cover photo :)

[Diya TV @DiyaTV]

A man performing during the Kendrick Lamar halftime concert at #SuperBowl LIX unfurled a Palestinian flag and was chased off stage and finally tackled and removed by security. #SBLIX #Palestine

[James Martin, SJ @JamesMartinSJ]

Ethnic cleansing, according to Catholic teaching, is always an evil: "Far too often, the civilian population is hit and at times even becomes a target of war. In some cases, they are brutally massacred or taken from their homes and land by forced transfers, under the guise of 'ethnic cleansing,' which is always unacceptable."

From the "Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church" (#504) https://t.co/MOwbESdyAB

[Tony Annett @tonyannett]

The best take on Vance’s bad theology comes from Andrew Sullivan. He captures how the message of Jesus is radical, counterintuitive, and very very difficult.

“And let’s just say that if Vance’s common-sense position had been Jesus’, we would probably never have heard of Him. Family, tribe, and nation were invisible to Jesus. He abandoned his own family and disowned his parents even as a teenager; he violated some of the most sacred teachings of his tribe, and was executed for it; he hailed a despised foreigner, a Samaritan, as more virtuous than a Jewish priest; he urged every disciple to abandon their wives and families and jobs and follow him. He went even further: “If any one comes to me without hating his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.” Let’s just gently conclude that this is not quite the philosophy of MAGA natalists.

Jesus’ radicalism, like Saint Francis’ — perhaps his only true disciple in two millennia — is very, very hard to take. It’s deeply contrary to our human nature. Agape — the Greek word for universal, indiscriminate love of everyone, male or female, Greek or Jew — is the antithesis of Aristotle’s sane realism, and you can see why Aquinas tried to temper it a bit. But Vance’s attempt to co-opt Christ for the cause of mass deportations goes beyond mere theological casuistry. Along with Trump’s claim that God saved him from a bullet to make America great again, it represents a fusion of Christian faith with one political party — Christianism. And that, for any sincere Christian, is not just heretical but sickening.”

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

The struggle of our time is between a ruling class that defends greed, oligarchy & authoritarianism against a progressive movement that believes in a vibrant democracy and economic, racial & environmental justice. It’s a struggle that, for our nation’s future, we must not lose.

[Briahna Joy Gray @briebriejoy]

The shooter's politics are irrelevant to everyone other than elites in both parties who want to convince their respective bases to not care about our broken healthcare system because it's "the other guy's" issue.

[Kathleen Holscher @KathleenHolsche]

Next month in NYC! Coming to AHA/ACHA? Register for five bucks on the ACHA website and come get Catholic weird with us (again).

[Killer Mike @KillerMike]

@JoeBiden Mr Biden A truly Merciful Man would see the value in freedom for an 80 indigenous American activist. I pray you are that man and your pen finds mercy for Leonard Peltier.

https://t.co/np5KJfaZ07

[Nick Estes @nickwestes]

The last apology to Natives was in a 2011 defense appropriations bill. At the time, it was the largest spending on institutions of death. The second apology comes as Biden leads a genocide against Palestinians. Call me a single issue person because this is a single issue empire.

[Nick Estes @nickwestes]

The cynical “celebration” of Indigenous Peoples Day by a settler state backing another settler state’s genocide against Palestinians and Lebanese shows us nothing is sacred, not even our own survival, until we bury colonialism once and for all.

[Kathleen Holscher @KathleenHolsche]

This was quite literally what Paul Blanshard said about nuns. When Catholics become the anti-Catholics?

[James Martin, SJ @JamesMartinSJ]

So much for nuns.