Marcus Mescher

Professor of Christian Ethics @XavierU; author of #EthicsofEncounter (@OrbisBooks); writing about moral injury caused by spiritual & sexual abuse

[Sr. Dorcee, beloved @SrDorcee]

This statement by Marcus brought me to tears. I am a child of an annulled marriage, and I have never heard this particular pain acknowledged before: “I routinely have students who tell me how painful it was for them to endure the divorce of their parents and their parents decided to get an annulment. And the Catholic Church says that in an annulment process that the sacrament was never valid. And that does a lot of harm, I think, to people, especially the children of a marriage when the church says this was never a valid sacrament.” Thank you, @marcusmescher, for saying that.

[Where Peter Is @Where_Peter_is]

Paul Fahey (@pjfahey) writes that in an earlier conversation about moral injury, Marcus Mescher (@marcusmescher) “said some things in that conversation that resonated with some of my personal experiences. So I dove into that more with him.”

Link below 👇

[Where Peter Is @Where_Peter_is]

@pjfahey @marcusmescher Read it here: https://t.co/JRiAqcCgZr

[Maria Oswalt @RehumanizeMaria]

Happy birthday to Servant of God Dorothy Day!

[Paul Joseph @pjfahey]

I had a wonderful conversation with @marcusmescher about moral injury as well as Pope Leo’s teaching from Magnifica Humanitas about ecclesial repentance and renewal.

https://t.co/tIAqgF2ZCZ

[Marcus Mescher @marcusmescher]

@jzipple When I met them at @BostonCollege, I asked Welles’ parents how they raised such a selfless and courageous son. They refused to take credit for what he did on 9/11. “That’s just who he was. From the beginning.”

[Boston College @BostonCollege]

Welles Crowther '99 was the "Man in the Red Bandanna," saving as many as 18 lives during the 9/11 terrorist attack. His story is shared at BC and beyond as a symbol of courage, sacrifice, and being men and women for others.

Video credits: https://t.co/ejNBgk74hy

[Jesuit News @jesuitnews]

Fr. Pedro Arrupe, SJ, 28th Superior General of the #Jesuits, was ministering in #Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and used his medical training to help care for the wounded.

Read his account: https://t.co/clbwM2FCZB

[Sr. Theresa Aletheia @pursuedbytruth]

We're grateful to Adora Namigadde @adorakn for telling the story of our mission and spirituality on NPR's All Things Considered @npratc

https://t.co/4f9VNS62Mc

[Orbis Books @OrbisBooks]

📚 Spotlight on Learning Beyond the Classroom

The Ethics of Encounter by Marcus Mescher explores what it means to truly meet others with justice, dignity, and compassion ✝️🤝

How do we form ethical communities in a divided world?

📖 https://t.co/RfcDQ5qXAi

#Theology #Ethics

[Rev. Benjamin Cremer @Brcremer]

“They should have just complied!”

They did and they got killed anyway.

“They should have just obeyed the law.”

They were and they got killed anyway.

“They should have come here legally!”

They did and they got killed anyway.

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

His name was Joan Sebastian Guerrero. He was only 26-years-old when Trump's Gestapo ICE Nazis shot him dead in his car. Guerrero's 3-year-old daughter — who was wearing Bluey pajamas and a small backpack — was right there and stood crying in the street during the gunfire. His wife was also present and fell to her knees next to their daughter, letting out what neighbors described as an "agonizing howl".

Not surprisingly, ICE were not wearing body cameras.

Since Trump launched 'Operation 1938 Germany' in January 2025, at least nine people have been killed in public shootings by ICE — and more than 50 people have died in detention

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

Elon Musk’s cuts to U.S.A.I.D. led to some 700,000 deaths, according to Atul Gawande, a former leading administrator at the agency. Gawande, backed by recent academic studies, believes that the death toll will likely reach seven figures. The policy is not only immeasurably cruel, he argues; it is also stupid, badly undermining what remains of American soft power and prestige. Gawande explains the human cost of DOGE’s war on U.S.A.I.D.: https://t.co/pcqDGOFqdJ

[Georgetown Initiative on CST and Public Life @GUcstpubliclife]

The Initiative welcomes its 2026-27 fellows: Bob Bordone, Cecilia Flores, Jean Welch Hill, David Jimenez, Sr. Mūmbi Kīgūtha, CPPS, Marcus Mescher, Santiago Ramos, and Renée Darline Roden

Read more about the fellows and the announcement here: https://t.co/3qOHTzVeSC

@bobbordone @jeanwelchhill @David_E_Jimenez @marcusmescher @xsantiagoramos

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Humanity, created by God in all its grandeur, is today facing a pivotal choice: either to construct a new Tower of Babel or to build the city in which God and humanity dwell together. In Jesus Christ, this humanity in its grandeur becomes the Way, the Truth and the Life, opening the path for each of us to grow toward fullness. #MagnificaHumanitas
https://t.co/6i9MWs6LJl

[Millennial @MillennialJourn]

Hundreds of Catholic Leaders Express Support for Pope After Criticism from Trump @DylanCorbett23 @dan_misleh @Chris___Kerr @SBentleyva @KrisanneVMurphy @jlewDistrict @marcusmescher @jordandenari @bugideas @DetArchbishop @ArchbpCThompson @ABJohnCWester

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[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

The Trump administration is rolling out a new narrative about its aid program: Aid continues! More effective than ever! Trade over aid!
And it's nonsense. Trump and Musk destroyed a program that was saving a life once every 10 seconds on average. This has been Trump's most lethal policy, and now he's doubling down by withholding vaccines from poor countries -- like a $3 vaccine against malaria, and a $4 vaccine against cervical cancer. Some 600,000 will die just from that.
"Trade over aid" sounds fine, but what it means in practice is that if Zambia doesn't agree to sell copper and cobalt to American companies, we'll withhold lifesaving aid from Zambian villagers.
Here's my column on the hollowness of Trump's attempt to dress up his destruction of humanitarian aid, after a year to assess results: https://t.co/Wfw71XjNeQ

[James Martin, SJ @JamesMartinSJ]

Happy Feast of St. Joseph the Worker. To honor him, advocate for the rights of workers, unions and labor, all part of Catholic social teaching.

Image: Ade Bethune.

[@RobertEllsberg @RobertEllsberg]

The demanding witness of Dan Berrigan in a world at war https://t.co/TMAq3xh3aA