Phil Cooke, SJ

Priest. Jesuit. Brother of Lakota. Sinner and still loved to serve Christ. North Rapid City.

[Phil Cooke, SJ @philcookesj]

@TotalBodyIQ @GraceGym_ $15

[Riley Gaines @Riley_Gaines_]

Mary and Joseph weren't illegally in Bethlehem. Hope this helps!

[Phil Cooke, SJ @philcookesj]

@ElonMuskNews47 Hope

[Catholic News Agency @cnalive]

Rapid City, South Dakota, Bishop Scott E. Bullock and South Dakota Jesuit leaders criticized U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for honoring U.S. soldiers who carried out an 1890 assault on a Lakota reservation near the Wounded Knee Creek. https://t.co/6C2tcVPaXh

[Phil Cooke, SJ @philcookesj]

@christopherhale Amen!

[Phil Cooke, SJ @philcookesj]

Honoring the killers at Wounded Knee is not patriotism. It’s moral blindness. We Jesuits who presently live among our Lakota brothers and sisters have responded to Secretary Hegseth’s grave error.

[Phil Cooke, SJ @philcookesj]

https://t.co/vjh9UUh8p4

[Phil Cooke, SJ @philcookesj]

True courage is choosing justice over denial. There was no honor in the massacre at Wounded Knee—only tragedy. Healing begins when we tell the truth, not when we reward violence.

[Phil Cooke, SJ @philcookesj]

@SecWar True courage is choosing justice over denial. There was no honor in the massacre at Wounded Knee—only tragedy. Healing begins when we tell the truth, not when we reward violence. Honoring the killers at Wounded Knee is not patriotism. It’s moral blindness.

[Phil Cooke, SJ @philcookesj]

What part of “thou shall not kill” do you not understand Mr. Hegseth? Your strike on boats in the sea without due process is an evil act. I am ashamed that the US government kills? And you call yourself a Christian? https://t.co/0xKjUC3dUQ

[James Martin, SJ @JamesMartinSJ]

Thats Fr. Dan Hartnett, SJ, requesting permission to bring Communion to ICE detainees. They were denied. The crowd is singing "Pan de Vida" (Bread of Life). "At this table, the last shall be first..."

[The Liberation Theology Podcast @LibTheoPodcast]

David Inczauskis, SJ, denounces the evils of detention and deportation at the Broadview Detention Center alongside hundreds of Catholics during the @CSPLAction Eucharistic procession on Saturday, October 11.

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

https://t.co/QFwLJrFY6C

[Phil Cooke, SJ @philcookesj]

What part of “thou shall not kill” do you not understand?

[Secretary of War Pete Hegseth @SecWar]

Earlier this morning, on President Trump's orders, I directed a lethal, kinetic strike on a narco-trafficking vessel affiliated with Designated Terrorist Organizations in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility. Four male narco-terrorists aboard the vessel were killed in the strike, and no U.S. forces were harmed in the operation. The strike was conducted in international waters just off the coast of Venezuela while the vessel was transporting substantial amounts of narcotics - headed to America to poison our people.

Our intelligence, without a doubt, confirmed that this vessel was trafficking narcotics, the people onboard were narco-terrorists, and they were operating on a known narco-trafficking transit route. These strikes will continue until the attacks on the American people are over!!!!

[Phil Cooke, SJ @philcookesj]

@DebHaalandNM As a Jesuit priest who prayed and lived with the Lakota in WK and surrounding communities from 2008-2011 I reiterate Deb Haaland’s words: “awarding medals for the massacre at WK is cruelty, not honor”. This act by Hegseth continues to negate the injustice of the massacre.

[Deb Haaland @DebHaalandNM]

Military service is about courage and sacrifice. That’s what my father, a Marine, and my mother, a Navy veteran, taught me.

But awarding medals for the massacre at Wounded Knee is cruelty, not honor. And reaffirming them today only deepens the injustice.

Standing at the gravesite with descendants of those victims brought home to me how the trauma of that day still lingers in the community. I have and will always fight to ensure every community across New Mexico is respected and has the opportunity to thrive.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Spot on

[Phil Cooke, SJ @philcookesj]

@AGEllison Thank you, AG Ellison! Left or right, evil is evil. Please, in the name of God, stop the hate, the division and violence.

[Phil Cooke, SJ @philcookesj]

@LeMeTellUSumtin @charliekirk11 Amen, Fr. Tran!

[Phil Cooke, SJ @philcookesj]

@sola_chad Yes, of course