Next step is for ordinary believers - lay Catholics et al. - to speak up and act directly and personally

As he joins in the dismantling of USAID, Sec of State Marco Rubio is weakening its top annual grantee: Catholic Relief Services, which in the '60s resettled 500K Cuban refugees in Miami --the very community that Rubio has built his career representing

My latest: a piece for The New Yorker -- involving bishops, Trump, Vance, Pope Francis, and a dust-up over the nature of charity

There are a million stories in the naked city - and 8 of them, this year and early next, are the stories of 8 Catholic saints. When I put together A TREMOR OF BLISS: Contemporary Writers on the Saints (1994), I didn't envision this iteration - but Martin Scorsese had it in mind

For two millennia the lives of the saints have been invigorated through vivid retellings (re-presentations). So it's utterly apt that the fresh versions on @FoxNation come to us via Martin Scorsese, whose approach to motion pictures has defined visual storytelling for our age

RT @foxnation: "Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints” is streaming now on Fox Nation. Watch here:

Streaming from Sunday, the first 4 episodes of Martin Scorsese Presents: THE SAINTS, each a dramatic mini-epic (via @foxnation). Really pleased to take part in the post-episode conversations with Martin Scorsese, @JamesMartinSJ and @marykarrlit ...

RT @NewYorker: The Vatican’s Synod on Synodality was nothing like papal gatherings of cinematic lore, but it clearly reflects Pope Francis’…

My latest: a piece for @NewYorker's The Lede, about the movie CONCLAVE, Pope Francis's recent synod of Catholic leaders in Rome, and what each reveals about the other

So glad to have a chance to pick up a long-running conversation w @elizagriswold in GU's Faith & Culture series the other day (a convo that began 15 yrs ago at @fsgbooks). Truly amazing to hear just *how* immersive her journalism is. Event video here:

RIP Sr. Sally Butler - a neighbor in Fort Greene who, decades ago now, was instrumental in bringing clerical sex abuse in Catholic Brooklyn to light - & who figured into my New Yorker article on clerical abuse and its consequences

Throwback religion + Trumpism + Bitcoin + AI really is an odd fit. My @newyorker Daily Comment on J.D. Vance's Catholicism and what it might augur for the country, quoted at some length here (thanks to @Edsall).

My latest: a Daily Comment, for @newyorker, about J.D. Vance's 2019 conversion to Catholicism (via Peter Thiel, René Girard, and "a couple of Dominican friars") and his subsequent initiation into the Catholic post-liberal elite (via Patrick Deneen et al.)

My latest: an essay about my early reporting for Andrew Sullivan & @TheNewRepublic, and the way it deepened my sense of Catholicism . . . written for @HankCenterLUC's gathering of writers on the Eucharist prior to this week's events in Indianapolis

My latest: a Daily Comment, for @NewYorker, about @NorahODonnell's interview with Pope Francis -- & in particular about their lively exchange on the role of women in the Church, seen in brief on @60Minutes & a highlight of the full-hour @CBSNews program

A pleasure & honor to speak to @LibraryAmerica board members about the new volume of Walker Percy's first three novels - books in which Percy slipped the yoke of the past-addled, patrician South by depicting the efforts of ordinary men & women to live authentically in the present

"We inhabited the same Morningside Heights world of the early 1970s, with its cranks and cults, mimeographed screeds and tracts." Stylish & wise @nytimesbooks sketch of Paul Auster by Lucy Sante -- a more consequential writer than Auster, in my view ...

My latest: a Daily Comment, for @NewYorker, about the new declaration on human dignity from the Vatican's Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith:

Here's video from the SANT'EGIDIO'S DREAM event we held at Georgetown in late March. At about 55:00, the conversation turns into a lively collective reflection on the Community of Sant'Egidio and its really distinctive way of going about things

So looking forward to our Faith & Culture event with @jonathaneig -- Riggs Library, Wednesday, 5 p.m. (not the usual 4 p.m.). KING is outstanding -- as strong a book as any I read from 2023 -- and is all the stronger in the re-reading ...