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@gocal83.bsky.social
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Father. Husband. Son of migrants. Pope Francis and Pope Leo fan. California native.

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Hrndz @gocal83.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I was desperate - I paid $6.79 in the Bay Area. For regular. After getting a 20 cent discount for a loyalty card. I didn’t fill up all the way because I knew I can get 50 cents cheaper elsewhere.
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Joe Ferullo @joeferullo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Bishop Barron of Word on Fire fuels debate on empathy's role in society, advocating a “hard-edged language of love.” Via NCR… #Catholic #empathy #WordOnFire #love #BishopBarron www.ncronline.org/news/bishop-...
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Bishop Barron of Word on Fire fuels debate on empathy's role in society
A prominent Catholic bishop and commentator has waded into the ongoing culture war over empathy and its role in Christianity, siding with conservative influencers who argue that practicing empathy car...
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Massimo Faggioli @massimofaggioli.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
my article on the issue of immigration in the Catholic Church and the case of CUA Catholic theologian Pecknold
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Sojourners @sojo.net · 02/09/2026
"Through his entire life and ministry, Jesus was notably absent from involving himself in the political systems of his day. Why? Because the Kingdom of Heaven was his priority." sojo.net/articles/chr...
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Christ, Not America, First
At some point, inevitably, Christians will have to choose between Jesus and their preferred political party and ideology.
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Hrndz @gocal83.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
hey @americanair.bsky.social, one of YOUR agents told my wife to go to iVisa and pay $140 for a C-5 form to visit Jamaica that would have cost $0. For whatever reason this needed to be done even though you can do it when you land in Jamaica. You refuse to refund money. Nice customer service.
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Mark Zandi @markzandi.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Not so. It’s admittedly difficult to cut through the noise in the data, but while employment and labor force participation are moribund for both groups, unemployment among native-born workers has been trending upward and is now higher than that of foreign-born workers.
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Hrndz @gocal83.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
“In any case, the age group most likely to live in poverty — by far — is children, particularly children 2 years old and under, and they can’t be accused of fraud, laziness or personal irresponsibility. Yes, many end up making bad choices, but we fail them before they fail us.”
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 29/07/2026
This is a very big deal. Donald Trump is screwing with seniors on fixed incomes, causing them to pay more for drugs they need to stay alive. www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/trump…
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Exclusive | Trump Administration to End Medicare Drug Plan Subsidy
Program that held down premiums won’t be renewed for 2027, resulting in higher costs for some seniors.
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𝐊𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐧 𝐎'𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐬, 𝐒.𝐉. @kohsj.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
BREAKING: Epstein survivors accuse ‘condescending’ Todd Blanche of gaslighting in meeting held as part of his AG bid www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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Epstein survivor accuses ‘condescending’ Todd Blanche of gaslighting in meeting
Comes as Sen. Thom Tillis has made meeting with survivors a requisite for his support for Blanche
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Courtney Bublé @courtneybuble.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Survivor Lara Blume McGee issued the following statement after the meeting with Blanche:
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Col. Gustavo Arellano @gustavoarellano.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
MY LATEST @latimes.com ‬⁩ COLUMNA: Two Lorenzos from Mexico. One fulfilled his American dream. ICE killed the other. Share, porfas!
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Commentary: Two Lorenzos from Mexico. One fulfilled his American dream. ICE killed the other
We should hail the life of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo the way we one day will the life of Lorenzo Arellano — as Mexicans who made it, challenges be damned.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
🚨 HUGE ongoing surge of ICE arrests, with ICE directing 80% of all officers to go out into the field and round people up, aiming to hit 2,000 arrests a day; which would be more than during the Minneapolis surge. This may be why the nun in Texas got briefly picked up. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/u...
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Immigrant Arrests Surge to 10,000 in 5 Days as ICE Clamps Down
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Alito’s standard for racial discrimination in the TPS ruling, that racism has to be the *sole* motivation to count as discriminatory, is so deranged that it could arguably cover neither Jim Crow nor slavery. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
This is a “color-blind” Constitution that the architects of Jim Crow could love. Many of the devices employed during segregation, such as poll taxes, grandfather clauses, and literacy tests, were superficially race-neutral. In fact, slavery itself could conceivably be race-neutral—after all, one does not need to be a racist to seek cheap labor for a profitable business!
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
No economist, Wall Street investor, policy wonk, or even undergrad econ student believes growth stops inflation — not even the cranks.
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Col. Gustavo Arellano @gustavoarellano.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
MY LATEST @latimes.com COLUMNA: Spencer Pratt says Jesus is his role model. His take on homeless people isn’t Christ-like. Share, porfas!
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Commentary: Spencer Pratt says Jesus is his role model. His take on homeless people isn't Christ-like
I urge Pratt to reacquaint himself with the words of the messiah in whose path he professes to follow. Humility, frugality, turning the other cheek — it’s what Jesus taught and what Pratt has long rej...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11/05/2026
At least 79 kids have been harmed by tear gas or pepper spray during Trump’s immigration crackdown. In most cases, they were going about their days when officers shot chemical munitions near their homes and schools and into their cars.
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Kids Are Being Harmed by Tear Gas, Pepper Spray Under Trump. There Could Be Long-Term Consequences.
In several cities, judges have chastised federal immigration officers, saying they used excessive force. One former DHS leader called ProPublica’s findings a “bright red flag.”
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Hrndz @gocal83.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
I attempted to give at year-end thru my DAF. Check never cashed or lost in the mail. Setting up the ability to accept EFTs from the large DAFs (Fidelity, Schwab) will help.
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Joe Ferullo @joeferullo.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Via NCR Opinion - The divinization of Trump is precisely why the Church Fathers wrote the creeds. It hollows out Christianity by dissolving the singularity of Christ into a reusable political metaphor. #Trump #Christians www.ncronline.org/opinion/gues...
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The divinization of Trump is precisely why the Church Fathers wrote the creeds
Once any embattled leader can be cast as savior, any comeback as resurrection, any survival as divine election, Christianity's central claim — that Christ is the unique mediator — loses its meaning.
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Hrndz @gocal83.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Mr. Duffy needs to come visit the food line I volunteer with. It used to be 350 people a week would show up. It ballooned to 400-450 people in the last three weeks, thanks to this government screwing people with reckless policies.
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Victor Narro @victornarro1.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Must-read by @gustavoarellano.bsky.social “Identity politics are now just secondary, because we’re all Latino,” she said. “We should now be organizing under other issues that matter to all.” www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Commentary: The future of Latino politics just played out in Whittier
Whittier elected a Latino-majority council for the first time in the city's history. But for the three winning Latino candidates, their ethnicity was an afterthought.
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Sojourners @sojo.net · 21/04/2026
As part of “America Reads the Bible,” Trump is reading 2 Chronicles 7:11-22. Here are 20 more verses we suggest for the president. sojo.net/articles/cul...
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20 More Bible Verses For President Trump to Read
And, ideally, reflect on.
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
The Coachella music festival is in the news with the minimum price of sold out 3-day ticket costing $549. Contrast that with "Nicolas" who is currently harvesting onions in the Coachella area and getting paid $22 for a $900lb crate. #WeFeedYou #coachella2026
900lb crates full of onions in a field
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Hrndz @gocal83.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
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“We’re Better Than This” — Pope Leo XIV’s Top Three US Cardinals on 60 Minutes
Cardinals Cupich, McElroy, and Tobin sat for their first joint interview — and credited Pope Leo XIV with inspiring them to speak out against the Iran war and mass deportations.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
“Of all the prevailing media narratives around @gavinnewsom.bsky.social, the one that is most conspicuous by its absence is how under its two-term governor California became the top performing economy not just among its 49 siblings but also any developed nation.” www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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Archbishop Romero Trust @romerotrust.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
With the excuse of not getting involved in politics, people stand with their arms crossed and do good only when it is easy or when doing good brings them glory and prestige —St Oscar Romero, 2nd Sunday of Easter (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero
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Joe Ferullo @joeferullo.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Catholics left and right blast Trump's threat to end Iran as “indefensible” and “Satanic” #Trump #IranWar #Iran #Catholic www.ncronline.org/news/catholi...
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Catholics left and right blast Trump's threat to end Iran
The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, released a statement urging President Donald Trump to "step back from the precipice of war and negotiate a just settlement for the sake of pea...
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United States Conference of Catholic Bishops @usccbofficial.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Archbishop Coakley Invites All to Join Pope Leo XIV’s Vigil for Peace in Midst of Threats of Increased Military Action in Iran | Read the full release at: ow.ly/HFHg50YF3RT
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
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Eric the Red ✝️🌹 @eric13red.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Me tapping the icon "It's not an offense to God":
Icon of Mary Magdalene proclaiming the Resurrection to the rest of the Apostles on Easter
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Br. Dr. Ken Homan, SJ @kenhomansj.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Every person who dies in ICE custody, every person killed by American bombs, every person executed, every person who dies because of poverty is Christ crucified. And on this evening we weep and mourn because of their suffering and deaths, and we remember that our salvation is bound to them.
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Archbishop Romero Trust @romerotrust.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
If Christ is the representative of all the people in their pain and humiliation, then we must expose the suffering of our people who themselves are nailed to a cross —St Oscar Romero, Good Friday 1978 #StOscarRomero
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
You can see pretty clearly when the President decided to reassure a worried nation.
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Thomas Reese @thomasreesesj.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
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His arrest went viral. Now Rev. Michael Woolf is preaching what he calls 'Sanctuary values.'
(RNS) — The photo of his arrest during a protest against ICE has given the Chicago-area pastor a platform to share a theology that centers immigrants and that harkens back to the Sanctuary Movement of...
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Archbishop Romero Trust @romerotrust.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
I invite you at this solemn entrance into Holy Week, not to live these days as remembrance of the past, but to experience them with the hope, anguish, projects, and with failures of our world and our nation as they are today —St Oscar Romero, Palm Sunday (A), 1978 #StOscarRomero
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Joe Ferullo @joeferullo.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Via NCR - As border dynamics change, priest keeps ministering to migrants and deportees. "We have a God who says, 'I want to be one of you.'" #immigration #deportation #Texas #Catholic www.ncronline.org/news/border-...
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As border dynamics change, priest keeps ministering to migrants and deportees
Over the past five years at the U.S.-Mexico border, Jesuit Fr. Brian Strassburger has gone from ministering to throngs of asylum-seekers in overcrowded shelters to celebrating Mass with detained and d...
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Thomas Reese @thomasreesesj.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
www.ncronline.org/news/pope-le...
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Pope Leo XIV more favorable than Trump in new NBC News poll
U.S. voters view Pope Leo XIV more favorably than President Trump, political parties or artificial intelligence, according to a recent NBC News survey.
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Hrndz @gocal83.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Yes! I found a draft of this book online as I was researching this branch of the family tree. I became an admirer from a distance.
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Hrndz @gocal83.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Juan Hernandez Pico, SJ
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Dow 50,000... But look around, and the real question is why isn't it 60,000?
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Hrndz @gocal83.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Heard about it in the ‘80’s, when Pope JP II seemed to be against it. Never understood why. Much later, I learned about a distant cousin was a Jesuit priest in Central America and was a professor of Liberation Theology at UCA. He worked with Romero and the Jesuit Martyrs. He died just recently.
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Ignatian Solidarity Network @ignatiansolidarity.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Colleen Dulle @colleendulle.com challenges the temptation to treat #Lent like a New Year's resolution and instead invites us into #solidarity. Read the whole #Lenten reflection ➡️ ignatiansolidarity.net/blog/2026/02... #Catholic #StubbornHope #IgnatianSolidarity
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Michael J. O'Loughlin @mikeoloughlin.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
US bishops warn ICE mega-detention plan is 'moral inflection point' for America www.ncronline.org/news/us-bish...
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US bishops warn ICE mega-detention plan is 'moral inflection point' for America
The bishops' conference issued a stark critique of plans to double federal immigration detention capacity: "The thought of holding thousands of families in massive warehouses should challenge the cons...
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Hrndz @gocal83.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Ketchup is getting thrown.
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Letter of Cardinal Cupich to Archdiocesan priests: “We fail in living up to our faith if we claim to follow Christ, while dismissing the suffering of migrants.”
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Sojourners @sojo.net · 16/02/2026
"Leaving could be faithful. Staying could be faithful. And everything in between could be faithful — so long as it is done out of a sense of freedom, a sense of free love, and service to others." sojo.net/articles/opi... sojo.net/articles/opi...
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‘Don’t Fight the Stupidity’ and Other Relevant Bonhoeffer Advice
Lessons from Bonhoeffer's essay on Christian life under authoritarianism.
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Col. Gustavo Arellano @gustavoarellano.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
MY LATEST @latimes.com ‬⁩ ESSENTIAL CALIFORNIA NEWSLETTER: How ICE insulted 28 Mexican immigrants who died in a 1948 plane crash. Share, porfas!
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How ICE insulted 28 Mexican immigrants who died in a 1948 plane crash
Your morning catch-up: ICE dredges up an old tragedy, Raman's 'Shakespearean' betrayal, and more big stories
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NPR @npr.org · 16/02/2026
Unlike in Europe, officials in the U.S. with ties to Epstein have largely held their positions of power.
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Epstein files fallout takes down elite figures in Europe, while U.S. reckoning is muted
Unlike in Europe, officials in the U.S. with ties to Epstein have largely held their positions of power.
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