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Massimo Faggioli @massimofaggioli.bsky.social · 6h

Artists are never poor, even when they are short on cash. AI ideologues are never poor, but in another sense, because their technology makes money cannibalizing the work of others.

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Dean Dettloff @deandettloff.bsky.social · 9h

The Catholic bishops of Alberta have released a pastoral letter related to the Alberta Independence referendum. The letter stops short of endorsing a yes or no (common in bishops' letters in the US and Canada) but the key considerations lean in a fairly obvious direction. caedm.ca/catholic-bis...

How will this decision affect others, particularly those who are most vulnerable?
Have I considered the good of others alongside my own interests?
To what extent might fear, anger, or resentment be influencing my judgement?
What kind of society or community are we building for future generations through this choice?

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Massimo Faggioli @massimofaggioli.bsky.social · 12h

the video of the webinar with Kristin Colberg about my pope Leo XIV is now live on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Nqh...

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Leo XIV and the Global Church with Massimo Faggioli and Kristin Colberg

YouTube video by Liturgical Press

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Phil Feller @philfeller.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Is that drawing analogies between the Singularity and the Omega Point?

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U.S. Catholic magazine @uscatholic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In 2018, the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith took steps officially to forbid support for the death penalty, adding a new directive to the catechism: “the death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and the dignity of the person.’”

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What does the church teach about the death penalty?

The Catholic Church’s opposition to the death penalty developed in recent centuries. Today the church opposes the death penalty in all cases.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Just got an email from a former student who took my class a decade ago, asking me for the reading list because she enjoyed the course so much and wants to revisit the texts. And she *apologized* for making the request. Are you kidding me?

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Sad Old Man Crying

ALT: Sad Old Man Crying

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Mikhail @va11halla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

How your email finds me

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Massimo Faggioli @massimofaggioli.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

il solito schifo della pena di morte, sia quando funziona sia quando non funziona

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 30/09/2026

‘An obvious objection to the war-fi genre is that there are quite enough wars to be getting on with without inventing fictional ones.’ @tomstevenson.bsky.social on invasion scenarios: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Tom Stevenson · The Russians are coming

War-fi accounts accurately depict the frontier between Europe and Russia as being in an unstable equilibrium. But they...

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Massimo Faggioli @massimofaggioli.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

gli ultimi due minuti (quelli che ho visto) del discorso di Andy Burnham sono da ascoltare e vedere

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Massimo Faggioli @massimofaggioli.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

very happy to speak at the Roundtable "When Faith Becomes Political: Defending Freedom in an Age of Authoritarianism" at the 30th "Forum 2000" Conference in Prague in October. www.forum2000.cz/en/projects/...

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Forum 2000 Conferences

The idea for the Forum 2000 Conference originated in 1997, when former Czech President Václav Havel, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Elie Wiesel, and philanthropist Yohei Sasakawa invited world leaders to ...

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Massimo Faggioli @massimofaggioli.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

pope Leo XIV and the Vatican diplomacy of the micro-states he visited in these last few months: reminds me of Pius XII's speech in favor of the small nations in his Christmas address in 1940

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Massimo Faggioli @massimofaggioli.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

these words of pope Leo are for me, and for many others I think, profoundly moving

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Massimo Faggioli @massimofaggioli.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

to deal with AI, I think third-hand Teilhardism is not helpful

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 28/09/2026

Today's Daily Cartoon, by Juan Astasio.

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Massimo Faggioli @massimofaggioli.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

una volta, ai tempi di Giovanni Paolo II e Benedetto XVI, l'Europa laica poteva ammirare il cantante (il papa), ma ignorare la canzone. Oggi credo che abbia bisogno, più di allora, anche della canzone.

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Massimo Faggioli @massimofaggioli.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

this speech about and to Europe by Leo XIV in Metz today is also a statement to Russia and to the USA, where Catholics in the Trump administration have articulated a vision of the "old continent" that is very different if not almost diametrically opposed.

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Massimo Faggioli @massimofaggioli.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

dal primo dei due discorsi di Leone XIV a Metz oggi: "Infatti, invocare il nome di Dio per legittimare la violenza o l’oppressione costituisce una profanazione di questo nome. Nulla di ciò che deturpa la dignità umana può rivendicare un’autentica ispirazione divina."

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Massimo Faggioli @massimofaggioli.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

vietare le Stolpersteine in Germania: siamo a questo punto

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Tonton Alberto 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @tontonalberto.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Les parents avec leurs enfants quand il y a la papamobile qui passe

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"le mec à McCabe là", un truc comme ça @socfrimphmcc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Le courage de ces gens de s'exposer à nouveau à l'espoir d'être entendus, et donc à la possibilité d'être déçus.

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ANSA @mm-ansa-bot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Il Vaticano in campo per la pace, missione di Zuppi a Mosca Ma i raid russi non si ferm... www.ansa.it/vaticano/notizie/cristi…

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Massimo Faggioli @massimofaggioli.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

un papa dagli USA può dire all’Europa certe cose senza essere sospettato di “Mo ce ripigliamm' tutt' chell che è 'o nuost”

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Massimo Faggioli @massimofaggioli.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Catholicisme today: "believing and belonging" (cit.), becoming and bespoke

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Massimo Faggioli @massimofaggioli.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

One of the longest quotations in Leo XIV’s speeches in France appears in his address at Lourdes to the staff of the "Accueil Notre-Dame"; it is taken from "Evangelium Vitae" - a document whose importance is addressed in an important article in the latest issue of "Concilium", which I co-edited.

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Massimo Faggioli @massimofaggioli.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It was only two years ago: the controversy among certain Catholic voices surrounding a specific segment of the opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics.

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Massimo Faggioli @massimofaggioli.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

here my interview for "The Big Tent" podcast with Geraldine Doogue in Australia thebigtentpodcast.com

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Home - The Big Tent

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Massimo Faggioli @massimofaggioli.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Francesco aveva risposto alla sfida del trumpismo in modo frontale, anche perché la sfida gli veniva "from inside the house". Leone XIV risponde invece con un flanking maneuver, e ribatte direttamente quando viene attaccato direttamente.

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Massimo Faggioli @massimofaggioli.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

una delle cose più importanti che Leone XIV ha fatto per il suo viaggio in Francia: non rispondere alla domanda fattagli sull'aereo su Trump e poi accogliere tutti i giornalisti sull'aereo papale (PS la storia dei viaggi papali ha visto in passato un episodio di esclusione di giornalista sgradito).

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Massimo Faggioli @massimofaggioli.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Leo XIV talking about the abuse scandal in Lourdes today: interesting comparison with the ways in which the pope AND the secular authorities dealt with the abuse issue in other papal trips (especially Francis in Ireland 2018 but also Benedict XIV's letter to Ireland in 2010)

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Massimo Faggioli @massimofaggioli.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

interessanti le differenze, a trent'anni di distanza

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RNS @rns.org · 26/09/2026

AUSTIN, Texas (RNS) — Pimentel announced the investigation had been dropped during a conversation with RNS events host Niala Boodhoo at the Texas Tribune Festival in Austin.

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DHS lifts financial freeze on Sister Norma Pimentel’s Catholic migrant charity

AUSTIN, Texas (RNS) — Pimentel announced the investigation had been dropped during a conversation with RNS events host Niala Boodhoo at the Texas Tribune Festival in Austin.

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Massimo Faggioli @massimofaggioli.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Pope Leo XIV in Lourdes today, just four hours from Port Bou where Walter Benjamin died on this day, 1940

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Massimo Faggioli @massimofaggioli.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This trip to France by Leo XIV is an alternative way to mark the centenary of the 1926 condemnation of "Action Française" by Pius XI. This kind of public presence of the Church versus integralist and ethno-nationalist ideologies.

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Massimo Faggioli @massimofaggioli.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Leone XIV in Francia: La storia non è scritta da chi vince ma da chi “avvia processi di pace”, non da chi si impone ma da chi “fa spazio”. Carl Schmitt dopo il 1945: io sono tra “i vinti che scrivono la storia” (molti di quei vinti erano cattolici francesi ‘800 che ora vanno molto di moda in USA)

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Massimo Faggioli @massimofaggioli.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Leone XIV nel discorso all'UNESCO oggi ha usato la parola "unità" cinque volte, e l'enfasi sull'unità è anche negli altri due discorsi di oggi a Parigi.

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Massimo Faggioli @massimofaggioli.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

about pope Leo XIV's visit to the UNESCO today

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James Butler @piercepenniless.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I had a great time speaking with @will-davies.bsky.social this week, as we tried to answer the question: what’s the point of intellectuals? What’s their - our? - relationship to politics? And why do so many political thinkers find intellectuals a bit… worrying? podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/o...

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On Politics: What happened to the intellectual?

Podcast Episode · The LRB Podcast · 23 September · 1hr 7min

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Hendro Munsterman @hendrom.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

During his address to President Macron and French authorities Leo XIV greeted not only the French people, but “all those who live in this country.” He referred to all its inhabitants as “one people” and said that the diversity of their origins “enriches the art of living together”.

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Massimo Faggioli @massimofaggioli.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

stavo scrivendo in un messaggio "difesa dottorale" e l'autocorrettore mi ha suggerito "difesa dittatoriale".

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FRANCE 24 English @en.france24.com · 25/09/2026

🇫🇷 ✝️ #Pope Leo XIV arrives in #Paris on Friday for the Vatican's first state visit to #France in 18 years. On the first day of his trip, the pontiff's agenda includes a visit to the Élysée Palace and a youth vigil at the Stade de France. Watch for more ⤵️

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Massimo Faggioli @massimofaggioli.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Last week in Rome, I had the pleasure of sharing work on the book about Pope Leo XIV (published in Italian by Morcelliana and translated into English by Liturgical Press)—first on September 16 at the Italian Embassy to the Holy See, and then on September 18 during an audience with Pope Leo XIV.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 23/09/2026

It would appear that Bishop Robert Barron, who has spoken at White House events and sits on Trump's religious freedom commission, has retweeted an apparently AI-created video of himself dressed as a cardinal. Note: Barron is not, in fact, a cardinal. He's the bishop of Winona–Rochester

A screenshot of a video, showing that it was retweeted by Bishop Barron. Barron, dressed in cardinal attire, stands amid a group of apparent priests. The video appears to be an AI-edited version of a music video, which does not originally feature priests or Barron.

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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The question “What do you give the Pope?” is definitely better answered with cake than with suspicious green orbs.

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Massimo Faggioli @massimofaggioli.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

John Cavadini (with whom one might well disagree on certain issues) has demonstrated fidelity to the Church in his theological and academic work. Yet, naturally, more-Catholic-than-the-pope social media activists are harping on Cavadini’s criticisms of "Summorum Pontificum". What a world.

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