Clergy barred from entering Alligator Alcatraz
”Christian” Trump Administration BANS religious services @ Alligator Alcatraz
By Michael Shackelford, Funny Farm News
"They could build that place in less than a week, so it doesn't seem that it should take two or three weeks to tell the archbishop of Miami his priest can go in to minister to the detainees,"
- Archbishop Thomas Wenski, July 21, 2025
Pope at Mass in Castel Gandolfo: Let us imitate Christ, the Good Samaritan
By Deborah Castellano Lubov, Vatican News
White House Border Czar admits ICE stopping people based on “physical appearance”
By Michael Shackelford, Funny Farm News
Trump Threatens to Revoke Rosie O’Donnell’s Citizenship
Trump Threatens to Revoke Rosie O’Donnell’s Citizenship
By Michael Shackelford, Funny Farm News
ICE cuffs, detains & bruises 71-year-old Grandma court observer
By Michael Shackelford, Funny Farm News
Donald Trump Is on a Collision Course With the Catholic Church
By Joe Perticone, The Bulwark
“About six months into the second Trump presidency, Republicans are charting a collision course with the Catholic Church. Stark and growing differences between their views on migrants, the poor, technology, and other issues could put the spiritual home of tens of millions of American Catholics in direct conflict with the political framework of the party that runs the U.S. government.”
Catholics in San Bernardino can skip Mass if they have a “genuine fear” of ICE
By Michael Shackelford, Funny Farm News
"Authorities are now seizing brothers and sisters indiscriminately, without respect for their right to due process and their dignity as children of God."
Those who have a “genuine fear of immigration enforcement actions, are unable to attend Sunday Mass or Masses on holy days of obligation” do not have to attend Mass.
- Bishop Alberto Rojas, Diocese of San Bernardino
Homeland Security weaponizes Bible verse to justify Trump's immigration tactics
- By John Grosso, National Catholic Reporter
“Having apparently no sense of irony, video makers used ‘God's Gonna Cut You Down’ as the musical accompaniment. Famously the song is about how no matter how self-righteous one is, sinners cannot hide from the divine justice of God.
That might be a lesson that those in the Trump administration will have to learn the hard way.”
RFK Jr.’s Autism Time Machine
By John Donvan and Caren Zucker, The Atlantic
“If the world uses a lens that is only based on deficits and struggle rather than the complexity and nuance that is a part of any human being, including and especially autistic people, that makes true belonging really hard,” Sara Swoboda, a pediatrician in Boise, Idaho, whose daughter has an autism diagnosis, told us over email.
Mexico's changing tune on immigration
By Rhina Guidos, Global Sisters Report
“Mexico, which has hailed its migrants as heroes and even composed songs about them as noble protagonists, has become a place where xenophobia is on the rise. The Spanish-language network Univision aired a report in December 2022 showing how private Facebook groups have promoted anti-immigrant narratives of Mexico being invaded by Venezuelans, Central Americans, Africans and Haitians, something fueled by lies presented as news from right-wing outlets from the U.S.”
MAGA Weather Alert
By Michael Shackelford, Funny Farm News
MAGA Congressional candidate Kandiss Taylor (R-GA) posts weather manipulation conspiracy theories after flood waters kill in Texas.
Alligator Alcatraz Is A “Sinful Initiative”
-By Tom Tracy, OSV News
To persecute migrants is not Christian . . . This breaks all the barriers on how we treat migrants . . . knowing that migrants are doing the jobs that absolutely no one wants to do. . . . To have this Alligator Alcatraz is a very sinful initiative — to say nobody can escape because the gators are around is very sinful.”
- Father Federico Capdepón
A day outside an LA detention center shows profound impact of ICE raids on families
By Jaimie Ding, AP
“On a recent day, dozens of people arrived with medication, clothing and hope of seeing their loved one, if only briefly. After hours of waiting, many were turned away with no news, not even confirmation that their relative was inside. Some relayed reports of horrific conditions inside, including inmates who are so thirsty that they have been drinking from the toilets.”
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Archbishop Timothy Broglio juggles roles as leader of US bishops and shepherd of Catholic troops
By Aleja Hertzler-McCain, National Catholic Reporter
On June 22, the morning after President Donald Trump announced U.S. forces had bombed several nuclear sites in Iran, Archbishop Timothy Broglio issued two responses, one for each of the two hats he wears — president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and as archbishop for the U.S. military services.
As USCCB president, Broglio wrote, "we beg Almighty God to end the proliferation of acts of war and to inspire dialogue before more innocent people are harmed." As a shepherd for service members, he shared his prayers for them, their families and peace.
But on the use of troops to enforce immigration policy and mass deportations, Broglio has shied away from criticizing the commander-in-chief or the uniformed leadership, revealing the tricky position of occupying two roles that have never been held by the same man.
https://www.ncronline.org/news/broglio-juggles-roles-leader-us-bishops-and-shepherd-catholic-troops
Breaking: If NOAA’s Budget Passes Congress, People Will Die
By Chris Gloninger, WeatheringClimate.com via Substack
If the proposed NOAA budget is approved, tornado and hurricane prediction, air quality alerts, and climate monitoring could grind to a halt.
https://chrisgloninger.substack.com/p/breaking-if-noaas-budget-passes-congress?utm_campaign=post
Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations
By Justin Elliott, Joshua Kaplan and Alex Mierjeski, Pro Publica
In 2023, while Kristi Noem was governor of South Dakota, she supplemented her income by secretly accepting a cut of the money she raised for a nonprofit that promotes her political career, tax records show.
In what experts described as a highly unusual arrangement, the nonprofit routed funds to a personal company of Noem’s that had recently been established in Delaware. The payment totaled $80,000 that year, a significant boost to her roughly $130,000 government salary. Since the nonprofit is a so-called dark money group — one that’s not required to disclose the names of its donors — the original source of the money remains unknown.