David Gibson
@GibsonWrites
Director of Fordham's Center on Religion & Culture. "Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto." *Breviloquia* are my own. https://linktr.ee/gibsonwrites
You just re-tweeted an Associated Press story on it.
Islamic State-backed jihadists slaughter 34 Christians in eastern Congo. Will this important story get serious media play? Don't count on it. apnews.com/article/congo-…
Massacre 'of faithful in the house of God' in Congolese Catholic church leaves 43 dead osvnews.com/massacre-of-fa…
El Papa es peruano! En las Fiestas Patrias del Perú, Leon XIV encuentra la delegación de jóvenes peruanos participantes en el Jubileo de los Jóvenes. (📸 Vatican Media)
Lord, have mercy. 🙏
BREAKING: At least 21 people have been killed in an attack on a church in eastern Congo by an Islamic State-backed rebel group, a civil leader says. apnews.com/article/congo-…
The Christian speaker of the House can’t bring himself to publicly oppose a pardon for one of the worst child sex traffickers of our lifetime. That’s the story. That should be the headline. Astonishing.
Q: "Would you support a pardon or a commutation for Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted sex trafficker?" Speaker Mike Johnson: "That's a decision of the president...I won't get in front of him, that's not my lane."
Good news out of Detroit, whose archbishop has decided to give his seminary a new direction, retiring three theologians / canonists who notoriously dissented from the papal magisterium in intemperate ways. ncronline.org/news/detroit-a…
And he was like, ‘I can’t get it to turn off. I can’t figure out how to turn it off.’
How it started How it’s going Oklahoman School’s superintendent Ryan Walters edition “2 members of the State Board of Ed shocked and mad when they saw a video featuring naked women on the TV in Walters’ office during executive session” nondoc.com/2025/07/25/boa…
Inside the operating room at Al-Shifa Hospital: Medical staff forced to perform surgeries while being starved for 48 hours Dr. Ismail Nassar: “Nurses are collapsing from extreme hunger… and as the hospital director, all I have is dry bread.” داخل غرفة العمليات في مستشفى الشفاء:…
Superman should not be woke. He should be radical, as in the early stories where he fought wife-beaters, arms dealers, slum lords and exploitive bosses. thenation.com/article/cultur…
It ignited all the conspiracy theories that first pervaded the Republican Party, then the rest of society. It is the root.
Would I be off base to say that the election of Barack Obama ignited, "Make America Great Again," or, at the very least, reinvigorated racism?
MUST WATCH: Former US special forces lieutenant-colonel tells the BBC that he has never in his entire career "witnessed the level of brutality and use of indiscriminate and unnecessary force against a civilian population, an unarmed, starving population. I've never witnessed…
This is an absolutely horrific read. Reminder: dateline on this story is the Gaza Strip. Per a recent statement from AP, AFP, Reuters and BBC, their own reporters — e.g., possibly at least one writing this story — are also facing potential starvation. apnews.com/article/gaza-p…
How is it the world just watches this atrocity?
After five days with no food to cook, our @WCKitchen team in Gaza is again cooking hot meals. Ingredients are very limited, and we won’t be able to cook for long. The people of Gaza need food, and they need it NOW! Children are starving, they are crying…let’s allow aid to safely…
During normal times, it would be headline news that an unhinged bigot and hatemonger like Loomer, who is so racist that she's even lost MTG, has meetings with the State Department and access to Donald Trump, but here we are.
Productive afternoon of meetings at the State Department. @StateDept
Keep in mind this is Trump’s PERSONAL FUCKING ATTORNEY
Today, I met with Ghislaine Maxwell, and I will continue my interview of her tomorrow. The Department of Justice will share additional information about what we learned at the appropriate time.
BREAKING A new statement from the Prime Minister of Australia begins with “the situation in Gaza has gone beyond the world’s worst fears.”
Please remember my brother, Eddie, who entered hospice care this week.
Stunning reporting from @terrence_mccoy @falamarina -- Volkswagen kept a dark secret in the Amazon. Then a priest made a call. washingtonpost.com/world/interact…
"Trump just announced that CBS will also give him $20 million in airtime, through ads and programming. Ask not what you can do for censorship — ask what censorship can do for you!" Great stuff --->
What the cancellation of Stephen Colbert’s late-night show says about the power of politics and money, and why comedy will always have the last word. Olivia Poust, assistant director of the CRC, for #Sapientia. Read more. crc.blog.fordham.edu/arts-culture/t…