Jonathan Liedl

An ND prof thought the fact that I was basically living out of a car when we met (b/c I had recently come back from a stint abroad and didn't have my own digs yet and was staying w/ friends) was a plus b/c it meant I'd be open to moving to South Bend. We got married a month ago.

My Sacred Heart Major Seminary teaching contract was terminated by Abp. Weisenburger this week. I have retained counsel. Except to offer my prayers for those affected by this news and to ask for theirs in return, I have no further comment at this time. Prof. Edward Peters

And all of them are Hillsdale undergrads

Philadelphia Archbishop in Pastoral Letter Tells Immigrants: ‘You Are Not Alone’ The letter acknowledged the need for law enforcement while simultaneously calling for policies that uphold the dignity and respect of the American immigrant community.⤵️ hubs.la/Q03yPPPm0

A friend in Fr. Schaffer's Venezuelan diocese tells me that Fr. Gregorio is at his home, "sano y salva"--"safe and sound."

It seems like the sole ethical condisderation relevant to the policy priorities laid out here is "China is bad." ai.gov/action-plan

"No one wants to talk to a chatbot. People want real human moments. So instead of providing them that, we will paper over a chatbot with the appearance of real human moment."

Re: the dignity of the baptismal priesthood during liturgy, this lived sense of "participating" in the Mass is one aspect. The other is dignity! It seems some instantiations of the NO convey participation, but not in anything particularly dignified. This, it seems, is a failure.

On Sunday, July 20, 2025, Archbishop Thomas Wenski of the Archdiocese of Miami, accompanied by 25 members of the Knights on Bikes ministry, made a symbolic pastoral visit to the gates of the Alligator Alcatraz detention facility. There, in a moving act of compassion and…

Reading an essay by Card. Marc Ouellet in a new @IgnatiusPress collection of his views on synodality. It's fairly anodyne, which really makes his intervention below on the primacy of the universal Church v the local Churches really stick out. Seems he thinks this is the crux.

Striking that so many saints are saints because of their love for the poor. We (myself included) often want to sort of imitate their sainthood via deep prayer and outstanding moral rectitude, but skip over this whole "love and devote yourself to the poor" thing.

This was basically my wedding reception. The DJ was addicted to EDM and could not stop playing *absurd* remixes of the songs we had requested, even after we begged him not to. A spotify playlist and speaker honestly would've been better.