Thomas Reese, S.J.

@ThomasReeseSJ

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Washington, DC

Joined December 2012

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Thomas Reese, S.J.@ThomasReeseSJ · 42 m

Please remember my brother, Eddie, who entered hospice care this week.

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Thomas Reese, S.J.@ThomasReeseSJ · 11 h

Christian Cancel Culture Strikes Again nytimes.com/2025/07/24/opi… @DavidAFrench via @NYTOpinion

ThomasReeseSJ's tweet card. Chip and Joanna Gaines had the temerity to feature a gay couple on their new show.

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Thomas Reese, S.J.@ThomasReeseSJ · Jul 23

Johnnie Moore says embattled aid group 'unbelievably effective,' blames UN, Hamas for not helping Gazans religionnews.com/2025/07/22/joh…

ThomasReeseSJ's tweet card. (RNS) — During a one-hour Zoom call, the chairman of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation said the world was waging a disinformation campaign against the group.

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Thomas Reese, S.J.@ThomasReeseSJ · 10 h

Aid Groups Blame Israel’s Gaza Restrictions for ‘Mass Starvation’ nytimes.com/2025/07/23/wor… via @NYTimes

ThomasReeseSJ's tweet card. More than 100 organizations, including Save the Children and Doctors Without Borders, added to growing calls for aid restrictions to be eased and the war to end.

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Thomas Reese, S.J.@ThomasReeseSJ · 10 h

I’m a microplastics researcher. Here’s how I limit the plastic in my life. washingtonpost.com/wellness/2025/…

ThomasReeseSJ's tweet card. Microplastics are everywhere. But there are simple ways to lower your exposure.

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Thomas Reese, S.J.@ThomasReeseSJ · 11 h

Protection of IDPs Goes Beyond Humanitarian Aid: Jesuit Entity Official in CAR aciafrica.org/news/16657/pro…

ThomasReeseSJ's tweet card. Internally Displaced People (IDPs) need love and protection that goes beyond humanitarian aid, the Education Monitoring Officer of the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) in the Central African Republic...

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Thomas Reese, S.J.@ThomasReeseSJ · Jul 24

Why aren't Jewish institutions outraged over the LA immigration raids? religionnews.com/2025/07/23/why…

ThomasReeseSJ's tweet card. (RNS) — We understand Jewish groups may believe the immigration raids are not our problem. They are wrong.

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Thomas Reese, S.J.@ThomasReeseSJ · Jul 24

Why aren't Jewish institutions outraged over the LA immigration raids? religionnews.com/2025/07/23/why…

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Thomas Reese, S.J.@ThomasReeseSJ · Jul 24

Trump's call to revive sports teams' Native mascots reverses progress on religious freedom religionnews.com/2025/07/23/tru…

ThomasReeseSJ's tweet card. (RNS) — For generations, our elders found pride in our cultures in subversive ways, in the face of stereotypes and restrictions on our spiritual practices.

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Thomas Reese, S.J.@ThomasReeseSJ · Jul 24

LA pastor on hunger strike to protest ICE’s detainment of Iranian Christians religionnews.com/2025/07/23/la-…

ThomasReeseSJ's tweet card. WASHINGTON (RNS) — Pastor Ara Torosian’s congregants fled Iran to escape persecution due to their Christian faith. Now, they are being held in immigration detention.

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Thomas Reese, S.J.@ThomasReeseSJ · Jul 24

Churches, seminaries among US cultural sites awarded funds to preserve Black history religionnews.com/2025/07/23/fou…

ThomasReeseSJ's tweet card. (RNS) — The grants aim to support historical spaces of ‘Black American joy, resilience, innovation, and activism’ in their preservation efforts, according to a news release.

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Thomas Reese, S.J.@ThomasReeseSJ · Jul 24

religionnews.com/2025/07/23/pho…

ThomasReeseSJ's tweet card. (RNS) — This week’s photo gallery includes Druze communities, praying the rosary at Alligator Alcatraz and more.

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Thomas Reese, S.J.@ThomasReeseSJ · Jul 24

She survived abuse and left her faith. Now, she gives religious trauma survivors a voice on YouTube. religionnews.com/2025/07/23/she…

ThomasReeseSJ's tweet card. (RNS) — The YouTube channel seeks to help survivors of religious trauma share their stories and find community.

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Thomas Reese, S.J.@ThomasReeseSJ · Jul 23

Jeffrey Epstein's Jewishness is only relevant if you are antisemitic religionnews.com/2025/07/22/jef…

ThomasReeseSJ's tweet card. (RNS) — Jeffrey Epstein was scum. And, also, a classic piece of antisemitic mythology.

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Thomas Reese, S.J.@ThomasReeseSJ · Jul 23

Catholic archbishop of Miami leads motorcycle rosary session at 'Alligator Alcatraz' religionnews.com/2025/07/22/mia…

ThomasReeseSJ's tweet card. (RNS) — Despite extensive attempts to obtain approval to say Mass in the detention center, Wenski told RNS the archdiocese had not been able to provide pastoral care for the detained migrants.

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Thomas Reese, S.J.@ThomasReeseSJ · Jul 23

Clergy: It's time to lead the fight for families at state and local levels religionnews.com/2025/07/22/cle…

ThomasReeseSJ's tweet card. (RNS) — Clergy and community members believe the No. 1 policy priority for the church is securing high-quality, affordable child care.

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Thomas Reese, S.J.@ThomasReeseSJ · Jul 23

Catholic moms plead with their bishops to speak out on migrant detention religionnews.com/2025/07/22/cat…

ThomasReeseSJ's tweet card. (RNS) — A new online group, the Dorothea Project, aims to bring attention to Catholic social teaching.

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Thomas Reese, S.J.@ThomasReeseSJ · Jul 23

Despite tax exemption tempest, Trump's IRS keeps Johnson Amendment intact religionnews.com/2025/07/21/the…

ThomasReeseSJ's tweet card. (RNS) — Notwithstanding the consent decree, it's an open question whether the US Supreme Court would go along with voiding the Johnson Amendment.

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Thomas Reese, S.J.@ThomasReeseSJ · Jul 22

If evangelical Christian 'deconstruction' becomes a brand, it defeats its purpose religionnews.com/2025/07/21/421…

ThomasReeseSJ's tweet card. (RNS) — Mimicking evangelical culture's tendency toward taglines and T-shirts doesn't build beyond the evangelical movement. It continues to live within it.

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Thomas Reese, S.J.@ThomasReeseSJ · Jul 22

Trump administration released FBI records on MLK Jr. despite his family’s opposition religionnews.com/2025/07/21/tru…

ThomasReeseSJ's tweet card. WASHINGTON (AP) — The release involves more than 240,000 pages of records that had been under a court-imposed seal since 1977, when the FBI first gathered the records and turned them over to the...

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