Joe Ferullo

@ironworker1

CEO/Publisher, National Catholic Reporter @NCRonline; former media columnist @TheHill; former EVP of programming @ CBS, producer @ NBC & ABC News.

Joined March 2009

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Joe Ferullo@ironworker1 · 13 h

As deportation fears keep immigrants from work, their churches feel financial strain #Trump #ICE #immigration ncronline.org/node/307131 via @NCRonline

ironworker1's tweet card. Some churches report lower attendance at services. Others have added programs to serve people affected by Trump administration tactics.

Joe Ferullo@ironworker1 · 22 h

From Isaiah Martin, a Black Catholic Houstonian running for Congress who was arrested Thursday after confronting Republicans during a redistricting hearing at the State Capitol.

IIsaiah Martin@isaiahrmartin · Jul 26

Hey @TexasGOP, I’m BACK!

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Christopher Hale@chrisjollyhale · Jul 26

“Starving people to death is a diabolical way of waging war. It must end.” — Pope Leo to Netanyahu substack.com/home/post/p-16…

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Austen Ivereigh@austeni · Jul 26

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…

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Joe Ferullo@ironworker1 · Jul 26

Via @sistersreport and NCR - As Islamist violence spreads in Mozambique, Catholic sisters stay behind to help. The attacks have displaced over 1.3 million people and killed nearly 6,000. #Catholic #Africa #Islam globalsistersreport.org/node/307001 via @sistersreport

ironworker1's tweet card. Catholic nuns in northern Mozambique are risking their lives to serve the thousands displaced by an Islamist insurgency that has ravaged the region for nearly eight years.

Joe Ferullo@ironworker1 · Jul 26

Protests planned in Germany as Bishop Barron receives Josef Pieper Prize. “Bishop Barron stands for a kind of Catholicism that excludes people like LGBTQ Catholics or migrants.” #Catholic #WordOnFire #BishopBarron #Germany ncronline.org/node/306981 via @NCRonline

ironworker1's tweet card. U.S. Bishop Robert Barron, founder of Word on Fire, is scheduled to receive the Josef Pieper Prize in Münster on July 27. Some groups have announced protests, but other Catholics say the award is...

Joe Ferullo@ironworker1 · Jul 26

Miami archbishop joins Knights on Bikes to pray for clergy access to #AlligatorAlcatraz. Clergy's lack of access to migrants in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement isn't isolated to Miami. #Trump #ICE #Catholic ncronline.org/node/306781 via @NCRonline

ironworker1's tweet card. Catholic priests have been barred from providing religious services inside Florida's new migrant detention facility — dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz" — nearly three weeks after it opened, said Archbishop...

Joe Ferullo@ironworker1 · Jul 25

My prayers are with Eddie and you, Tom.

TThomas Reese, S.J.@ThomasReeseSJ · Jul 25

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

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Joe Ferullo@ironworker1 · Jul 23

Feelin’ great again!

CCBS News@CBSNews · Jul 23

Hershey to increase candy prices by double digits amid rising cocoa costs. cbsn.ws/4o3hURH

Joe Ferullo@ironworker1 · Jul 22

I do want to apologize for dwelling on my fears a Trump second term could be dangerously authoritarian. But is it ok now to say a word about the president of the United States accusing a predecessor of treason? Or would that be a distraction from kitchen table issues? 🤯

TThe Bulwark@BulwarkOnline · Jul 22

Trump: “It's time to go after people. Obama's been caught directly…He's guilty. This was treason.”

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Joe Ferullo@ironworker1 · Jul 22

Detention of two Italians at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ sparks backlash at home washingtonpost.com/world/2025/07/…

ironworker1's tweet card. Lawmakers called for Italy’s conservative government to do more to secure the repatriation of two nationals held at the new facility in Florida’s Everglades.

Joe Ferullo@ironworker1 · Jul 22

Not sure who’d be feeling “great again” after reading this…. Via ⁦@latimes⁩ - Deaf, mute and terrified: ICE arrests DACA recipient and ships him to Texas #Trump #ICE #immigration latimes.com/california/sto…

ironworker1's tweet card. Javier Diaz Santana, who is deaf and mute, was swept up in a federal immigration raid at his job in Temple City, unable to communicate in handcuffs. His attorney says U.S. agents "don’t care whether...

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Joe Ferullo@ironworker1 · Jul 22

Feelin’ great again. G.M. Profit Shrinks on Billion-Dollar Tariff Hit. General Motors was the second auto company this week to show the toll that President Trump’s trade policies are taking on the industry. #Trump #Tariffs nytimes.com/2025/07/22/bus… via ⁦@nytimes⁩

ironworker1's tweet card. General Motors was the second auto company this week, after Stellantis, to show the toll that President Trump’s trade policies are taking on the industry.

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Joe Ferullo@ironworker1 · Jul 22

A beautiful reflection by @NorahODonnell in NCR. “It wasn't a pope who changed my faith. It was a nun.” (And if you know @SrRoseMovies you’ll love this.) #PopeLeoXIV ncronline.org/node/306686 via @NCRonline

ironworker1's tweet card. CBS News senior correspondent Norah O'Donnell is watching and waiting to see how Pope Leo XIV widens Francis' legacy of elevating women within the church.

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The Onion@TheOnion · Jul 21

EPA To Drop 'E,' 'P' From Name theonion.com/epa-to-drop-e-…

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Tim Miller@Timodc · Jul 21

"Migrants at a Miami immigration jail were shackled with their hands tied behind their backs and made to kneel to eat food from styrofoam plates “like dogs" according to a {Human Rights Watch} report." theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…

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Joe Ferullo@ironworker1 · Jul 21

Palestinian leader Abbas calls pope as Gaza pastor recounts Israeli shelling of church. Leo "repeated his appeal for international humanitarian law to be fully respected." #PopeLeoXIV #GazaStarving #Israel ncronline.org/node/306656 via @NCRonline

ironworker1's tweet card. Fr. Gabriel Romanelli described the carnage from a recent shelling of his parish and asked the universal church community for prayers. "Let's try to convince the whole world to end this war," he said.

Joe Ferullo@ironworker1 · Jul 21

FBI to investigate anti-Catholic, antisemitic vandalism at Pittsburgh area church; police say arrests imminent in Kansas church incident. #antisemitism #Catholic #vandalism #FBI ncronline.org/node/306651 via @NCRonline

ironworker1's tweet card. Newly installed Bishop Mark Eckman of Pittsburgh has expressed his "great sorrow" over "hateful vandalism" at one of his parish churches, which federal authorities are now investigating. Meanwhile,...

Joe Ferullo@ironworker1 · Jul 21

via @NCRonline - Volunteers flock to immigration courts to support migrants arrested in the hallways. "If we're not all safe, no one's safe." #immigration #ICE #Trump ncronline.org/node/306646 via @NCRonline

ironworker1's tweet card. A diverse group — faith leaders, college students, grandmothers, retired lawyers and professors — has been showing up at immigration courts across the nation to escort immigrants at risk of being...

Joe Ferullo@ironworker1 · Jul 21

Via @NCRonline - A brief history of Castel Gandolfo: The go-to summer vacation spot for popes for 400 years #PopeLeoXIV #Vatican #Rome ncronline.org/node/306606 via @NCRonline

ironworker1's tweet card. Leo XIV has brought back the papal tradition of vacationing at Castel Gandolfo. So how did a family castle become part of the pontifical villas? NCR looks at the history and some past popes' connec...