Daniel Rober
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Daniel Rober
@ProfDanRober
Associate Professor of Catholic Studies @sacredheartuniv. PhD @FordhamNYC MA @UChicago BA @NotreDame. Theology, Film, Music, Urbanism, Culture.




we should have a program that finds houses for car brained NYC nativists in car cities around the country so people who actually like cities can live in NYC

Tomorrow is the feast day of Celestine V. I told his story years ago in a book that HBO optioned, "The Pope Who Quit." He was pope in 1294 for only 15 weeks before walking away, wanting nothing more to do with worldly power. Pray for us, St. Celestine.

@MattZeitlin @robinsonmeyer a perverse but interesting aspect of the Trump era that many systems actually prove to be a bit more resilient than we realized once Trump tries to basically break them!








One of the few top home-Archdiocese figures to whom Fr/Bishop Prevost was ever close, on reuniting with the now-Pope at a very relaxed AM audience for Chicago’s own @CathExtension (bit.ly/4dvzgCl), Tucson emeritus/for USCCB VP +Jerry Kicanas scored Vintage Bob-Face:




One of the few top home-Archdiocese figures to whom Fr/Bishop Prevost was ever close, on reuniting with the now-Pope at a very relaxed AM audience for Chicago’s own @CathExtension (bit.ly/4dvzgCl), Tucson emeritus/for USCCB VP +Jerry Kicanas scored Vintage Bob-Face:

In the recent history of encyclicals, I do not know of a Pope who has personally presented his own magisterial document as part of the presser rollout. That all changes on May 25, when Leo debuts “Magnifica Humanitas: On the Protection of Human Dignity in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.”










