Boston Parish Rebukes Bishop Over ICE Display, Hoosier Redistricting Flop, And Grandpa Rivers
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🗓️ 12 December 2025
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Summary
A Boston parish openly defies its bishop over a controversial ICE-themed Nativity display. Meanwhile, the Indiana Senate rejects a GOP-backed redistricting plan after weeks of intense debate. And finally, The Daily Pennsylvanian shines a spotlight on some of its most unexpected and controversial alumni. All this and more on the LOOPcast!
Timestamps:
00:00 Welcome to the LOOPcast
01:35 Boston Parish Openly Defies Bishop over ICE-Themed Nativity Display
11:23 Indiana Redistricting Update
36:32 Good News
44:45 ACA Plans Fail
55:50 Twilight Zone
1:03:05 Closing Prayer
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| 0:00.0 | We're live. Welcome back to Loopcast. Today you got Tom and Josh. The Loopcast is brought to you by the Loop Every American Catholic's Favorite Morning Newsletter. Of course, got a happy Friday show for you. Welcome everyone joining here live in the chat. Monday Wednesday, Friday, 11 a.m. Eastern Time. How are we feeling today? |
| 0:15.5 | Feeling fantastic. Feeling fantastic. Okay. So the stories we got today actually had somebody email in about the uh the boston |
| 0:22.9 | parish situation say hey the story is not over uh the the i believe it is the pastor held a press |
| 0:29.5 | conference saying yeah we're not taking it down um and we'd like to speak to the bishop so we have |
| 0:33.9 | the update on that one the second one in my home state here here in Indiana, redistricting effort has failed in the Senate. |
| 0:41.4 | And so I'm looking forward to get Josh's two cents on why it failed. |
| 0:44.9 | It's the first one of all the redistricting fights to really flop here. |
| 0:48.6 | So we got a little bit of behind the scenes and what this means for the state of play across the country. |
| 0:52.6 | And then finally, there was a last-minute attempt to solve the Affordable Care Act subsidy problem, |
| 1:00.7 | both the Republicans and Democrats put forward proposals that failed. |
| 1:04.9 | So we're kind of back to square one, but got some insight from tinfoil Tom on what's going on on the ground there. |
| 1:10.4 | Good news, Twilight Zone. Should just be kind of a chill Friday show. Thank you guys for joining. And if you want to help us out, go ahead and subscribe over on YouTube. We had a good episode of the Deep. If you're missing Erica today, great episode of the Deep. She put up yesterday about that viral $140,000 is the new poverty article and how some people maybe missed the point. |
| 1:29.4 | So if, without further ado, Josh, ready to dive in? |
| 1:32.9 | Let's go. |
| 1:34.0 | Let's do it. |
| 1:34.5 | Okay, I saw this in the loop this morning. |
| 1:36.2 | Let me share. |
| 1:38.4 | Sure. |
| 1:40.9 | We have that viral. |
| 1:43.5 | So for those who are curious what this was was it was a nativity display in a |
| 1:47.1 | boston parish uh and in place of jesus in the manger it has ice was here in big quotes |
| 1:53.1 | it's not all it had it had a phone number uh the holy family is safe in the sanctuary of our church |
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