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Attending Masses in a Franciscan parish was one of my last stops before reluctantly taking a break from Roman #Catholic communal worship. I had a fairly high opinion of this order. 1/
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This #lenslouse priest is not particularly adept at RC theology, & I believe lacks the sophistication to see how dangerous his misogynist & white suprenacists takes really are. in other words, he’s not malevolent — he’s just not that bright.
This #lenslouse priest is not particularly adept at RC theology, & I believe lacks the sophistication to see how dangerous his misogynist & white suprenacists takes really are. in other words, he’s not malevolent — he’s just not that bright.
3/He’s also a raging Narcissist & half-a-trad (Opus Dei flavored, is my guess). Please #Catholics, report these manchildren !
1/“One of the several reasons the current archbishop of Baltimore (William Lori) must resign is that he kept names off the list knowing that it would reduce victims’ opportunity to file suit and thereby save his archdiocese money. This egregious > indietheology.substack.com/p/part-8-the-f…
2/“inclination indicates that the archbishop may be morally unfit to lead any religious organization or community. This disposition may suggest the presence of kind of sociopathic disregard for all vulnerable people and children.”
3/This Fr. Carney whose case I look at here, was a buddy of Maskell’s. you see through the dossier on his depravity, how nursing homes sometimes became dumping grounds for rapist clerics.
“The high court has pressed the Catholic church to explain why it didn’t have an adequate opportunity 50 years ago to investigate the extent of a priest’s abuse of children, given there were ‘red flags everywhere’ about his crimes. 1/ theguardian.com/australia-news…
2/“The court on Thursday began hearing a key case about a legal tactic now routinely being employed by the church and other institutions to permanently shield themselves from abuse survivors’ civil claims for compensation.”
3/This is a story about the Roman Catholic Church in Australia.
#Catholics everywhere should take note.
Church officials who manipulate documentation to defend against lawsuits are guilty of egregious misconduct.
#Catholics everywhere should take note.
Church officials who manipulate documentation to defend against lawsuits are guilty of egregious misconduct.
“In a plea agreement he signed ahead of his scheduled June 20 trial, Father Jackson, 68, a priest of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP), admitted to a single charge of receipt of child pornography.” 1/ ncregister.com/cna/father-jam…
2/“Father Jackson’s supporters rallied around the priest after his arrest, contributing tens of thousands of dollars for his defense.”
3/Let us notice that it appears these supporters rallied behind this guy even after the cache of porn made via #ChildRape was found on his computer.
✝️ ⛪️ I speak to a lot of Christians when I do outreach.
Today, my Christian friend Benny writes a thread to show that kindness towards #animals should be an important part of any Christian's moral outlook.
#Jesus #Christianity
Today, my Christian friend Benny writes a thread to show that kindness towards #animals should be an important part of any Christian's moral outlook.
#Jesus #Christianity
1/35 - Christians often claim that God endorses meat eating when He grants them dominion over creation in Genesis 1.
🚫 But this is NOT what “dominion” means.
“Dominion” simply means sovereignty or rulership. But there can be bad rulers as well as good rulers.
🚫 But this is NOT what “dominion” means.
“Dominion” simply means sovereignty or rulership. But there can be bad rulers as well as good rulers.
2/35 - ❓ The question is what kind of dominion God wants us to have.
In Genesis, God doesn’t give us dominion so that we can act as tyrants, subjecting our fellow creatures to horrifying abuses in order to satisfy our material pleasures.
In Genesis, God doesn’t give us dominion so that we can act as tyrants, subjecting our fellow creatures to horrifying abuses in order to satisfy our material pleasures.
1/ It came to me very clearly while writing about the #consistentethic and #Catholics this morning.
The consistent ethic, on one view, sought to join what we might call 'sexual morality' to 'social morality,' our concern abt #abortion to other issues.
The consistent ethic, on one view, sought to join what we might call 'sexual morality' to 'social morality,' our concern abt #abortion to other issues.
2/ Bernardin hoped a call for consistency would bring together these strands of what the #CatholicChurch teaches us.
The divisions that would thwart him already existed in 1983 when he proposed the consistent ethic. But there would be other problems.
The divisions that would thwart him already existed in 1983 when he proposed the consistent ethic. But there would be other problems.
🔆An #FBI internal official use memo (Approved by the FBI's chief lawyer) has been leaked to the public, outlining the FBI's investigatory playbook for 2023.
#USA #BIDEN #FBI #Christian #WhiteSupremacy
uncoverdc.com/2023/02/08/the…
#USA #BIDEN #FBI #Christian #WhiteSupremacy
uncoverdc.com/2023/02/08/the…
1. The #FBI’s Richmond Division would like to protect Virginians from the threat of “white supremacy,” which it believes has found a home within #Catholics who prefer the #Latin Mass.
#USA #BIDEN #FBI #Christian #WhiteSupremacy
#USA #BIDEN #FBI #Christian #WhiteSupremacy
2. An intelligence analyst within the Richmond Field Office of the #FBI released in a new finished intelligence product dated January 23, 2023, on Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremists (RMVE) and their interests in “Radical-Traditionalist #Catholics or RTCs.
#USA
#USA
@mattp_eti @MetPoliceEvents @metpoliceuk You will notice that our laws are extremely biased in favour of corporations and the Billionaire Class and against the best interests of the mass of society.
Maybe read:
Captive State, by @GeorgeMonbiot, When Money Talks, by @DerekCressman,
The Climate Book by @GretaThunberg
Maybe read:
Captive State, by @GeorgeMonbiot, When Money Talks, by @DerekCressman,
The Climate Book by @GretaThunberg
1/ Here is an #ElectionDay thread about #Catholics and #democracy. You should read it all but here is the TLDR headline: Catholics have done our part to bring US politics to this point, and we need to fix it.
Let's begin with a long view.
Let's begin with a long view.
2/ The #CatholicChurch spent 1900 years avoiding #democracy, quite comfortable with empire and monarchy. The closest the church ever got was the Council of Basel (1431-1449) that followed something like democratic procedure to challenge papal supremacy, suggested a conciliar...
3/ ...approach to the governance of the church. It did not succeed.
A century earlier Marsiglio of Padua had praised ideas very close to popular sovereignty & he remained "the accursed Marsiglio" into the 19th century.
Very little in Catholicism has pointed to #democracy.
A century earlier Marsiglio of Padua had praised ideas very close to popular sovereignty & he remained "the accursed Marsiglio" into the 19th century.
Very little in Catholicism has pointed to #democracy.
1/ I've responded 2x today to #Catholics whose shared premise seems to be that outward performance & practice is a good measure of the #CatholicChurch's success.
And I think this pathology sits deep in the church—
And I think this pathology sits deep in the church—
2/ 'If people fulfill their obligation & show up, the #CatholicChurch is successful.'
I think this approach to inner spiritual conversion as a factory production problem needs serious, sustained attention.
So much of our #Catholic life is built to produce this attitude.
I think this approach to inner spiritual conversion as a factory production problem needs serious, sustained attention.
So much of our #Catholic life is built to produce this attitude.
3/ All the incentives & structures of diocesan churches point that way—Oct counts, collection totals, school headcounts, etc. are perceived measures of vitality.
They're not.
They leave wholly unconsidered the question of whether #Catholics are converted by the Gospel.
They're not.
They leave wholly unconsidered the question of whether #Catholics are converted by the Gospel.
1/ Ok. Serious question. Now that #abortion has been returned firmly to the status quo ante #RoeVsWade, to its status before the grave, urgent situation that mobilized #Catholics into a #ProLife mvmt, why was this article written?
ncregister.com/news/downplayi…
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2/ And, I lied. That's not a serious question. I already know the answer. (I suspect @Pontifex does too.) I wrote it here 3yrs ago-americamagazine.org/politics-socie…
The answer is plain. "[D]ecades of binary cultural and political argument means that reversing Roe is no longer enough"
The answer is plain. "[D]ecades of binary cultural and political argument means that reversing Roe is no longer enough"
1/ Some things have been on my mind that maybe we need to try to remember and think about at this fulcrum moment in the #abortion debate.
Since I wrote my book several years ago & re-read #Roe for the 1st time in years, I've been wondering abt something.
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Since I wrote my book several years ago & re-read #Roe for the 1st time in years, I've been wondering abt something.
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2/ #Roe, let's remember, divided pregnancy into trimesters. #Abortion was more or less unrestricted in the 1st 12wks, practically prohibited in the last 12wks. Interests of mother & child were balanced this way.
This amts to a legal recognition of personhood.
This amts to a legal recognition of personhood.
3/ The only sensible reading of the #Roe scheme is as a balancing of the interests of 2 persons that are in conflict.
This is a glass-half-full reading. But the casual way we talk abt Roe as a total loss is not constitutionally realistic or accurate.
This is a glass-half-full reading. But the casual way we talk abt Roe as a total loss is not constitutionally realistic or accurate.
1/ Reflecting a while on the #scotusleak, I have a few thoughts for #Catholics about what we lose with the overturning of #RoeVWade.
FIRST While #abortions will continue after #Dobbs, the defense of life will be built precariously on the shaky ground of results-oriented judging.
FIRST While #abortions will continue after #Dobbs, the defense of life will be built precariously on the shaky ground of results-oriented judging.
2/ This reversal of #Roe will be a narrow decision, there will be a lot in a concurrence and dissents for future courts to lean on. And, we all know this will not settle the #abortion question. So the victory here will be rather hollow legally & politically.
3/ Indeed, I would say *forcing* this decision in this way (Garland/Gorsuch, ignoring Kavanaugh's misdeeds, ACB) discredits the cause of life b/c it could not (apparently) be accomplished by persuasion & a political process.
#Catholics concerned for life should worry abt that.
#Catholics concerned for life should worry abt that.
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Real reasons for #conflict are buried in history & intermittently ooze out like hot lava from fissures. #Europe's been an active conflict zone for long born out of a stiff #RomanHangover ever since the #Empire collapsed.#Theopolitics is 1 ingredient in its conflict cocktail
Real reasons for #conflict are buried in history & intermittently ooze out like hot lava from fissures. #Europe's been an active conflict zone for long born out of a stiff #RomanHangover ever since the #Empire collapsed.#Theopolitics is 1 ingredient in its conflict cocktail
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Conflict in #Europe has to be understood in that context before jumping in & taking sides. Colonial times afforded no option & the world got involved twice converting #EuropeanConflict's into #WorldWar's. Many unconcerned died. India lost many braves from #Gallipoli to #Siam
Conflict in #Europe has to be understood in that context before jumping in & taking sides. Colonial times afforded no option & the world got involved twice converting #EuropeanConflict's into #WorldWar's. Many unconcerned died. India lost many braves from #Gallipoli to #Siam
$TWTTR #Twitter has become #1984 -- Get alook at the 5 new tweets for which @MilitarisCath was threated with suspension 5 times. This is on toop of the 6 threats of suspension from last night @TwitterSupport your platform is broken
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I discovered something new about humans: how parents name their children reveals info on how many kids they’re planning to have.
Thread on forthcoming paper in #Demography on kids’ names & sexual/fertility norms among #Irish #Catholics
Preprint: osf.io/preprints/soca…
Thread on forthcoming paper in #Demography on kids’ names & sexual/fertility norms among #Irish #Catholics
Preprint: osf.io/preprints/soca…
The map shows where Catholic parents chose distinctly Catholic names (Catholic Index) or traditional names (Traditional Name Score) for kids + their total surviving children as of 1911 (Net fertility). Family size highly correlated with Catholic and traditional names.
Background:
In 1860, a woman in an industrializing nation like Britain could expect to give birth to 6 children.
By 1940, that number had dropped to 2.
In 1860, a woman in an industrializing nation like Britain could expect to give birth to 6 children.
By 1940, that number had dropped to 2.
@Goodtweet_man @melbataj @GaussNP @kwhitaker_ @wbbcctv @xpstudiospnguin
I am considering making a Facebook group for #ProLife for the #Whole Life (#ConsistentLifeEthic) Christian leftists of various kinds, from #socdems, to #socialists, to #distributists, and
I am considering making a Facebook group for #ProLife for the #Whole Life (#ConsistentLifeEthic) Christian leftists of various kinds, from #socdems, to #socialists, to #distributists, and
others, to combat these following false stigmas about #Christianity(including #Catholicism) and #leftism:
1. That #Christians(including #Catholics) can’t be #leftists/#socialists/etc.
2. That leftists can’t be #religious
3. That leftists can’t be #ProLife
Do you think this
1. That #Christians(including #Catholics) can’t be #leftists/#socialists/etc.
2. That leftists can’t be #religious
3. That leftists can’t be #ProLife
Do you think this
is a good idea? I want to find more people who have a similar mentality of me. Or maybe I could expand it to just do prolife religious leftists in general, considering some other pro-life whole-life religious leftists may also face scrutiny by both American leftist and
How has religion been used to fan the flames of insurrection on Capitol Hill? - welcome to the participants to our zoom briefing today! We'll be live-tweeting as we go along:
Bishop @Mebudde felt a range of emotions on yesterdays events such as shock outrage, deep confusion, and alarm at the ways they unfolded with some predictability #capitolhill #washington #briefing
Bishop @Mebudde highlights there was no protection for vulnerable people, the homeless and key workers in the #CapitolHill area during yesterdays events
A Timely Reminder that God the Father has given to God the Son all authority in heaven, earth and under the earth, and yes, even all authority over and in the United States of America -- Judgement is coming! Amend your ways!
America can not be saved without Jesus Christ, the Way, the Truth and the Life. -- The pretense, pushed by godless Freemasons, that America stands for liberty without Jesus Christ, the King, is a satanic deception. We must reunite Christian Faith with our political action in USA!
The 2020 Election has manifested that the Political Elites and the Corporate Elites -- and not a few of the church elites -- of our nation is totally corrupt, because totally divorced from Jesus Christ and His Teaching! -- We must therefore both preach repentance and seek justice
(1/4) #Catholics for Biden event in #Pittsburgh? Seriously?
@JoeBiden chose a running mate who is overtly & stringently anti-Catholic, imposing religious tests on public office when asking if a judge appointee was a member of #KnightsofColumbus. #prolife
nationalreview.com/corner/kamala-…
@JoeBiden chose a running mate who is overtly & stringently anti-Catholic, imposing religious tests on public office when asking if a judge appointee was a member of #KnightsofColumbus. #prolife
nationalreview.com/corner/kamala-…
(2/4) And then there’s @JoeBiden’s total support for #abortion, the greatest human rights issue of our time.
And it’s actually not just one issue-it’s 60 million issues.
60 million lives have been lost since #Roe.
60 million.
And it’s actually not just one issue-it’s 60 million issues.
60 million lives have been lost since #Roe.
60 million.
(3/4) Every year, thousands of #lateterm babies who feel pain are aborted.
Thousands feel pain. Science says so. @JoeBiden supports late term #abortions & he wants taxpayers to pay for it.
#Catholics for Biden are comfortable w/ thousands of late term, pain-filled abortions.
Thousands feel pain. Science says so. @JoeBiden supports late term #abortions & he wants taxpayers to pay for it.
#Catholics for Biden are comfortable w/ thousands of late term, pain-filled abortions.
12th JULY: ST JOHN JONES
~thread~
1. St John Jones was born in Clynnog Fawr in Caernarfonshire (Gwynedd) into a courageous Catholic family who remained faithful to the #Church even at the height of the Protestant Reformation.
#StJohnJones #Wales #Welsh #martyr #SaintOfTheDay
~thread~
1. St John Jones was born in Clynnog Fawr in Caernarfonshire (Gwynedd) into a courageous Catholic family who remained faithful to the #Church even at the height of the Protestant Reformation.
#StJohnJones #Wales #Welsh #martyr #SaintOfTheDay
2. When John was a boy he entered a strict Observant Franciscan friary at Greenwich.
When it was dissolved in 1559 [by the Protestant forces] he moved to Pontoise, where he professed his vows. He later travelled to Rome and stayed at the Aracoeli friary.
#Greenwich #London
When it was dissolved in 1559 [by the Protestant forces] he moved to Pontoise, where he professed his vows. He later travelled to Rome and stayed at the Aracoeli friary.
#Greenwich #London
3. While in Rome John joined the Roman province of the Reformati, a yet stricter branch of the Friars Minor.
In 1591 he asked to join the English Mission. Despite the evident risk to his life, his superiors agreed. He received a blessing and commendation from Pope Clement VIII.
In 1591 he asked to join the English Mission. Despite the evident risk to his life, his superiors agreed. He received a blessing and commendation from Pope Clement VIII.
“ISN’T PRAYING TO MARY AND THE SAINTS BREAKING THE FIRST COMMANDMENT?”
~thread~
1. “QUESTION:
I was wondering about praying to Mary and to the saints. God gave us ten commandments and the first of those is ‘thou shalt not have strange gods before me.’
#TenCommandments #Bible
~thread~
1. “QUESTION:
I was wondering about praying to Mary and to the saints. God gave us ten commandments and the first of those is ‘thou shalt not have strange gods before me.’
#TenCommandments #Bible
2. Is praying to Mary and the Saints not breaking that Commandment?
ANSWER:
The first Commandment as you rightly point out is about worshipping God and Him alone: True worship (as opposed to veneration or honour) does indeed belong to God alone,
#Christianity #CatholicChurch
ANSWER:
The first Commandment as you rightly point out is about worshipping God and Him alone: True worship (as opposed to veneration or honour) does indeed belong to God alone,
#Christianity #CatholicChurch
3. and we should never worship man or any other creature as we worship God.
When we pray to Mary or to the saints, we’re simply asking them to help us, by praying to God on our behalf. We do not worship them. We do not make them God.
#God #prayer #VirginMary #saints #Catholics
When we pray to Mary or to the saints, we’re simply asking them to help us, by praying to God on our behalf. We do not worship them. We do not make them God.
#God #prayer #VirginMary #saints #Catholics
Around 3000 BCE in eastern #Europe, a Proto-Balto-Slavic #language started to diverge from #ProtoIndoEuropean.
The #Slavic branch of the #IndoEuropean #languages began about 2,000 years later when Proto-Slavic deviated from Proto-Balto-Slavic.
[Image: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Balt…]
The #Slavic branch of the #IndoEuropean #languages began about 2,000 years later when Proto-Slavic deviated from Proto-Balto-Slavic.
[Image: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Balt…]
As the #Slavic-speaking area expanded during the first millennium CE (striped area on map), Proto-Slavic transitioned to Common Slavic. The #language underwent minor changes that occurred mostly uniformly across eastern #Europe, thereby maintaining mutual intelligibility.
Around the year 1000 CE #CommonSlavic began to split into the South, West, and East branches to which all modern #Slavic #languages belong.
Roughly 315m people speak a Slavic #language, mostly in Eastern #Europe (including the #Balkan peninsula), #CentralAsia, and #Siberia.
Roughly 315m people speak a Slavic #language, mostly in Eastern #Europe (including the #Balkan peninsula), #CentralAsia, and #Siberia.
Big day for #catholics in #Thailand & the region as @Pontifex #PopeinThailand #PopeVisitThailand. Hell be celebrating mass at National Stadium but crowd already gathered hours before braving the heat. Lucky ones get the shade but many happy to be in sun to be in Pope's presence
A modern rendition to the hymn "amazing grace" as band entertain crowd gathered to welcome @Pontifex #PopeinThailand #PopeVisitThailand2019
Number of #ethnic communities in #Bangkok #Thailand national stadium waiting for mass to be celebrated by @Pontifex #PopeinThailand #PopeVisitThailand
