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'L'ennui redouble. Il ne reste d'autre plaisir que la lecture et l'agriculture.' - Stendhal || Russian Greek Catholic, very minor cleric || Matt 4:17 || ⬜🟦⬜

Exiled from New England to NYC
Joined October 2008
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Samuel J. Howard
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Opinions expressed here are my own and are not those of any employer or institution with which I am affiliated.
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@TheoryVirtus @CaudilloNuclear Opening Tutankhamun's tomb
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@KAArmstrong3455 @roshanpateI Presumably one might want to network for reasons other than pitching or getting pitched on startups?
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@castmorevotes @PAProf4 @kindsofdays @lpcs43c @collnsmith "Oh and it's got Netflix and shit." That's why they can be graded so much faster on paper. 🤣
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@CatholicSat I'm surprised by the lack of response from his security.
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Apparently the Archdiocese of Chicago took this one literally...
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The Babylon Bee
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Pope Says He Will Address Sex Abuse Scandal Once He’s Finished Talking About Climate Change
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Archbishop of New Orleans
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@JosiahHawthorne For starters, they don't want you to know this, but the ducks at the park are free.
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We're shutting down all "James Martins" until we figure out what went wrong.
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@tracybeanz We go to a Roman Catholic Church (despite not following all the tenets) because it’s tradition.. but also because being a Catholic is awesome. You can literally do whatever you want because we have a sacrament called “confession”. Highly recommend.
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@ogloriaokorie @13Sandals @JeanNotGin @AmakaUbakaTV When you have to explain it you're already losing.
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@nytopinion This is like a bad undergraduate essay.
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@ExiledTexan86 @emzanotti Looks good on Instagram.
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@wallstpatriot84 @WASPmexicano The data was is from 2015-2019 and by 2014 Tinder was getting more than a billion swipes per day.
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@maners_amanda @DGlaucomflecken I'm going to pretend that instead of being a vet your a physician with a primary care practice limited to jazz musicians.
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@Pavldozer @zillowgonewild LOL, it's GEORGETOWN
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The pope's replacing his pension and housing with another pension, right? Because a pension is payment for past services and otherwise it's defrauding workers of their wages.
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Samuel J. Howard
2 years
@MarcBodnick @mattyglesias @TaylorLorenz Whose speech is more likely to be chilled here? The institutionally backed WaPo reporter or the independent Chaya Raichik, when the WaPo posts a link to (as I understand it) her unrelated employment contact info?
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Samuel J. Howard
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@Hurrsun TBH, a goat might have been more effective than some university therapists I've seen.
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<laughing so hard I'm crying>
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@NYScanner Who's the guy on the ground bleeding from his head though!?
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This is just completely nuts. Fernandez has basically single-handedly invented a new theology of blessings and the pope, apparently not being a details person, went along with it.
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JD Flynn
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Cardinal Fernandez told @PillarCatholic Friday that "we have to grow in the conviction that non-ritualized blessings are not a consecration of the person, they are not a justification of all his actions, they are not a ratification of the life he leads."
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@megbasham POW/MIA/KIA bracelets. Also Montagnard bracelets for Vietnam vets.
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@HellGateNY @nick_garber Good for him! Pay the man!
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This is amazing
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4 years
Imagine telling Abune Mathias, head of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, that he can't believe in Christianity as the one true faith without being a white supremacist. .
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Jo Luehmann
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@KarnRulez I’d be happy to explain. Christianity has been used as an arm of white supremacy for the last few centuries, as an arm of oppression since about 70ad. The notion that Christianity is the superior, better faith, is in itself a notion of white supremacy ideology. (1)
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Samuel J. Howard
2 years
You may have been wondering what the best book cover ever is. Now you don't have to wonder anymore.
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Cardinal Christopher had Pope Leo V arrested and thrown into prison and then had himself elected (anti)pope. He may have also had Leo V murdered in prison.
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<laughing so hard I'm crying>
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@farnazfassihi One might say that erasing @thomaschattwill 's role "spearheading" the letter, as reported by the Times, in favor of other white men listed was racist.
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@GuerrillaNaps @edburmila You think unguents are bad, you should see how expensive my ungulates are!
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That's an incredibly unobjectionable prayer intention.
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@coldhealing Devs: is jira down? Pms: no we're just a little slower updating cause we're stuck on a cliff and need one hand for the rope.
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@WorriedLadybird @robertsnellnews Probably makes more money as an FBI agent. Will get to retire after 20 years and go back to doing philosophy.
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@PeanutsNoCont Dad wasn't available, so he's walking her down the aisle.
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@davidmackau At some point I feel like this is an ethical issue for reporters. Like does she not realize that this is a national news story? And if she is comfortable being in the story, then it's an accuracy issue because then she *is* comfortable sharing it.
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@SethAMandel @SirajAHashmi I didn't know you were married to Josh Mandel.
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True... If you discount his personal claims to divinity, he made no personal claims to divinity.
@KhalilAndani
Khalil Andani, PhD
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Jesus made no personal claims to divinity.
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And to think that during the entrance procession I was wondering why there was an #FDNY fire officer standing by. Incense haze just set of the smoke detectors at the #LepantoConference .
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Ok... This tweet is funny because that's not Our Lady of Guadalupe.
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Reforma Bro
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@smashbaals I was an altar boy in the 70s, diocese of Tucson. Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe worship was the driving force in catholic devotion and culture. She was everywhere, tshirts, dashboards, scapulars, prayers cards, fridge magnets etc
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@karol He probably has a whole binder full of options though and hasn't decided yet.
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@mileszim Was it trained on 1990s Abercrombie catalogs and cologne ads?
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@mswain13 @GettyImagesNews @woolstonphoto Yeah, but wearing visitor ID badges.
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So you're saying before he didn't believe in the teaching of the Catholic Church. Did you explain that the Catholic Church doesn't believe in works righteousness or did you take advantage of his ignorance to buttress your argument.
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@AlecStapp Does any American law have a sunset date later than 2425?
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Me: While I think that the overstated principle of unity expressed by Cardinal Cupich et al. causes unrealized theoretical problems for the existence of eastern rite churches, it's unlikely anyone would actually think their existence is problematic. Humble Catholic: ...
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First profession of a Dominican friar in Finland since the reformation.
@Dominican_Order
Dominican Order
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Dominicans Make History in Finland with the Profession of a Friar
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@collingwest @Jolz_Aust That's not true. All tendencies towards sin are disordered.
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@emzanotti The stove even makes an appearance in the WSJ article!
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@Mandypop15 @MhmtSlmz It's common to use "Bible" in English in reference to the Scriptures, especially when one means all three parts collectively: Torah, Prophets, and Writings.
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If only Catholic moral theology had a solid history of theorizing about remote and proximate moral cooperation that we could draw on.
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James Martin, SJ
1 year
Few Christian merchants complain about being "forced" to serve non-Christians, which could, again, be seen as a tacit approval of non-Christian beliefs. No one claims religious liberty exemptions for that. (Yet.) But in the case of designing websites, baking cakes and..
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Unless the school is absolutely massive, incredibly wealthy, or located in an area where another language is commonly spoken, that ... seems like a reasonable list?
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Andrew Petiprin
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Just learned the Catholic high school in our area only offers three foreign languages: Spanish, Latin, and Chinese.
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Ratzinger, e.g., didn't do theology in a vacuum. He responded to critics and to major theological trends. Liberals just didn't like how he responded.
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Christopher Lamb
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Archbishop Fernández is already showing that he will approach the leadership of the Church’s doctrine office in a very different way to his predecessors by responding swiftly to attacks/criticisms. His theological writings show someone seeking to “translate” the Christian faith
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@donfromyaad @EnnoFarm In fact, modern cargo shipping by sea *is* incredibly efficient in both cost and emissions, with the result that it can be less costly to transport a product a huge distance by sea than a much shorter distance by other means.
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Tell me you're ignorant of why traditionalists like the old Mass without telling me you're ignorant of why traditionalists like the old Mass.
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Astounding ignorance. There are many different versions of the Byzantine rite in use in the Catholic Church. There are 2 main families: Greek & Slavic. The Slavic again divides into the Recensio vulgata (Russians, Serbs, Belarusians) & Recensio Ruthena (Ukrainians and Ruthenians)
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Really unfair that he has hair all over his face, but none of the forgiving effect of a beard.
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This is Woody. He misplaced his neck several years ago. Life hasn’t been the same since. 14/10 please give him a ring if you find it
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@redsteeze Who's gonna tell them that the company that owns the New Yorker also owns Reddit?
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"Can you show me in scripture where it says Mary and Jesus are equal?" Why would we show you in Scripture something we don't even believe?
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Good morning Catholics Can you show me in scripture where it says Mary and Jesus are equal? Can you show me in scripture where Mary is Queen of Heaven? Can you show me in scripture where Mary is sweet sweet salvation. I am looking to learn and see these things in scripture. Can
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Orthodox sacraments are indubitably valid. Anglican ordinations and Eucharists are almost always not. This is a key difference that must be accounted for and not elided.
@ZachCatholic
Zach 🇻🇦
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@ModernBoethius Also, lest the scandal mongers on this forget: Pope Benedict allowed the Orthodox to use St Peter's Basilica for their Liturgies
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@austeni @Patrick87217968 The Dominican, Ambrosian, Carthusian, Mazorabic, Lyon, Romano-Seraphic, and half a dozen other forms of the Roman rite would like a word.
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@SaysSimonson and the quoted material was... not a quote?
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@muswellsdad @HillaryClinton Isabella of Castile in 1893
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Just to comment on Eastern part: She says Byzantine & Coptic rites are OK b/c they were "imported from a foreign country" A) Eastern Churches are about ways of being Christian, not about nation states (which they predate) B) where does she think the Roman Mass came from? Topeka?
@NCRonline
NCR
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In a commentary, Zita Ballinger Fletcher writes, "The Latin Mass fosters clericalist structures in the church." Based on her personal experience, "the stubbornly resistant, anti-modern practices of these Latin Mass adherents border on cultism."
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@iHateAzzy @melonioantonio No, she was arrested. While the charge was dropped, she was arrested and went before a judge. She wasn't only detained.
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Trying not to be snarky... We did that. We had a whole movement called the Reform of the Reform. We spent a couple of decades doing that. It is a tremendous amount of work for a small return and that is easily overturned. Traditionalism as a reform movement worked better.
@victoriagraupp
Victoria
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@thomasbdobbs I'm always wondering what would happen if the people who love EF for its reverence channeled their energy into volunteering to educate about how to make NO better instead of holing themselves up in their little liturgical enclaves. Allllllways wondering.
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No, it means things like wearing the prescribed vestments, not using recorded music, not changing the words, not omitting required parts of the Mass, not leaving the procession to gladhand, not dropping a host on the floor and ignoring it.
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Basketball star Joel Embiid marries Anne De Paula at the Catholic Basilica Parish of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary in Southampton, NY.
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Also... Today. People do that today too.
@NewberryLibrary
Newberry Library
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During the Middle Ages, portable books of hours were used as devotional aids and included popular prayers and psalms. #tinytuesday #histreligion
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. @nytimes , do you want demons? This is how you get demons.
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It's called the *Rose*tta Stone because Napoleon deciphered it on Laetare Sunday 1803.
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When you absolutely, positively, know what heresy is.
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@PaulRBernard @Kristen_Arnett @foodsevelt I knew a lawyer who used "with all due respect"
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@dog_rates This rating is a h*ckin' crash landing. Clearly 13/10+
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@DayanBallweg @waterspider__ @MayorOfLA @LAPDHQ Those are beanbag round shotguns, not rubber bullets and they are meant to be fired directly at people at a range of 5-40 feet. That's the LAPD policy.
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Samuel J. Howard
1 year
We need a Eucharistic revival because some people like the Latin Mass is certainly a take.
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JD Flynn
1 year
A year ago, I told you that this would be the division among the bishops over the Eucharistic Revival:
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Burke is a bishop of the Roman Catholic Church in good standing and a cardinal. You can't just call him a "dissenter" with no evidence! If you want to be Where Peter Is™ you have to live with that.
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No it didn't. The Tridentine Mass reads the Prodigal Son on the Saturday after the Second Sunday of Lent.
@catholicpat
Patrick Neve
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Vatican II reintroduced the Prodigal Son into the Mass readings. Say what you will about the council, but it had a fierce commitment to preaching the mercy of Christ.
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It's just insane that we're doing this. Nothing is achieved by moving Masses to halls and gymnasiums.
@ChrisMSarracino It was moved to parish hall pending Rome permission That seems to be what is happening for now
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@austeni @comtedeMaistre1 @CardinalNichols @catholicEW @latinmassuk The Byzantine Rite has multiple "missals" published by Rome: Greek, Greater Slavic, and Lesser Slavic. These do not differ merely in language or local feasts, they have different texts and customs. They are then broken down even further by local customs within those groupings.
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Mike "Bishop Ireland" Lewis:
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@Bencjacobs @NoahCRothman It's additionally weird because dual citizenship isn't even automatically disqualifying for a security clearance.
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@CalliopeAnim My understanding is that she reposted people's videos, not links to their contact info?
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I don't think you understand what the word "kitsch" means.
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@joshshepperd I know a lawyer who used to sign letters "with all due respect"😂
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@michaelbd By a female artist, no less.
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Peter Adamson ( @HistPhilosophy ) has a new book out, Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna): A Very Short Introduction about the important Arabic philosopher who influenced Aquinas (and others). Available in both paperback and on @AmazonKindle .
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Was at Descent of the Holy Spirit Ukranian Greek Catholic Church in South Deerfield, Mass. for liturgy this morning with @Lirioroja . They have a lovely shrine to Bl. Karl of Austria with an icon and a relic.
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@ishapiro @GeneralBrnovich Somebody should probably tell him that the law legalizing nunchucks doesn't go into effect until 91 days after the legislature adjourns.
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Please read a book
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Folks in New Haven have been told to go to Waterbury, which is a 40 minute drive (and lots of people in New Haven are going to be college students without cars)
@mdlatinmass
Mason-Dixon Latin Mass Society
5 months
🚨 Another Latin Mass CANCELLED. Two minutes before Mass yesterday, St Stanislaus in New Haven, CT, was informed by @ArchbishopBlair that their Latin Mass will no longer exist as of January 14th. Who's next?
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Samuel J. Howard
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This is complete bull. *A* copy of the work by Cicero was copied over, which, as a result, happened to survive in incomplete form. It was part of the general reusing of materials, not a copying over of the "last" copy.
@Philosophi_Cat
PhilosophiCat
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The last copy of Cicero’s De Republica was written over with Augustine’s Psalms. A codex of histories by Sallux was erased to make way for more St Jerome. A biography by Seneca was replaced with yet another copy of the Old Testament. Thanks to Christians, less than 1% of Latin
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Samuel J. Howard
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Critics and audiences didn't like it either.
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@SethAMandel
Seth Mandel
3 years
So far every single senator has come out against insurrection
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