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Scott Smith

3 months

As people are arguing about the development of doctrine again, often without any acknowledgement from either side of the principles the Church gives us for discerning what can & cannot change, my take on our "Doctrine on the Development of Doctrine".

The Catholic Doctrine on the Development of Doctrine

A constant topic of discussion within the Church, is the development of doctrine, and how it may or may not apply to the various matters of controversy ongoing at any given time. But what is less d…

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15 days

The constant sexualization of friendship is toxic in ways I don't even think we have begun to appreciate.

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Yes, because no one ever shipped anyone ever in Lord of the Rings before. Anyways, here’s just two boys being straight.

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@ghostowlredux This seems ... not true. Basically the first Western literary text we have, Gilgamesh, is all about the horror of death. Egyptian culture was obsessed with trying to provide comfort against the dread of it. Definitely not just a Christian thing.

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11 months

Do people think ... do they think they are eating fertilized eggs?!?

🐝StabbithaAllAlong🐝

@Stabbitha2

11 months

@TradCatholicMan Catholics are actually best known for a long and proud tradition of doing other things with children.

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Scott Smith

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1 year

So got to see my Dad baptised this Easter Sunday.

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Scott Smith

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2 months

I support J.D. Vance being denied Holy Communion for his support of the abortion pill. See, intrigity isn't hard, you just do it. Super easy, barely an inconvenience.

Fr. Martin

@BVMConsolatrix

2 months

Looking forward to hearing Catholic influencers demand J.D. Vance (a Catholic) be denied Holy Communion for his support for the abortion pill. Or is it not scandalous when a republican does it?

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Scott Smith

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@sisterinferior

3 months

Shit they forced him to delete

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Scott Smith

@hf_222222

9 months

This Tweet is obviously terrible, but I couldn't stop thinking about the meme, so I made it.

Complicit Clergy

@complicitclergy

9 months

Enormous Pope Warns Faithful About Gluttony

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Scott Smith

@hf_222222

1 month

Pride and Prejudice. The book with the same lessons for men as Pride and Prejudice is Pride and Prejudice. Because Austen is a good author.

caesararum, BS, DOGS

@caesararum

1 month

the male version of female books, and the female version of male books not "gender-swapped Pride and Prejudice" nor "Pride and Prejudice from Mr. Darcy's perspective" but rather "something whose lessons are the same for male readers as P&Ps are for female"

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Scott Smith

@hf_222222

3 months

Some will dunk on this as a lack of faith, but it responds to an argument which has traction in Rome, that you don’t need to be pastoral to Trads b/c (unlike libs) they have nowhere to go. But the cynics are wrong – Fragility of faith exists all across the ideological spectrum.

DC Rosary Rally for the Latin Mass

@dcrosaryrally

3 months

If the Traditional Latin Mass is Banned, Many Attendees Will Simply Leave the Church

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Scott Smith

@hf_222222

2 years

What kind of unchristian nonsense is going around a desperately poor country & making fun of their Churches for not being sumptuous?!? I'll criticise ugly & stupidly expensive modern western Churches all day - But this ain't that by a long shot.

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Scott Smith

@hf_222222

8 months

Nah, they'd just cheat on their wives, how is this not obvious. Marriage isn't a magic wand which stops sketchy men from being sketchy.

Christopher White

@cwwhiteNCR

8 months

A high-ranking Vatican doctrinal official says allowing priestly marriage could be a means of preventing clerics from living double lives. ⁦ @BishopScicluna ⁩ reflects on the 5-year anniversary of #PopeFrancis ’ abuse summit today ⁦ @NCRonline ⁩:

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Scott Smith

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2 months

No Mike, I'm on my Parish's Finance Committee, & so actually have to care about prosaic things like paying to keep the doors open. Which means I have to do things like actively seek commercial advertising for things like parish bulletins, events etc, in exchange for ads.

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Scott Smith

@hf_222222

3 months

It's always funny when people act like multiple EMHC are needed to speed up receiving Communion. If we cared about speed, we'd have kept altar rails, which are meaningfully faster at getting through communicants.

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Scott Smith

@hf_222222

3 months

Cardinal O'Malley willingness to commit career limiting moves, in order to bully the Vatican into doing the right thing for abuse victims, continues to the heartening. Shouldn't be necessary, of course, but it is.

Christopher White

@cwwhiteNCR

3 months

The head of Pope Francis' own anti-abuse commission has written to every Vatican department urging them not to use artwork of alleged perpetrators of abuse. The letter comes days after the head of Vatican comms defended his office's use of Rupnik's art.

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Scott Smith

@hf_222222

2 years

Tom Bombadil isn't in LOTR to serve a plot purpose IMO - But rather because the plot passed through where he lived, in a world which existed for Tolkien beyond this one story currently happening in it.

Carl Benjamin

@Sargon_of_Akkad

2 years

@iohndee I don't see the point of Tom Bombadil!

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Scott Smith

@hf_222222

8 months

Wait, are Protestants really removing "Catholic" from the Creed, with a substitution which doesn't even make sense in context?!? I despair for things like baptismal validity.

Jonah Wendt 🦬

@jonah_wendt

8 months

That one guy saying “Catholic” instead of “Christian” during the Nicene Creed

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Scott Smith

@hf_222222

5 months

Kill it - Kill it with fire now. Create theology AI chatbots if you want, but no personifications, and certainly not as a priest.

Catholic Answers

@catholiccom

5 months

Introducing Father Justin, the New Interactive AI from Catholic Answers Catholic Answers, the number-one lay Catholic apostolate of apologetics and evangelization, is excited to announce the release of our new “Father Justin” interactive AI app. This innovative digital

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Scott Smith

@hf_222222

8 months

I'll never manage to figure out how you can pretend to believe this, about the dude who said it's better to dig out your eye then have lustful thoughts (C/f Matthew 5:28-29).

David Gibson

@GibsonWrites

8 months

Excellent @ThomasReeseSJ : "Still less did Jesus concern himself with homosexuality, preaching instead about God’s love and compassion." Capitalizing on his teachings on sex, Pope Francis’ critics shame themselves via @RNS

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Scott Smith

@hf_222222

1 year

This is monstrous. These guys have learnt nothing from the clerical sex abuse crisis. Nothing. Just all the same grave sins & errors on repeat.

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Scott Smith

@hf_222222

1 year

Nah, Pope Francis is right, gender ideology is absolutely gnostic.

Aristotle Papanikolaou

@atpapanik

1 year

Im sorry but this theologically inaccurate.

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Scott Smith

@hf_222222

1 year

And here is Erdo getting into some random budget car while in Rome, perhaps when not being offered a ride by the Hungarian State. The Pope's frugality is a good thing, but its not served by calumniating his collaborators, like a Reddit atheist on zero evidence.

Austen Ivereigh

@austeni

1 year

Contrast in choice of transport at Budapest airport. Francis arrives to departing plane in a small white Fiat. Cardinal Erdö, influential conservative archbishop of Budapest, leaves airport in black Mercedes.

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Scott Smith

@hf_222222

6 months

The dumbest part of this temple police snitching, is this presumably satisfies both the letter and spirit of TC dubia, since it isn't seeking to attract those outside "the faithful who are members of the said group".

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Scott Smith

@hf_222222

3 years

Your regular reminder that racism is not *just* a grave sin. It is also an obscene *heresy* - A denial of the Imago Dei & our common descent from Adam/Eve.

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Scott Smith

@hf_222222

2 years

I think a lot of people trying to say hook up apps on priest’s phones is morally complex, would find out real quick how simple it is if their spouse found one on their phone.

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Scott Smith

@hf_222222

5 years

When you miss that Just War *is* a theology of nonviolence, and under its rubric any uses of nuclear weapons has been rejected since Pope Pius XII, including by the most traditionalist voice at Vatican II (CDF Prefect Cardinal Ottaviani).

John Gehring

@gehringdc

5 years

Grateful to Pope Francis for declaring the use of nuclear arms immoral in all cases. This is a major step in moving Catholic teaching away from “just war” theory to a theology of nonviolence.

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Scott Smith

@hf_222222

1 year

Your regular reminder that racism is not *just* a grave sin. It is also an obscene *heresy* - A denial of the Imago Dei & our common descent from Adam/Eve.

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Scott Smith

@hf_222222

8 months

Harsh but true.

ROME REPORTS

@romereports

8 months

Pope Francis warns against biblical studies outside of the Catholic Church

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Scott Smith

@hf_222222

11 months

This is incredibly confronting, because what it makes unavoidable, is the realization there are children being abused *right now* - Who would today be safe if not for Pope Francis' clericalism. It is not a stumble - It is a crime.

Robert Mickens

@robinrome

11 months

NOT BUSINESS AS USUAL. "Francis, who's 87 next month, struggles to keep up the whirlwind pace he set in 2013 when he was elected pope. The past several days have captured that, demonstrating some of his continued strengths, but also some of his stumbles."

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Scott Smith

@hf_222222

2 years

The Church as a lame Boomer/Gen X social club for the supercilious bourgeoisie is just the worst possible vision imaginable.

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Scott Smith

@hf_222222

11 months

I swear, you'd think these journalists never attend Mass, from how little they understand it. (the laity here aren't even part of the procession, since they came in before it started, & even if they were the *lowest* ranked goes first in a liturgical procession).

Christopher Lamb

@ctrlamb

11 months

Synod participants process in for the closing Mass. Notable that non-ordained delegates process in before the bishops, emphasising that the church that is firstly a people & secondly a hierarchy #Synod2023

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Scott Smith

@hf_222222

3 months

Not endorsing mockery, but its worth noting the not otherwise popular wearing of Roman Chasubles by Anglicans has historically had its own polemic purpose, being to claim the validity of their Catholicity and Orders.

Josie Godfrey

@Josie_Godfrey

3 months

Just a glimpse of today’s indescribable joy

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Scott Smith

@hf_222222

1 month

The weird hate these people have for the martyrs is so alien to any authentic Christian feeling, that I just don't understand why they bother. Quo vadis? Tollat crucem suam, et sequatur me, dicit Dominus.

U.S. Catholic magazine

@USCatholic

1 month

Instead of celebrating stories of children being brutally murdered, what if we celebrated their lives, honoring their memory? And what if we affirmed the sanctity of all children, in their everyday lives?

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2 months

I'm going to get a big cartoon looking blow up hammer, print "celibacy is objectively superior to marriage" on it, & use it to beat nominal Catholics who act like you have to have children to be of value into submission.

Ron Filipkowski

@RonFilipkowski

2 months

JD Vance says women who haven’t given birth like Kamala Harris are “childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives,” and have “no direct stake” in America.

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Scott Smith

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2 years

I have to say, as basically an adult convert, I have no idea how this is supposed to work. When I was outside of the Church, this would have come off as "you are fine as you are & we have nothing to offer". Which will attract almost no-one.

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Scott Smith

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29 days

I love when people just make up non-existent canonical customs & rules. (This would make every existing Cathedral Mass livestream, with the Bishop celebrating, against Canon Law. But they aren't obviously because this is dumb as rocks).

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Scott Smith

@hf_222222

4 months

People will literally decide Eucharistic processions are Christian Nationalism of all things, instead of just admit they hate it because it codes as something their ecclesial enemies might like.

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Scott Smith

@hf_222222

11 months

This is not a healthy way to see ... well anything as it happens. Overly online partisan hacks need to chill. An existing annual trad event, which actually serves to remind them of their ties to the Pope, isn't a symbolic act of war for goodness sake.

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15 days

@breadphobic10 Lol no, not for Tolkien.

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Scott Smith

@hf_222222

3 months

The quote Tweets on this be like.

Christendom College

@ChristendomVA

3 months

Viva Cristo Rey! Christendom unveiled its new botafumeiro this afternoon as part of the college’s Summer Consortium event. The botafumeiro, which is the largest in the world, will be used for select liturgical celebrations throughout the year, celebrating Christ our King. 👑

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Scott Smith

@hf_222222

2 months

I'd appreciate it if the artistically illiterate could stop try to gaslight us now. Take your L.

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Scott Smith

@hf_222222

2 months

Just remembering, how fascinated / confused people were, that this priest braved the flames in Notre Dame to retrieve Jesus (the Blessed Sacrament). This is witness, showing our care for Sacred Things. Not prattling how Jesus doesn't need our protection

Notre Dame Priest: How Blessed Sacrament, Crown of Thorns Were Saved From Fire

“I asked Jesus — and I really believe he is present in these hosts — to fight the flames and preserve the building dedicated to his mother.”

www.ncregister.com

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Scott Smith

@hf_222222

7 months

I am again reminding people the tax status of non-profits isn't a concession, it's a core reality of the system. You don't make gains or profits, then there is nothing to properly subject to an income tax.

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As a catholic, respectfully, the church should pay taxes.

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Scott Smith

@hf_222222

6 days

Not to defend the IDF, but mostly non-lethal explosion of communication devices only issued to officers in a terrorist organisation, is like the most tightly targeted thing they've ever pulled off.

Eric Sammons

@EricRSammons

7 days

If you’re Catholic and believe it’s morally justified to hack electronic devices to remotely explode, then you need to learn your Faith better and to repent. With no control of where the devices are, this is randomly targeting people and always immoral.

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10 months

Who is going to tell Steve secular moral philosophers, atheists and indeed everyone else, have views on when personhood arises? It is not primarily a religious claim, and only someone desperately trying to score ideological points would pretend otherwise.

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@hf_222222

2 years

This attitude is behind every cover up of clerical sexual abuse & sexual assault - Acting like a horrible crime is a venial everyday sin. This guy has learnt *nothing* from the abuse crisis - And is part of the reason why it hasn't ended yet.

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1 year

I think, after Q, insisting the Gospels have to date after the destruction of the Temple in 70AD is the funniest of the old & now outdated 20th century scholarly nostrums. It was based on the fact the Gospels have Jesus predicting the event, & apparently such a supernatural

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@hf_222222

2 years

Pope Francis dropping the hammer on the #SynodalWay , with an ultra clear statement its present path is to schism, unless it abandons its errors.

Holy See Press Office

@HolySeePress

2 years

Dichiarazione della Santa Sede -

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Scott Smith

@hf_222222

1 year

When I say Teilhard de Chardin was racist, I don't mean just a little bit. I mean in a genocidal, eugenic, let's get rid of all these inferior races, the Nazis weren't that bad kind of way. Just absolutely abhorrent & unchristian heresy.

America Magazine

@americamag

1 year

Teilhard de Chardin, consecration and the cosmos: How a Jesuit mystic expanded the scope of theology

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Scott Smith

@hf_222222

5 months

What on earth is this "Have you stopped beating your wife Mike?" tier stuff? It is not ok to randomly accuse people of sedevacantism just because they post saccharine right wing coded stuff. That is insane.

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Scott Smith

@hf_222222

2 years

MaRtIn NEvEr exPLiCiTy ReJeCTs ChURch tEaChInG! Oh, guess he does. Never mind.

James Martin, SJ

@JamesMartinSJ

2 years

Pete Buttigieg is married.

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Scott Smith

@hf_222222

3 months

The leadership of the Dicastery for Communication has to be sacked. This simply isn't defensible, and make it impossible to pretend the Vatican cares about sexual abuse victims.

Paulina Guzik

@Guzik_Paulina

3 months

Two days after Card. O’Malley sent his letter to all curial offices in Rome advising not to use Fr. Rupnik’s graphics, Vatican News uses Rupnik’s mosaics today, on the feast of St. Irenaeus, @OSVNews confirmed the image is installed in Paris’ nunziature.

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8 days

I can't say I'm a fan of these kind of things, which passive aggressively confess sins, which the organisers really think belong to others. When you aren't really asking for forgiveness for yourself, but rather the conversion of others, I'm not sure you meet either goal.

Michael Haynes 🇻🇦

@MLJHaynes

8 days

NEW #Vatican Synod event Oct 1, is a mass Confession style gathering where people will confess sins “in name of all the baptized.” Sins to confess include: “using doctrine as stones to be hurled...sins against synodality / lack of listening, communion, & participation of all”

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Scott Smith

@hf_222222

10 months

This idea the Church has access to magical money trees needs to die in fire. It simply isn't true, and no-one who acts like it is should ever be taken seriously.

Robert Mickens

@robinrome

10 months

Seriously?? It should be FREE for everybody. The US bishops have spent tens of millions of dollars over the years on political lobbiests. Are they afraid to ask the fat cats at the Napa Institute and the Heritage Foundation to bankroll this as well?

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Scott Smith

@hf_222222

11 months

Do this, then remove some German Bishops, and then we might really be cooking with gas.

U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops

@USCCB

11 months

Pope Francis Relieves Bishop Joseph Strickland from Pastoral Governance of the Diocese of Tyler and Appoints the Most Reverend Joe S. Vásquez of Austin as Apostolic Administrator Sede Vacante. Read the full statement at:

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Scott Smith

@hf_222222

1 year

About the level of this exegesis.

James Martin, SJ

@JamesMartinSJ

1 year

New: Richard Clifford, SJ, one the leading Old Testament scholars and past president of the Catholic Biblical Association: Using the verse “Male and female he created them” from Genesis to adjudicate modern gender controversies is “thoroughly misguided.”

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@hf_222222

5 months

This blasphemy is in defense of a rapist. A priest who raped women religious. What in the actual hell.

Austen Ivereigh

@austeni

5 months

Saul was “still breathing threats to slaughter the Lord’s disciples” when he met the Lord on the Damascus road. One of the signs we are on the wrong path is the ego-rush of self-righteousness, the thrill of being on the side of the good, our contempt for those who scandalize us.

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1 year

As the usual suspects are attacking Humanae vitae again, its worth noting their real disagreement isn't with that encyclical's technicalities, but with a core & simple Catholic truth. Which is that being sexual active isn't necessary for human flourishing or relationships.

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@hf_222222

11 months

Your regular reminder Gaudium et spes asked us to "scrutinize the signs of the times in the light of the Gospel". Not scrutinize the Gospel in the light of the signs of the times.

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@hf_222222

5 months

I realize its hard to mid-wits to grasp, but St Pope John Paul II wasn't actually an indifferentist, and agreed with @FrMatthewLC that whereas the Gospels are true the Quran is not. Shocking I know.

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@hf_222222

5 months

Rupnik's art is literally an expression of his sexually abusive theology, and was used / created as a part of him committing rape / sexual assault. It is bad art, in part, because it expresses Rupnik's evil ideology. Not just because he personally should be in jail.

Austen Ivereigh

@austeni

5 months

No he doesn’t. He thinks it’s ideological Puritanism to claim that art created by an abuser lacks merit *for that reason*. Carry on being disgusted, by all means, if you agree that Picasso’s Guernica is bad art for that reason. Or Eric Gill’s Stations.

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Scott Smith

@hf_222222

1 month

Actually Super Easy, Barely An Inconvenience. Just point and say "Its Christ Jesus".

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@hf_222222

6 months

If you want to know why r/vexillology design principles only produce ugly flags, it's because it's not sourced from any living tradition which actually created flags, just early 20th century chuds who hated Victorian era heraldry.

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@hf_222222

2 months

Alright, that should finish the pretend confusion, the musician sitting in the place of Christ (Barbara Butch) seems to be perfectly clear about what she was involved in.

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@hf_222222

1 year

I really don't want to say it, but since it would be cowardice to only pipe up after the fact, it needs to be said. Pope Francis has been bad on clerical sex abuse, repeating so many of JPII's mistakes, but with far less excuse.

Robert Mickens

@robinrome

1 year

NO ONE on the papal plane asked @pontifex THE most important question of his pontificate. Why not?

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@hf_222222

5 months

Just seen my Diocese's internal mass attendance numbers, and post Covid it's stabilised at a 7% (!) attendance rate, on a fairly stable Catholic identifying population. That is ... so very bad news.

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2 months

So all the people pretending the offensive mockery of the Last Supper, wasn't supposed to be the Last Supper, realize the actual dudes behind it have confirmed it was? That the point of the blasphemy was to make the point they have a right to be blasphemous?

D.W. Lafferty

@rightscholar

2 months

It's a symptom of the culture war mentality. A tunnel vision that reduces everything to us vs them. Is x good or demonic? Do you support or oppose x? Should we cheer or condemn x? And the big picture, along with any possibility of suspension or nuance of judgement, fades away.

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Given this author literally believes abortion rights are so sacrosanct, they must even be protected against democratic & constitutional government, I can only respond in the spirit of Voltaire. His "consistent ethic of life" is in no way consistent, nor an ethic, nor of life.

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Deacon Ditewig's failure to deal with the fact every priest is by necessity a deacon, I'm afraid, basically renders his entire argument invalid. A vocation to the priesthood does & must presume a vocation to the deaconate! You can't be a priest & not a deacon!

America Magazine

@americamag

5 months

Eliminating a seminary diaconate is not only possible but necessary for envisioning a mature and fully formed diaconate for the future.

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The WPI crowd are just the most miserable sad sacks these days. Who would want to be associated with such joyless and hateful people. Just the mirror image of the very trads they imagine they are fighting.

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@hf_222222

2 months

I don't want to be a broken record, but having actually spent a chunk of my own time trying to facilitate parish level synodality, the idea there is an unmet grass roots demand for it is just cope.

Massimo Faggioli

@MassimoFaggioli

2 months

my 2 cents: Catholic thinking (not just professional theologians) done outside, far, distant from the Vatican will have a lot to do for the Church after the Synod. Synodality remains on the horizon of the Catholic Church, whatever Francis’ Synod 2021-2024 does or fails to do.

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@hf_222222

7 months

So Jefferson believed rights came from God, and yet wasn't anything approaching a Christian nationalist? This just proves Barron's point.

The Assisi Project

@Assisi_Project

7 months

We remind Bishop Barron that Thomas Jefferson was a deist. Jefferson rejected traditional Christian beliefs like original sin, the virgin birth, and the resurrection. If Jefferson lived now, the good bishop would undoubtedly label him "most disturbing and frankly dangerous."

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@Sylvan_Cat You'd swear these people never had a friend - Of any sex!

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Scott Smith

@hf_222222

5 months

No, you pathetic apologist for a damnable rapist, not wanting the ugly tool used to facilitate clerical sexual abuse within a Church does not deny Grace. What in the actual hell is wrong with you? Do you have no compassion for victims? No fear of God?

Austen Ivereigh

@austeni

5 months

Nonsense! Many disgraced & dubious religious artists have created works that over the centuries have raised minds and hearts to God. This is pure iconoclasm, Puritan not Catholic, and heretical, bc it does not allow for grace to supplement sinful nature.

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@hf_222222

1 year

Ah yes, pagan priestesses in the First Century, totally not a normal and socially acceptable thing in the Eastern Mediterranean world. Oh wait, they were.

john milbank

@johnmilbank3

1 year

@Englishpapist The statement ‘Jesus refused to ordain women’ is of course absurdly untrue on any grounds. Think about it. And just this sort of ahistoricism is well, a bit American…though admittedly not necessarily that.

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@hf_222222

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Didn't all the people actually participating in these US processions already debunk this old canard, and they were actually notably diverse? Come on Father, you are better than this.

Jeremy Zipple

@jzipple

2 months

These US Eucharistic processions are pretty monochromatic & male-dominated. Check out any village anywhere in Latin America & you’ll see male & female, young & old, all w a role to play. I think it’s the diff btwn an organically evolving tradition & a rupture & reinvention of one

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@hf_222222

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U.S. Catholic magazine

@USCatholic

5 months

Marriage as a sacrament wasn’t a dogma until 1563. And the church’s legal control over marriage didn’t solidify until the 12th century. The idol of the “respectable heterosexual marriage” is antithetical to the early church.

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@hf_222222

2 years

I don't know dude, it sounds to me these guys might especially need Jesus. Because it turns out the Church is a field hospital for sinners, not a lame Boomer/Gen X social club for the supercilious bourgeoisie.

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Scott Smith

@hf_222222

4 months

l would bet all the monies the average person at a Corpus Christi procession, does more charitable work and gives more in proportion to their means than Steve.

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@hf_222222

9 months

Not in accordance with the guidelines of Fiducia Supplicans, since the use of the stole would make it liturgical. And lol at history being made. Pretty sure the dude with a rainbow stole, part of Historic St Pauls prominent LBGT ministry, has done that before.

Outreach

@OutrchCatholic

9 months

History continues to be made in the church: a priest blesses a same-sex couple, according to the guidelines set out in "Fiducia Supplicans," in the Diocese of Lexington.

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@hf_222222

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Kate McElwee

@dearmisskate

4 months

Absolutely devastating. @CBSEveningNews @NorahODonnell : “for a little girl growing up Catholic today, will she ever have the opportunity to be a deacon and participate as a clergy member in the church?” Pope Francis: “No.” #OrdainWomen

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@hf_222222

4 months

Trads need to learn how to take a win. The priest in question doesn't appear to be the sharpest tool in God's toolbox, but that a formal apology is being offered even from Cupich's Chicago, is a good sign the limits around Fiducia Supplicans are being enforced.

Lepanto Institute

@LepantoInst

4 months

Gee … he’s “sorry” for his “poor choice of words.” How about being sorry for committing sacrilege and causing scandal? How about making public acts of reparation? This is garbage!

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@hf_222222

1 month

Just a reminder, that in the spirit of spirit of Voltaire, it must be said Millies' "consistent ethic of life" is in no way consistent, nor an ethic, nor of life.

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@hf_222222

4 months

Pope Francis endorses what wannabe theologians were insisting, only a few weeks, was a magisterial condemned intrinsic evil (deportation).

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@hf_222222

2 years

My Brother in Christ, Weakland wasn't a poor outcast, he was the religious authorities. A religious authority who facilitated child sex abuse for decades & sexually assaulted someone himself no less.

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@hf_222222

2 years

Could people please not casually suggest that ... Well that anyone who ever doubted Church teaching, which includes pretty much everyone who made submissions to the Synod, are irredeemably dammed to Hell without hope of mercy or forgiveness?

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@hf_222222

1 year

For the love of God, he is a priest who raped women religious, what the hell is wrong with you?

Austen Ivereigh

@austeni

1 year

The scapegoat mechanism: the rush of self-righteous pride as you raise your voice to egg on the crowd as it turns against the one who has dared to distance himself from the violence he sees brewing. Best of all is how popular (clicks, likes) despising him makes you. #Rupnik

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@hf_222222

3 months

Not to defend Trads, but this quote is a reminder Andrea Grillo & friends believe the Eastern Rites also need to be forcibly updated to reflect their imagined version of Sacrosanctum Concilium, & we don't talk nearly enough about how insane that is.

Diane Montagna

@dianemontagna

3 months

JUST IN: The Church isn’t a “high-society club” or “sect that experiences infidelity as salvation”. @messainlatino interviews well-known Italian liturgist Prof Andrea Grillo on the future of the TLM, Chartres pilgrimage & more. English translation here👉:

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@hf_222222

3 months

Not sure exactly what is going on here, & I'd like to hear the Diocese's side, but apparently parishioners are being told "they can either be Apache or Catholic"?!?! What on earth? That isn't how any of this works.

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@hf_222222

9 months

I feel like, just maybe, Roman consultation with the African Bishops *before* releasing Fiducia Supplicans would have been a good idea. Seems like a big own goal to have failed to do so.

Diane Montagna

@dianemontagna

9 months

CARDINAL PRESIDENT of Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa & Madagascar (SECAM) sends letter to presidents of local bishops conferences asking their opinion on #Vatican Declaration on Blessings in view of drawing up a single response “valid for the whole Church in Africa”

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@hf_222222

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This is always funny, because we know from Sts Polycarp & Irenaeus, that St John lived to the end of the first century. He was literally still around when scholars say his Gospel was written!

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@hf_222222

3 years

@oryxspioenkop I get vehicles being abandoned for lack of fuel or breakdowns, which I'm guessing might both be common at this stage, but they aren't they destroying them as they are left behind? Or is this just Russian drivers noping out of the conflict?

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@hf_222222

7 months

There was a real chance we might have gotten a unification of Churches in Ukraine with them all being in Communion with the Pope, but now due to constant gaffes, we might instead lose one of the largest Eastern Catholic Churches. What an effing disaster. Jesus wept.

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@hf_222222

1 year

Not sure why this is a thing again, but the Pope was just being nice to a grieving child, not ad hoc canonizing an athiest. Our only response to this should be to pray for the boy's late father, in the hope he did accept Christ at the last.

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Scott Smith

@hf_222222

5 months

I don't mean to doompost, but thinking about these numbers again as I clean my parish Church, its hit me like a ton of bricks that the doom of this Church is already set. Mass attendance in this parish is down to about 30%, of its 2006 numbers, when it was merged.

Scott Smith

@hf_222222

5 months

Just seen my Diocese's internal mass attendance numbers, and post Covid it's stabilised at a 7% (!) attendance rate, on a fairly stable Catholic identifying population. That is ... so very bad news.

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@hf_222222

3 months

The thing which gets obscured by Vigano's subsequent descent into craziness, is the one thing he revealed in '18 (that McCarrack was subject to secret sanctions which became ineffective), turned out to be true.

Matthew Balan ن

@MatthewJLB

3 months

It’s gotten to the point where they act like they’re in a feeding frenzy (& the person replying isn’t even Catholic). 🤦🏻‍♂️

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@hf_222222

8 months

This nakedly ideological deployment of authority is so corrosive. Arguments in the form of "Bishops were right to resist Benedict, but how dare they resist Francis" ... aren't going to get the results you are hoping for.

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@hf_222222

1 year

Sed contra: Believing you are right about certain things doesn't make you a fundamentalist. It just makes you ... pretty much the same as every person who has ever lived.

Tyler Grudi OFM

@TGrudi

1 year

I listened to Hahn growing up, but his style of apologetics -along with others- often led me to argue and debate with my protestant friends about why they were wrong. I fought with ppl I thought were fundamentalists and became one myself. Apologetics often makes fundamentalists.

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Scott Smith

@hf_222222

1 year

It is simply undeniable that @BishopBarron is correct here about the Holy Father - Any suggestion to the contrary is absurd.

Bishop Robert Barron

@BishopBarron

1 year

Friends, what does it mean to evangelize? And why must it pave the way for a real conversion to the Catholic Church? Read my latest:

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Scott Smith

@hf_222222

1 year

I don't care what Parish you attend, as long as it is in Communion with the Church, and you are there every Sunday.

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Scott Smith

@hf_222222

11 months

I don't think it is clericalism for the laity to expect the clergy to do their jobs. Quite the opposite in fact. What on earth is the point of a Deacon if he won't lead liturgies in the absence of a priest?

GeorgesCheung sj 張國芹-耶穌會-善人不善人之師-見善如渴-聞惡如聾

@georgescheung

11 months

@TheresaMac1960 A simple current example: We now have assemblies (scripture sharing, etc) led by lay persons, when there is no mass on Sunday, due to priest shortage. But many persons, chosen to preside, will opt out and insist a deacon lead the celebration, if a deacon happens to be around…

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