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Bc having someone in your home is different from being in an office which is a semi-public space
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I'll say it again, I think our movement has really dropped the ball on informing people about the problems with IVF. We were not prepared for this moment when all these conservative politicians would think pro-IVF is the default pro-family position
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Doctrinal/devotional developments throughout Church history happen in response some new heresy or sin. It's fine that the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary was made in memory of using the Rosary to defeat Islamic invasion. St. Joseph the Worker was made to combat Communism.
If Catholics knew what the other 11 months were dedicated to, and fostered those devotions accordingly , maybe “June is for the Sacred Heart” wouldn’t seem like weaponization
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I googled what doctor of the church fought jansenism, and Google's AI overview claimed that St. Augustine fought against Jansenism, "which he considered to be a relapse into the Pelagian heresy he had fought against in the early 5th century."
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The Psalm's reference to dashing infants against a stone basically tells us that we should be as ruthless in exterminating our own sins as Herod was in slaughtering the Holy Innocents - even the smallest, lest they should grow and overthrow us.
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St. Thomas More considered his persecution to be a punishment for his sins, rather than a glorious crown.
Would that we were all so humble in the face of the temptation to claim the glory of victimhood.
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Maritain's struggles teaching at a semi-Catholic high school in 1913
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This is the most convincing incorrupt body I've seen photos of. Often they are covered with wax, or admittedly embalmed after exhumation, etc, in a way that makes it, if not hard to believe, less impressive. But this is the fresh and lifelike incorruption that we read about.
Incorrupt body of Servant of God and former patriarch of armenian catholics -Cardinal Agagianian -after 53 years of his death.
He was a member of the commission that restored syro-malabar qurbana to it's proper east-syriac rite form removing many latinizations .
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I highly recommend to Catholics the two films Journey to Italy and Stromboli (Italian title "Stromboli, Land of God"), directed by Roberto Rossellini and starring Ingrid Bergman. They should be just as well-known to religious viewers as something like Babette's Feast.
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Man, some of the Biblical footnotes on the USCCB website are straight up heretical: "[Ben Sira's] patriarchal perspective is as unfair as it is one-sided."
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I really admire this.
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For St. Augustine, worship=sacrifice. If we do not offer sacrifice to the saints, he says, then we do not worship them.
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A lot of people in the comments seem to think that because Our Lady of Guadalupe appeared in Mexico, she is therefore the special patroness of illegal immigrants (as though being Mexican and being a legal or illegal immigrant are necessarily connected)
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Yup. Don't wanna see a lot of anyone's back at Mass (or anywhere really)
Tank tops, shorts, sports jerseys, and flip flops aren't appropriate for Mass. Period.
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@McCormickProf
It is not true simply speaking to say we cannot have animus toward their faith. Modern Judaism is not identical to the religion practiced by the patriarchs and prophets. Catholics do not respect the Talmud and the Talmud does not respect Catholics.
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Devotions are *supposed* to be weapons against sin and evil in society, that's why we have a thing called spiritual warfare. Can't wait to hear about "the weaponization of exorcism" next.
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I reviewed the new fairy tale ballet, Raffaella, which recently premiered in South Bend. This is what Catholics are capable of when we believe that artistic greatness is still possible and still matters.
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Of course in the case of the Sacred Heart, the real point is not so much weaponization as reparation (but this is inseparable from spiritual warfare - see the literal "Golden Arrow Prayer" which makes reparation for blasphemies against the Holy Name)
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“We are keeping the tradition of our one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church... It has nothing to do with ‘defending the culture of Africa.’ The African bishops don’t defend African culture. We defend the Catholic faith.”
A Tanzanian archbishop said that Western NGOs promotion of gay sex in his region, including distribution of lubricant, stopped during the Trump admin, but has spiked up under Biden. Biden has spent $4 billion on promoting LGBTQ ideology around the world.
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Saw that TAN published a cool-looking book on the history of the St. Benedict Medal, by a Benedictine priest. Looked up the author, and found that he has translated multiple works for Hadean Press, which publishes "some of the most exciting titles in modern occultism". So bizarre
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Habsburg court violinist c. 1700 allowed to work-expense a trip costing 3 times his annual salary for the purpose of going to England to retrieve his children from "un-Catholic hands". Now THAT'S Catholic social teaching in action!
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This is just silly shtick. It's not impressive. It's not thoughtful. Somehow it has become a sort of of obligatory feature of normie American Catholic discourse, a tax we have to pay when attending national Eucharistic congresses.
Just so y’all know, when you use the term DEI derisively regarding Black people, we see it as code for calling us a racial slur and you might as well be wearing a klan hat. We see you out there.
#dogwhistle
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TRUMP/VANCE MUST UNDO THE HARM CAUSED BY THE RNC PLATFORM
@Peter_Wolfgang
is a veteran of pro-life pragmatism in Connecticut, he understands both the principles and how to get things done, and I am excited to share his debut article for Catholic Culture.
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@BreeSolstad
@realDonaldTrump
I'd say pandering but regardless, the result is that Our Lady has been celebrated and honored publicly
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This is terrible but parents have to ask themselves why their children were vulnerable to these ideas and spiritual/psychological influences. Musk's family life has been complete chaos and very much modeled the ideology of self-creation that also manifests in gender ideology
JUST IN: Elon Musk says his son is "dead" thanks to the woke mind virus after he was put on puberty blockers, says he vowed to "destroy the woke mind virus after that."
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"I was essentially tricked into signing documents for one of my older boys... This was before I had
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The telephone game has finally gotten to the point where people think Tolkien "defiantly screamed" at Mass
Yes, the man who defiantly screamed the Mass out in Latin to his priest after Vatican 2 would have definitely felt comfortable voting for the people who want children to be able to choose their own gender
You don’t know Tolkien
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I would love to host some kind of anti-AI-art (esp. in a sacred context) symposium, in article form on Catholic Culture.
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Hatred of Jews is wrong. But it's also wrong to claim Catholics are required to respect "the Jewish faith" as believed and practiced today. This creates a scandal that gives cover to real anti-semites.
I don't have to respect the Talmud or Dennis Prager's defense of pornography.
If you are Catholic, and are giving an ear to people who proclaim themselves to be faithful Catholics while directing animus towards Jewish people or their faith, please consider that the faith which you yourself hold long ago repudiated and, indeed, expressly repented of, the
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Apparently Franz Lizst took on four minor orders late in life, including that of exorcist
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Woah, I just learned that the Catechism says we are to avoid servile work on holy days of obligation as well as on Sundays. I had no idea!
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In just four short years, Angel Studios has become a household name among Christians, and for some it represents the cutting edge of religious cinema. But does the distributor of The Chosen, Sound of Freedom, and Cabrini really merit the hype?
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The first 3 commandments forbid idolatry, blasphemy, and violating the Lord's Day. These sins call down God's wrath above all others. We repair for them both out of love of Christ's wounded heart, and to forestall God's wrath so sinners (incl. us) will have more time to repent.
In Summa Theologiae II-II.13.3, St. Thomas Aquinas approvingly quotes an authority who judges that “in comparison with blasphemy, every sin is slight,” and he then goes on to say the following:
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When I see certain photos of saints whether it be Therese, JPII, Bl. Chiara, Bl. Carlo, what strikes me regardless of the expression is a sense of total self-possession and single-minded confidence, as though their whole being were concentrated into their gaze.
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Praying the Chaplet of the Holy Face tonight in reparation for the blasphemy in France
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Apparently St. Gianna Molla's daughter was at the Raffaella ballet that I attended a couple weeks ago in South Bend. I had no idea. Here she is with my friend Claire, the choreographer.
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It is often the case that a particularly acute manifestation of evil in a certain space wakes us up to the need to fill that space with something good in its place. What are we supposed to do, stay asleep?
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Terrible. Trump insists on abortion being a states' issue but now he's promising free IVF from the fed. govt? The line that one party is pro-abortion while the other is just "pro-choice" is becoming untenable, even if most IVF supporters don't know it's equivalent to abortion.
"We’re going to be making a major statement today that IVF treatments — you know I’m in favor of it — that IVF treatments will be covered by the government under a Trump administration.” -- Donald Trump
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I've been hesitant to jump on the anti-Candace train bc I don't go based on optics, but what she says in this clip is moronic. You don't dismiss facts bc they sound weird to you. You research and actually try to find the truth. This isn't anti-establishment, it's anti-thought.
Candace Owens is booked to headline Michael J. Matt’s “Catholic Identity Conference” this year.
This week, she has taken on
@jordanbpeterson
and his daughter,
@MikhailaFuller
, after their public dismissal of Nick Fuentes and his ideology.
She followed by repeating the same tired
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@traddingtonbear
I actually just sent them an email after listening to their podcast where at least one of the hosts was making excuses for JD Vance.
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I suspect having photos of modern saints, as wonderful as it is, has been bad for religious art, which often just copies the photos
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Just war principles don't forbid collateral damage, only disproportionate or intended collateral damage. If the explosions are small enough and you know who is carrying these, the principle of double effect could cover this under a wide range of scenarios.
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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@FrPBehm
@PiusLimited
The context that he attacked her because she had already several times resisted his attempts to seduce her is crucial. In that sense it is literally true that she died to protect her virginity. I think we are overcomplicating something that was very simple to this little girl.
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Stroik: "They said, 'Duncan, you want to do a new story, new music, new original classical choreography, you want sets and costumes...nobody does that anymore!' And I said 'Oh, then I'd better do it. ...Because my whole life has been people telling me 'nobody does that anymore'."
Catholics create huge new ballet - Raffaella, premiering in South Bend, IN, June 29 and 30
Here's my interview with producer
@DuncanStroik
, composer
@MichaelKurek12
, and choreographer Claire Kretzschmar
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Note the predominance of US and African bishops - both seen as an inconvenience in some sectors of the global Church.
I signed the following letter, alongside 26 other prelates, addressed to the Olympic Committee regarding the Opening Ceremonies. We are called to be salt and light in a world given to darkness. Let us speak the truth into the culture, spoken in love, and always take all these
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I don't think it's possible to share the same faith, in the fullest sense, and have diametrically opposed political "values"
Christians: Are you more likely to be willing to date or marry someone who shares your Christian faith but whose political values are diametrically opposite to yours, or shares similar political values but is not a Christian?
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Here's our audiobook of a sermon by St. John Damascene, Doctor of the Church and last of the Eastern Fathers, on the Assumption. 40 minutes to prepare you for the solemnity!
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@kvallier
@compactmag_
I see postliberalism becoming increasingly mainstream among young, seriously practicing Catholics - though not necessarily because they read Ahmari, Deneen, Vermeule, etc - I don't, but I read Leo XIII
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Catholics in the NYC area! In June, come see The Jeweller's Shop, the most well-known play by Karol Wojtyła (later Pope Saint John Paul II) - directed by my podcast colleague James Majewski.
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Another striking, challenging thing about More - he refused to judge those whose consciences differed from his in responding to the King's demands.
I think of how I judged how other people responded to the COVID lock downs and mandates, and see how far I am from his charity.
St. Thomas More considered his persecution to be a punishment for his sins, rather than a glorious crown.
Would that we were all so humble in the face of the temptation to claim the glory of victimhood.
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Heard a family walking by us reciting "...Christ plays in ten thousand places..." from Hopkins
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A friend from my parish invited me to a picnic today. With 2 Brazilians, 2 Croatians, a Turk, and a Korean I was the only native born American there. I feel like I should have been canonically enabled to give them some sort of Independence Day blessing
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Yesterday I saw a right-lib Catholic say that Jews have fared terribly in all regimes except for liberal democracies. This historical point can be debated but what is clear is right-libs believe building society on Catholic principles inevitably leads to crimes against humanity.
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I wasn't interested in commenting on the Butker speech. Most intra-Catholic objections seem based on "muh nuance". It is fair ofc if some find his ambiguous remark on NFP objectionable.
However, some go so far as to accuse him of "error" about the Jews, which proves his point.
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@CCamosy
@AaronBabbidge
My understanding is that in the 70s and 80s the Rosary was actively discouraged by a lot of priests and bishops. It was St. JPII who revived the practice in the mainstream Church - if not for him, it probably would be considered something "trad" today.
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I'm giving a talk on the Vatican Film List at the upcoming Fall Conference/Catholic Imagination Conference at Notre Dame, as part of a panel on the past and future of Catholic cinema with
@bazinian_rite
and
@AndrewPetiprin
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@TerryPh85034290
@lukeappleton
It obviously wouldn't be a sin if your husband or wife has agreed to abstain from relations, only if your husband or wife wants it. Continence even within marriage was a practice in the early Church as well.
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I'm really struck by this passage in Augustine emphasizing the permanence of the Incarnation - that God will be man for all eternity, always in the form of a servant, a creature, though with the Son of Man's equality with God fully evident to all. What marvelous humility...!
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@matthewschmitz
@JDVance1
@SohrabAhmari
If, like Vance and Rubio, you go out of your way to sign a statement saying you "strongly support" nationwide access to IVF, your absolute personal opposition to abortion is by that very fact not well known. Actively supporting its legality is not the same as incremental strategy
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Newman refutes the sophistical claim that those who believe few will be saved are more likely to be proud and overconfident in their own salvation. He shows that the case is, by common sense, quite to the contrary.
“The very temptation you lie under to explain away the plain words of Scripture, shows you that your standard of good and evil...must be very different from God’s standard.”
Listen to St. John Henry Newman's sermon, "Many Called, Few Chosen".
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The backwards logic of "he who smelt it, dealt it" seems to be applied when any man who speaks about the obligation of modesty, or however meekly corrects even the most flagrant violation, is slandered by supposedly Christian women as being himself a pervert.
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Having recently re-read the Apostolic Fathers, I think the non-Protestant notion that popped up most clearly in all of them is that you can lose your salvation based on moral behavior. It's quite clear that this was universally held from the very beginning.
This isn’t biblical.
In John 15, for example, Christ says the branches (us) that are connected to the vine (Jesus) but don’t bear fruit are cut off by the Father.
They are then gathered and burned.
It’s quite clear.
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James Matthew Wilson rejoins me to read poems from his new collection, Saint Thomas and the Forbidden Birds. We also discuss English verse and meter wrt his earlier book, The Fortunes of Poetry in an Age of Unmaking.
@JMWSPT
@WordOnFire
@WisebloodBooks
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Anyway, I know about 5 of the month themes, not all of them are equally well known and there's nothing suspect about that either
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This is deeply admirable
At the time, Trump argued that an expected 150 deaths was “not proportionate to shooting down an unmanned drone”
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I will say this: just because you recognize correctly that a political trap has been laid for you, say by the Republican Party for pro-lifers, doesn't actually mean that you have a better option.
That's sort of how a trap works. And that is what it means to be the little guy.
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Great post. Some of the messaging of the pro-life movement in recent years has focused on the woman over the baby to an almost narcissistic degree. (I'm thinking of a really cringe promo video the March for Life put out a few years ago.)
I’ve been involved in the pro-life movement for 30+ years and I’ve seen the takeover of the movement by feminist-influenced, mostly women, leaders.
In the 1980’s, men dominated pro-life leadership and spokesmen positions. Men like Jack Willke, Randall Terry, and Joe Scheidler.
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The Quest stands upon the edge of a knife. Stray but a little, and it will fail...
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@g_shullenberger
Economic conditions and the Treaty of Versailles are commonly discussed, yes. I think the moral decadence of Weimar culture is likely more what he's referring to.
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“The drowsy stillness of the afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G.K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin.” P. G. Wodehouse, "The Story of Cedric"
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@EricRSammons
I don't understand why Jimmy Akin was consulted. Nothing against him but there are actual liturgical scholars out there.
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"The use of AI in ministry has many dangers, but with the proper safeguards..." let me stop you right there
These articles always assume that because AI exists, its "safe" use is mandatory going forward, whether or not it is truly needed
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Here's our review of Wildcat, the Flannery O'Connor biopic directed by Ethan Hawke.
We had a great conversation with Joshua Hren
@WisebloodBooks
about the film and its themes of the relationship between artistic ambition and faith.
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Jazz musicians love Bach, and they tend to like impressionism/early modernism. I basically never hear them talk about Mozart and such. Bach speaks to the melodic/linear aspect of jazz, Stravinsky to the rhythmic, and Ravel/Debussy to the harmonic.
No coincidence whatsoever that Stravinsky loved jazz musicians, and they loved him…
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The result of classical education shouldn't merely be to create a bunch of literature nerds. That's just sharing your hobby with kids.
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Most critics of the hierarchy don't seem to be concerned about the dangers of doing so habitually. Sad to see so many people accusing Holdsworth of virtue signaling. "Hey bro, you don't want to party with us anymore? When did you become so self-righteous?"
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There's a priest around here who often gives the salutary penance of reflecting for several minutes on the words of the Act of Contrition. More priests should assign this exercise which makes us more seriously consider what we do, receive and resolve in the sacrament!
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Really wild to see everyone citing edge cases, making irrelevant comments about "kicking people out" and "judging people" as though those are the only alternatives to a complete abandonment of Church teaching on modesty and reverence
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Reminder that SCOTUS didn't send abortion "back to the states", it sent it back to the people - to the states or Congress. It did not determine at what level the issue should be decided. Misinfo on this needs correction.
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Seriously considering going to the Holy Land this year. Someone talk me down or encourage me
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...so no, I won't be voting for the ASP, sorry
Planned Parenthood staff is saying that on the first day of the DNC, they did ten free abortions.
Ten helpless babies have been sacrificed so far at the DNC death cult.
There are no words to express the sheer horror. 💔
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@Rabid_jackalowp
@9mm_smg
Really? All present-day grandchildren of American and Japanese soldiers agree that nuking Japan was right?
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The Free Press did a great job with this article on the revival of veiling among young Catholic women - featuring some of my co-parishioners.
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Literally what is happening with a lot of these people who try to meditate and achieve enlightenment without God
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@lukeburgis
What the Pope said wasn't idiotic. Lots of normal Catholics are reacting this way to the comment because we are constantly besieged with this stuff. I think you're overreacting.
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Booked my flight to visit Austria for a couple weeks in October. Looking forward to visiting Vienna, the Mariazell shrine, some magnificent old monastic libraries, and the Alps! (As well as some great art museums and music history)
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It seems like he's not really talking about obedience per se (he doesn't say he was commanded to take them down) but the related desire to have a habitually docile and respectful attitude toward authority, rather than a default of criticism.
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New episode!
Maurice Duruflé (1902-1986) was one of the greatest sacred composers of the 20th century, best known for his Requiem and his motet “Ubi caritas”. His lush and tranquil choral and organ works combine Gregorian chant with impressionism.
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Vigano helpfully pairs his accusation with a fake, AI-generated image of Pope Francis wrapped in a rainbow flag so we can all see how honest he is.
On 23 June 2013 when I met Bergoglio at the Domus Sanctæ Marthæ - as already extensively reported in my Memorial of August 22, 2018 - he asked me ex abrupto: «What is Cardinal McCarrick like?»
I replied to him: « Holy Father, I don’t know if you know Cardinal McCarrick, but if
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God allowed Israel as a polity to be destroyed for the past 2000 years. If she were to say that the Jewish people will always survive because God still mercifully cares for them as He cared for Cain, I'd agree. Anyway, the Church has inherited the blessing; Evangelicals are weird
You can’t destroy what God has blessed—and God has blessed Israel.
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