Terence Sweeney
@TerenceJSweeney
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Catholic. Writer at large. Professor at Villanova. Philosopher and theologian in the world. Pa at home.
Philadelphia PA
Joined July 2011
"Love is as much shown in small acts of care and attention as it is in big words and bold deeds.".
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Our task as sacristans is to attend to small acts of care in a world that is too often inattentive and careless.
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RT @LongTimeHistory: ICE try to break into barbershop when owner won't open door without a warrant—threaten to go after his parents. Agent….
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Please pray for my beloved Villanova which has a shooter on campus. I'm home but saddened.
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RT @ZechMickel: Welp, my little book on fatherhood is officially out, y'all!. Just received my author copies in the mail yesterday. Pretty….
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RT @GenofMod: Dear Readers,. August is a season of beginnings: a new school year, new schedules, and the first hints of fall just around th….
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RT @deliavatican: Beautiful & challenging words from Leo XIV this morning:. “To forgive does not mean to deny evil, but to stop it from gen….
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RT @Pontifex: How many relationships are broken, how many stories become complicated, how many unspoken words remain suspended. And yet the….
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RT @RGC3: 50% of Catholic children in the US attended Catholic schools in 1965. Today it’s around 10%. And some of these schools have large….
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RT @GenofMod: weekly feature—From the Archives—highlighting some of our best essays from the past six years. We begin with a piece from ou….
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Terence Sweeney allegorizes Magnasco’s painting, Satire on a Nobleman in Misery and finds a typology of genealogical approaches: Netzschean, Englightment, and Christian
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RT @Pontifex: I invite all the faithful to take part in a day of fasting and prayer on August 22, imploring the Lord to grant us peace and….
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RT @DavidAFrench: This is such an important observation and a key reason (among many) the consolidation of power behind the president grave….
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RT @highbrow_nobrow: Marco Rubio on Donald Trump in 2016: “I will never stop until we keep a con man from taking over the party of Reagan a….
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RT @FairerSexFD: "We will not be able to recover a sex-realist vision of life if we cannot summon forth a vision of fatherhood far richer….
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Elon Musk is a father, I suppose. He has at least fourteen biological children and is committed to having many more that he “provides” for out of his vast wealth. And yet it somehow feels wrong to...
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RT @FairerSexFD: This week: @TerenceJSweeney on @ZechMickel's book and real fatherhood: "Real fatherhood—full fatherhood—involves a lot mor….
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Elon Musk is a father, I suppose. He has at least fourteen biological children and is committed to having many more that he “provides” for out of his vast wealth. And yet it somehow feels wrong to...
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RT @FairerSexFD: "Parenting is an unbelievable responsibility—one summoned forth by need—but overstating the nature of that responsibility….
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Elon Musk is a father, I suppose. He has at least fourteen biological children and is committed to having many more that he “provides” for out of his vast wealth. And yet it somehow feels wrong to...
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RT @ZechMickel: "I know this disparity well—the gulf between the merely biological reality of being a father versus the deeper reality of i….
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Elon Musk is a father, I suppose. He has at least fourteen biological children and is committed to having many more that he “provides” for out of his vast wealth. And yet it somehow feels wrong to...
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RT @FairerSexFD: "The child one holds faces all sorts of threats, including from her own father, who at best will fail his children freque….
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Elon Musk is a father, I suppose. He has at least fourteen biological children and is committed to having many more that he “provides” for out of his vast wealth. And yet it somehow feels wrong to...
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RT @chrisjollyhale: Under the leadership of Pope Leo, American Catholics are leading the resistance against Donald Trump’s authoritarian re….
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Inspired by the work of Pope Leo's first U.S. appointment, San Diego Bishop Michael Pham, Texas clergy are stepping into courthouses to shield migrants from sudden deportation.
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RT @McCormickProf: "Influencers" representing themselves as Catholics are preaching to young Catholics hatred of Jews and contempt for Juda….
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RT @Zack31849967: @FeserEdward How do you explain the average house size increasing while family size decreases?
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RT @TerenceJSweeney: This article, the pictures, and the life of Didarul Islam are a powerful portrayal of American greatness and the essen….
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The streets of a Bronx neighborhood filled with mourners who had gathered for the funeral of Didarul Islam, one of the victims of this week’s mass shooting in Manhattan.
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