Carl E. Olson
@carleolson
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Catholic husband, father, artist, music/book collector, author of books on theosis, the Resurrection, the Rapture, Lent/Advent. Editor @cworldreport. Acerbic!
Elmira, Oregon
Joined June 2009
My first icon is still in progress (and has been on hold for far too long), but I tend to think it's a bit better than anything you'll see from Rupnik.
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I'm confident that the appeal of high taxes, countless regulations, rampant crime, homelessness, corrupt and inept leadership, dreadful education, and hamstrung law enforcement will be impossible for businesses to resist! After decades of waging destruction, the Dems and RINOs.
Oregon is open for business. The Mayor and I will be going directly to investors to build momentum for housing construction and economic opportunity in Portland. No time to waste.
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A good start to Tuesday. Beautiful album. From what I understand, not being a musician (or playing one on X), critics were mostly tepid about this when it was first released, as Gould's approach was, as it often was, unusual and "idiosyncratic". Be that as it may, I'm enjoying
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And yet I couldn't list every silly, shallow, attention-grasping, truth-despising Fundamentalist on X without you landing in the Top 10. .
I could biblically teach every doctrine of Christ and every doctrine essential to salvation without ever mentioning Mary’s name.
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On the Readings for this Sunday:. I know Christians who believe that people should be able to be as wealthy as they can be, as long as they acquire their wealth fairly and squarely. And I know Christians who believe that any evidence of wealth—a nice car, a big home, or expensive.
"Money, Vanity, and Eternity": @carleolson @cworldreport with a Scriptural Reflection on the Readings for August 3, 2025:
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And another beautiful summer evening comes to a lovely close.
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Ah, so heresy is a mark of being smart. Cute. Pride goes before the fall and all that. I am so glad that I left Protestantism and all of this silly sophism nearly 30 years ago.
Roman Catholics often claim the Church was “unified” before the Reformation, claiming Martin Luther as the cause of another great schism. But unity is easy when ignorance is high. - 90% of the population were illiterate .- Less than 1% owned a Bible .- Church was conducted in.
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I found this 1961 Stan Getz album a few months ago, but had not listened to it until recently. For shame! This is riveting music, at times a bit abrasive and "out there" and then simply gorgeous. AllMusic says this is "Getz's most challenging date and arguably his finest moment,
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Hmm. No. Nonsensical. But it does provide an opportunity to share this incisive quote from J. Brian Benestad, Ph.D., found in his exceptional book, Church, State, and Society: An Introduction to Catholic Social Doctrine (@CUAPress, 2011):. "Today, there is a lot of talk about.
I’ve explained to people the reason cradle Catholics like me can’t stand converts is that they bring their former (usually) evangelical BS to our rituals & completely reject “good works” which is a core tenet of Catholicism that makes us social justice minded which they reject.
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Next up for the post: A transgender, atheist, communist Muslim who smokes pot, is vegan, and only bathes during Kwanzaa.
⛪ The UK’s first female and lesbian Archbishop has been announced.
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If only Guv Kotek's party could have been in power the past, say, 30 years, they could have put her in a much better position. Ahem. So farcical, on every level.
We have to increase the supply of all kinds of homes as fast as we can. We have to cut red tape and get out of our own way. We have to invest in affordable housing projects. We have to help our cities and counties build the infrastructure they need to start building new homes.
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Excellent idea. He certainly helped me on the journey to and into the Catholic Church.
While people have suggested St. John Henry Newman should be titled "Doctor of Faith", "Doctor of Conscience", or "Doctor of Development", I think he should be named "Doctor of Converts". He is the first Doctor who was born Protestant, & left its errors for the fullness of truth.
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Doctor Newman, I presume?. (Notice how Eliot glances over in curiosity.)
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The great thing about corny jokes is that they have a kernel of truth to them.
I just stopped at a stop sign and I am surrounded by cornfields. I feel like i'm being stalked.
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For more, see my 2018 @cworldreport editorial: "Catholics aren’t obsessed with sex—they are obsessed with life":
catholicworldreport.com
There seems little doubt, at this point, that 2018 is going to witness yet another great clash over Paul VI's encyclical—arguably the most contested and
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NCReporter Catholics: "We're going to obsessively write, yell, scream, and agitate for sixty years about everything and anything having to do with sex. And if you dare point it out, or note our overt hypocrisy when it comes to dissenting from magisterial teaching, we're going to.
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I wrote this essay on Newman for @OSV many years ago, so some of it is dated, but it provides the basic lines of his life and thought:. “He is the one Englishman of that era who upheld the ancient creed with a knowledge that only theologians possess, a Shakespearean force of
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One of the most mesmerizing vocal performances ever recorded. Released on August 15, 1994, it was Buckley's lone studio album. "Eternal life is now on my trail.Got my red glitter coffin, man, just need one last nail.While all these ugly gentlemen play out their foolish games
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Winters has been writing for years, as a featured columnist, for a rag that has, since 1964, published a flood of articles questioning, dissenting from, and openly attacking Church teaching in artificial contraception, sexual morality, homosexuality, abortion, women's.
Abp Weisenburger did not cause a scandal but firing three anti-Francis professors. He ended the scandal.
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31. About half of those within a four-year window.
The average American has been to 5 of these cities. How many have you been too?. I’ll start, 14.
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