Kelly Clark ⬛️🟡🟥
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Universae Ecclesiae
Joined June 2014
Sincerely, “check my public life and all I do. If you find anything reprehensible, point it out [to me], and I shall be grateful to you and do my very best to correct it; but please be specific.” Although quoting Don Giovanni Bosco, this is a permanent invitation from me.
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I don’t think my app missed 5 episodes only to land back at the right point in the narrative 😜 🙃 😂 I’m really enjoying this mini-series & am looking forward to Cato’s special.
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I know a rapist. Do you?
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@simonahac @MSMWatchdog2013 @AmyRemeikis Making rapists properly accountable is tremendously powerful. It empowers victims to speak out and forces rapists to face the reality of their crimes. After all the shame and stigma is theirs to carry, not their victims
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Footnotes: These quotes are from another attestation of our need for Confession, the Twelve Steps developed for Alcoholics Anonymous and which I first encountered in @AlAnon_Alateen. ¹ Step Five ² Step Nine
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I need to hear and receive absolution. I also need to know that my intention only has worth insofar as I both try my hardest and am assured that it is in the gift of the Divinity that my effort will bear fruit. My insufficient strength will be built upon, not supplanted.
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I need to know that none of the above has lasting value if I don’t truly intend to avoid wrong from thence forward, even if I accept that I’ve yet to become the type of person who only loves. I also need to hear that the one who has heard and given all this doesn’t only forgive:
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I need to know what I can do to show my sorrow and intention to change, particularly for those things where making direct amends may “injure [the one I’ve wronged] or others.”²
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I also need someone to recognise that I’ve failed, who nonetheless accepts me, who is willing to hear and seek context for my wrongs but not to excuse them; I need someone external who can guide, deepen, and tune my moral thinking by giving counsel;
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I realised, during and after Confession this week that admitting “to God, to oneself, and to another human being the exact nature of one’s wrongs,”¹ is an — but not the only — aspect of the Sacrament that the human heart needs.
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A fascinating episode on the need we have for Confession. The recordings of a little kid, of a bloke who couldn’t find a half-safe public bathroom, of a 15yo who felt alone and needed connection: voices of people who needed to be heard.
“When you call, you will be alone with a tape recorder.” Today, an episode about what happened when an artist created a phone line for people to call in anonymously and leave a message apologizing for anything. https://t.co/ROXuDNpaHQ
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We always reform or ridicule, not the customs of the remote past, but the new customs of the day before yesterday, which are just beginning to grow old. This is true of furniture and parents. #GKChesterton (Chicago Daily Tribune, Feb 23, 1921) https://t.co/YZIVxZszph
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A friend’s asked a GPT, and I’m now trying to verify the answer it gave. Wait; out.
@life_muses Let me know when you find out. I never did get an answer (unless I did and forgot but I don’t think I did)
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They’d tell you to get the train from the station <500m away. Like, I get what you’re doing, #OohMedia & @Wotif, but it’s particularly stupid placing it so close to the train stn, in a position clearly intended mostly for pedestrians & p/transport users. #BoorlooAesthetics
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As discussed recently on @newpolity pod, the symbol and fact of the Virgin, given entirely to the love of God, whole in herself, shows the lie of this instrumentalisation of the person, of the woman. Such ideology, while yearning for the good, ignores personhood “in toto.”
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Pod: https://t.co/AgNNc12IUm Film Trailer: https://t.co/hP1DgnJ8Oi If you listen to only one #podcast this #Lent, you could do a lot worse than this.
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Although not Monday here, it’s still #MementoMoriMonday in the USA, so: #PodcastRecommendation - The Denial of Death on @voxdotcom has @seanilling interviewing Jeff Sewell, ostensibly about Ernest Becker the film All Illusions Must Be Broken, but actually about remembering death.
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Thank you, @seanilling, for the most recent episode of The Gray Area on The Denial of Death. It was a needed reminder about the unit of undergrad eschatology I took over a decade ago, and a deepening reminder of my intention toward #MementoMori.
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2/2 However, in the context of marginalised groups “celebrating pride,” pride is “having a positive sense… of one's own worth.” If grounded in truth, this sense of pride is more akin to joyful humility, since, as Aquinas puts it, “humilitas veritas” — humility is truth.
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1/2 I think part of the issue is that, while related, the use of the word “pride” is different in each context. In the context of the moral life, pride is “an unreasonable overestimation of one's own superiority… often showing contempt of others.” This is obv objectionable.
@LyleShelton The other person is also disabled. Katharine is the head of a charity that does extraordinary work for autistic people and kids. I spent my life as a volunteer, including as a Scout Leader. But Pride is a sin? You worship a very different God than the one I was taught about.
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Goodness, @TIME, it’s not that hard to look at the difference between martyrdom and self-immolation/suicide. There are so, so many articles from reputable Catholic and reputable Orthodox sources. Self-immolation is entirely contrary to the Christian ethos and always has been.
.@TIME, please check your sources as this never happened. Christians in persecutions around 300 AD would choose someone else burning them alive over denying their faith, but it was never Christian practice to light oneself on fire. https://t.co/CY4f1awg3F
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