“The Universal Church can’t judge the morality of a specific instance in a category of things” is insane levels of moral relativism lmfao. Right wingers are glorified nihilists, total victory.
MAGA si, magistra no
After going through RCIA in college, one of me close friends told me I wasn’t a real Catholic since I wasn’t raised Catholic. He’s still one of my close friends but it still makes me mad to this day. So I get defensive when other converts, even the ones I think are idiots, get called fake Catholics
100% this is rye and prune juice
I was just singing @bpdflores.bsky.social’s praises to Annie and she replied, “sure, but is he soft on crime?”
Grave of theologian David Tracy and family
Made a little pilgrimage today
USCCB doctrine chairman to JD Vance: The pope is very much in his lane, you stay in yours
one day, people on social media will discover that there are a lot of lifelong Catholics who are nasty sons of bitches, just as there are converts who are normal, well-adjusted people acting in search of God
Since when did "just war theory" mean "yay war"?
It’s profoundly ignorant to suggest that the Pope should be fighting crime on behalf of the Catholic Church. Anyone who was remotely familiar with Roman Catholicism would know that that’s what Daredevil is for
o no a head of state does not like the pope
o no
an unprecedented situation for the catholic church
o no
whatever will
the vicar of christ
do
Also yes, Prevost was a surprise, but he was on papabile lists. For example: religionnews.com/2025/04/28/m...
Also, fwiw, I'm pretty sure Pope Leo XIV thinks it would be bad for Iran to have a nuclear weapon. I'll go out on a limb and say he probably thinks it's bad that *anybody* has nuclear weapons.
Was literally just thinking this
OK I know—I KNOW—how bad things are, I do not actually think this is objectively funny, but guys.
GUYS.
"Pope Leo is WEAK on crime."
GUYS.
My wife just informed me that a guy from the theological anthropology course I took at Boston College is a bishop and I just feel weird about it (he was a good guy and very smart, so this is not a judgment about him. It’s a judgment about me).
"Magataotao" on Twitter writes: "I am Catholic. This👇is not my Pope." Attached is a video of the Pope saying that we should search for peace and reject war. A community note under their tweet says: "You are not a Catholic if you do not accept the Pope, but rather a schismatic. Canon 751: “Schism is the refusal of submission to the Supreme Pontiff,” ie. the Pope. https://www.vatican.va/archive/cod-iuris-canonici/eng/documents/cic_lib3-cann747-755_en.html"
first in my bloodline to see someone get excommunicated by a community note
People comment on the Holy Father’s appeals for peace as if unaware that contemporary warfare includes massive suffering & casualties of non-combatants. The lost innocents are not “regrettably necessary”. They are the judgment of God on us, the blood on our hands of Isaiah 1,15.
“Thus he told many lies but made them seem like the truth” - The Odyssey XIX.203
Having a John Wick moment reading book 17 of the Odyssey
This was a good piece from Heaps
I showed my kids this image on the live stream and delighted in their amazement
Alright. Take your bets now as to which one of the Artemis astronauts becomes which member of the Fantastic Four after their capsule is hit with an unexpected cosmic ray burst.
Happy Easter!
TFW you’re still grappling with that big promotion at work. @ctrlamb.bsky.social
Time for the post-Easter potluck viewing of Godspell
To celebrate the risen Lord, I made beignets
Happy Easter from all of us!
“On this day of celebration, let us abandon every desire for conflict, domination, and power, and implore the Lord to grant his peace. … Let us entrust ourselves to him and open our hearts to him! He is the only one who makes all things new (cf. Rev 21:5).”
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