The Sacred Heart / The Immaculate Heart, two paintings by Józef Mehoffer, 1911.

‘As Plato wrote, the deepest and most important things are learned only after much time and effort, by engaging in discussion with others, “striking upon” ideas and experiences together like flint until the spark of understanding is kindled within us.’ www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

"The civilization of love will not arise from a single or spectacular gesture, but from the sum total of small and steadfast acts of fidelity that serve as a bulwark against dehumanization." - Magnifica Humanitas

Gonna get a lot of mileage out of “Babel Syndrome”:

It is nice for Tolkien and LOTR to come up in discussions of technology where it is not antithetical to Tolkien's vision

Also I love Magnifica Humanitas as a title

Me: I don't have time to read the new encyclical today Also me: going through all the extracts that people are posting and maybe should just read it...

Ya'll. I am shook. In a good way. Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Holy See's own role in legitimizing Slavery

It was giving pop ups about what seemed like every footnote and then I forced close both zotero and word. When I came into the document it had inserted another bibliography on the page I had been working on and added to a footnote pages and pages of program instructions...

Zotero has updated and I do not understand how the bibliography feature works and everything online is about how it used to work and their info about the update does not talk about it. So have to make sure that I don't forget anyone that i added when finishing my minor corrections...

While I struggled a bit with the music and contemporary culture aspects, I also get how I ended up here...

New anxiety dreams unlocked: Having to defend things in my PhD thesis that I don't remember writing and having to correct an exam last minute for a class I didn't teach

For the project DisFriend, I am looking for two PhD candidates: www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3610...

We have finally found a reason for the right to reject AI

This piece of writing seems much better... Ohh that is probably because it is way over the word limit. I'm trying to just make it better and then deal with cutting but scared I can't cut and fulfil their feedback... (Part of me wants to call their bluff and see if they will check.)

Hey chums. You know any young Europeans (20-35) who might be interested in learning more about how their professional life can serve the common good? Cos me and some Jesuit geniuses are gonna take a ganseyload of people up the Dolomites to concentrate on just that question. (Feel free to share.)

Oh my goodness, what an amazing project, and Magdalen College Oxford is such a wonderful place to live and do research! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRM012/o...

The neurodivergent question of is this person trying to indirectly tell me something but don't want to share their specific view on something particular or is this just to be taken at face value... Knowing that people do this means I could be reading too much into something that is not there

‘Imagine not being able to go back for your own mother’s funeral’ – the Limerick priest helping undocumented Irish in New York City

Every type of discrimination, whether social or cultural, whether based on sex, race, color, social condition, language or religion, is to be overcome and eradicated as contrary to God's intent. —Gaudium et Spes §29

I have been thinking about this article by @jaredstacy.bsky.social the last week www.christianitytoday.com/2024/07/dutc...

Over some light lunchtime reading, I’m struck by how Augustine thought war’s objective horrors less important than participants’ spiritual state, and how it’s odd anybody would think an attack called “Operation Epic Fury” - “Massive Tantrum” being too on the nose - might in any sense be a just war.

It’s the 250th year of American independence, and the Pope and the King of England are reminding Americans of their revolutionary values, principles, and ideals Somewhere, John Adams is confused as fuck

I have a meeting that I am dreading tomorrow and would appreciate some prayers...

Speaking as someone who would be regarded as part of the problem because I am a late diagnosed woman who seems okay, I would ask people to stop taking Gript seriously in general but specifically on this. I spent over 20 years feeling like there was something seriously wrong with me. Why could I not

Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry

"Three young Barn Owls looking out of the quatrefoil of a church in North Norfolk."

paging all the Catholics reading the Camp of Saints...

I wrote about Trump's papal interactions and why - drawing on @jheathershaw.bsky.social - we need more (richer?) religious discourse, not less, in our public square www.jcfj.ie/2026/04/24/t...

this critique of empathy has roots in c19/early c20 explicitly anti-Christian writers like William Winwood Reade, who wrote that Christian mercy holds back progress and must be destroyed, or Edward Ross, who called Christianity "a shelter under which idiots and cretins have crept and bred"

One of the things that is very telling is that it assumes that one is only moved by pity/empathy but if you actually look at what is argued in support of refugees, it is not only pity that they are appealing to. Is human dignity softness? As always there is such a reductive approach to the argument

Dreamt last night that I was reading my thesis and found loads of interesting things I didn't really write but also interesting people I was citing and I just have to live with the reality that they don't exist

The soft-launch of the new & improved Art in the Christian Tradition database is live! Check it out and send in your feedback! act.library.vanderbilt.edu/search

Apologies here's the signing link: docs.google.com/forms/d/1cB6...

I might be more patient with Bishop Barron had Trump offered anything like a justification for this war. It seems like there is hope for a hidden justification for this war that no one, including the Pope, knows. Looking at the Iraq war should JP II have kept silent because maybe one day weapons of

It's also worth saying that the increasing "pacifist" pronouncements by both Francis and Leo has emerged out of, not in contradiction of, Just War Theory. The idea is that modern conditions have made the possibilities for just war-making more and more remote to the point of impossibility.

Trying to explain St Augustine to the pope, the former head of the Augustinian order, who wrote his doctoral thesis on Augustine, on his way back from celebrating mass at the Basilica of St Augustine in Annaba, Algeria, overlooking the site where Augustine lived is peak Adult Catholic Convert.

"Robert Prevost (right) with Augustinian friars, including Giuseppe Pagano, along with Giacomo Cagnes protesting NATO missile bases in Comiso, Italy. The protest occurred in Rome in October of 1983. Photo taken by Gianni Novelli of Pax Christi Italy."

Roses are red, you owe someone an apology,

"Jesus Christ himself was regenerated in the way he came alive again and in which way he saved mankind. Doctor Who saves mankind." Cambridge church to hold Doctor Who service and unveil Tardis share.google/laRBXXVj0Xpf...

Having both interpretation and interpenetration in the same conference paper multiple times was a mistake...