Lastly, as others have pointed Leo is clearly stating two things: - This is Doctrine. - Doctrine is meant to be applied. Doctrine isn't meant to stand at a distance as some kind of perfect theory. It gets messy and involved in our everyday lives. AND it is informed by unchanging truths.

It just occurred to me that the Pope is a descendant of American slavery and he’s the one making the most blunt apology the Church has ever made for its role here

I hope this encyclical helps more higher education administrators to realize that the biggest advances made in STEM fields right now are all making Religious Studies education far more important, not less.

@pontevedrian.bsky.social Only 39 times in 180 pages, not too bad

If you find yourself observing teens in public doing stuff you don't like and you immediately blame the parents for not keeping an eye on them 24/7, YOU are the problem. Especially if you post your outrage online. This needs to stop.

sometimes you've got to throw a heart on a post you don't understand, but you can sense that the author is in their zone and making some kind of point. like yea buddy, keep thinking your thoughts

@ichotiner.bsky.social please interview Bishop Barron

“The underlying attitude … is characterized by a kind of petrifaction, a ‘rock’-like hardness, that resists the flexibility both given and demanded by the Holy Spirit for the reception of his always new inspirations. Such an attitude makes it almost impossible to engage in any living dialogue.”

To translate: the theological right is “more dangerous” because it doesn’t want to have a controversy. It wants everyone to shut up and obey. The left might be too interested in modern man (in Balthasar’s estimation), but the right puts an end to theology.

I don’t know. If one side thinks it’s okay to suspend due process, execute people on the street, prosecute political opponents, illegally start wars, & put certain ethnic groups in camps, I don’t think we’ll find common ground. I’d rather be on the side of Christ & St Oscar Romero than Bp Barron

YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK

I wish we could choose who leads our country

it's don't kill yourself thursday. repost to don't kill yourself

imagine, you are a tardigrade under his holiness’s benevolent gaze

2 bay 2 pigs

This scared the shit out of me until it was explained that it only crawls out late at night.

used to be people had to go all the way to jupiter to get stupider. but this has now been automated with AI, saving countless time and expense

You're right, and I apologize. That's on me.

when you put it like that, it sounds terrible

Christians cannot continue to use nationalistic warfare rhetoric and feed the hate-filled animosity that increasingly shapes the American socio-cultural, religious, and political landscape. When we think our fight is against flesh and blood, when this fight erases love, we've lost our way.💔

The rhetoric around Muslims has been growing extreme and it was only a matter of time before an attack like this happened. Christian fascism adds another vile act of terrorism to its tally

Omg can you imagine

Also the next somebody says reparations for black people is a ridiculous idea, remind them that we have a reparations program for trying to overthrow the government

Apparently a bunch of my mutuals are following him. Read this thread if you don't know why you should unfollow and then block him.

Eggs, loaded hash, sausage, fruit, coffee and orange juice.

What? His approval is still at 37%? Who could have predicted this? 🤡 But people don't like his views on the economy, and the war is unpopular? I was told that this was all about the price of eggs? Gasoline? Inflation? It's almost like his popularity is driven by something else entirely! 🤔

[opus dei]

Just a bunch of blind baby birds squawking "Plot, plot, plot" with upturned beaks.

“I’m just so goddamn fed up with all this,” Gina Small, 29, said in a comment on the U.S. economy that one of her friends assumed was about the world’s ongoing humanitarian crises, another friend thought was about the weaponization of America’s military against its own people.

[barely holding back the urge to call this Lynchian]

America is in a spiritual crisis because so many Americans find their soul in shit America is in an intellectual crisis because their minds are full of shit

I am so happy about my new comically long flannel nightshirt. It feels so luxurious and the colors are happy.

Pope:”Reading nourishes the mind, helps cultivate a conscious and well-formed critical sense, guards against fundamentalisms and ideological shortcuts.” Reading is “an antidote to closed-mindedness which manifests in rigid attitudes and reductive views of reality.” www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

maybe. maybe this weekend i buy 40lb of flour at Aldi for $19.50 and process it to go into long-term storage

Trying to buy enough canned and dry food to get my family through the summer because everything is fine

Suzani is a type of embroidered and decorative tribal textile made in Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan and other Central Asian countries #womensart

Have they set up as many women to take the fall for this regime as possible??

Probably 2016 or 2025

Learning to cook from primarily shelf-stable ingredients, and buying them now in as much bulk as you can afford, will help you *so much*

Actually I correct myself. “No you don’t, Oprah” is the funniest joke ever on television. The only prerequisite is that you know about the “yes, and” of improv. It’s three jokes in one and it is absolutely incredible. youtu.be/0X6l2fd2wLo?...

i don’t wanna hear shit about catholicism from these freaks ever again