This is a great thread and I can’t help but have theological thoughts about it.

Catholic imagination. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/t...

The Lonerganiacs and the Wittgensteinians are sometimes at odds. Stumbled on this from David Burrell, which makes a forceful case for a Wittgensteinian reading of *Insight*: www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/1...

My favorite thing I learned about Gutierrez’s theology from sitting in on my colleague’s grad class on him is how firmly G. sticks to theology as a second-order discipline. It reflects on what already is, on what already happened, on problems as they occur. It’s nice. Very true of theology.

NEW: In the Cities Church FACE Act cases in MN (with Don Lemon), govt sought five search warrants on 2/24 that were rejected by the magistrate judge. Govt resubmitted 4 of them on 3/6, & they were rejected again. Magistrate will now unseal litigation. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Congratulations to Dr. Michael C. Magree S.J. - his book: “The Interpretation of Kenosis from Origen to Cyril of Alexandria: Dimensions of Self-Emptying in the Reception of Philippians 2:7” was awarded the “Best First Book Prize by the North American Patristics Society. @oxunipress.bsky.social

RIP Sonny Rollins, a great jazz talent and the last surviving musician in one of the best photos of men in suits during the 20th century

Sticker credit: @artofmarza.bsky.social

Prof. Lushombo (at 58:10) is from the Republic of Congo and teaches at the Jesuit School of Theology (CA, USA). She's the one who mentions Bernard Lonergan. Which is a good picture of Fr. Lonergan's unexpected status: a force in African theologies and among Jesuit schools. youtu.be/JxcXcP6NyRM?...

Wearing Canadian boots, Austrian cargo pants, a US tee shirt, and a French fleece. Very 1917 outfit today.

It’s probably mediocre white guy confidence, but I harbor the belief that, in another life, I could have been a competent actor. Tho i suspect my tendency to over-intellectualize would keep me from being excellent.

The tragic irony, if my own adolescent & young adult forays into acting are any indication, is that some of us were drawn to acting in part bc of our alienation from predominating forms of masculinity

Omg i love this youtube.com/shorts/dB74A...

Never put me in charge of the CTSA, this will be theme every year

Furious at how well this works www.instagram.com/reel/DVtNrR3...

Hanna (6): *sneaking loudly down the stairs well after bedtime* Me: “What are you doing downstairs, Hanna?” Hanna: “Karate!”

It’s curious to me that Lonergan, who is constantly accused of impenetrable, useless abstraction, actually offers a much more concrete and practical account of authority than this. See “The Dialectic of Authority” in *A Third Collection*

As much as the administration tries, it can't delete what happened on J6. The archive lives in court records, in the J6 Committee Report, in guerrilla archiving efforts www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

My dear friend Lyle Enright wrote about this feeling. It’s a good essay: www.christiancentury.org/features/pos...

"Anthropocentric" but it's a compliment.

💯 I have been saying for years that as little credibility as the Catholic Church’s belated turn to humanism merits, it is nevertheless deeply important to affirm, promote, in sustain it

BREAKING: Judge Waverly Crenshaw dismisses indictment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia based on selective and vindictive prosecution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I try not to indulge in regrets, but I sure did waste a lot of years being too snobby to enjoy ketchup

I begin every day by reading Lawfare in these troubled times when the Constitution and Rule of Law are under vicious attack by our own Government. So, I am honored to continue supporting Lawfare, as anyone concerned for the Rule of Law would be.

.. of the true meaning and grandeur of humanity as intended by God. It is in this sense that the challenge we currently face is not technological, but anthropological, and it is my hope that the Encyclical Letter to be published within a few days will contribute to answering this challenge.”

Pope Leo this Morning: “As evidenced by the unbridled promotion and implementation of technology at the expense of human dignity, we are truly experiencing an eclipse of the sense of what it means to be human. It is imperative to recover an understanding..

There’s a reason @gelliottmorris.com gets a shout out at the top of my @commonwealmagazine.org article on Lonergan’s philosophy/theology of history from a few months ago: www.commonwealmagazine.org/heaps-jonath...

Reality bath from @gelliottmorris.com: Given Biden approval rating & inflation/consumer sentiment, "the surprise of the [2024] election is that Harris did as well as she did...the Dem nominee was on track to lose the popular vote by 4 points. She lost by 1.5." www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-dnc-au...

As I’ve argued before, the hardest form of the negative partisanship problem emerges when your evaluation is correct: churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/the...

My baseless, grumpy opinion is that these are too long

I think a healthy dose of a Girardian suspicion is a good thing to have on hand, but it does come with a liability: One can mistake the genuine opposition btwn good & evil for just one more instance of mimetic rivalry.

Wild: Colorado law enforcement officials warned that ICE/DHS social media posts could convince “white supremacist violent extremists to attempt to join or infiltrate ICE and engage in bias motivated violence, endangering the public, other ICE personnel, and local law enforcement.”

That EP was their best work IMO youtu.be/sLjy8N8lt4U

“The people of the land practice extortion and commit robbery; they oppress the poor and needy and mistreat the foreigner, denying them justice” (Ezekiel 22:29).

I’m not especially confident in it, but my hot take for a while has been to go after cabinet, etc folks, diversifying the political capital investment, rather than spending it all in one place (the president)

So much to say! 1. The "they" was a contractor working for first Trump admin. Biden's DOJ prosecuted him. 2. Another victim, Ken Griffin, sued and got only an apology, no audit amnesty, no $1.776B slush fund! 3. Read @annabower.bsky.social and me for much more. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

Annie: “Hanna, why don’t you play with your American Girl doll more?” Hanna (6): “Mommy. She hypnotizes me.”

The pickled black radishes were from a chef buddy who I convinced to use them as garnish in a vodka martini

Tonight in “what the hell am I going to eat for dinner” turned out to be a 1/3lb hamburger with sharp cheddar, pickled black radish slices, and a generous dollop of harissa on a Hawaiian bun

Quote with a fictional band that is not Spinal Tap

Not often you see campaign comms translated from the original Akkadian

Interesting that the Trump administration is laying down a marker that a military attack on an unarmed craft can be the basis for prosecuting senior government officials who supervised the attack in home countries of the vehicles' occupants.

2 bay 2 pigs

"[Frank] saw a chance to move up to Congress in 1980, when the Rev. Robert F. Drinan, a Jesuit priest & human rights activist, gave up his seat after Pope John Paul II ordered priests to withdraw from electoral politics. Father Drinan complied & endorsed Mr. Frank, who won easily."

“‘despoiling of the Egyptians’ in reverse” is a good line, honestly

In 2019, I published an article w/ Neil Ormerod introducing statistical structures into the metaphysics of gender/sexuality & pressing Lonergan’s point that metaphysics is primarily meant to help guide & coordinate asking questions, not provide the principles form which to deduce answers, but… 1/

The Aristocrats!

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A level of corruption that I can only describe as “eye-watering”