“Do NOT mock me, OR ELSE” is not exactly a position of strength

Catholics love to talk about how you need to always be doing the most to prove your love and devotion to God, but what if it's ok to just Be.

We WILL make Orthodox/Catholic Liturgical Discourse Bluesky Great Again

A thousand percent this. Learn from the Greeks and their Octoechos! Same principle, no need to reinvent the wheel each time in each place!

My bigger thing here is the need to return to plainchant and rotating tones governing the liturgy. Not only does it pair back the performance, but simplifies congregational participation. Congregants buried in hymnals and bulletins is also a form of distraction from participation

So was Erasmus, Cajetan and many other humanists. In fact, Erasmus said at one point that the two worst historical devolutions of Catholicism were the increasingly unjust treatment of “heretics,” and the overcomplication of church music

Preach

The Pillar published an interview with the priest from the eucharistic procession to the ICE facility and he called Barron, Dolan, and Paprocki all white nationalists lmfao

“Everybody had their orange whistles on, and they were clearly ready. ICE had to be a lot more careful about where they were hitting, and so it was a lot harder for them to take more people.”

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

or how John Locke lifted some parts of his Two Treatises on Government, some sentences verbatim, from a Jesuit scholar's work published 1599

For example, I'd had no idea how much debates in Spain between the University of Salamanca and various jurists, canonists and theologians on the Spanish Conquest's legality directly affected English colonial efforts, self-justifications and self-understanding from the get-go

Also highly recommend Greg Grandin's recent "America, América," another sweeping, engrossing grand narrative I'm working through right now

“Let’s go back to [ancient Greece], at least there’s no [gender] there” (Borat Sagdiyev)

Any talk of "Eucharistic Revival" in the Roman Catholic Church is a laughable nonstarter without the universal restoration of infant communion and the illicitly-banned chalice for all the laity

For those unfamiliar -- the term is more common w far right movements in Europe than here -- "remigrate" implies not deporting migrants here illegally, which DHS does. It implies pushing legal migrants, naturalized citizens, even people born here to give up US citizenship and go 'home' [sic]

Sharon accurately predicted a new 100% tariff on China, and I for one believe her

prediction: this will not work www.axios.com/2025/10/14/t...

Nothing has changed in the 35 years since "Why Catholics Can't Sing" came out in 1990. The "We're not like those stupid Prots who just go to church to be entertained" shtick will not die. Irish Catholicism has been a pox on this country (btw Orthodox also have the Eucharist & aren't purposely ugly)

In 2023, a program connecting Utah farmers and ranchers to free therapy vouchers was so successful, the federal money ran out in four months. “I want you to know,” the program director recalled one recipient telling him, “that this saved my life.” (Published April with @sltrib.com)

Manu I, Emperor of the French, Third French Empire?

"In variety, magnificence, and subtlety, [Western sacred musical] heritage incalculably exceeds Eastern sacred music" (Peter Kwasniewski) And tell me, Prof. Kwasniewski - is this Magnificent Heritage in the church with us right now?

(To be abundantly clear: this means the Resurrection is a physical and historical event recorded in the four Gospels. Jesus rising from the dead and the forgiveness it brings into the world is precisely why it is *not* just like Horus or Mithras.)

if the Resurrection is just another dying-and-rising deity myth, it is worthless.

it's so important not to believe that the Resurrection is God getting His revenge on the evildoers as if bringing the permanent presence of forgiveness into the world were some sort of act of violence

At today's Napa Institute-sponsored Mass at St Patrick's in NYC, Sean Card. O'Malley's homily was essentially the quintessential Irish Catholic trope from "Why Catholics Can't Sing" - we're PROUD of our shitty music, terrible homilies and general ugliness, because WE have JESUS in the EUCHARIST

Isn't the identity of DHS' social media manager(s) a matter of public information? Shouldn't it be? Our tax dollars are paying them

Whoever holds the keys to this DHS account marched in Charlottesville circa 2017

super smart to share your sexual fantasies with technofascists in a country too corrupt to pass a baseline internet privacy law

"Wannseekonferenz 2: Elektrischer Boogaloo" release date dropped

Uh... he didn't thank me for my attention to this matter? Rude

"I prefer people who survive assassination attempts. You may have heard of one, he's a gentleman named President Donald J. Trump"

Hue hue hue

"I'm in there coughing, trying to catch my breath, and I'm trying to explain I can't see. My car's engulfed in smoke. I'm not just gonna reverse and hit someone....That's really stupid. That's crazy." Veteran and citizen George Retes discusses his harrowing arrest with @timmiller.bsky.social:

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples? HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

Their goal is to instill paralyzing fear. If you are paralyzed and afraid, they have won

NAPA/EWTN Neocon Catholicism is the worst marriage of Barronite subservience to Mammon and MAGA, and standard-issue modern Western liturgical tastelessness

ERIKA KIRK: He did pray for his enemies, which is very hard, but he did TRUMP: *shit-eating grin, shrugs* ERIKA KIRK: I saw him do it

Finished Battle Cry of Freedom—incredible book, surely the best single-volume account of the Civil War, it's more than earned canonization. So remarkable to make a 900pg book this detail-rich & yet still obviously a condensation of an even larger knowledge base www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Remember when Stephen Miller claimed the Chicago apartment raid was on a building “filled with Tren de Aragua terrorists”? Well, DHS has now dropped the number of alleged TdA members arrested in the building from 2 to 1.

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

Trump: "You hear those sirens going off? That's good. A good sound. That means they either got the bad guy or they're gonna stop the bad guy. You didn't hear that sound bc nobody wanted to do anything. Listen to the beauty of that sound. That's the real deal sirens, not politically correct sirens"

Something something, Burisma

The idea that introducing the chalice would require a whole bunch of extraordinary ministers is belied by Anglican practice; it's more a matter of RC parishes not knowing how to do it properly because they're a few centuries out of practice, lol

one response to this (correct) observation is to say “well, the cops will attack you no matter how you dress and behave.” that’s right. images of cops and ICE beating grandmas and kids in inflatable frog costumes is a win for the opposition.

Israel Warns Gaza Still Harboring Hundreds Of Doctors https://theonion.com/israel-warns-gaza-still-harboring-hundreds-of-doctors-1850964439/

you know he did everything they say he did.

Only thing I'd change if I had the power would be the reception of the body and blood. The Utraquists were right

God has been taken hostage by the evil Vizier Colin Kaepernick Budweiser! MAGA Warrior, are YOU strong enough to fight through the woke as hell hordes of Antifa and save God and Christianity?