Saturday, February 29, 2020

@BrenSullivan12 @TerrierMBB It’s always a good day to beat bucknell


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RT @actioncookbook: NEIL DIAMOND: touching hands CDC: no don’t touch hands NEIL DIAMOND: reaching out CDC: please avoid that NEIL DIAMOND: TOUCHING YOU- CDC: everyone is Boston is doomed


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@GuyBeaumont So do you hold to John 6:53 as the revealed word of God?


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@GuyBeaumont Except for the fact that without the tradition of the Catholic Church you wouldn’t have a canon of the Bible? I hope they taught you about canonicity in seminary!


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Friday, February 28, 2020

@mattpalmer1978 Me neither! Someplace in Texas, maybe, Chicago no!


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@mattpalmer1978 Haha the archdiocese of Chicago ruled no on impossible burgers... 🤦🏻‍♂️


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RT @TorSchTheology: TGSA* presents a Journal Publishing Workshop, March 11, 3:00 pm at #TST in the Seminar Room. Details below.... *Theology Graduate Students' Association https://t.co/mIaDTt0bme


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RT @theghissilent: them, not Catholic: Catholics are so stuck on strictly following some made up rules, what a sad and terribly rigid existence me, a Catholic: I’m giving up alcohol for Lent, but not on solemnities or big feast days, and not on Sundays, also Sunday starts at 5 pm on Saturday


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Wednesday, February 26, 2020

@house_of_bread1 https://t.co/gQXYLI67cd


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RT @Sirtakeiteasy1: Finally the one day of the year I don’t get weird looks for the thumbprint tattoo on my forehead


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@catholickungfu All souls. Easily 4th


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Tuesday, February 25, 2020

RT @FrEdwardBeck: When a virus that is not even considered as virulent as the flu can tank the #stockmarkets , it’s evident we are on shaky financial ground indeed. So much for “the best economy EVER.” Also remember: 84% of all stocks owned by Americans belong to the wealthiest 10% of households


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Monday, February 24, 2020

When you finish Guardini’s #theological masterpiece “The End of the Modern World” and you realize that Ron Swanson read and summarized it long ago: https://t.co/wmH1Y6cwuf


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RT @NoSinGang: Catholic feminism is Mary portrayed beating the devil with a hammer https://t.co/MWWC4MXgSt


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@Romulus504 @canonlaw Canonization is a matter of certainty that someone is in heaven, not a judgment that others are not.


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Sunday, February 23, 2020

Multiple bishops present (at least two on the record and another I know ofoff the record) have confirmed that this didn’t happen. @jdflynn’s reporting here is irresponsible in the most generous interpretation & malicious slander in the worst. He needs to retract this immediately. https://t.co/GwBUJa5WE8


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@canonlaw The Holy Catholic Church has never solemnly defined any individual human person as being in hell, and St John Paul II went so far as to cite our Christian obligation to acknowledge that, while there must be a hell, we should hope that no one is there.


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@ancarandang Also, I don’t get why it’s shady. I like Matt Maher’s music. 🤷🏻‍♂️


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@ancarandang @house_of_bread1 https://t.co/YNvRkgQ7nd


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@house_of_bread1 @ancarandang https://t.co/rPMwlWh5kg


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@ancarandang @mattmahermusic Wait. @ancarandang, I thought listening to that kind of music WAS your hobby... 🤣🤣


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Debating whether the concept of #eternity is used appropriately in @mattmahermusic songs with #catholic #theologian friends makes for a wild #saturdaynight. 🤦🏻‍♂️


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Saturday, February 22, 2020

RT @bridgetEMobrien: Everyone needs to go re/read Metz on how focusing on how “everyone is a sinner” has allowed Christians to minimize the deep harm done to victims of profound evil.


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Spiritual directors are not acting as psychologists, nor are they acting as confessors. The same issues of transference that psychologists are trained to face could easily come up in direction, though, and bad actors could easily manipulate them to their own ends. 3/3


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Real training in things like professional and pastoral boundaries, solid pastoral psychology, the tradition of direction across a number of charisms, and also what is and is not appropriate matter for spiritual direction should be of huge importance going forward. 2/3


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One of the other sad lessons of the Jean Vanier situation that we might need to learn as a Church is that we really need to have a conversation about who qualifies as a spiritual director, what training they have, and why. It seems too amorphous a title to me at this point. 1/3


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Thursday, February 20, 2020

@Sirtakeiteasy1 @brianbajzek That I get, it can be a slog, but I’d still put him on a friend list. (Good friendships, philosophical or otherwise, are often a worthwhile slog anyway)


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@Sirtakeiteasy1 Levinas as a frenemy... intriguing...


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Wednesday, February 19, 2020

@miatheocharis Hahaha what is this week off you talk about? It gets worse when you get to comps phase!


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Tuesday, February 18, 2020

RT @house_of_bread1: The Unitarian church near my parents changed their sign out front from a Simone Weil quote to “tweet others as you would like to be tweeted.” I have tweeted them and now would like to be retweeted plz n thx. https://t.co/zUSuXoMCtH


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@KenHomanSJ Felt the same when I got a rejection from a place where the prof I wanted to work with had told me my acceptance would be a slam dunk. It worked out for the best in the end though, that’s hard to trust in sometimes, but we know it to be true. Prayers bro!


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RT @TheJesuits: In California, art is often social commentary on the environment that invites us to look, laugh, & think. On the campus of @LoyolaMarymount is a piece of "rideable" artwork made of plastic collected from the ocean. Fr. General was asked to "ride a plastic wave" & he obliged! https://t.co/LF7Vw67yZx


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Monday, February 17, 2020

He’s not wrong. I disagree with him on a lot of things, but Bernie is sure right on this, and Catholic teaching would agree. https://t.co/WG48BA3J6H


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@catholickungfu I think Guardini is right when he says in “Power and Reponsibility” that “we still run across medieval currents in many places” those traces of the former age is what the current one builds on, and reacts to. So of course the medieval is there.


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Sunday, February 16, 2020

RT @RozierSJ: Many are rightly pushing back on Dawkins' tweet about #eugenics. But why is there so little pushback on the selective termination of pregnancies based on genetic testing? There's a silent acceptance of a eugenic movement that's eliminating people with certain disabilities.


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@padresj I love that camera.


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When the #Cardinal in #Ghostbusters says that the #CatholicChurch has no position on these matters, the movies got it wrong. #Pope Gregory the great clearly believed in #Ghosts, as did #Saint Bernadette. #CatholicTwitter


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Saturday, February 15, 2020

@bridgetEMobrien You’re not wrong!


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@bridgetEMobrien If Balthasar and Ayn Rand had a cat together?


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From my friend @antoniospadaro, @Pontifex is right, helping children see themselves as a source of hope for the world could just change everything. https://t.co/FtGY9yJokR


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Friday, February 14, 2020

That moment when you realize that the strange spot on your leg that’s been a little sensitive for months actually comes from where your leg hits the stool leg where you sit to do your #PhD comps reading at one of your favorite #coffee shops. #phdlife #AcademicTwitter https://t.co/j0ntUHcemN


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@dcro_11 They’ve got his skull in a church in Rome... it’s wearing a flower crown usually


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@mcguirkt I think it’s more important in how we deal with cultural/devotional appropriations of the universal faith. If devotion x is helpful to you, great, if not, no worries. I find Fatima theologically problematic, for example, but I wouldn’t deny anyone’s right to believe it.


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As someone who is interested academically in Marian apparitions, I’m grateful that the same teaching by Benedict XIV that affirms that I can believe in them also says I can also chose not to believe in a given apparition. It’s an interesting model for how we work as a Church


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Wednesday, February 12, 2020

It’s #theological Christmas morning! Pray tell, dear separated friends, do you all get up early and on to #ProtestantTwitter to hash out the new Stanley Hauerwas books? Does a new #barth commentary cause such consternation? #AskingForAFriend https://t.co/Rgx4HEFsub


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I study at an ecumenical faculty of #theology & I really appreciate my conversations with my #Protestant colleagues. Days like today, where I’m excited as a budding #Catholic #theologian to get up at 6 for the release of #QueridaAmazonia make me wonder if they have an equivalent. https://t.co/Ae6muvX5Nd


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@austeni I think the need for a binary narrative here, either yes or no, is problematic. @jesuitczerny’s comment at the presser clearly points to a more in depth discernment process, undertaken by the whole Church, before moving on it.


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@austeni The whole “Francis rejects married priests” headline is also wildly inaccurate.


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I study at an ecumenical faculty of #theology & I really appreciate my conversations with my #Protestant colleagues. Days like today, where I’m excited as a budding #Catholic theologian to get up at 6 for a release of a Vatican document make me wonder if they have an equivalent.


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RT @LonerganRegis: Get in the real spirit of Valentine’s Day and come learn about intra-Trinitarian love in Fr. Michael Eades new book with us on Friday at 2pm in classroom C at @RegisCollege! https://t.co/vKWIKN1MSX


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It’s hard to read the reductivism that is out there in the press around the issue of viri probati, or hear that people think that Francis punted, when what is there is more important than what isn’t. 4/4


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He also makes reference to Thomas, and is clearly grounded in the collective wisdom of the bishops of Latin America. All that and it reads like a poetic love letter to a church under siege by the advancement of #ecological and #cultural hegemony. 3/4


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Gera, Guardini, John Paul II are all obviously present in his teaching. He grounds his calls to #inculturation in a rich tradition going back to the first encounters of Europeans with the #Amazon (even back to Paul III in the 16th century) 2/4


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One of my immediate takeaways from the beautiful text of #QueridaAmazonia is that it really speaks to the theological depth of #PopeFrancis and the ways he is able to provide a brilliant synthesis of it in accessible language. 1/4


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The culture section of #QueridaAmazonia unsurprisingly reads a lot like a pastoral application of Romano Guardini’s “End of the Modern World,” in its rich critique of post-modern approaches to cultures. #Catholic #theology


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@catholickungfu Mysterium Paschale is all about it.


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@catholickungfu Ooo have you read his things on blood? That’s the truly goth stuff


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Tuesday, February 11, 2020

@austeni @antoniospadaro @MassimoFaggioli Balthasar knew....


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@SteveSkojec Easily. The nose in the tent argument can be made about these things as far back Laetentur Caeli in 1439. You’re just picking on Francis because you don’t like him, not because you have a real argument. That said, I don’t expect another pastoral exception is coming. Night!


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@SteveSkojec “ A study may be allowed... of the possibility of admitting to priestly functions those who desire to adhere to the fullness of this communion and to continue to exercise the sacred ministry.” https://t.co/iGfRG7nezy


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@SteveSkojec “In the case of married ministers, the norms established in the Encyclical Letter of Pope Paul VI Sacerdotalis coelibatus, n. 42[15] and in the Statement In June[16] are to be observed. “ https://t.co/AQLU1ZEvmj


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Monday, February 10, 2020

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Thursday, February 06, 2020

@arturoviaggia I’ll take dangerous integralism for 100 Alex....


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@catholickungfu I also did not see that you were working on this before I tweeted the Maximus thing at you. 🤣🤣


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@house_of_bread1 @catholickungfu I think some of his ideas in his work on theology after Auschwitz are really helpful too in this regard.


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@catholickungfu Brian Daley’s into to the most recent translation is also full of very helpful contextual clues.


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@catholickungfu Agreed, and I appreciate that Metz made some of those strains in his thought more explicit too. I think his interview with Scola really makes some of that clear as well.


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I’m impressed by the way that Balthasar wrote a text on Maximus that is so strongly anti-integralist in 1941... he was basically theologically subtweeting the Nazis. It’s a good lesson for the Catholic intergralists of Twitter. What do you think @catholickungfu?


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@austinbutler44 Congrats Austin!


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Wednesday, February 05, 2020

RT @franrogerstenor: So @RedSox, when does “No, No, Nanette” open? #MookieBetts @mookiebetts


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@dcro_11 Its a long climb Declan!


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@dcro_11 🤣🤣🤣


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Tuesday, February 04, 2020

Hello new followers! I tweeted something which should be common sense yesterday, and I’m grateful that you followed this account as a result of that. Hooray for common sense and common decency. Let’s get about healing this 1 billion person multi-cultural Catholic Church. https://t.co/KGAR7rJrqi


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@margaretfelice I love this, and can totally see you doing that.


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@house_of_bread1 I have thoughts and questions. 🤔


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@HappyGi80146177 @Prof_RBW Agreed!


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@GregorisFr Think about how you characterized and entire culture, and repent.


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Monday, February 03, 2020

@GregorisFr I don’t know about the content of your character, but your comments were most definitely sinfully racist.


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If you’re a Catholic, you don’t get to hide your racism or xenophobia behind the pretense of morality. That’s the tweet.


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@GregorisFr That’s horribly and obviously racist.


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Ahh Baseball. https://t.co/4T0JMFwQDl


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Sunday, February 02, 2020

Wearing a flannel shirt to throw axes is like wearing the T-shirt of the band you’re seeing live in concert. (And yes, I was that guy)


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Saturday, February 01, 2020