It’s always a good day to beat bucknell
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) February 29, 2020
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It’s always a good day to beat bucknell
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) February 29, 2020
NEIL DIAMOND: touching hands
— actioncookbook (@actioncookbook) February 28, 2020
CDC: no don’t touch hands
NEIL DIAMOND: reaching out
CDC: please avoid that
NEIL DIAMOND: TOUCHING YOU-
CDC: everyone is Boston is doomed
So do you hold to John 6:53 as the revealed word of God?
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) February 29, 2020
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!
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) February 29, 2020
Me neither! Someplace in Texas, maybe, Chicago no!
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) February 28, 2020
Haha the archdiocese of Chicago ruled no on impossible burgers... 🤦🏻♂️
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) February 28, 2020
TGSA* presents a Journal Publishing Workshop, March 11, 3:00 pm at #TST in the Seminar Room. Details below....
— TorontoSchTheology (@TorSchTheology) February 28, 2020
*Theology Graduate Students' Association pic.twitter.com/mIaDTt0bme
them, not Catholic: Catholics are so stuck on strictly following some made up rules, what a sad and terribly rigid existence
— Tommy Tighe (@theghissilent) February 28, 2020
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
Finally the one day of the year I don’t get weird looks for the thumbprint tattoo on my forehead
— Stephen Ferguson (@Sirtakeiteasy1) February 26, 2020
All souls. Easily 4th
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) February 26, 2020
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
— Father Edward Beck (@FrEdwardBeck) February 25, 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: pic.twitter.com/wmH1Y6cwuf
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) February 24, 2020
Catholic feminism is Mary portrayed beating the devil with a hammer pic.twitter.com/MWWC4MXgSt
— 𝖛𝖎𝖘𝖎𝖌𝖔𝖙𝖍 𝖌𝖋 (@NoSinGang) February 23, 2020
Canonization is a matter of certainty that someone is in heaven, not a judgment that others are not.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) February 24, 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
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) February 23, 2020
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.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) February 23, 2020
Also, I don’t get why it’s shady. I like Matt Maher’s music. 🤷🏻♂️
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) February 23, 2020
Wait. @ancarandang, I thought listening to that kind of music WAS your hobby... 🤣🤣
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) February 23, 2020
Debating whether the concept of #eternity is used appropriately in @mattmahermusic songs with #catholic #theologian friends makes for a wild #saturdaynight. 🤦🏻♂️
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) February 23, 2020
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.
— Bridget O’Brien (@bridgetEMobrien) February 22, 2020
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
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) February 22, 2020
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
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) February 22, 2020
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
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) February 22, 2020
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)
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) February 20, 2020
Levinas as a frenemy... intriguing...
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) February 20, 2020
Hahaha what is this week off you talk about? It gets worse when you get to comps phase!
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) February 19, 2020
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. pic.twitter.com/zUSuXoMCtH
— In One Swell Foop (@house_of_bread1) February 18, 2020
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!
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) February 18, 2020
In California, art is often social commentary on the environment that invites us to look, laugh, & think.
— Society of Jesus (@TheJesuits) February 17, 2020
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! pic.twitter.com/LF7Vw67yZx
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
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) February 17, 2020
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.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) February 17, 2020
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.
— Michael Rozier (@RozierSJ) February 16, 2020
I love that camera.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) February 16, 2020
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
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) February 15, 2020
You’re not wrong!
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) February 15, 2020
If Balthasar and Ayn Rand had a cat together?
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) February 15, 2020
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
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) February 15, 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 pic.twitter.com/j0ntUHcemN
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) February 14, 2020
They’ve got his skull in a church in Rome... it’s wearing a flower crown usually
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) February 14, 2020
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.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) February 14, 2020
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
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) February 14, 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 pic.twitter.com/Rgx4HEFsub
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) February 12, 2020
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. pic.twitter.com/Ae6muvX5Nd
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) February 12, 2020
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.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) February 12, 2020
The whole “Francis rejects married priests” headline is also wildly inaccurate.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) February 12, 2020
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.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) February 12, 2020
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! pic.twitter.com/vKWIKN1MSX
— Lonergan Research Institute at Regis College (@LonerganRegis) February 12, 2020
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
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) February 12, 2020
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
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) February 12, 2020
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
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) February 12, 2020
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
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) February 12, 2020
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
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) February 12, 2020
Mysterium Paschale is all about it.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) February 12, 2020
Ooo have you read his things on blood? That’s the truly goth stuff
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) February 12, 2020
Balthasar knew....
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) February 11, 2020
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!
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) February 11, 2020
“ 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.” pic.twitter.com/iGfRG7nezy
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) February 11, 2020
“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. “ pic.twitter.com/AQLU1ZEvmj
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) February 11, 2020
When people anticipating the release of the exhortation #QueridaAmazonia say that #ordaining #Catholic viri probati would basically mean that #PopeFrancis is cancelling #celibacy as of this Wednesday. pic.twitter.com/LJArezQ4iE
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) February 10, 2020
That feeling when you realize that you’re much farther along on your #PhD comprehensive exams reading than you thought you were. #phdlife #AcademicTwitter pic.twitter.com/x3kSs3ugEg
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) February 10, 2020
And away we go. https://t.co/I9TmARqVUw pic.twitter.com/JGwiQ5iZOQ
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) February 7, 2020
Chris Sale throwing a baseball. So that’s good. pic.twitter.com/rv58B11iXP
— Pete Abraham (@PeteAbe) February 7, 2020
I’ll take dangerous integralism for 100 Alex....
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) February 6, 2020
I also did not see that you were working on this before I tweeted the Maximus thing at you. 🤣🤣
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) February 6, 2020
I think some of his ideas in his work on theology after Auschwitz are really helpful too in this regard.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) February 6, 2020
Brian Daley’s into to the most recent translation is also full of very helpful contextual clues.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) February 6, 2020
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.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) February 6, 2020
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?
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) February 6, 2020
Congrats Austin!
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) February 6, 2020
So @RedSox, when does “No, No, Nanette” open?
— Fran Rogers (@franrogerstenor) February 5, 2020
#MookieBetts @mookiebetts
Its a long climb Declan!
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) February 5, 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. pic.twitter.com/KGAR7rJrqi
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) February 4, 2020
I love this, and can totally see you doing that.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) February 4, 2020
I have thoughts and questions. 🤔
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) February 4, 2020
Agreed!
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) February 4, 2020
Think about how you characterized and entire culture, and repent.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) February 3, 2020
I don’t know about the content of your character, but your comments were most definitely sinfully racist.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) February 3, 2020
If you’re a Catholic, you don’t get to hide your racism or xenophobia behind the pretense of morality. That’s the tweet.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) February 3, 2020
That’s horribly and obviously racist.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) February 3, 2020
Ahh Baseball. https://t.co/4T0JMFwQDl
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) February 3, 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)
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) February 2, 2020