If it’s eschatologically bound, I appreciate that. The problem is when a certain integralism leaks in to the expectation, which it often can, or the pragmatism is is really a defeatism, which it often is. The answer lies between Scylla and Charybdis I suspect.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 31, 2020
Yeah, but you seem to be proclaiming integralism, which is also problematic.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 31, 2020
I know the name, my mom probably knows them. My family is Sposato, and the cousins who live in town are Gencarelli for the most part, though it’s Westerly so everyone is related somehow. 🤣
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 30, 2020
Hahaha sounds about right. 🤣🤣
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 30, 2020
My Mom’s family, the Calabrese side, is from there. My parents have a house there still and are planning on retiring there. That feast is always a highlight of the summer!
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 30, 2020
There’s so much attitude that could only come from two Italian-American governors being thrown back and forth that I feel like I’m back at the Mt Carmel procession in Westerly with people arguing over who gets to push the cart with the statue of Our Lady on it.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 30, 2020
Some of the foundational writings of the #Catholic worker movement might not hurt this reconsideration of urban life either.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 30, 2020
It occurs to me that #COVID19 has really revealed how 21st century urban life might not ultimately be sustainable in the way that we live it now. A thorough re-reading of Jane Jacobs, Johann Baptist Metz, & Saint Augustine might be needed for all Christian theologians after this.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 30, 2020
See if he intercedes for you on that Balthasar paper now! pic.twitter.com/UdNEpaepqp
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 30, 2020
No Ignatius? pic.twitter.com/Ca8uYUtdvY
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 30, 2020
These are the gifs you are looking for. pic.twitter.com/ke6iRHTzjC
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 30, 2020
My 5 most influential saints:
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 30, 2020
St. Ignatius of Loyola
St Augustine of Hippo
St. Thérèse of Lisieux
St. Bernadette Soubirous
St. John of Damascus
Thanks @pjarzembowski. I’m curious about what others say too like @house_of_bread1 @Sirtakeiteasy1 @JamesMartinSJ @austeni @inesanma https://t.co/3SN5Q08aRQ
If you livestreamed church this morning, consider an electronic donation. Most parishes operate week to week with Sunday collections, which aren't happening right now. At risk are staff jobs, ministries like food pantries, and more. https://t.co/QZnPEvjRsW
— Michael J. O'Loughlin (@MikeOLoughlin) March 29, 2020
Bookmark this. When the doubling time of deaths* gets above 3 days, we will have begun to get past the runaway period of the pandemic.
— Sam Wang (@SamWangPhD) March 21, 2020
Note the current doubling times for China (35 days) & South Korea (12 days).
*not cases, which can be underdiagnosed https://t.co/dkuWO4d0gC https://t.co/yXDCwsAMCi
It seems that it all comes down to the real #CatholicTwitter debate of the past 12 months. Either people have a right to the sacraments in their moment of need, or not. The sacramental principle is clear, the question is how to implement it.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 29, 2020
(18 months from now)
— mr. woodhouse was right (@lapittenger) March 28, 2020
ME (weeping): it's so beautiful
CASHIER: ma'am this is a Wendy's
ME (weeping harder): I KNOW
I think the question in Balthasar is always one of how he’s going to get to the person of Christ. Pretty much everything can be read through the subjectivity of the Son, as it is in the history.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 28, 2020
gotta love cranky Balthasar "The gospel of tolerance is preached with intolerance, the gospel of pluralism with a... https://t.co/gUZZQNpi37
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 28, 2020
Exactly as Bernini intended it!
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 27, 2020
Drama, mystery, monumentality - no one can compete with 2000 years of this kind of mastery pic.twitter.com/VMq6KPLapw
— Sylvia Poggioli (@spoggioli1) March 27, 2020
#PopeFrancis’s words were amazing, & his use of images was equally as profound, the veneration of the cross & the icon, the monstrance dedicated to divine mercy, the solitary walk up from the square, & the Church going out to bless a wounded world. pic.twitter.com/o2GCC3AQQw
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 27, 2020
I believe I have witnessed the defining moment of the Holy Father’s papacy. All else is a distraction.
— FrSteveGrunow (@FrSteveGrunow) March 27, 2020
And he walked much farther than he normally would and up a steep grade.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 27, 2020
He has been since Day 1, he has bad sciatica.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 27, 2020
The red and blue rays of light in the monstrance are meant to signify the mercy of #Christ covering over divine judgements
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 27, 2020
It looks like #PopeFrancis is using the divine #mercy monstrance that began with #JPII, a fitting sign for the time of #COVID19.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 27, 2020
The legend is that St Luke painted the icon #PopeFrancis is praying in front of from his memory of Mary. If it’s not true it should be.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 27, 2020
“We’re all in this boat with Jesus.” @Pontifex
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 27, 2020
The prayer from the Vatican begins with the #gospel of the calming of the storm at sea... “don’t be afraid” the lord tells us....
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 27, 2020
Wow. They brought out the Salus Popoli Romani and the Miraculous Cross. These are huge important icons in time of plague in the #CatholicChurch. #PopeFrancis is not messing around.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 27, 2020
Time to #pray with a world in need, to be blessed, and to have temporal punishment remitted... join @Pontifex Papa Francesco: Preghiera e Benedizione “Urbi et Orbi” - LIS https://t.co/ZHosilvJ9S via @YouTube
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 27, 2020
Just a quick note, be kind to your local #grocery store employees. They definitely didn’t sign up for this and are doing yeoman’s service for everyone during the #COVID19 outbreak. Say thank you, be courteous, and be understanding if they don’t have everything you want. pic.twitter.com/FEqIAgW7F2
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 27, 2020
Heading to the grocery store to shop for the #jesuit community during #COVID19... pic.twitter.com/lU3DHBj6jI
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 27, 2020
Second year! Thanks @RegisCollege!
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 26, 2020
I get highly suspicious of the Instagram pages of priests and religious that are almost entirely filled with selfies. 🤷🏻♂️ (a selfie here and there is fine... but come on people)
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 25, 2020
At Noon today, Pope Francis gathered with "all the Christians of the world, to pray together the Our Father, the prayer that Jesus taught us"; begging "mercy for mankind, so sorely tried by the coronavirus covid-19 pandemic" pic.twitter.com/RxuuFvLNdM
— Catholic Sat (@CatholicSat) March 25, 2020
Pope Francis praying the Our Father, with Christian leaders and Christians worldwide, at noon March 25, asking God to rid the world of the #coronavirus pandemic pic.twitter.com/MYuugkb2g8
— Gerard O'Connell (@gerryorome) March 25, 2020
Depuis Rome à l’occasion de la prière de l’Angelus, le cardinal Comastri, vicaire de Sa Sainteté pour l’Etat de la Cité du Vatican, fait le récit de la 16e apparition à #Lourdes de Marie à Bernadette. « Elle lui dit : Je suis l’Immaculée Conception ». pic.twitter.com/YykUzobFj6
— Sanctuaire de Lourdes (@lourdes_france) March 25, 2020
A truck smuggling migrants from Malawi, guessed to be Ethiopians, was stopped at the Mussacana weight bridge in Tete, Mozambique, and 64 people were found dead. Only 14 survived. Probably on their way to South Africa. O God, please help us to do better! @M_RSection @CentroAstalli
— M. Cardinal Czerny SJ (@jesuitczerny) March 24, 2020
Hey, remember when you cringed at the idea that #Vikings would use an ättestupa for the purposes of senicide? Both #euthanasia and prematurely lifting #COVID19 precautions for the purposes of the economy, as @realDonaldTrump suggests we should, are the same thing. Be #ProLife
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 25, 2020
Hey, remember when you cringed at the idea that #Vikings would use an ättestupa for the purposes of senicide? Both #euthanasia and prematurely lifting #COVID19 precautions for the purposes of the economy as @realDonaldTrump suggests is the same thing. Be really #ProLife
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 25, 2020
Faced with the cynical abandonment of the elderly by the libertarian fringe of the pro-life movement, a plea to restore the fullness of Church teaching. https://t.co/DN39lq0EQg
— Austen Ivereigh (@austeni) March 24, 2020
Social distancing rules prove that your right to bodily autonomy can be regulated if your actions risk harming others.
— Abortion. It's a Black and White issue. (@blackwhiteissue) March 23, 2020
Feelings... passibility... I see what you did there. pic.twitter.com/8YNGRzWZAU
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 24, 2020
Michael Rogers, SJ helps us understand Marian devotions in the Catholic Church in a NEW "Talking With Francky."
— Salt + Light Media (@saltandlighttv) March 24, 2020
Listen, and nourish your faith at home!
(Also available on Apple Podcasts, Google Play Music, or Spotify) @RegisCollege @TheJesuits @mrogerssj https://t.co/9fOBs5y4Pw
My good friend Francky and I had a conversation about the #theological foundations of #Marian devotion and apparitions in the #Catholic #Church for @saltandlighttv and you can listen to it here: https://t.co/q02ij37zM0
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 24, 2020
I did a podcast on the theological foundations of Marian Devotion in the #Catholic #church and Marian Apparitions with my good friend Francky for @saltandlighttv and you can listen here: https://t.co/VD80gwwVhL
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 24, 2020
This is a great idea, and the sort of thing that @pontifex is actually really good at! https://t.co/2DDMd6wZip
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 23, 2020
Umm you work in a high school, tell me how you’re not a ring master?
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 23, 2020
Seriously, if the Illuminati are recruiting @NiallLeahy on Twitter, their stock has fallen pretty low I’d say. 🤣🤣
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 23, 2020
Hahaha I just see a bunch of old guys in silly bibs...
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 23, 2020
“Throwing a graduation party? I will send the police with flamethrowers” “why is a hairdresser visiting your house? Who is going to see you?” Solid. GOLD. #ForzaItalia https://t.co/sdAuPjfVrT
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 22, 2020
We may need universal right to disconnect laws like they have in France already after this. There will be too much temptation to never leave the office.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 22, 2020
Great point!
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 22, 2020
Real question... will the new distance learning tools we’ve learned end the occurrence of snow days for schools as we know it? Should it?
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 22, 2020
.@EdwardPentin why are you acting as the personal publicist for a common vandal? We should all pray for everyone who is sick, but I thought you a better journalist than this.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 22, 2020
#Catholic #LaetareSunday vibes in a time on #COVIDー19 #QuaratineLife pic.twitter.com/QePnP9tprY
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 22, 2020
Be obedient to your bishop, you loons.
— Katie Prejean McGrady (@KatiePrejean) March 21, 2020
To stay at home = to protect oneself = to protect the others. This is not "distancing", this is social solidarity! We need to do it for public health, and we need similar solidarity to care for our common home. God help us!
— M. Cardinal Czerny SJ (@jesuitczerny) March 21, 2020
That’s a good one... I suspect sadly that I will look something like this: pic.twitter.com/tlAcsNpyCb
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 21, 2020
When you’re a theologian who forgot to get an overdue haircut before #SocialDistancing set in, you call it a “Journey of Growth” and start a blog reflecting on the nature of savage hair growth as an act of solidarity with John the Baptist, right? pic.twitter.com/13hPYtR98T
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 21, 2020
Day 4 of social distancing here in Toronto feels a little familiar.... pic.twitter.com/LtZMcG4Mb6
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 21, 2020
El Salvador has cancelled all rent, water, phone, internet, electricity bills for three months AND they’re building a hospital IN CASE of a major outbreak. MY third world country did THAT
— Hilda (@hiillddaah) March 19, 2020
Happy Birthday Joe!
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 20, 2020
Only a few hours to go. Let’s do this thing... also @inesanma Miami is an interesting choice for the city in that time zone. 🤣 https://t.co/zhwtPxavp8
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 19, 2020
Honestly, I really want the universal #rosary at 4pm eastern US, the feast of #StJoseph, to break the #coronavirus. I want it to save lives. It also might give answers a world that seeks them, but it’d at least sort some things in the #Church. @ponitfex we are with you. Oremus. pic.twitter.com/UISVVwApjj
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 19, 2020
Canon 961 section 1 paragraph 2 might give a bishop cover to allow general absolution during this time.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 19, 2020
Could be helpful, it sadly won’t be nearly as effective as it could be. Content is important, building an appropriate connection with young people through it consistently is important. These days are sadly bearing that lesson of pastoral effectiveness in the digital age out. 2/2
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 19, 2020
Social media managers in the #Catholic Church, consistency is pastorally important! I managed accounts for a pastoral initiative for 3 years which my boss left fairly fallow when I left. They lost a bunch of followers and didn’t gain many new ones. Now, when that channel 1/2
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 19, 2020
I’m not a canonist, but it seems a fair question.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 19, 2020
It’s sad to see a great one like @TomBrady make a choice for a mediocre franchise like the @Buccaneers when he could return to the @patriots, make some demands for the support he needs to win one more, and retire the guy who won more #superbowls than any franchise. #legacy pic.twitter.com/lbdOp5FGgN
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 19, 2020
.@TomBrady so. You could stay with the patriots, win a Super Bowl, and be a the guy who surpasses the Steelers on his own, or go to Tamp. TAMPA. Legacy is what you need now Tom. Not too late to change your mind, but it may be too late to learn a new system.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 19, 2020
🤦🏻♂️ be safe Scott! If you’re in Toronto and want to go for a walk in high park at a socially appropriate distance, let me know!
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 19, 2020
You are literally saying that you will not be a Patriot forever. Pick a lane Tom
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 17, 2020
When @TomBrady decides to not come back to the #NewEngland #Patriots in the middle of a #COVID19 outbreak pic.twitter.com/y6OtMupb95
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 17, 2020
Hope is a very good thing: Coronavirus: First human trial for vaccine underway in the US #Coronavirus https://t.co/GcG37OdrYA
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 17, 2020
Let’s pray it’ll be so for most of us! https://t.co/llktPfpH1T
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 17, 2020
My Jesuit community has a treadmill in the TV room which we’ve all complained takes up too much space and which no one uses... it might get a lot of use in the coming days
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 16, 2020
Most people are running to the store to hoard Toilet Paper and Hand Sanitizer during the #covid19 shutdowns. #PhD students run to the library to hoard books. #academia #phdlife pic.twitter.com/t4B0YMkqyJ
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 16, 2020
"In granting a carnivalesque profusion of dissonant voices, postmodern "tolerance" can be just as insidious and r... https://t.co/tuzykFM0bZ
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 16, 2020
Shut down the bars, sure, but let’s also ask questions about why many people feel the need to get out and what kinds of housing are affordable in this day and age and what role that plays in mental health.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 15, 2020
I appreciate the call to close the bars in New York, but I think we also need to pay attention to the fact that for many people who can only afford tiny overpriced apartments in big cities bars, coffe shops, etc function like living rooms and are important for mental health.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 15, 2020
A poignant image in these times. A pastor blessing his people, wherever they are. https://t.co/T8i8yOAzF6
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 15, 2020
I think we both know it’s a holistic problem.... 🤣🤣
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 15, 2020
Ah the high levels of nonsense in #Toronto https://t.co/oqpJENBUtG
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 15, 2020
Nativity School in Worcester does great work among the materially disadvantaged young men of Worcester. With the school closed for #coronavirus many of the students there could go hungry. Will You Support their Food Pantry During This Time of Need?: https://t.co/25d7xorMUf
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 14, 2020
Ok. I could get there... Sell me on this potential new found fanship in the team from Aguascalientes. (Other than that hot water kills the #COVID19 #virus 🤣)
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 14, 2020
Most American sports are off... but I’m hearing that Mexican Soccer is still on? Maybe it’s time to become a @CruzAzulCD fan? Which Mexican soccer team deserves my #COVIDー19 allegiance? pic.twitter.com/DpMKBMebYe
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 14, 2020
Please do!
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 13, 2020
I think our next step forward is drive-in mass: tune your radios, sit back and relax; the body of Christ will be brought to your car windows. pic.twitter.com/Zo6iBRjmQa
— In One Swell Foop (@house_of_bread1) March 13, 2020
How is it that Italy even finds ways to make even #COVID19 #quarantine more pleasant? https://t.co/m7MvwQ6iiT
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 13, 2020
I need this in Toronto. https://t.co/3MNqStploA
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 13, 2020
All in-person undergraduate and research-stream Masters and Doctoral courses at #UofT St. George, @UTSC and @UTM are cancelled as of March 16. More information here: https://t.co/PlZsKIVIQF
— University of Toronto (@UofT) March 13, 2020
I’m referring to the likes of those on here who just a month ago were ok with Eucharistic Famine in the Amazon but now seem to have a problem with it when it effects a group of largely white Europeans. Seems a lot like racism to me.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 13, 2020
You’re not wrong... pic.twitter.com/eK5hr5Wpkh
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 13, 2020
And my PhD work is ultimately about bringing the voices of people in those places to the Church.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 13, 2020
I’ve actually put in time in missionary areas with a Eucharististic Famine in the developing world, thanks.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 13, 2020
In his morning homily on the 7th anniversary of his election as pope, Francis reflected on how the gift of God to His chosen people is turned into a possession and a moralistic ideology by clericalism. His papacy has been a great effort to make known God as loving gift.
— Austen Ivereigh (@austeni) March 13, 2020
What’s the situation at Catholic Supply and the botanicas? Are we hoarding St. Roch votives? Are the 14 Holy Helpers out of stock? I’m not even kidding a little bit, I want to know.
— Elizabeth Harper (@CadaverFormosus) March 12, 2020
So let me get this straight. If you’re an American or European you have a right to the sacraments, even if it could be lethal to someone. If you’re a poor person in the Amazon, you don’t have that right if it would mean simply loosening a discipline. Not racist at all... sure. pic.twitter.com/AM4hMFGi9p
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 13, 2020
You either have a right to the sacraments or you don’t.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 12, 2020
Build the structures that we both need now and will need in the future to defend us against things like #COVID19. Want a legacy, #Trump? There it is. A #newdeal for bio-defense.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 12, 2020
So when FDR was faced with the depression and WWII he threw the full weight of the government at it, spent money, and brought us back. Dear @realDonaldTrump be FDR, throw the 40 billion in discretionary funds you have behind this, stimulate the economy, and 1/2
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 12, 2020
I thought you all would’ve had it this year. Prayers for you all!
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 12, 2020
All of us in Italy suffering from the immobility of "lock-down", let's pray for those on the Greek-Turkish border suffering the shut-out of despair. #Covid_19 #Solidarity #Pray
— M. Cardinal Czerny SJ (@jesuitczerny) March 12, 2020
Honored to be invited to be a part of the “Talking with Francky” podcast at @saltandlighttv to talk about Marian devotion today. pic.twitter.com/BxpnPfMQeo
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 12, 2020
You may well be right. The current reality may make people rethink the nature of higher education, the question then becomes one of what arguments can or even should be put forth for the current model, and what a new more online model might offer us.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 12, 2020
That’s fair, though most professors are also middle class and, in the case of adjuncts, below that. This likely would lead to a vast expansion of the work they would have to do to earn that middle class pay check, so i think it becomes a justice issue too.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 12, 2020
My suspicion is that they might lower admission standards and force a hybrid online/offline thing to try to drive enrollments. A two track system seems problematic prima facie to say the least.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 12, 2020
Or they save a ton of money by not having to pay the hourly staff and decide to go more online than not in order to stay afloat. (Thereby laying off said hourly workers)
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 11, 2020
Agreed! I’ve heard such rumblings even before this tough. If online courses work out for the end of this semester, it might be highly tempting. Especially so for struggling colleges that could cut a lot of hourly jobs, support staff, etc. if things were just online.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 11, 2020
I think that colleges closing and having online classes is good prudential judgement in a time of #coronavirus, but I worry about how having online classes en masse may make board of trustees driven by the bottom line think about #highereducation in the future.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 11, 2020
I think Ricoeur was basically right when he said that: “Human truth lies only in this process in which civilizations confront each other more and more with what is most living and creative in them.” this has always happened in popular piety in the #Catholic Church.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 11, 2020
Cardinal Dolan is my spirit animal pic.twitter.com/qhxNiuXPmi
— Tommy Tighe (@theghissilent) March 10, 2020
Thanks, me too. Oremus pro invicem!
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 9, 2020
What I’m really concerned about is whether we in the #Catholic #church have enough baptismal candles, garments, and chrism in 9 months to handle the post #COVID2019 #Quarantine #Baptism boom. pic.twitter.com/dfS5vxS8vE
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 9, 2020
Use Augustine in the confessions, that’ll make ‘me think.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 9, 2020
The more I do the research and reading for my dissertation and comprehensive exams, the more I’m convinced that one of our great #Catholic #theological problems is really just the ability of #racist Euro-supremacy to masquerade as #orthodoxy. #NoHate
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 9, 2020
I submitted to AAR last week.... and now we wait!
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 9, 2020
I gave a bunch of second graders a basic treatment of St Augustine’s psychological analogy for the Trinity this morning and they seemed to get it. Well done little ones well done. pic.twitter.com/VTQVo92rMo
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 8, 2020
Teaching a part of the First Communion class today at the parish in between masses... I can put that on my academic CV as a guest lecture right? #PhDlife pic.twitter.com/qcKnKWnRxG
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 8, 2020
I know! I’m mercifully brief! Make your point and move on to the liturgy of the Eucharist. pic.twitter.com/injfOBWWCt
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 8, 2020
@house_of_bread1 right now pic.twitter.com/BAT77F8kRq
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 8, 2020
Came in just under 10. Deo Gratias.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 8, 2020
Ok people of God, it is ok for a homily to be a smidge over 10 minutes if you’re absolutely sure it’s good? Asking for a friend....
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 7, 2020
If you’re foodora ordering Starbucks in a city like Toronto, where there are sometimes two on a block, you’re probably doing it wrong. pic.twitter.com/QkfjYvHTEV
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 7, 2020
When you’re listening to @985TheSportsHub to hear the latest on the #TomBrady debacle and the accents of people back home make “Agenda Free Friday” sound like “a gender free Friday.” Oh #NewEngland how I miss you. pic.twitter.com/GhooTX98cs
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 6, 2020
It seems important to remember these days that: “Our lives are involved with one another, through innumerable interactions they are linked together. No one lives alone. No one sins alone. No one is saved alone. “ ~Pope Benedict XVI Spes Salvi 48.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 6, 2020
Not necessarily, that desire for the desire can pretty quickly turn to the real deal. That’s the story many Saints.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 6, 2020
Meh that sadness sounds at least like the desire for the desire and, as St Ignatius has pointed out, many souls in heaven have gotten there because of it.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 5, 2020
Congratulations to new @Alpha_Sigma_Nu inductees @mrogerssj, Patricia Lao, RNDM, Yvonne Gray, and honourary inductee Academic Dean Susan K. Wood, SCL pic.twitter.com/1GQVbLIsTr
— Regis College (@RegisCollege) March 4, 2020
When you have to go to a page called “the Scotsman” to decode the use of the word “guddle” while reading for your comprehensive exams in Theology: pic.twitter.com/8CcG634Std
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 3, 2020
The pope was reportedly tested for #COVID19 and he doesn't have it. He has a regular, if strong, cold. https://t.co/nmp7VsQgX9
— Ines San Martin (@inesanma) March 3, 2020
When you submit proposals to present for BOTH the indigenous Religious Traditions Unit and the Roman Catholic Unit at the American Academy of Religion next year: pic.twitter.com/MzsKjRuacx
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 2, 2020
Then make an actual argument, statements aren’t arguments.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 2, 2020
And yet, I see no argument supporting your assertion that St. Augustine was a heretic, unless you’re afraid to offer one.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 2, 2020
Make an argument.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 2, 2020
“Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.” So you believe that right?
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 2, 2020
I love that, even though most of the time #CatholicTwitter likes to pick in house fights between #radtrads and the rest of us, an anti #Catholic #bigot like Guy Beaumont comes along and we all get it together for a second and say “oh hell no!” pic.twitter.com/06hxfVWZ7D
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 1, 2020
At this point I’m convinced that @GuyBeaumont realizes that his literalist reading means that in John 6 he has been hoisted with his own anti-Catholic petard, and therefore realizes he’s wrong, or is just afraid to pick a fight with someone above his theological weight class. pic.twitter.com/NbUpzIEcQn
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 1, 2020
The last few days I’ve had a bad cold and persistent cough. (Yes, it’s just a cold). But I’m staying home and have canceled my public schedule. I don’t want to share whatever I have with a church full of people. And neither should you. If you’re ill, please don’t go to Mass.
— Bishop Thomas Tobin (@ThomasJTobin1) February 29, 2020
I’m waiting @GuyBeaumont, or is your literalism boxing you in a tough theological corner on this one? pic.twitter.com/Q0zNjeRhLM
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) March 1, 2020
