Tuesday, June 30, 2020

@FrNajim As for those battles, it is more the situation of Alexander the Great whom, to borrow a line from Washington Irving, “who wept, as well indeed he might, because there were no more worlds to conquer”

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As for those battles, it is more the situation of Alexander the Great whom, to borrow a line from Washington Irving, “who wept, as well ind...

@Pamela_Yap Maybe Robert Bellarmine is the guy for the job!

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Maybe Robert Bellarmine is the guy for the job! — Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) June 30, 2020 from Twitter https://twitter.com/mrogers...

@Pamela_Yap Pray that the Holy Spirit guides my writing! The quicker I get this done, the quicker I’ll be back!

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Pray that the Holy Spirit guides my writing! The quicker I get this done, the quicker I’ll be back! — Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) June...

@franciswthwolvs Thanks so much! It’s really a matter of getting the work done that’ll help me continue to have that voice in a way that’ll be even more helpful.

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Thanks so much! It’s really a matter of getting the work done that’ll help me continue to have that voice in a way that’ll be even more hel...

@Pamela_Yap Thanks! It’s really just a time management thing. I’m so close to the finish line with my dissertation that I just want to sprint across, so I’m shutting down things like social media which might slow me up.

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Thanks! It’s really just a time management thing. I’m so close to the finish line with my dissertation that I just want to sprint across, s...

I’ll be locking this account and logging off for a good while tomorrow morning. While I enjoy the exchange of ideas on here, it’s too often a time waster for me and, being focused on finishing my PhD a year early, shuttling down here is an easy thing to accomplish that goal.

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I’ll be locking this account and logging off for a good while tomorrow morning. While I enjoy the exchange of ideas on here, it’s too often...

Hey everyone, thanks for following me! Having handed in what will hopefully be the final draft of my thesis proposal yesterday, and looking toward moving to writing my dissertation, I’ve decided that I’m going to take a break from Twitter for a good long while.

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Hey everyone, thanks for following me! Having handed in what will hopefully be the final draft of my thesis proposal yesterday, and looking...

@Sirtakeiteasy1 @mch4970 @AbbyJohnson It’s an excellent chain @Sirtakeiteasy1, and proves the point well.

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It’s an excellent chain @Sirtakeiteasy1 , and proves the point well. — Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) June 29, 2020 from Twitter https:...
Monday, June 29, 2020

The Church isn’t burning Abby & this isn’t liberation theology. It is an inculturated image of Christ just as much as the image of Christ in the Sistine Chapel, based on images of the Greek god Apollo, is. Jesus wasn’t white, if you’re not racist, I’m not sure why it’s a problem https://t.co/QrqOQ0Qoyu

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The Church isn’t burning Abby & this isn’t liberation theology. It is an inculturated image of Christ just as much as the image of Chri...

@AbbyJohnson The Church isn’t burning Abby & this isn’t liberation theology. It is an inculturated image of Christ just as much as the image of Christ in the Sistine Chapel, based on images of the Greek god Apollo, is. Jesus wasn’t white, not sure why that’s a problem for you. #BLM

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The Church isn’t burning Abby & this isn’t liberation theology. It is an inculturated image of Christ just as much as the image of Chri...

@crawlings13 Working on all of those things, poverty, racism, education, the environment, the death penalty is how we evangelize the culture and promote such a deep respect for the dignity of all human beings such that abortion will not only been illegal, it’ll be unthinkable.

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Working on all of those things, poverty, racism, education, the environment, the death penalty is how we evangelize the culture and promote...

@crawlings13 Also, pro-life isn’t just an abortion question for me. It’s that, but it’s issues of poverty, racism, criminal justice reform, environmental stability, you know, kingdom of God type stuff.

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Also, pro-life isn’t just an abortion question for me. It’s that, but it’s issues of poverty, racism, criminal justice reform, environmenta...

@crawlings13 Its a both/and. The framers couldn’t have imagined the industrial abortion complex we have today, but they left some guiding principles in the original text which easily could’ve guided the Court in a different direction in ‘73. That said, evangelizing a culture of life is key.

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Its a both/and. The framers couldn’t have imagined the industrial abortion complex we have today, but they left some guiding principles in ...

The #SupremeCourt really had a bad day with the consistent ethic of life. You’d think that a majority #Catholic court would understand that opposing #abortion and the #deathpenalty fall under the Constitution’s concern for general welfare? #ProLife (from womb to tomb)

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The #SupremeCourt really had a bad day with the consistent ethic of life. You’d think that a majority #Catholic court would understand th...

RT @melbataj: Maybe we can pitch masks to trads as a modesty aid?

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Maybe we can pitch masks to trads as a modesty aid? — Melba Toast 🍞 (@melbataj) June 28, 2020 from Twitter https://twitter.com/mrogerss...

@dcosacchi @Travelers They did this year too

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They did this year too — Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) June 28, 2020 from Twitter https://twitter.com/mrogerssj

Hey @Travelers, if someone lands a ball on the umbrella in the middle of the lake, is it in play? If so, is there a boat?

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Hey @Travelers , if someone lands a ball on the umbrella in the middle of the lake, is it in play? If so, is there a boat? — Michael Roger...
Sunday, June 28, 2020

When @icecube rightly dunks on the assumption that all images of #Jesus are inherently racist, (sorry @shaunking), backs #PopeFrancis, and tweets something relevant to your #academic work all at once. #itwasagoodday https://t.co/0agRj2ZMYW

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When @icecube rightly dunks on the assumption that all images of #Jesus are inherently racist, (sorry @shaunking ), backs #PopeFrancis , ...

@catholickungfu Welcome to the wonderful world of popular piety.

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Welcome to the wonderful world of popular piety. — Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) June 28, 2020 from Twitter https://twitter.com/mroger...

Anyone ever wonder if social media is just a turbo-booster for what Girard would call memetic rivalry and that’s why things are maybe a bit too heated in society today? Just me? Hmmm... #Catholic #theology

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Anyone ever wonder if social media is just a turbo-booster for what Girard would call memetic rivalry and that’s why things are maybe a bit...
Saturday, June 27, 2020

@Pamela_Yap Chapter 4 of my dissertation!

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Chapter 4 of my dissertation! — Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) June 27, 2020 from Twitter https://twitter.com/mrogerssj

I Decided to watch an episode of #FloorIsLavaNetflix as a break from writing about voodoo as Idolotry. Now I feel the need to do many box jumps. https://t.co/FIILSKroHJ

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I Decided to watch an episode of #FloorIsLavaNetflix as a break from writing about voodoo as Idolotry. Now I feel the need to do many box ...

RT @baguettelocale: Pope Benedict XVI as birds, a thread: https://t.co/ptlYtuSSJo

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Pope Benedict XVI as birds, a thread: pic.twitter.com/ptlYtuSSJo — local french woman (@baguettelocale) June 27, 2020 from Twitter https...

RT @ebruenig: the 4 y/o told me she dreamed about "a hundred eyes," but it was a happy dream and she loved all the eyes. hope she and the seraphim had a good chat

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the 4 y/o told me she dreamed about "a hundred eyes," but it was a happy dream and she loved all the eyes. hope she and the serap...
Friday, June 26, 2020

@Pamela_Yap Hahaha... so not better, just tactically different.

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Hahaha... so not better, just tactically different. — Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) June 26, 2020 from Twitter https://twitter.com/mro...

@Pamela_Yap Well, I’d also like to make sure that they don’t know who reported them so that I can report them again if they keep doing it and get them suspended or removed.

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Well, I’d also like to make sure that they don’t know who reported them so that I can report them again if they keep doing it and get them ...

@JakeMGrumbach Haha I get similar lines on the theological tilt from certain anti-intellectual elements all the time.

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Haha I get similar lines on the theological tilt from certain anti-intellectual elements all the time. — Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) J...

@loughnane_kevin @netflix I’ve heard that. My parents have YouTube TV, perhaps I’ll give it a watch while I’m visiting. Thanks for the recommendation!

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I’ve heard that. My parents have YouTube TV, perhaps I’ll give it a watch while I’m visiting. Thanks for the recommendation! — Michael Rog...

Me vs. my dissertation proposal when all of the Karate Kid movies are about to come to @netflix https://t.co/eE6J682BBQ

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Me vs. my dissertation proposal when all of the Karate Kid movies are about to come to @netflix pic.twitter.com/eE6J682BBQ — Michael Roge...

It’s as if I wasn’t clear enough a couple of weeks back. If you engage in hateful speech, especially while claiming to be more #Catholic than the pope, I’m going to report you, pretty plain and simple. #CatholicTwitter, if we’re going to have such a thing, needs to be better. https://t.co/MvcN5q6spp

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It’s as if I wasn’t clear enough a couple of weeks back. If you engage in hateful speech, especially while claiming to be more #Catholic t...

@padresj I’d be asking the question of who assigned stalls and why that particular one was assigned to the only African American driver.

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I’d be asking the question of who assigned stalls and why that particular one was assigned to the only African American driver. — Michael ...
Thursday, June 25, 2020

Want to learn how to really insult your #theological interlocutor? Try using some St. Jerome: “he plays the philosopher over his cups, and soothes himself with the sweet strains of psalmody, while he smacks his lips over his cheese-cakes” (oh and he compares the guy to monsters.)

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Want to learn how to really insult your #theological interlocutor? Try using some St. Jerome: “he plays the philosopher over his cups, and...

@inesanma @Revista_VN They’re not wrong, all too often the question of women’s ordination revolves around the question of power, which is a complete misunderstanding of the nature of a priesthood tied to the Kenotic mystery of Jesus Christ in the first place.

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They’re not wrong, all too often the question of women’s ordination revolves around the question of power, which is a complete misunderstan...

Their eminences have a good point. We need to remember that #Catholic #priesthood is about service, not power, and live that well as a #Church first. I really think that it’s only then that conversations about whom we ordain could ever really be fruitful. https://t.co/OgX7jP9I7O

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Their eminences have a good point. We need to remember that #Catholic #priesthood is about service, not power, and live that well as a #C...

For the record, I 100% hold with the prophetic voice of the laity. Those just seem to be logically incoherent positions to hold.

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For the record, I 100% hold with the prophetic voice of the laity. Those just seem to be logically incoherent positions to hold. — Michael...

It cracks me up when certain spheres of #Catholic Twitter make claims for their authority to speak theologically against VCII & against the hierarchy because of principle that the laity have a prophetic voice, which is an important VC II concept. The logical incoherence stupefies

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It cracks me up when certain spheres of #Catholic Twitter make claims for their authority to speak theologically against VCII & agains...

@mfjlewis Oh the irony!

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Oh the irony! — Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) June 25, 2020 from Twitter https://twitter.com/mrogerssj

@timothypomalley Just, as John XXIII noted, “superior of the Holy Spirt” sounds more powerful than “Vicar of Christ”

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Just, as John XXIII noted, “superior of the Holy Spirt” sounds more powerful than “Vicar of Christ” — Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) June...

Emerson once wrote that every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn. Here’s to the beautiful promise that a sunset like this assures is of. @ Weekapaug Breachway https://t.co/QvGzIoQGxC

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Emerson once wrote that every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn. Here’s to the beautiful promise that a sunset like this assures is o...
Wednesday, June 24, 2020

Rilke once wrote: “I have often wondered whether especially those days when we are forced to remain idle are not precisely the days spend in the most profound activity. Whether our actions themselves, even if they do… https://t.co/f7ssU3nIEX

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Rilke once wrote: “I have often wondered whether especially those days when we are forced to remain idle are not precisely the days spend i...