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”
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) June 30, 2020
Maybe Robert Bellarmine is the guy for the job!
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) June 30, 2020
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 30, 2020
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.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) June 30, 2020
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.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) June 30, 2020
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.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) June 30, 2020
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.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) June 30, 2020
It’s an excellent chain @Sirtakeiteasy1, and proves the point well.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) 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
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) 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, not sure why that’s a problem for you. #BLM
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) June 29, 2020
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.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) June 29, 2020
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.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) June 29, 2020
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.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) June 29, 2020
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)
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) June 29, 2020
Maybe we can pitch masks to trads as a modesty aid?
— Melba Toast 🍞 (@melbataj) June 28, 2020
They did this year too
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) June 28, 2020
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 Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) 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
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) June 28, 2020
Welcome to the wonderful world of popular piety.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) June 28, 2020
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
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) June 28, 2020
Chapter 4 of my dissertation!
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) June 27, 2020
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. pic.twitter.com/FIILSKroHJ
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) June 27, 2020
Pope Benedict XVI as birds, a thread: pic.twitter.com/ptlYtuSSJo
— local french woman (@baguettelocale) June 27, 2020
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
— Elizabeth Bruenig (@ebruenig) June 27, 2020
Hahaha... so not better, just tactically different.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) June 26, 2020
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.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) June 26, 2020
Haha I get similar lines on the theological tilt from certain anti-intellectual elements all the time.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) June 26, 2020
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 Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) June 26, 2020
Me vs. my dissertation proposal when all of the Karate Kid movies are about to come to @netflix pic.twitter.com/eE6J682BBQ
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) June 26, 2020
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. pic.twitter.com/MvcN5q6spp
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) June 26, 2020
I’d be asking the question of who assigned stalls and why that particular one was assigned to the only African American driver.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) 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.)
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) June 25, 2020
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.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) June 25, 2020
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
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) June 25, 2020
For the record, I 100% hold with the prophetic voice of the laity. Those just seem to be logically incoherent positions to hold.
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) June 25, 2020
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
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) June 25, 2020
Oh the irony!
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) June 25, 2020
Just, as John XXIII noted, “superior of the Holy Spirt” sounds more powerful than “Vicar of Christ”
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) June 25, 2020
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
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) June 25, 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
— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) June 23, 2020
