Tuesday, March 31, 2020

@jdflynn 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.


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@jdflynn Yeah, but you seem to be proclaiming integralism, which is also problematic.


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Monday, March 30, 2020

@arturoviaggia 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. 🤣


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@Pamela_Yap Hahaha sounds about right. 🤣🤣


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@arturoviaggia 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!


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@arturoviaggia 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.


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Some of the foundational writings of the #Catholic worker movement might not hurt this reconsideration of urban life either.


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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.


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@ancarandang @house_of_bread1 @BeforeVirtue @miatheocharis @jefflindholm22 @RegisCollege @soitgoes910 @dlugo_sj https://t.co/nX3aHLN5GO


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@Sirtakeiteasy1 @thedialogist @brianbajzek @Alpha_Sigma_Nu @StepIntoTheNoon @BrassAndLight https://t.co/ikxb06QNul


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@house_of_bread1 @BeforeVirtue @miatheocharis @jefflindholm22 @ancarandang @RegisCollege See if he intercedes for you on that Balthasar paper now! https://t.co/UdNEpaepqp


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@house_of_bread1 @BeforeVirtue @miatheocharis @jefflindholm22 @ancarandang @RegisCollege No Ignatius? https://t.co/Ca8uYUtdvY


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@house_of_bread1 @pjarzembowski @Sirtakeiteasy1 @JamesMartinSJ @austeni @inesanma https://t.co/Z0zSQkLEnc


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@pjarzembowski https://t.co/tNQgDN4A8N


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@pjarzembowski These are the gifs you are looking for. https://t.co/ke6iRHTzjC


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@pjarzembowski @house_of_bread1 @Sirtakeiteasy1 @JamesMartinSJ @austeni @inesanma https://t.co/j6Rinmptjq


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My 5 most influential saints: 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


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Sunday, March 29, 2020

RT @MikeOLoughlin: 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


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RT @SamWangPhD: 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. 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


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@jdflynn 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.


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RT @lapittenger: (18 months from now) ME (weeping): it's so beautiful CASHIER: ma'am this is a Wendy's ME (weeping harder): I KNOW


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Saturday, March 28, 2020

@catholickungfu 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.


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gotta love cranky Balthasar "The gospel of tolerance is preached with intolerance, the gospel of pluralism with a... https://t.co/gUZZQNpi37


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@arturoviaggia Exactly as Bernini intended it!


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@bridgetEMobrien Agreed


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Friday, March 27, 2020

RT @spoggioli1: Drama, mystery, monumentality - no one can compete with 2000 years of this kind of mastery https://t.co/VMq6KPLapw


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#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. https://t.co/o2GCC3AQQw


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RT @FrSteveGrunow: I believe I have witnessed the defining moment of the Holy Father’s papacy. All else is a distraction.


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@GatorSchreiner And he walked much farther than he normally would and up a steep grade.


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@GatorSchreiner He has been since Day 1, he has bad sciatica.


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The red and blue rays of light in the monstrance are meant to signify the mercy of #Christ covering over divine judgements


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It looks like #PopeFrancis is using the divine #mercy monstrance that began with #JPII, a fitting sign for the time of #COVID19.


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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.


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“We’re all in this boat with Jesus.” @Pontifex


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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....


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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.


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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


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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. https://t.co/FEqIAgW7F2


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Heading to the grocery store to shop for the #jesuit community during #COVID19... https://t.co/lU3DHBj6jI


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Thursday, March 26, 2020

@RegisCollege Second year! Thanks @RegisCollege!


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Wednesday, March 25, 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)


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RT @CatholicSat: 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" https://t.co/RxuuFvLNdM


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RT @gerryorome: 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 https://t.co/MYuugkb2g8


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RT @lourdes_france: 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 ». https://t.co/YykUzobFj6


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RT @jesuitczerny: 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


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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


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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


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RT @austeni: 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


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RT @blackwhiteissue: Social distancing rules prove that your right to bodily autonomy can be regulated if your actions risk harming others.


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@catholickungfu Feelings... passibility... I see what you did there. https://t.co/8YNGRzWZAU


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Tuesday, March 24, 2020

RT @saltandlighttv: Michael Rogers, SJ helps us understand Marian devotions in the Catholic Church in a NEW "Talking With Francky." Listen, and nourish your faith at home! (Also available on Apple Podcasts, Google Play Music, or Spotify) @RegisCollege @TheJesuits @mrogerssj https://t.co/9fOBs5y4Pw


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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


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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


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Monday, March 23, 2020

This is a great idea, and the sort of thing that @pontifex is actually really good at! https://t.co/2DDMd6wZip


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@eramirezsj Umm you work in a high school, tell me how you’re not a ring master?


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@NiallLeahy @Bernard51605024 @Elias @Carloscem71 @alexand22212015 @ClarenceSexton @jackoozell Seriously, if the Illuminati are recruiting @NiallLeahy on Twitter, their stock has fallen pretty low I’d say. 🤣🤣


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@NiallLeahy @Bernard51605024 @Elias @Carloscem71 @alexand22212015 @ClarenceSexton @jackoozell Hahaha I just see a bunch of old guys in silly bibs...


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Sunday, March 22, 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


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@mcguirkt 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.


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@Ballwaychem Great point!


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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?


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@EdwardPentin @ATschugguel @CorrispondenzaR @NCRegister .@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.


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#Catholic #LaetareSunday vibes in a time on #COVIDー19 #QuaratineLife https://t.co/QePnP9tprY


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RT @KatiePrejean: Be obedient to your bishop, you loons.


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Saturday, March 21, 2020

RT @jesuitczerny: 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!


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@pjarzembowski That’s a good one... I suspect sadly that I will look something like this: https://t.co/tlAcsNpyCb


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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? https://t.co/13hPYtR98T


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Day 4 of social distancing here in Toronto feels a little familiar.... https://t.co/LtZMcG4Mb6


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Friday, March 20, 2020

RT @hiillddaah: 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


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@TheReal_CoachK Happy Birthday Joe!


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RT @BishopSeitz: https://t.co/o2AWE4LBiZ


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Thursday, March 19, 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


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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. https://t.co/UISVVwApjj


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@theghissilent Canon 961 section 1 paragraph 2 might give a bishop cover to allow general absolution during this time.


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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


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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


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@theghissilent I’m not a canonist, but it seems a fair question.


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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 https://t.co/lbdOp5FGgN


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.@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.


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@SPooley94 🤦🏻‍♂️ 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!


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Tuesday, March 17, 2020

@TomBrady You are literally saying that you will not be a Patriot forever. Pick a lane Tom


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When @TomBrady decides to not come back to the #NewEngland #Patriots in the middle of a #COVID19 outbreak https://t.co/y6OtMupb95


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Hope is a very good thing: Coronavirus: First human trial for vaccine underway in the US #Coronavirus https://t.co/GcG37OdrYA


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Let’s pray it’ll be so for most of us! https://t.co/llktPfpH1T


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Monday, March 16, 2020

@brianfraga 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


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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 https://t.co/t4B0YMkqyJ


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"In granting a carnivalesque profusion of dissonant voices, postmodern "tolerance" can be just as insidious and r... https://t.co/tuzykFM0bZ


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@miatheocharis https://t.co/rngnaHrJzL


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Sunday, March 15, 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.


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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.


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A poignant image in these times. A pastor blessing his people, wherever they are. https://t.co/T8i8yOAzF6


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@eramirezsj https://t.co/RLgLk9dRR9


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@house_of_bread1 I think we both know it’s a holistic problem.... 🤣🤣


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Ah the high levels of nonsense in #Toronto https://t.co/oqpJENBUtG


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Saturday, March 14, 2020

@catholickungfu https://t.co/qPhM9ko2do


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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


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@dnowaczewski2 @CruzAzulCD @ClubNecaxa_en 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 🤣)


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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? https://t.co/DpMKBMebYe


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Friday, March 13, 2020

@HaleyCarrots Please do!


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RT @house_of_bread1: 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. https://t.co/Zo6iBRjmQa


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How is it that Italy even finds ways to make even #COVID19 #quarantine more pleasant? https://t.co/m7MvwQ6iiT


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I need this in Toronto. https://t.co/3MNqStploA


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RT @UofT: 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


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@TexasMoran 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.


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@Pamela_Yap You’re not wrong... https://t.co/eK5hr5Wpkh


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@TexasMoran And my PhD work is ultimately about bringing the voices of people in those places to the Church.


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@TexasMoran I’ve actually put in time in missionary areas with a Eucharististic Famine in the developing world, thanks.


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RT @austeni: 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.


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@SteveMissionary https://t.co/A9uZEnwSjV


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RT @CadaverFormosus: 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.


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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. https://t.co/AM4hMFGi9p


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Thursday, March 12, 2020

@mfjlewis You either have a right to the sacraments or you don’t.


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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.


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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


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@coachanniemac @HCrossWBB I thought you all would’ve had it this year. Prayers for you all!


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RT @jesuitczerny: 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


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Honored to be invited to be a part of the “Talking with Francky” podcast at @saltandlighttv to talk about Marian devotion today. https://t.co/BxpnPfMQeo


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@timothypomalley @ClarkeAtAmerica 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.


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@ClarkeAtAmerica @timothypomalley 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.


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@timothypomalley 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.


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@NiallLeahy @RegisCollege https://t.co/JjtYp9yeae


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@timothypomalley 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)


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Wednesday, March 11, 2020

@arturoviaggia 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.


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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.


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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.


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Tuesday, March 10, 2020

RT @theghissilent: Cardinal Dolan is my spirit animal https://t.co/qhxNiuXPmi


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Monday, March 09, 2020

@BobGlaser1 Thanks, me too. Oremus pro invicem!


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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. https://t.co/dfS5vxS8vE


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@catholickungfu Use Augustine in the confessions, that’ll make ‘me think.


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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


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@arturoviaggia I submitted to AAR last week.... and now we wait!


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Sunday, March 08, 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. https://t.co/VTQVo92rMo


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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 https://t.co/qcKnKWnRxG


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@catholicjill I know! I’m mercifully brief! Make your point and move on to the liturgy of the Eucharist. https://t.co/injfOBWWCt


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@house_of_bread1 @house_of_bread1 right now https://t.co/BAT77F8kRq


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Came in just under 10. Deo Gratias.


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Saturday, March 07, 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....


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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. https://t.co/QkfjYvHTEV


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Friday, March 06, 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. https://t.co/GhooTX98cs


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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.


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@SteveMissionary @FatherBlazek Not necessarily, that desire for the desire can pretty quickly turn to the real deal. That’s the story many Saints.


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Thursday, March 05, 2020

@SteveMissionary 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.


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Wednesday, March 04, 2020

Tuesday, March 03, 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: https://t.co/8CcG634Std


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RT @inesanma: The pope was reportedly tested for #COVID19 and he doesn't have it. He has a regular, if strong, cold. https://t.co/nmp7VsQgX9


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Monday, March 02, 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: https://t.co/MzsKjRuacx


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@GuyBeaumont @DannyKeever @generator16 @FergusFSU @SammyMaudlin @shamshiadad1 @Boomingbox Then make an actual argument, statements aren’t arguments.


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@DannyKeever @GuyBeaumont @generator16 @FergusFSU @SammyMaudlin @shamshiadad1 @Boomingbox And yet, I see no argument supporting your assertion that St. Augustine was a heretic, unless you’re afraid to offer one.


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@GuyBeaumont @FergusFSU @DannyKeever @SammyMaudlin @shamshiadad1 @generator16 @Boomingbox Make an argument.


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@GuyBeaumont @brokenbose @BWSchank @JoshuaTCharles “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?


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Sunday, March 01, 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!” https://t.co/06hxfVWZ7D


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@GuyBeaumont @AnitaZereshki @justinstm16 @ATFurse @benjaminColom7 John 6


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@GuyBeaumont 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. https://t.co/NbUpzIEcQn


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RT @ThomasJTobin1: 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.


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@GuyBeaumont I’m waiting @GuyBeaumont, or is your literalism boxing you in a tough theological corner on this one? https://t.co/Q0zNjeRhLM


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