Bernard Mulcahy OP
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Associate professor of theology, Pontifical College Josephinum. Grace, anthropology, mental illness in religious life, superstitions, and other fun things.
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Fr Mitch Pacwa SJ sports a camouflage clerical shirt while boar hunting
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Renew Catholic schools by giving them better names. I suggest using Eastern Marian titles. Who wouldn't love to send his kids to "Trauma of Demons Catholic Grammar School"?
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CCC 2478: To avoid rash judgment, everyone should be careful to interpret insofar as possible his neighbor's thoughts, words, and deeds in a favorable way....
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If you’re in Milan on the feast of a Milanese martyr and go to Mass in the Ambrosian Rite, you can see them light the “faro” (a sort of flammable piñata) on fire. No wonder Milan once had 4 or 5 full seminaries.
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Look at this beautiful Paschal candle my ordination classmate got for his parish, St. Rose (in Youngstown, Ohio)
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@DrFrancisYoung
Some British libraries digitized their old newspapers and discarded the originals only to discover that 1) digital storage media decayed faster than newsprint and 2) tech advances quickly made old digital records inaccessible (unless you had “old” machines to read the records).
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Mass for my father today. He was born on this day in 1922. He was a good, tough mix of faith, daring, and shady connections. With a gift for…narrative embellishment.
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As usual the 3 kings wander the seminary, not getting to the creche until Epiphany.
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SAINT Margaret of Castello. (We have a relic of her heart here, and have been praying for her canonization for ever. ) Patronness for the sanctify of human life?
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and a photocopy of her membership certificate from the Klan. I think of her whenever people insist they are both Catholic and in some group that’s incompatible with the Gospel.
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"White nationalists say the same thing you're saying!" OK. And if Hitler or Pol Pot or FDR told me my house was on fire, I'd check to see if it's on fire. Let's stick to trying to learn the truth, without thinking bad people can't have knowledge or insight.
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20 yrs ago I was working for the KofC Catholic Information Service, answering letters. A woman wrote to ask (1) whether black people were made from slime (!?), and (2) whether a Catholic could belong to the KKK (?!). So…
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I'm sad and ashamed to see that the new open letter accusing the Holy Father of heresy is signed by two Dominicans, one of them an eminent author. I don't see how Catholics, let alone Catholic theology professors, let alone religious, can square this.
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Expecting 85+ total seminarians this year, so we're moving steadily closer to optimal size. Woo hoo. (Photo is of our deacon class visiting Cardinal Pierre, the Apostolic Nuncio, last year. He's our Chancellor.)
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The desert fathers had the best man caves.
Don't let your eyes look here and there, and don't look on someone elses' beauty, so that the devil will not conquer you with the help of your eyes.
(St. Ephraim the Syrian)
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17 years ago today I was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop
@ThomasJTobin1
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@ThottonMather
So tempting to ask if she can recommend a good editor, auto mechanic, delivery service, brain surgeon, accountant, or caterer. You know, "good" meaning non-toxic: one who doesn't stress being organized or on time.
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Yes, re-establish Ember Days. Not only because it's searingly obvious that we need penance, but because it was foolish to abolish them in the first place. Put the Rogation days back, too, while we're at it. In fact, let's reconcile the FO & FE calendars too (favoring the older).
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This is lovely. The CNA needs a theological slap, though, for that first sentence. The Blessed Sacrament will move around by boat, yes; but the Lord Himself will not.
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What a nice touch. And they even wrote V instead of U, until Secretarius Status. Rest in Peace, Fr Reginald.
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@PiusOP
Very true. And needless to add, the laity should remain at a safe distance from the sanctuary, which needs a clear boundary marker...
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I teach a practicum for hearing Confessions to our deacons, who will become priests in June. If you go to Confession, what advice do you have for young priests?
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All glory, laud, and honor… Some Catholics pronounce that second noun as if it were “loud”, as in Laudate. But the word laud rhymes with Claude, clawed, and sawed, right? Tell me I haven’t been saying it wrong… Does this vary at all by country?
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Ready or not, it's Pentecost. Good thing God does not wait for us to be ready.
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@cwwhite212
@DavidPaternostr
You'll notice that orthodoxy is inversely related to teetotaling. Mormons? Never drink, crazy doctrines. Low church types? Little drink, little sound doctrine. Anglicans, Lutherans? Approaching RC. Catholic/Orthodox? In vino veritas!
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From Terrible Maps: the UK, per an Italian school textbook
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This is St Patrick's, the Dominican church here in Columbus, Ohio. Not a huge number of parishioners, maybe 1000, but lots and lots of daily confessions and people at weekday Masses (because it's conveniently downtown, where people work).
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Our motto here is “Si Deus pro nobis, quis contra nos”. It’s reported that in our early days, at some assembly, the rector asked for a translation of the motto. An eager lad offered “If God is for us, why is He against us?”
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I replied that Gen 2:7 says God made man from the slime/mud of the earth, so if you take that (too) literally then yes, you are and everyone else is from slime, but in any case black people have the same common origin as everybody else. About question 2, no, Catholics can’t
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Another excellent reason to revive the real Inquisition would be that it could get rid of vigilante inquisitors.
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Found my picture files from 2005-07. This is a mural at the Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, showing a sample of St Thomas Aquinas's handwriting.
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belong to the Klan : racism is a sin and, besides, the Klan is (*) avowedly anti-Catholic. Thanks for writing, let’s try to promote real love, peace, and reconciliation, etc. . (*I nuanced that somehow since by 2000 the Klan had some nominally Catholic leaders.) So the letter…
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@teaandleaf
This clearly important pastoral question turns on whether the body of one bitten by a vampire becomes no-longer a suitable habitation for the soul; if so, then you die and go to judgment (with a demon taking over your body, presumably); but if not, then you could be validly
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Goes out, and soon comes a reply. How DARE we say she’s made from mud?! Also, we were wrong about The KKK, and she had the documents to prove it—viz a new, authentic copy of her baptismal certificate, a note affirming that she’s a practicing Catholic (able to be a godmother), …
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@teaandleaf
absolved: this would require contrition, which would require the infusion of grace into the soul. Whether this would then kill you, to prevent vampirism, or maybe cure you of being a vampire I'm not (yet) sure.
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Saw a Honda Odyssey with a bumper sticker saying “My other van is an Iliad.”
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Happy Feast of St Thomas, especially to the Orthodox and Catholic faithful of India! (When did I learn there's a Syro-Malabar Catholic mission in this city, not 2 miles from the priory? Today. They use a Latin church building because the community is so small.)
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I’m professed 28 years, as of today. “Now a man is counted great if only he be not a transgressor, and if he can
only endure with patience what he hath undertaken.”
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I'm a big fan of Eric Mascall, the late Anglican Thomist. Today I discovered his signature in a used book I bought. 😎
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Catena is a (free) app you might want. It’s the Bible, whole canon, and you can click a verse for patristic commentary. Your choice of pre-451 Fathers only, Eastern post 451, Western post 451, or all 3. plus an option to include uncanonized commentators like Origen. 🥳
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Seminary action photos! Here we are, a line of pretend penitents going in for practice confessions. (I gave them all your advice, by the way!)
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“Now the virginity of Mary was hidden from the prince of this world, as was also her birthgiving, and the death of the Lord; three mysteries that cry out, which were wrought in silence by God.” (Ignatius of Antioch)
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Tomorrow is my 50th birthday. Time flies. Also, some brain problems show me that detaching from this life, and learning to love here and now, are the way forward. Please pray for me!
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@eliz_herreid
It's easy. Confession's effectiveness requires contrition, not a perfect memory. Contrition is for all our sins, even those we don't remember. The person describing Catholics as needing to remember everything (or go to HELL!) is pretty much confusing contrition and confession.
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@HonorAndDaring
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Off to the Emergency Room for my second dose of rabies vaccine. (PSA: if awakened by bats, go to the doctor. Your chances of rabies are low, but once symptoms appear there’s no treatment and you’re doomed to a horrible death)
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@tonyannett
I was at the conference, and heard nothing unworthy or un-Christian the whole time. Really I thought it was a great mix of serious intellectual work and practical, constructive policy ideas--many of them explicitly (and accurately) drawn from Catholic social teaching.
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It’s too bad, all this name-calling and innuendo against the weekend’s common good conference in Steubenville. It was Catholic social teaching, constructively engaged. Not “fascism”, and not busy finding fault with other people. Or at least that’s all I saw.
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What's with all this anti-Marian stuff here today? I guess the evil one is whipping up hatred against Our Lady for Christmas. But as we chant ever August 15, 'She will crush your head, Alleluia!'
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Rightly or wrongly, I deleted my post showing some Dominicans receiving the relics of St Thomas Aquinas. It was drawing lots of traffic, but it was also starting to get retweeted and cause wonderment that was, well, unbecoming.
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@DawnofMercy
Insensitivity to addiction is bad, but the idea of branded Eucharistic Congress food and drink should have set off alarm bells from the get-go.
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What patristic (1st millennium) texts would you most strongly recommend for meditative reading by seminarians? (all rites) (maximum 4 suggestions)
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Remember Jeffrey, man who died in great joy and faith. He had 19 days of complications from Covid (on top of terrible heart and lung health). He was alone in the world, except for his landlady and a few friends. He became Catholic not long ago. He died today, his 65th birthday.
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I put a 🎃 in my name because "Shut up, fundamentalist whacko, Halloween is SO a Christian, indeed a Catholic, holiday" wouldn't fit.
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@NHBullmoose
I'm guessing hunting was limited to the ruling class in Britain, but anybody could hunt in America.
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The journey begins. I should get out of Ohio ahead of the blizzard. If I’m going to be eaten by yetis in the wilds of Kentucky, I hope first to tweet pictures of them closing in.
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Dominican secret pro tip: pray whatever mysteries you want; best of all, pray the whole thing, all 15 every day! (That makes 150 Aves to match the 150 psalms. You can even do 150 mysteries, or swap in the Luminous set if you're into that...)
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@knrd_z
I thought Education was the worst until I met the kids in Library & Information Science.
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Reading a JCD diss. on how various "Dominicans" (cloistered nuns, friars, tertiaries regular and secular, confraternities, fraternities) are juridically and spiritually/historically related. V. interesting. Related to prep for welcoming new monastery of OP Nuns here.
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Met men from new College of St Joseph the Worker. Kid starts after high school; tuition plus room, $15k; earns a BA in 3 years, then does a 3-year paid apprenticeship in electrical work, carpentry, masonry, HVAC, or plumbing (while earning money). Net: BA, job, net +$100k.
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Preached at the seminary on "He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire." Then, thanks to excess soot, at the offertory we had dramatic flames shooting out the top of the thurible. I sent the server out with it, but he came back for the elevations: more fire. V. dramatic.
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Until just now I never heard of St Thorlak of Iceland. Considered a saint since his death in 1193, he was formally canonized by the Catholic Church in 1984. Which means I, a decade later, could easily have taken Thorlak as a religious name. Well, St Bernard must have his reasons.
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@MassimoFaggioli
What did you see there that you think Gemelli would dislike? (I was at the conference, and heard nothing immoral or alien to Catholic social teaching. Your sweeping criticism seems unjust to me.)
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So-called freedom of the press is never sufficiently deplored.
Fervent devotees in Spain braved temperatures of up to 39 degrees Celsius to catch a glimpse of a Jesus effigy as it was carried on the shoulders of worshippers at the Corpus Christi procession beginning at Toledo’s cathedral
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“Catholicism” is a new (post-Reformation) and not wholly innocuous label. I’m convinced it’s better to speak of the Catholic faith, or faithful, or Church. Lest too much other stuff sneak aboard without inspection, hiding under that -ism.
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I just started this book; it might interest
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@Vermeullarmine
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@DRWAR517
, and others interested in 20thC Church history, law, politics, IR, nature/grace, or secularism/intergralism.
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In your charity, please pray for the repose of the soul of David Erwin, a close friend who died suddenly at age 55. He is survived by his parents, a brother, a sister, and two nieces.
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If you die before you die you will not die when you die. (Inscription at St Paul's monastery, Mt Athos)
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@1renist
It could be sinful in some circumstances, but in itself? I don't see how. Compare to other examples of wrongfully adopted titles. (You have had five husbands, Our Lord, says to the woman at the well; but in fact she has not had five, as he then tells her.)
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Not everything is grace, pal.
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Anti-Catholicism gets called America’s last acceptable prejudice. Here on Twitter I see it coming only from Catholics who apparently loathe a lot their co-religionists. Time to do more muting.
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@FrTotleben
I like Pope Benedict’s line: try even by your tone to help the penitent feel he is understood and loved by God.
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The Catholic Church "now controls" 1 in 7 hospitals! It's spreading its hideous tentacles to kill us all by preventing treatment of such terrible illnesses as fertility and children!
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@StefanMolyneux
For mostly-facetious purposes, I like "Theophobic" (for atheists) and "Christophobic" (for non-Christian theists).
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@MarkBrendanawiz
I mean a letter. At the time we replied to something like 4000 a year, though some of these were emails that the staff printed out and added to the stack of letters that came by mail. No idea what the numbers are today—but you can write a letter and ask! 😀
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