Kale Zelden
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1/ Joseph Conrad, the great Inside/Outside Liminal Seer of empires, economic and religious, a 🧵 on liberal hegemony:
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Teaching Romeo and Juliet for a while now, and the most disturbing emergence and generational shift in the last handful of years is that kids no longer believe in love.
This is a catastrophic development.
Just underneath this is the inability for faith itself.
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This video haunts me.
@BretWeinstein
was prophetic.
"This is about a breakdown in the basic logic of civilisation and it's spreading"
@BretWeinstein
FULL SERIES:
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It’s wild to see a Eucharistic procession through Manhattan is so triggering to…a whole swath of professional Catholics.
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Why is Dante moved to tears when he sees the twisted, contorted, mutilated bodies of men in hell?
He is learning to see.
He is no longer fooled by the parade of idiocy and selfishness and narcissism.
Sin, stripped of its pomp, is horrifying.
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Reminder: the French Revolution was an epochal catastrophe.
We are still not over it.
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Why isn't the story of the two parents in Georgia sexually abusing their adopted boys and trafficking in child-p*rn not a major news story?
It is a horrifying story. Why does it remain in alternate websites?
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@MarkALefebvre1
It’s not about suicide first. It becomes about suicide only incidentally to them being unformed and abandoned by their adults. It’s about catastrophic systems failure. If a city and family can’t foster and protect love, then it’s a deathwork.
Juliet understands this.
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There’s a huge claim at the heart of being a Roman Catholic, as opposed to all the other Christian denominations.
We don’t consider ourselves to BE a denomination.
Why? Because we believe we are the very church founded by Christ himself.
One, Holy, Catholic, Apostolic…
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@ColinCowherd
@Timcast
did not expect
@ColinCowherd
to be mixing it up with
@Timcast
. I'm here for it.
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Looks to me like the Pope and the Gang thought they could send FC out & have fun razzing US “reactionaries”…
But the Africans are proving to be frustrating their ability to frame it as a “conservatives react” story, & more of a real worldwide schism-flirting reality.
The UK
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Yo Trads, listen up:
Your nastiness & derogation about Carlo is unbecoming.
Focus your fire on real abuses or even other canonizations.
This one has you playing to type in all the wrong ways.
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House of Horrors…Den of thieves…Factory of indietrismo.
Ground Zero, friends.
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@moveincircles
What would have been a deeply ironic right wing meme a decade ago is now done for real without irony.
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Attacking Scott Hahn because no one in official theological academia takes his work seriously is not the "own" you think it is.
Professional theology is largely a heterodox joke...and it has been for a very long time.
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This is excellent. I mean this unequivocally. I'm glad the Pope is saying this out loud.
Pope Francis calls for the universal ban on surrogacy: “I consider despicable the practice of so-called surrogate motherhood, which represents a grave violation of the dignity of the woman and the child, based on the exploitation of situations of the mother’s material needs”
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Many colleges are now over 60% female and less than 40% male.
This is a disaster.
The marriage market—gross-seeming but a necessary label—is being rocked and destroyed as we speak.
Yet you won’t hear about the crisis of young men, only more “women in stem” initiatives. Why?
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I am, this morning, once again struck by the pettiness of Traditionis custodes.
I think of so many folks being locked out of their Sunday masses, baptisms, funerals, and weddings because of some spat between prelates thousands of miles away.
Petty, mean-spirited, & gross.
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"Chesterton's Fence"
It's an idea G.K. lays out in an essay called "The Thing".
Its' more important than almost anything else he wrote.
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Christmas Blessings. These smiling faces were fueled by your generosity. So much gratitude from my fam to yours.
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Books like this one from Carlos Eire are mind-blowing & challenging to all my default modernist assumptions.
His chronicle explodes the default social imaginary. I wish people would read it and wrestle with it.
Secularism is a "jig" or a shortcut. t
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These men saw the worst of the worst, horrors which most of us can’t bear to even imagine. Yet they saw through it and found meaning & purpose, despite a world gone mad.
We are blessed by their vision of hope & friendship in darkness.
Happy Christmas, as they might’ve said.
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Man, losing Scott Hahn is a real blow to the ‘splainers.
He has brought so many into the RC church.
You can’t just gaslight him out of existence & call him some kind of not-quite-fully-converted ham-&-egger.
He’s the real deal. The breaking of his silence is consequential.
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Modern weddings, with a bride and groom in their 30’s, who’ve lived together for a half dozen years, and maybe even have a dog or two, baffle me.
I wonder if they think they have to pretend to be excited.
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I’m a long time teacher. I love my students & I am deeply concerned about their stolen attention.
We must ban smartphones in schools.
Who wants to start a national movement with me?
It’s profoundly important.
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The annulment “discourse” by Tim and Steph is a grave and serious matter. Telling scrupulous Catholics that their annulment is “probably not” valid for reasons of a one-off comment from Fr. Gerald Murray as quoted by Bai McFarland’s outfit is irresponsible.
What gives?
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Honestly, this is so good.
I’ve been muttering this for years: we are under the thrall of spirits and we don’t acknowledge it.
Good for Tucker.
This is not a culture war, this is a spiritual war.
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@Louise_m_perry
People tend to treat commodities as commodities, and not as people.
Gross but predictable.
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Been doing some reading and came across the mind-blowing stat:
By 1957, Sunday mass attendance for Roman Catholics in America was 75%.
This is an incredibly high number.
In '77? 26%...I wonder what happened...
Today? about 17%
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What happened at Andy Gno’s trial in Portland was bonkers.
The plaintiffs attorney just straight up threatened the jury.
She said she will “remember each one of their faces” and declared “I am antifa.”
Guess what the jury did?
Wild and reckless. It’s the land of outlaws.
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The importance of “The Calendar” is under appreciated.
Every regime seeks to create a new one, as they know it orders a people to its vision of the Good.
Caesar made one used for over a 1600 years.
The revolutionary regime of the French Revolution instituted its own
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If you can burn one flag because that is protected by the first amendment, but it’s illegal to do skid marks on another…
What does that tell you about the order of our sacral hierarchy?
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No quicker redpill experience than having a “strange” medical condition.
If for some reason you find yourself falling between the bright lines of current medical consensus, you see clearly that most docs do not know what they do not know, and vanishingly few will admit it.
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An impossibly important book. It will become a huge source for TLC and the task we have before us of making sense in the wake of crumbling modernity.
Can’t recommend it highly enough.
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So,
@KofC
, I think it is time for you to retrieve and take out of circulation all your materials branded with Fr. Rupnik's art.
His continued use in your materials is a scandal.
Please remove.
Convene a serious discussion of what to do with your HQ.
Please.
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If a Catholic alive in 2024 does not in the midst of a deep ecclesiological crisis, they're either lying--to themselves or to others--or they aren't paying attention.
All Christians should admit that we're living through an ecclesiological disruption.
But especially Catholics.
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@AuronMacintyre
The word has become magic: it has become a stand in for “sh*t I want.”
If I don’t get “the sh*t I want,” then democracy is in peril and dying in darkness, or something.
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The non-negotiable big dogs:
*Iliad
*Odyssey
*Aeneid
*Divine Comedy
*Don Quixote
*Hamlet
*Paradise Lost
*Moby Dick
*Crime & Punishment
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I’m only 4 chapters in but this book is already required reading.
@AbigailShrier
has written an instant revelation.
As a veteran teacher, I have seen all this play out with my students and parents.
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The faculty you think your $80,000 per year tuition affords you
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We should pay more attention to the fact that Lewis deconverted when he was 12 years old.
Everything I’ve read & experienced suggests that this is the time in which most people quietly quit.
If you teach high school you know that many students have already made up their
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Weird take, but here goes:
This trilogy has languished in obscurity due to incredibly bad cover art and equally bad book design.
I’m serious.
They are MUCH better than they appear on the shelf.
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@realmfoster
No. And it’s not even about analysis as such. Stories matter. Poetry matters. Otherwise we’re mere cogs.
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Why isn’t a bishop allowed to say a president is stupid, or ignorant, or causing scandal?
Isn’t that the job: hold power accountable?
Isn’t that a prophetic witness?
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I remain perplexed that the sourcing of materials for large EV batteries remains a non-story.
No one seems willing to acknowledge that EV’s come at an insane and inhumane cost.
Hidden costs are so because we prefer not to see.
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“Backwardsism” is an awful way to smear people who care about the deposit of faith and seek to live a life of faith in Christ Jesus.
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I really want to know how the authorities seem to be keeping out of the news cycle the 100% inflation on groceries in the last three years out of the news.
With a straight face they say it’s 5.7%.
No effin way.
Groceries are crushing us. Everything is double.
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Do you know how popular it would be for 99.99% of the US population if Congress made universities pony up for the student loan crisis that they played a major part in creating?
Especially the ones that are really a “hedge fund with a university attached”?
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Friends:
I have a cryptic prayer request for today.
Big interview.
Cheers and Godspeed.
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I’m getting deeper into this massive & impressive work.
I highly recommend it. Almost no one on any side of the various “sides” knows anything about the epochal cataclysms of the 16th century.
Every page is humbling & deepening.
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I feel like every man should have this basic fit in the rotation.
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It’s wild to me that we are now at a point that we have to beg people to get married, engage in pro creative sex, then to have & raise children.
This strikes me as novel.
We’re meme-ing ourselves out of existence, working against extremely powerful in-born scripts.
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Witnessing the desecration of the human form, the icon of the living God, the mutilation of the Imago Dei, can only compel a deep sense of loss, and the incumbent sadness.
In the beginning it was not so.
And now we clap and snap at the pantomime.
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It’s astounding to see a cardinal go full critical theory, pro LGBT, pro woman’s ordination and anti objective morality in print & in public.
Truly unprecedented.
It is so big & so bad but people are so worn down and compliant that they don’t seem to know what is truly afoot.
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Reading takes time, and not just little bits of time, but sustained uninterrupted spans of time.
All adults understand this simple fact.
But to the adults here who used to read: why can't you sit down and read a book now?
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Today is my dad’s birthday.
He’s a real mensch. A rock-solid husband, father, patriarch.
I hate not living near him. I love him dearly.
If you wouldn’t mind, please say a prayer for Michael Zelden today.
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I know a lot of my students, especially my high-achieving, high-powered ones, got rejected from Ivies the last couple of days.
To a one, they are awesome kids.
I’m glad these soul-grinders rejected these wonderful students. These disgusting institutions do not deserve them.
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This would have gotten you fired, banned on YouTube and Twitter and Facebook. If you questioned zoonotic origins, or masks, or lockdowns, or shots, you were consigned to the lunatic fringe.
Makes me low-key hate everything.
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This might be the apotheosis of our time, fully minted by an Ivy, no less.
It’s Apparatchik Studies, or how to be a Commissar.
🤩 Wharton at UPenn offers a MBA in DEI, starting in 2023.
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I’d like to point out that the President of Harvard is *exactly* the right person for its current instantiation.
Dr. Gay is the greatest product of the Ivy-Industrial Complex.
She is perfection. She is the great avatar of what they are and what they produce.
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How do y'all watch this
@ReasonTheology
content?
Honestly, even if when I agree with the some of it...
Holy moly. The sanctimony is so thick, off-putting, & melodramatic.
Catholic Edgelording...
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We are alienated because we have recreated hell here on earth. We are all living in the City of Dis.
No need to wait for it.
The real revelation to me is that we are not scared of hell; we cheer it on, calling it fabulous and amazing and liberation.
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Dante is fantastic, Shakespeare is too. I can’t believe I have to say that out loud.
Too many theologians are ignorant of these two great poets.
I dare say, most practitioners’ work would be vastly improved if they understood human beings and poetry.
People need to stop treating Dante like some theological authority. He was a poet! A very fine poet, but no more than that. What’s next, the theological insights of Shakespeare? 😁
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“Renewal plan.”
Stop it.
Just stop lying with feel good flak speak.
You are closing down more than half of your churches because you’ve squandered the faith and not passed it on.
It’ll never change until the lying stops.
These euphemisms are satanic.
The Archdiocese of Seattle has announced its official list of 170 parishes and worship sites it will be combining into 60 “parish families” as part of its major diocesan renewal plan.
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The Pope’s photo op with Gramick is a truly gobsmacking moment in the latest phase of the rollercoaster of his papacy and for the church.
When I first heard him tell say “go make a mess,” I had no idea.
I thought it was a cry to the young.
It was a cry to the boomers.
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Imagine thinking I teach the Odyssey in my 3rd form English class because I think they’re going to “use it” in their professional lives…
Lord the ignorance on display.
It’s almost like they’ve never read the story, or experienced the wisdom imbued therein.
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Why would a hospital make videos about certain kinds of surgeries they do?
Do they advertise for appendectomies? Cataracts? Bypass?
These children’s hospitals have a business model. They are advertising for business. Calling it “care” is the cover story.
It’s a revenue stream
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We thought we could fill the gap with achievement and college admissions and cheap tricks and limbic distractions.
We were wrong. Very wrong. We need purpose and meaning and goals; families and communities.
I don’t think we can legislate our way out of decadence.
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This man could write and think. Wow.
What he wrote in ‘68 feels so incredibly current.
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@EricRSammons
I’ll get dog-piled for this, but have him read
@jordanbpeterson
‘s 12 Rules for Life, and tell him to watch episode 1 of his lectures on Genesis.
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So that Franciscan friar who went on a rant about synthetic sexual identities has opted out of twitter because of all the blowback.
But remember: Fr. Horan has a real job at a real university that self-identifies as Catholic.
Imagine the poison he spreads in meat space…
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Our future depends upon our willingness to say "that is NOT a woman."
Playing your piano on stage with your exposed penis is wrong. Celebrating such entertainment is wrong.
That we have lost the ability to say so means that the hour is late.
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My trad and trad adjacent friends are waaaay too fixated on propositional claims. Focus on worship more. Being Christian is more important than proofing and thinking.
Theology alone will not save you.
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You know what this looks like and what it feels like.
Why are we pretending not to see what we all see. Some call foul fair. “Sick,” even.
It’s manifest.
Sick AI-generated visuals at festivals. Real-world applications are getting interesting. 💀
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The most powerful antidote to currentthing-ism is a deep-dive into old books.
If you want to resist the currentthing, MAKE yourself read offline for an hour a day.
If an hour is too much, start with half that or a quarter of that. Build up. You'll be amazed.
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Take a casual walk through a mid-American mall in the weeks leading into Pride Month, and oh boy…
The sexualization of everything is striking.
The entire mall has now become that weird corner of Spencer’s back in the 80’s.
It’s all porn, witchcraft (literally), and pride.
Pornography is a constituent part of today’s society.
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Gentlemen,
If you meet a girl and she has this book on her shelf (with a creased binding), run, do not walk, to the jeweler and wife her up asap.
You can thank me later.
@KeenanPeachy
gets it.
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We should re-stigmatize conspicuous consumption, especially as regards weddings.
Middle-class folks do themselves NO favors by trying to compete with the Gatsby's & Buchanan's of the world.
Avg cost for a wedding in US is $30k. Much higher in coastal areas.
Decadence.
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@herandrews
Nearly every depiction of Christianity resorts to some kind of Catholicism because of the embedded physicality of the faith.
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So, regarding the +Strickland (-Strickland?) kerfuffle, I don't think Trads are mad because they think the Pope can't do that.
They're mad because they think he should not have decommissioned a bishop they believe is sticking up for them.
Straw-manning the Trads is buffoonish.
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Maybe I’m responding to false noise & not a real signal, but we really need to prepare a loud & steady NO to masks.
Please people. This is not about health. Don’t let them lie to us again.
It destroys the classroom. It destroys community. It destroys our shared humanity.
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A total ban is really pathetic. I can’t believe they are going resort to this pathetic measure. What a collection of small-minded chestless losers.
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If all we have is the low-res "you do you" ethos, then there is no "we."
Seeing clearly requires courage. Noticing requires courage. Speaking up requires courage.
Our future depends upon our willingness to stand up to the destroyers and tell them to put their clothes back on.
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“They didn’t change anything and it’s awesome that they changed it.”
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Okay, I'm actually afraid now.
This situation in NY is not good for the country.
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Do you ever wonder why adults would throw these things they called “Balls” which featured dancing in highly scripted, nearly-liturgical ways?
Why do you think adults thought this was a good idea?
Why did we get rid of choreographed dancing?
We don’t even remember what it was
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I find it increasingly vexing that we are ruled by people who will be dead in a decade, but their decisions will be with us for generations to come.
Why don't they just retire like normal people? Sit on a deck, grill some meats, drink a cocktail too many?
Biden launches battle on Capitol Hill with call for Medicare tax hike
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Harvard’s endowment is north of 50,000 million dollars.
Fifty-thousand million…that is 50 billion.
How can they in good conscience charge a dime?
How can any wealthy person in good conscience give them a dime?
What a scam.
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Despite it all, there is real power & joy & blessing from the faith and witness of Catholicism.
I can’t deny it, even though the institution is such a dumpster fire.
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Knights may have become stock characters in fantasy books, but there’s a reason we still know who King Arthur was, and his knights and his court.
He created a social technology predicated on personal excellence and an oath to die for the code.
In our irony-saturated world…
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They’ve been promoted.
The church’s moral authority has been shredded, with zero acknowledgment, zero accountability, & zero moves to rectify or make good.
They really don’t seem to care, either.
Just a reminder that no living contemporaries of McCarrick have faced consequences for the prospect of having looked the other way, and no churchmen who were in secretarial, vicarious, or auxiliary roles to the former cardinal have been examined for the prospect of complicity.
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Bowers is a psychopath, hiding in plain sight.
That we don’t have the collective will to say so is damning.
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