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@CatholicRob Only if I get farm animals that need a guard dog.

I honestly lost any and all desire to have pets once I had kids. The upsides suddenly diminished greatly and it seems mostly like all downsides

@Grotto_NH @Catholicizm1 They also had Leo 13 and Pius 10 standing in the breach.

'I think the last 66 years have been a catastrophe for the church but v2 had nothing to do with that even though it started at the height of Catholic presence in America and marked the beginning of the descent according to my own math' Prior generations had Chesterton and Belloc. Maybe we get the midwits we deserve.

Sorry guys. I don’t think a council promulgated heresy. I think the Novus Ordo is a valid Mass and I’m in union with Pope Leo. I don’t know who any of you have been listening to these last 4 years but I’ve never held a contrary opinion. I think the last 66 years have been a catastrophe for the church but I still think it’s the Church Christ established. How is this shocking to anyone?

@Catholicizm1 SSPX Sermons channel has an excellent “What is the problem with the new mass?” It’s probably the best 18-minute homily that steered us away from the Sede camp.

@Bob4Florida @bradluttrell That was pretty much the precise wording from what I recall.

@MoneyBuffalo @bradluttrell The BOGO’s are great!

Publix keeps snatching up property across the street from Kroger, which is so funny to me. Publix has a nice deli and bakery. Beyond that, it's like, 30-40% more expensive than Kroger. No clue why you'd prefer Publix over a Kroger.

@Jackson12876877 @DividendBreeder The convenient disposal option and inconvenient oil filter location are why I pay. It would be a different story if I had access to a lift.

@DividendBreeder I pay to get my work truck done but it's like 12L of oil so it's close enough to my cost since they pay so much less for oil that's it's a good deal. Spend $140 vs $110 and I don't have to lug 3 gallons of oil to the recycle bin 20 minutes down the road from my shop

I got an oil change last week and it was $89.99. Inflation has hit oil changes hard. Wasn’t that long ago I’d get it for $29.99 with a coupon.

@bradluttrell The BOGO was the immediate answer a Public loyalist told us several years ago when we didn’t understand the high price fascination.

Kroger was out of chickens last year. I went to Publix and a friggin' whole chicken was like, $15. You have to wait for a BOGO to get something at a normal price 😂

@NoLimitGains The gas pump?

A volatile market is very profitable for those on the right side of it with the right information. The money flowing out of retail right now is going somewhere. You know where.

@CatholicRob It probably wins this year’s award.

I think I'm just going to stay off the internet for April 1st

@MarcelWizard1 @Catholicizm1 My understanding too is that Ashenden would have been near mandatory retirement age by the time he jumped through all of the hoops.

@Catholicizm1 Taylor Marshall and Gavin Ashendon refused to take up priestly roles in the Ordinariate...out of respect for the true priesthood.

This is crazy talk. The Ordinariate must be stopped.

@BadgedPatriot I personally recommend a water softener. We’ve gotten 10+years from our heater so far while our neighbors house without a heater replaced coils and eventually the heater within the first 7 years. We have a lot of calcium/lime in our water.

A plumber just told me you are supposed to drain your water heater once a year to get the junk at the bottom out to extend the life of the heater. Does anybody actually do that?😳

@CatholicSmark @M_P_Hazell Perseverance.

@M_P_Hazell The amount of hoops we are going to jump through and twists the Church is going to engage in to avoid admitting the obvious will not be fun, but is sadly necessary

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In a discussion with @michaeljswalker on Friday, I said that Trump was being presented options to strike civilian infrastructure in Iran. The aim would be to cripple Iran’s economy and to make it harder for Iran to persist in the war. I explained that hitting Iran’s critical infrastructure might shorten the war, but it would also intensify it. For that reason, that overall damage done to region and the global economy could end up being far worse during a shorter war. If Trump hits a major power plant, Iran will respond by hitting utilities in the Gulf states and Israel—including power plants and desalination facilities—and will count on the fact that it has to hit fewer targets to have a bigger impact. Iran has nearly 500 power plants, Israel has around 50. The largest Iranian plant, the Damavand Combined Cycle plant, accounts for about 4% of Iran’s total capacity. Israel’s largest plant, Orot Rabin, accounts for 20% of electricity production. The fact that a US president is posting a message like this on social media represents a total breakdown in the systems that are meant to ensure the US fights wars intelligently and judiciously. The commander in chief is not of sound mind, no one in his cabinet is willing to admit it, and we are being pushed towards the edge of an abyss.

🚨 Do you understand what happened in the last 24 hours? > Zuckerberg killed the Metaverse after burning $80 billion on cartoon avatars nobody used > Sam Altman took $13 billion from Microsoft then sold OpenAI's cloud to Amazon for $50 billion.. Microsoft just found out they funded their own competition > Anthropic made an AI that takes orders from your phone and does your work while you sleep.. > X dropped a dislike button AND a mute-entire-countries button in the same week.. > YouTube asking you to flag AI slop is just Google getting 2 billion people to train their next model for free > 93% of US jobs can now be partly done by AI.. Same week companies started giving the weakest raises since 2008 > Apple started rejecting vibe-coded apps from the App Store > xAI is paying Wall Street bankers $100/hour to teach Grok how to replace Wall Street bankers.. They're taking the money.. > A mystery AI model appeared on benchmarks beating everything.. Developers think DeepSeek is quietly testing their next weapon > Bloomberg asked "Is the AI bubble about to burst" the same day Nvidia said the chip market will hit $1 trillion.. One of them is dead wrong.. > The UK government backed down on AI copyright after artists revolted.. First government to flinch > The Fed said rate hikes are back on the table and blamed AI data centers for making inflation worse And it's only Wednesday. See you tomorrow. It'll be worse. If you're not following me you're finding out about this stuff 48 hours late from someone who read my post

@fr_geckle @MattGaspers @StephenKokx Converted in 2019…it’s essentially sede=Luther. You don’t want to go back to what you just left and the man in white deserves obedience since he isn’t speaking ex catedra.

My conversation with @MattGaspers and @StephenKokx did not go as well as I had hoped as I failed when presented with so many opportunities to make clear points about our position with regard to the crisis in the Church. It still befuddles me though when I hear or see the charge that we are like protestants in how we view the Church. What is protestant about maintaining the infallibility of the papacy? What is protestant about holding that the Church can't teach errors in her magisterium? What is protestant about rejecting an ecumenical and protestant-pleasing mass that is substantially different from the true Mass? Nothing matters more to me in this life than the Catholic Faith, for it is the one true Faith revealed by God Himself. A Protestant, Gallican, or Modernist view of the Catholic Church is completely abhorrent to me.

@NEMonarchist Very plausible, IMO.

Here’s one path; Fernandez goes nuclear and excommunicates the whole SSPX. Many laity try to go to diocesan TLM’s or the FSSP. Traditionis Custodes is not repealed and eventually any traditionalist in “visible communion” with Rome is squeezed out or forced to accept the NO.

@BVMConsolatrix This helps explain why the Byzantines stand.

True. Canon 20: “Forasmuch as there are certain persons who kneel on the Lord’s Day and in the days of Pentecost, therefore, to the intent that all things may be uniformly observed everywhere (in every parish), it seems good to the holy Synod that prayer be made to God standing.”

@1947Farmall Yes, went to a chapel after our diocesan TLM went away. Probably wouldn’t have done so otherwise. I was sympathetic to Society before but was still apprehensive for the usual reasons. Now I wish I was SSPX the whole time.

I suspect the faithful who assisted at Summorum Pontificum masses that were suppressed are more sympathetic to the SSPX than faithful who have ready access to an ED or Ordinariate community. Experiencing first hand what Rome is willing to do to a benign, stable Catholic community solely out of ideology or envy brings home the message that salvation of souls is very low on the priority list, and NO COMMUNITY is safe. These men are ruthless and lawless, and, frankly, the stability of the ED communities currently rests on the good health of Leo XIV. One may disagree with the prudence of the SSPX's position, but, if you've been on the receiving end of Rome's "closeness" to the faithful attached to the traditional mass, the SSPX position is at least understandable.

The decision of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Pius X to consecrate new Bishops on July 1 demonstrates the impossibility of any dialogue with the Holy See. The Vatican’s refusal to comply with the Society’s requests confirms a double standard: On the one hand, synodality opens the way to schism without this constituting a problem either for those who impose it from above or for those who suffer it from below. On the other hand, a Priestly Fraternity of assured orthodoxy is denied permission to consecrate new Bishops precisely because it has not compromised with the conciliar revolution, the highest expression of which is synodality. When the Hierarchy becomes complicit in the demolition of the Church, the only solution is to appeal to the state of necessity and guarantee that Apostolic Succession continues for the good of souls. Nothing has changed since 1988, and we can even say that the situation has dramatically worsened. I therefore express my full support for the decision taken by the Society of Saint Pius X. fsspx.news/en/news/genera…

So the SSPX is going to ordain some bishops and all the virtuous children have their panties in a twist. They think everything is obvious and the SSPX are just Protestants. Well, I'll weigh in. If you don't know the story, you'll want to follow along. In 1969, when European seminaries were hemorrhaging vocations and teaching wild heresies, Abp Lefevbre founded, with permission, the Seminary of St Pius X in southern Switzerland and in 5 years it grew to about 120 seminarians. It taught the Tridentine liturgy and pre-counciliar theology. They learned Latin, wore cassocks, and sang chant. This made some people in Rome very nervous. The Holy See ordered a visitation which was arranged by the (then) Congregation for Seminaries and Universities. The visitors sent were two Belgians: Bishop Descamps, a biblical scholar, and Msgr. Onclin, a canonist. During the visitation, the visitors interviewed the seminarians in private and interviewed the staff in depth. What the visitors said scandalized everyone and led, directly to the Declaration by Lefevbre on 21 Nov 1974 in which he stated: "...we refuse ...and have always refused to follow the Rome of Neo-Modernist and Neo-Protestant tendencies ...No authority, not even the highest in the hierarchy, can compel us to abandon or diminish our Catholic Faith, so clearly expressed and professed by the Church's Magisterium for 19 centuries." So, this is what set the course, what convince the Abp. that there was a crisis which justified his future actions. So, what did the visitors from the Vatican say? Let me make an aside. You can just do things. If you want to know the answer to something, you can go find a person who knows and ask them. About ten years ago, I was in Nebraska for an FSSP ordination. We were in the refectory for a meal before, and Fr Bisig was sitting at table with us. Fr Bisig was a seminarian during the visitation. He was ordained three years later by Lefevbre. Later, he left the SSPX over the consecration of bishops in '88 and he co-founded the FSSP. I went and sat down across from him. I introduced myself and just asked "what did the visitors say to you?" He replied that it was as had long been reported, they said universal Married priests were inevitable, that there was no immutable moral truth, that artificial contraception was acceptable, that it is acceptable to disbelieve in Mary's perpetual virginity and that there could be a variety of understandings of the nature of Christ's resurrection, not necessarily as a physical return from the dead, but as a mystical or spiritual experience by the apostles. And this was all presented as the norm for proper formation in modern times. I recommend no one judge Abp. Lefevbre or anyone who followed him. They were given quite adequate reason, direct from the Holy See, to presume that a sufficient crisis had overtaken the Church and they needed to act to protect the faith. Whether you think evidence to the contrary has come to light since then is up to you. I won't judge you, either.