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@BruvverEccles l'évêque c'est moi!

"Wash some dirty old feet? I'm a BISHOP! It's beneath me!"

@chitowngirl1982 How did the poor feel about the 140 million Euros lost in the English real estate scandal? Overseen by Pope Francis and his henchman Cardinal Parolin

No. That isn't what Holy Thursday is about. It's a about the poor. Not the little elite priest boys getting their feet washed by the pope in the midst of the elite former royalty of Rome, aka the only ones who get tickets to this. Apparently only Francis got what mattered.

@earthcurated Planets in mirror may be closer than they appear

NOT FLAT…

@queenfan1984 @BruvverEccles Yes I voted for that option tongue in cheek. Remembering my late father who as a dairy farmer hated daylight saving. Cows are notoriously slow to adjust their watches.

@BruvverEccles Surely the people who say more than 30 days are joking - right?

How long does it take you to recover from the "jetlag" caused by putting your clock forward by one hour in the summer?

@BruvverEccles @CricketopiaCom In my experience in Australia, Indian taxi drivers are very knowledgeable about cricket. Moreso than I am, even though by most people's standards I would be classified as a cricket tragic.

@CricketopiaCom This is staged. See how many cameras were used.

Throwback to when a taxi driver didn’t recognise Glenn Maxwell and Adam Zampa and casually chatted about cricket with them. 🤣

@ladygreenkirtle @BruvverEccles Either can be the 5th circle of hell on a bad day.

@SAforthwith @BruvverEccles If they made the slightest effort to infuse their shop with beach-hut vibes, it might work as a name. But it’s a very sleek and modern shop full of mirrors, in Westfield which is kind of the opposite of a beach.

I got a rather desperate-sounding email from “Sunglasses Hut” telling me I haven’t reviewed my purchase yet, but I don’t think they want my feedback, which is that the weather hasn’t been nearly as nice since I bought the sunglasses, and I suspect buying the sunglasses caused it

@ladygreenkirtle @BruvverEccles I think the use of the word hut is meant to evoke sunny tropical climes, in the same way the most deplorable housing developments are called Chelsea Estates.

@BruvverEccles I don’t know why it’s called that, it’s a really silly name for a shop!

@MorosKostas IF you can find Justices of the calibre of Thomas and Alito, you may have a point. But they would probably be replaced by more Federalist Society stooges. In 46 years, GOP Presidents have appointed 3 reliable Justices: the late Justice Scalia, Thomas and Alito.

Justices Alito and Thomas need to read this dissent, and Jackson's other "work", very closely. Then they need to ask themselves if they want to risk being replaced by more Jacksons. Both of them need to do the responsible thing and retire this summer while GOP has Senate/WH.

@holysmoke The red chasuble worn by then Cardinal Prevost in the top photo is the red concelebration chasuble in use at the Vatican for some time. Here you can see it at Pope St John Paul II's funeral.

Notice that he’s ditched the revolting Bergoglian style of vestments. Forgive my ignorance, but why a (nasty) chasuble last year and a cope yesterday?

@holysmoke This morning the Holy Father received in audience: - The Reverend Father Thomas Joseph White, OP, Rector Magnificent of the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas.

@holysmoke The Holy Father has appointed His Excellency Most Reverend Archbishop Paolo Rudelli, titular Archbishop of Mesembria, until now Apostolic Nuncio to Colombia, as Substitute for General Affairs of the Secretariat of State.

@holysmoke The Holy Father has appointed as Apostolic Nuncio to Italy and the Republic of San Marino His Excellency Most Reverend Monsignor Edgar Peña Parra, titular Archbishop of Telepte, currently Substitute for General Affairs of the Secretariat of State.

@holysmoke The Holy Father has appointed as Prefect of the Papal Household His Excellency Most Reverend Archbishop Petar Rajič, titular Archbishop of Sarsenterum, until now Apostolic Nuncio to Italy and the Republic of San Marino.

@JonnyP_Michigan @holysmoke The Pope gave an icon, he didn't gift it.

@holysmoke Not understanding the quotes here...

‘gifted’ 🤮

@M_P_Hazell His Eminence would have made a great Gulag commandant... "We don't acknowledge them as legitimate citizens in full communion but we give them gruel once a day and they get plenty of fresh air felling forests. What else is going on here?"

Here's the thing: we trads would very much like to play our full part in the life of the Church, as Vatican II asks (e.g. AA 10) and as Summorum Pontificum encouraged, rather than have our entire existence treated as some sort of begrudging "concession" by paranoid prelates.

@austeni @OSVNews His Eminence would have made a great Gulag commandant... "We don't acknowledge them as legitimate citizens in full communion but we give them gruel once a day and they get plenty of fresh air felling forests. What else is going on here?"

Cardinal Roche calls out the agenda behind the trad campaign. “What else is going on when they have been given the concession of this Mass? What is the problem? Something else is clearly afoot,” he says. ⁦@OSVNews⁩ osvnews.com/cardinal-roche…

@ZacMabry Even better, you only need to listen to one of these because they will almost certainly say the same thing.

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@BruvverEccles @BishopBarron instagram.com/reel/C3D6EnGPX…

@BishopBarron I've never heard of the Hail Mary pass in (? American) football.

I just saw the much talked about film “Project Hail Mary.” It's very entertaining and uplifting and features a fine performance from Ryan Gosling. But what most intrigued me were the powerful Christian themes at play in it. The title, of course, refers to the Hail Mary pass in football, since the adventure undertaken is a fairly desperate attempt to save the planet. But it also becomes eminently clear that the reference is not just to football but to the Blessed Mother herself, for the Gosling character is undoubtedly a Christ-figure. I don't want to give away too much of the plot, but it involves a willingness to sacrifice one's life utterly in order to deliver the entire human race from disaster. It is, of course, no accident that Gosling's character is called Ryland Grace, for throughout the movie, his presence and actions constitute undeserved favor to others. A particularly intriguing character in the film is a sober German scientist who relentlessly presses Grace to make the supreme sacrifice, even when he is unwilling. She represented for me the great moral demand that presses upon us throughout our lives, continually summoning us to self-gift. A last observation: Jesus had a second in command whom he called Peter (the Rock); Ryland Grace has a very unusual sidekick whom he calls “Rocky.” I'll leave it at that. I know lots of people say that Christianity is in irreversible decline and that we are inhabiting, at least in the West, a post-Christian society. I'm not so sure. Like it or not, we remain a Christ-haunted culture—and a film like “Project Hail Mary” makes this clear.

@Graham_Mark_E @holysmoke All I know is he is NOT a convert.

@holysmoke Are you an Anglican, Damian?

An important point. Plenty of Anglicans – in fact, the majority – support abortion in some circumstances. But Mullally is absenting herself from a vote on infanticide. Instead of speaking against decriminalising the murder of healthy viable babies, the Archbishop of Canterbury will be on a pilgrimage that she could easily interrupt or reschedule.

@holysmoke Why do so many prelates now sound like a corporate shill? Even in trying to condemn the war in Iran, the Cardinal produces a round about web of words. Like an ecclesiastical Will Self lecture.

McElroy wasn’t very interested in continuing ‘dialogue’ with Richard Sipe when the latter confronted him with details of Uncle Ted’s assaults.