Albertus Magnum, PI

the ultimate looksmaxx is to reach peak attractiveness and then immediately die so you look like that for eternity in the afterlife

I wonder why cinemas are dying then I see another preview for ‘brands: the movie’ and maybe they deserve to die

JUST IN - SENATE VOTES 52-47 TO BLOCK RESOLUTION THAT WOULD HAVE BARRED FURTHER US-IRAN STRIKES WITHOUT CONGRESSIONAL APPROVAL

The builder and the painter were both created by prior causes. What is the prior cause for a god?

There are 2 things that are true this morning and I'm going to say them as a Catholic. The Catholic church keeps taking shots at Trump and thinks the Church shields them from playing politics, It doesn't. If they want to wade into American politics than Trump gets to take shots at them. Secondly, Trump shouldn't have made a picture depicting himself as Jesus.

“One student made 25 other students have a worse experience” Mercy to the cruel is cruelty to the innocent

That's what a lot of people don't get. This is the current US oil situation: 1. Oil fields are producing 13.4 million barrels of oil per day. 2. American refineries need about 16.6 million barrels of oil per day to operate at maximum capacity. 3. US consumes 20.2 million barrels per day in oil products. Anybody telling you the Middle East oil blockade is going to economically benefit the average American is either lying or dumb.

🚨 DONALD TRUMP DEMANDS ‘NO MORE PROPERTY TAXES ACROSS THE UNITED STATES!’ You can’t hate this! President Trump launches national revolution to abolish property taxes which would result in the most powerful economic expansion in U.S. history.

By securing oil in Venezuela and blocking the Strait of Hormuz, Trump has effectively taken control of the world's oil supply forcing countries to buy oil from the USA. An absolute Masterclass by Trump.

The Church Fathers' call for radical detachment is structurally impossible today because we have shifted from a "diversified" subsistence model to a "unitary" market economy model. In the past, money was often superfluous to basic existence because people had direct access to the commons or subsistence activities; you could sell your surplus wealth and still survive through self-sufficiency or communal ties. Whatever money you made or possessed was not the totality of your possessions nor was it tied to what you could produce if you got rid of it. Today, however, every necessity, from food, to shelter, to even legal status, is gated behind the market and a cash transaction, meaning that today "selling everything" no longer leads to a simple, pious life, but to total systemic excision and physical destitution. If you don't have money in a market economy, you do not eat. Ultimately, the modern economy has eliminated the "middle ground" between wealth and death. Because we are now primarily wage laborers who must pay for the "right to exist" (rent, utilities, and taxes), the "abundance" the Fathers tell us to give away is actually our only private safety net. I have said countless times that in the past wage labor was only a step above destitution, so imagine how miserable, how pathetically poor in real terms an entire society comprised of wage laborers, enslaved to the market is. We are already the destitute the fathers spoke about. The teaching cannot be faithfully lived out by individuals today until the totalizing reign of the market, the reign of Mammon is defeated. The current system has effectively criminalized the autonomy required for true Gospel poverty.

In the real world and in real history, the construct of "nation state" is Protestant. Catholic conceptions of it are a direct response to the Reformation and a tacit admittance that certain aspects of the Reformers claims were legitimate. The nation state comes from the idea that the King is the sovereign body & further revolutions of Reformation pushed that sovereignty down into the body politic. Nationalism is Protestantism.

The very young, very trad priest who celebrated Mass at our parish this morning began his homily with, “Today I will be preaching on the first reading, from the book of Acts, also known as the communism reading.” The whole congregation laughed. Father then proceeded to explain, per soon-to-be-Blessed Fulton Sheen, that communism is not the way. Giving of ourselves, personal generosity, sharing economic wealth voluntarily with our brothers in Christ, and detachment from material goods are what Jesus calls us to do as His followers. It was exactly the clarity the faithful needed. A refreshing and encouraging reminder that the newest generation of Catholic priests are ultra trad, conservative, theologically sound, and unafraid to preach what might be culturally unpopular.

What's really going on is they're burning every ounce of political capital Trump had for the benefit of Israel. It's hard to wrap your head around because something like this has never happened this fast and to this degree. The polls are apocalyptic. No sane political movement with any agency of its own would ever behave this way. Whether it's blackmail, bribery, threats of violence, or whatever, it couldn't be more obvious. It's like a mass sacrifice.

A polite reminder that 135 years ago, Pope Leo XIII warned that Capitalism under the thumb of rapacious usurers would enslave men as readily as Socialism. Strangely, the frontmen of Washington have never been more openly hostile towards the Catholic Church.