Matthew Smith

@AnthonyLourdes7 @RealLaneThorpe Instead of looking at raw numbers, look at %. If there are a billion Catholics, several hundred converts is nice, but not nearly enough to cover the several million quitting. There are maybe a million SSPXers and so thousands joining and dozens leaving is better.

@RealLaneThorpe Record conversions this year - approx several hundred thousand converts to the Catholic faith and most of their parishes celebrate the NO. How can you say your stats are right with evidence to the contrary? How many converted to the SSPX this year? Not several hundred thousand.

Some Catholic priests on the orthodox side of the Novus Ordo church seem to be taking too personally the SSPX's stance in the face of statistics that overwhelmingly prove the SSPX right.

@ProudofusUK The American war for independence—wrongly called a “revolution”—meant to preserve these ancient rights as Englishmen. The Magna Carta and following documents are fundamental to US History and society, too! We couldn’t be Americans without being English.

🇬🇧 Most British schoolchildren are taught about Magna Carta. They are taught it was sealed in twelve fifteen at Runnymede. They are taught it is the foundation of English liberty. They are taught it is one of the most important documents in human history. They are not taught what came next. They are not taught about the eighty years between twelve fifteen and twelve ninety-five when ordinary Englishmen forced three successive kings to write down, for the first time in any kingdom in medieval Europe, what English law was, what English liberty was, and how an English king must govern. They are not taught about the Charter of the Forest, which restored the right to graze, gather firewood, and live on common land, and which remained in force for seven hundred and fifty-four years. They are not taught about the Provisions of Oxford in twelve fifty-eight, often called England's first written constitution, which placed the king under a council of fifteen and required Parliament to meet three times a year. They are not taught about the Provisions of Westminster in twelve fifty-nine, which subjected the barons themselves to the same law they had forced upon the king. They are not taught about Simon de Montfort, an earl born in France who died for England, who summoned the first Parliament in English history to include ordinary commoners alongside the great lords. They are not taught about the Statute of Marlborough in twelve sixty-seven, which is the oldest piece of statute law in the United Kingdom still in force today. ⚖️ Seven hundred and fifty-nine years old. If you've ever taken a debt to court in England, you've used it. 🏠 If you've ever rented a home, you've been protected by it. 👑 If a creditor can't lawfully drag your possessions into the street to settle what you owe, that's because of a law signed seven hundred and fifty-nine years ago. They are not taught about the Model Parliament of twelve ninety-five, summoned by Edward the First, which became the shape of every English Parliament since. Eighty years. Three successive kings. The first written constitution in any kingdom in medieval Europe. It was not given to them. It was not handed down from God or king or Pope. ✍️ It was written. By Englishmen. For England. 🇬🇧 The British write their own history. They always have. This one needed more than a thread. The full story is in our video, watch it below 👇 Help us remember who we are. Help us remember every British achievement. 👇🙏 👉 proudofus.co.uk/support 👈 Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧 Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

@C_3C_3 Hundred million. Ten million is the palatable lie. Hundred million is the real number and we’re completely and permanently fucked.

Never forget… Trump’s border wall was a “vanity project” that Congress wouldn’t fund and the Media mocked. Then after a stolen election 10-20 million invaders entered America. Treason.

@HavocFreestyle Needs to happen more often

This woman liked hitting defenseless people on the street. But she ran into someone who did react and defended themselves💀

@AntiWokeMemes Amputation

What do you think is the best response to climate activists gluing themselves to roads?

@zundamotisuki They are treated like royalty. They run the government at the local, state, and federal levels. They have control of all public and most private schools from nursery school through university. Many churches are also dominated by communists. America is in deep trouble.

海外の人へ 私は共産主義者が嫌いです。 あなたの国では共産主義者はどのような扱いをされますか？

@willchamberlain Yeah, because Massie would abide by the constitution and not piss away our money. Trump is a Democrat in Republican clothing.

Every Thomas Massie supporter would replace Trump with Massie as President if they could Says everything

@AntiLeftMemes I hope the car isn’t damaged.

What's the first thought that comes to your mind when you see this?

@hdpayens The story about the Ethiopian eunuch in Acts 8:26-40 is (IMO) the best passage against private interpretation. He needed a man of authority (Philip) to tell him what scripture meant. Scripture is not self-revealing or self-interpreting. Requires apostolic authority to understand.

Peter didn't say "read it yourself." He said the opposite. 2 Peter 1:20-21 is one of the most overlooked verses in Protestant-Catholic debates. "No prophecy of Scripture is a matter of one's own interpretation, because no prophecy ever came by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit." Read that carefully. Peter is not just making a point about the origin of Scripture. He is making a point about its reception. The same Spirit who moved the prophets to write is the same Spirit who must guide the Church to interpret. Private judgment is excluded at both ends. The verse doesn't say "Scripture is hard to understand." It says private interpretation is not the mechanism. Full stop. This is why the Reformers had to work so hard to neutralize this passage. Calvin argued that the "private interpretation" Peter warned against referred to the prophets themselves — that no prophecy originated from the prophet's own private understanding or invention. Luther softened the edges. But the plain reading keeps reasserting itself. If the Spirit guides interpretation, then interpretation requires a Spirit-guided authority. That is exactly what the Catholic Church claims to be. Not infallible on every opinion, but protected from formally teaching error on faith and morals. Peter didn't invent this idea. It flows directly from how the Old Testament prophets understood their own words. They wrote under divine compulsion. They didn't fully understand what they wrote. The interpretation belonged to God's community, not to isolated readers. Sola Scriptura doesn't just struggle with this verse. It struggles to explain why Peter wrote it at all. What do you think Peter meant by "one's own interpretation"?

@hdpayens Jesus handed the King James Version to Pastor Bob of the First Berean Baptist Church (Free will)—you know, the one on the corner of 89th Ave and Main St, where the gas station used to be. It was his own personal copy from which all other manuscripts are made. Facts.

Sola Scriptura cannot establish its own canon, making missionaries who rely on it logically impossible. Think about what a Protestant missionary actually does when he arrives in a new place. He holds up a Bible and says: "This book alone is the word of God. Believe it." But the convert has one obvious question: "How do you know those 27 books belong in there?" The missionary cannot point to a verse that lists the canonical books. No such verse exists. He cannot appeal to a church council, because Sola Scriptura rejects binding conciliar authority. He cannot appeal to apostolic tradition, because that same tradition is what his theology was built to escape. He is holding a book whose table of contents was determined by a Church he does not recognize. This is not a minor inconvenience. It is a structural collapse. The Reformers themselves inherited the canon from Catholic councils and Catholic Fathers. Luther wanted to remove James, Hebrews, Jude, and Revelation. He called James "an epistle of straw." The canon was never settled by Scripture alone. It was settled by the Church's authoritative discernment over centuries. The Catholic position is not complicated: the Church that authenticated the canon has the authority to interpret it. The two cannot be separated without sawing off the branch you are sitting on. A missionary needs a foundation that does not shift. Scripture alone cannot name itself. The Church can. What gives you confidence that your Bible contains exactly the right books?

@iluminatibot @TheAliceSmith Because public school teachers and administrators are Bolsheviks

Why don’t schools teach children about the Bolsheviks who killed millions of Orthodox Christians?

@harukaawake Expel the Muslims and then expel the non-Japanese who support them, and then arrest the Japanese leftists who enabled the mass migration of Muslims into Japan.

🇯🇵 What a good number of my replies currently look like from foreigners living in Japan. I'm more amused than actually annoyed by all of this, tbh.

@zundamotisuki Do you have wood chippers in Japan? If so, put him in one.

車で轢いてレイ◯→◯す→〇体をレイ〇→〇体を電車レールに置き去り→〇体が電車に轢かれてバラバラ 小学2年生女の子をゴミクズのように扱った小林遼 無期懲役はどう考えても甘すぎると思いませんか？ どう考えても死刑が妥当だろ！

@harukaawake @HilarityjaneArt You must expel all Muslims. And then punish the Japanese who enabled the Muslim invasion.

🇯🇵 On May 6th, the Furumachi Atago Shrine burned down. The 300+ year-old main hall was completely destroyed. Flames spread to nearby homes/offices and a 90 year old woman was injured. This is the 7th major fire at a holy site this year in Japan.

@mrwtffacts Do we have a way to donate to his commissary fund?

In 2013, a 75-year-old Texas man named Chung Kim had endured months of hell from his upstairs neighbors. They kept dumping their dog’s feces and urine off the balcony, letting it drip right onto his patio below - despite his repeated complaints that were completely ignored. One morning, after stepping in fresh dog s**t again, Kim finally snapped. He grabbed a gun and shot and killed his 31-year-old female neighbor on her balcony. Kim then went upstairs and fatally shot her boyfriend as he tried to run. Jury convicted him of capital murder. Life in prison, no parole.

@B_W_NM @UPMHPM Oops! We’re doubly screwed!

@mattvsmith @UPMHPM True, especially since it has been 6.2% employee withholding, and another 6.2% from the employer, not 3.2%.

This!! 👇🏻🧐 What a great question! 🤔🔥

@hdpayens Great thread. Thank you!

Mormons are Montanist Audians. The Catholic Church already condemned this heresy. Twice. Once in the 2nd century. Once in the 4th. Joseph Smith fused them and called it restoration. A thread.

@BillArnoldTeach I wish! The priests in my home parish stripped the church of all its beauty and made it look like a Section 8 apartment. My current parish looks like an auditorium in a strip mall. Your post is nice, but untrue as a general phenomenon.

Modern Christianity stripped churches bare. Catholicism kept teaching beauty.

@AuditeInsulae Where in the Philippines is this? Is the priest diocesan?

Bishop Athanasius Schneider ordaining a priest in the Philippines using the traditional Roman Rite.