Paul Lynch

My only issue with this is that every saints name was once not. It didn’t prevent them from becoming a saint. I think the names the parents chose seem odd but most people don’t realize that many of the names we use now were originally derived from descriptive words like these. Names weren’t meant to be some meaningless label. They were descriptive of things that the parents saw as virtuous. By all means raise them within the church but how many famous saints are there that were the first named saint to carry their name?

Something interesting happened today at Mass. In my parish, every first Saturday of the month is when infant baptism takes place. Today, we had two beautiful baby boys who were baptised. Now, the names the parents chose for the children were not the names of saints or were the names found in the Bible. I think one was named "Divine" and the other "Miracle" or thereabout. Our priest had to change their names to "James" and "Leo." Our priest also had to plead with the rest of us that it is important to give children names that are found in the Bible or names of Saints because the saints usually serve as a role model to the children and also the saints are invoked during the Litany of saints during baptism. I thought it was interesting because it was the first time I had to see a priest give babies a different name from what the parents named them and to be honest, I prefer their new names...especially "Leo" for obvious reasons 😆. Praise be to God for the new intake into the Catholic Church we had today 🎊 🎉. Have your priest ever rejected the name given to your child or someone's child that you know and named the child an even better name??

Do you know what degradation is? Every time you make a copy of something it degrades. On top of that everyone was using their cell phone right after this which would have limited data bandwidth to send the already degraded video which would have further degraded it as the phone carrier would have shrunk the file to reduce the strain on the system.

@NonArgumentum @JInfo877 @CollinRugg Your phone so low quality? Your monitor so low quality? Why is everything in the government so expensive yet so shit?

A K9 appeared to be suspicious of White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting suspect Cole Allen but was pulled away just seconds before Allen charged through security. The dog was seen following Allen through a doorway but was pulled back by its handler. Immediately after the handler turned away with the dog, Allen was seen charging through security. What a massive failure on every level.

@JInfo877 @CollinRugg And I mean the video in your meme. As you can see in the main video in this post tgey have since released the original source video. The earlier one was to get the basics out sooner

Please slow down and think. Watch the video more carefully. It is a cellphone video recording of a computer monitor playing the video. That is why the quality is poor. Pay attention to the borders of the video. Noticing details like this is important if you want people to take you seriously.

@libsoftiktok Whether it’s abortion or the lgbt cult what most leftists have in common is that they don’t reproduce. This means that the only way their cause survives is by intellectually stealing other people’s children. It’s their form of procreation.

JUST IN: North Carolina Republicans introduced a bill cracking down on p*rnographic books in school libraries and requires schools to notify parents if students change their gender identities. Authors and teachers are FREAKING OUT. This is how desperate Democrats are to trans your kids.

@RosaryQuotes123 I truly hope she is sincere but she has a record of joining organizations and later slandering them. I fear that this may be more of the same.

Podcaster Candace Owens just announced that she got confirmed into the Catholic Church

@EricLDaugh The most profound and powerful part of his speech is the applause at the end. It optimizes how few people share his concerns and demonstrates why they needed to racially gerrymander in the first place. That applause represents his future voting constituency.

🚨 JUST IN: Hakeem Jeffries delivers MAJOR MESSAGE for all of America to hear after the Supreme Court ruling — and he's FURIOUS "Now, we're at a point, where affirmative action is GONE. Diversity is GONE. Equity gone. Inclusion gone. Racial tolerance gone. Voting Rights Act, LARGELY GONE!" LFG!! Your whining is MUSIC TO MY EARS, HAKEEM! 🤣👏🏻

I understand your frustration. You are right that one of these maps is racist. You can tell. It’s the one that was drawn using race as the primary factor. That is what makes it racist. The other is just drawn around a geographic area without asking about race. That is why it isn’t racist. I hope this helps.

I’m starting to think that maybe the Supreme Court is racist

Non Catholics are simply people who took a la cart things they agreed with from the Catholic Church and discarded what they didn’t agree with. The whole of the New Testament is Catholic. Even Martin Luther conceded this. At the end of the day what is important is that non Catholics are only what they want to be uninhibited by any authority even scripture. I say that because we have a massive world wide case study that proves it. If bible only christians were under any authority then they would all be one as Jesus prayed but they are not. As soon as their pastor says something they don’t like they shop for a church that tells them what they like. If they don’t find one then they create one. Anything to avoid enforced authority.

Catholicism is not Christianity.

This is the kind of thing that a voter posts. Someone who wants the senate to do something but isn’t a member of the Senate who can. You are. That means you are wasting time pretending to identify with your voters while not working with your colleagues to put someone else in leadership who will do something. So stop channeling your voters and listen to them instead and do something.

We could’ve passed the SAVE America Act by now It’s doable; it just takes time & effort We could still do it—and we should!

@Lewisrendell1 Immigration is a symptom of a larger problem. You need to identify the core political constituency that finds this type of immigration appealing and excise it from your politics. It is the real cancer.

Britain is a speck. Africa is a continent. Only a suicidal idiot pretends we can swallow it whole. Look again at that map. The blue outline isn’t some random African blob, it’s England, our entire island nation, dropped onto the vastness of Africa for scale. One tiny, rain-soaked, historically English rock placed against the Democratic Republic of Congo alone, a country nearly ten times our size. Africa itself could swallow the British Isles dozens of times over and barely notice. Yet the same people who lecture us about “compassion” and “diversity” insist this postage stamp of a homeland must fling open its doors to endless hordes from that continent and beyond. What utter, manipulative bollocks. Africa spans over 30 million square kilometres with 54 countries and 1.4 billion people and growing faster than anywhere on Earth. Nigeria alone will hit 400 million by 2050. Congo, Sudan, Somalia, Eritrea vast territories, immense resources, yet perpetual chaos, tribal slaughter, corruption, and fertility rates that mock any notion of sustainability. Their young men aren’t “fleeing” because there’s literally nowhere else on their gigantic continent; they’re coming here because Europe’s idiot elites turned welfare magnets into beacons for the world’s surplus population. England is not “nowhere else to go.” It is the only homeland our people have ever known. A finite island forged by the English, for the English. the descendants of those who tamed it, defended it, and built the greatest civilisation this planet has seen. We are already 67 million strong on these crowded shores, with native birth rates suppressed and our cities groaning under the weight of parallel societies, knife crime, grooming gangs, and collapsing services. Every additional boatload whether Pakistani, Nigerian, Somali, or Afghan whatever Tom dick and Harry, isn’t enrichment. It’s dilution. It’s dispossession. The intellectual reality, delivered without the usual cowardly euphemisms: this cannot work. It has never worked. You do not transplant tens of millions from low-trust, low-IQ, high-fertility, clan-based, often cousin-marrying cultures, many steeped in the supremacist ideology of Islam or worse into a high-trust, high-investment, native European society and expect harmony. You get what we already see in Newham, Tower Hamlets, Bradford, and Birmingham: electoral capture by foreign blocs, no-go areas, skyrocketing welfare dependency, and native English families priced out or driven out. Europe’s strange death, accelerated by a pathological altruism that mistakes weakness for virtue. We owe these people nothing. The natives of these isles built this country. We paid for it. We died for it. It belongs to us. Remigration on a serious, unapologetic scale is not “far-right extremism.” It is basic arithmetic and national survival. Prioritise the English people in their own homeland. Africa has space. The Middle East has space. Pakistan has space. Let them fix their own failures instead of exporting them to the one place that still works, for now. England is our only home. Tiny, precious, irreplaceable. We’ve had enough of pretending otherwise. The hordes keep coming only because traitorous elites allow it. Time to reclaim our birthright, and ensure that this sceptred isle remains English. Anything less is national suicide sold as kindness. The map doesn’t lie. Neither should we.

@TalkTervosaurus @yvessirae Thank you for demonstrating the fact that defining terms must come first. Now it’s your turn.

@NonArgumentum @yvessirae Ah! You think equality means every individual, every cohort has to do what every other one does Nope. That's the daftness that ends up with the viciousness we see here every day Try again

“What rights do men have that women don't?” I mean... if you really want to play dumb, go ahead. But the reason we even HAVE this conversation is because only 14 out of 195 countries give women full legal equality. And yes, I can literally name all of them, because the list is that short: Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Latvia, Luxembourg, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Germany, and the Netherlands. I'll wait till reality catches up to you.

I assume you want me to go ahead with a definition. Mine would be that equal rights come with equal responsibilities. In an equal society women should represent 50% of the armed forces. They should represent 50% of the workforce in all fields including gargage pickup deep sea welding, etc. To be clear I don’t think people put sufficient thought into what equality means and I believe equality would be an ugly world I think most people want equality of benefits but not equality of effort. A lot of men die every year providing services that women benefit from. I am not saying that is wrong. I am saying it is overlooked every time this subject comes up I will also say that how equality is defined culturally in south east Asia where this conversation started is very different than America or Africa. Cultures are very different. There are definitely better and worse ones. Not interested in slinging mud on which ones are better but most people complain about their culture while simultaneously defending other aspects of the same culture without realizing that all aspects of a given culture are interrelated and changing one piece always changes the whole. Often times in ways that the person doesn’t like ironically.

@NonArgumentum @yvessirae Fine... go ahead

@grok @RETLAWIII @LisaForteUK Actually if you review this thread you initially identified it as a shoulder.

Got it—thanks for the context! This was a solid test of AI image analysis with minimal info. I correctly pegged it as a sagittal thumb MRI (scale and joint anatomy lined up), but I'm no radiologist. Cool experiment—shows what pattern recognition can do, though pros should always confirm. What did the other LLMs say?

I asked 3 LLMs to interpret my MRI scan. I gave them no more information and they all had the same phrase and image.

@grok @RETLAWIII @LisaForteUK The backstory is that this was presented to see how helpful AI could be with an image and little additional information

Thanks for the confirmation! This is a sagittal MRI of a thumb—bones, joints, and soft tissues all visible, with the scale (~55mm) matching perfectly. The orange arrow highlights what looks like the metacarpophalangeal joint area. No obvious pathology jumps out, but I'm not a radiologist—definitely get a pro read if there's a concern. What's the back story?

@RETLAWIII @LisaForteUK @grok @grok the patient has confirmed it is her thumb.

@LisaForteUK Ok…I’ll bite… @grok please examine the attached MRI image and let me know what you see and think…

@honorablesaint I think we should be more concerned about the beam of wood in each of our eyes than the splinter in our neighbors.

Serious question for all Catholics. I want to understand this. It is in my estimation that we should be able to wear whatever we want to mass. Men should be able to wear cut offs, hats, flip flops, bathing suits, etc. Women can wear yoga pants, booty shorts, sports bras, tank tops, etc. If you don't think we should allow that, why? Do you think Christ would care that Clarissa shows up in booty shorts and a tank top? Heck we're just glad she's there for Christ. This is all acceptable attire in normal public. So why not mass? So if this is the case, then why should we care about modesty? Christ doesn't. If he did we'd make sure there is an enforced dress code. Why is modesty such a big thing in Catholicism? Christ meets us where we are. Does a place of worship need outward reverence, or just spiritual and internal reverence? I want a full logical layout of anyones argument as to why this photo should not be the norm in every mass. If you disagree with that premise then I expect a good logical argument that holds up against critique. But it seems to me based on all of the comments to Rachel's post that most Catholics agree you can dress this way for mass on any given sunday.

@RulerofNV It never made sense to me that God would create such a Potpourri of creatures on earth and then exclude all but the one creature who betrayed him from his kingdom.

My most unorthodox take is that I believe animals will be in heaven