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Jacob Phillips

@Counteredlogos

Catholic. Professor of Systematic Theology. Hierarchical communitarianism. 'The gentlest face of Integralism' - Worker and Parasite pod. https://t.co/ADeReaIWPR

London Katılım Mayıs 2009
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Jacob Phillips@Counteredlogos·
The discourse about Ayaan Hirsi Ali and civilisational Christianity made me think back to that devastatingly unwelcome moment when I realised not only that I believed in God, but I was even going to have to seek baptism, for @TheCriticMag. thecritic.co.uk/against-christ…
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Catholic Truth Society@CTSpublishers·
"Even the best liturgy in the world will still have some annoying parishioners present, or some others behaving during Mass in a way that is less than fitting, and so on. Yet Pope Leo suggests that even these realities are harmoniously integrated with God’s grace – and if we try too hard to escape them rather than find God in them, the sacramental reality of the Church can be undermined. In other words, an ideal church is no longer really the Church." In our latest Substack article, @counteredlogos reflects on how we encounter God in the Church, and only in the midst of human weaknesses. Read it now: livingcatholictruth.substack.com/p/an-ideal-chu…
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In fact, (i) and (ii) depend and feed on each other, which is one of the many reasons why (ii) is such a spectacularly unwise approach.
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It's perfectly possible to maintain two things as being true: (i) lots of tedious grifters take an unethical delight in always assuming the worst for their own gain, and (ii) there's a highly curated and often dishonest approach to public messaging in these fractious times.
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It's so weird in post-Southport Britain now that every high profile crime involves days of culture wars cluedo trying to interpret a stream of contradictory statements and actions from very uncomfortable looking police officers reading verbatim from a script.

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Heather Tomlinson@HeatherTomli·
@Counteredlogos Did you see Jacob Rees Mogg's tribute? Contained some catechesis on purgatory, a discussion of the TLM and a request to pray for her soul
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Jacob Phillips@Counteredlogos·
When someone devoutly Catholic dies, it seems weird to say "my thoughts are with them" or whatever. Thoughts are useless, and devoid of any metaphysical potency. A thought is like a microscopic drop of watery vapour compared to the Pacific-sized Ocean of one intercessory prayer.
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Sigourney Beaver 🎗️🐹🐎🐦🌳🧡🧡🧡@sigourneybeaver·
Mum died peacefully in the early hours. All a bit surreal atm. Thanks picked pals for listening to me wittering on while I was hanging round her bedside and distracting me with silliness.
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Jacob Phillips@Counteredlogos·
It's so weird in post-Southport Britain now that every high profile crime involves days of culture wars cluedo trying to interpret a stream of contradictory statements and actions from very uncomfortable looking police officers reading verbatim from a script.
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Part 2 of An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Dissent just dropped, a technical walk-through the four levels of magisterial teaching before I bring it all together in Part 3 next week.
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HSz.@NommeDeTwit·
@Counteredlogos "Women of this type", will we endure? Nothing to do with "Englishness". Don't talk about us as though we're some extinct species, we're very much alive and kicking and relevant.
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This is important because many of us grew up with women of this type in our towns, at primary school or church fêtes, charging fearsomely around the place, giving you a bollocking occasionally, but always teaching you to shut up, grow up, and show up. Will such a type endure?
Leman Walters@LemanWalters

Ann Widdecombe, embodied a basically vanished type of worldview and manner, one with a totally assumed sense of integrity, an avatar of an unsentimental Englishness belonging to rotund girl guide leaders and lay parishioners. Eccentricities and individualism, RIP

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TradingPsychology@DrCryptoPsych·
@Counteredlogos When people ponder how we held out alone against the Nazis for years and then prevailed, they highlight the RAF; the Turings; the Churchills. What they never mention are the Widdecombe-types. They held the fabric of society together, kept up morale, provided moral certainty.
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@DavidGr40434506 @Counteredlogos @CptHastings1916 My mum. But it scares me cos she won't face that the world has changed. She thinks if she sees some teenage boys smoking in their school uniform she can just use THAT voice on them and they'll stop and say "sorry missus" but I'm worried she's gonna get stabbed one day
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Jacob Phillips@Counteredlogos·
@vicksterwrites @JulianSnowdon Yes, I'm thinking of the 1980s/90s - floral dresses and stoutly robust pillars of the community were still aplenty then.
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Trickytaylors@trickytaylors·
@Counteredlogos They never said it, but the knowing smile would always say "You'll thank me for this one day"
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When Ann Widdecombe was received into the Church, a subterranean current of ancestral Anglo energy was brought by and with her back into the bosom of Rome, undoing wounds to the spiritual condition of these Isles going back to the sacking and destruction of Glastonbury Abbey
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@EBGB2 Be fearsome!
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@Counteredlogos I am planning exactly this for my future. Still a few years to go till retirement, then just watch me!
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