Rod Halvorsen at EVR_Forge.

This is the post of the Year.

A lot of criticism has been levelled at Custer's tactics at the Little Bighorn. But something to remember is the difficulty the army (both infantry and cavalry) had in both finding and then attacking Plains Indians. Oftimes Indians were able to escape. Washita schooled Custer to the possibilities of a relatively surprise attack, at least one in which the Indians had no time to escape. I believe this "lesson" was his undoing in 1876.

The Battle of Washita, Frederic Remington, c.1890 Custer destroyed a large Cheyenne village in this 1868 battle. It was one of his largest battles in the west.

@VeritasLucia @RaymondArroyo @RobertSRoyal @GeraldMurray8 Have you read it? I admit, I did not read all 42,000 words, but did read enough to be concerned. bigmodernism.substack.com/p/magnifica-hu…

@RaymondArroyo @RobertSRoyal @GeraldMurray8 The poor lost souls who count words as though maths it be, instead of actually reading and understanding any deep meaning into anything.

“Sin is only mentioned three times in this document…. How is this a Church document?” @RobertSRoyal @GeraldMurray8 and I analyze Pope Leo’s new encyclical. See the full episode here: youtu.be/q9e7hLISzbA?si…

@RaymondArroyo @RobertSRoyal @GeraldMurray8 An assessment worth reading: bigmodernism.substack.com/p/magnifica-hu…

@AuditeInsulae The Masonic parts define the rest, since Pope St Pius X gave us the heads up about orthodox terms being used to mean something else.

Glad it's not just me. This is document is disconcerting.

@JeffCassman If he likes elk steak, send him my way.

I only know one of these men. He's smart, holy and humble. They kind of guy that likes to vacation in a rural cabin with no AC and hunt. What I've been told of the others was that leadership wanted young, smart and holy.

@shagbark_hick The SSPX never tried to get me to accept this crap. Have you prayed reparations for these???

@TLM_Ryan @shagbark_hick "theory", Counselor. As if it is. Even the CCC recognizes it as a doctrine. Reduce anything to being a "theory" and anything can become "outdated".

I pray that all Catholics pray a Rosary of Reparation on July 1st. May God prevent these consecrations, and may the Holy Spirit work on the souls of those defending this act of defiance against Christ's Church, against which even the gates of hell shall never prevail.

@shagbark_hick Pope Leo has stated that those condemned as schismatics and heretics before Vatican 2 are "already one" with the Catholic Church. What could possibly concern you? vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2…

@TaylorRMarshall Why "(gulp) 40-50 years". Tell us.

The four new SSPX bishops will be American, Swiss, and French (2). But why? Some suggest this means that they don't care about Latin America. Rather, I think it points to choosing men who are 110% loyalists to the SSPX. It was a grave embarrassment to the SSPX to have one of the original four (Bp. Williamson) break ranks and spin off into a splinter "resistance" group. If that were to happen again, it would be disastrous for the SSPX with regard to their lay supporters and also with the Holy See. So they chose young priests who are 110% loyal and that can work together in unity over the next (gulp) 40-50 years.

It's long. Before making a judgment, please read both, or at least enough of both to make an honest judgment. See what you think. I did not read all of the 42,000 words of the encyclical but from what I did read I challenge anyone to argue against this assessment provided by @BigModernism I do not know who Chris Jackson is. I suspect at some point we will know and many will be surprised. vatican.va/content/leo-xi… bigmodernism.substack.com/p/magnifica-hu…

I've killed quite a few bear, and having been involved in a close fight that ended literally at my ankles, what comes to my mind is that all this thing will do to a bear that wants you is to add anger to hunger when he kills you.

@wrathofgnon I've killed quite a few bear, and having been involved in a close fight that ended literally at my ankles, what comes to my mind is that all this thing will do to a bear that wants you is to add anger to hunger when he kills you.

Anti-bear spears developed by man who actually fought off and survived a bear attack. Lightweight for speed in maneuvering and double pronged to stop the bear from impaling itself and close in. japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/society/genera…

@shiningsweu The fact he used the term "theory" did it for me. The CCC (etc) treats the teaching as doctrine, something to be clarified, not chucked because it's just a "theory" anyway.

Leo XIV’s Magnifica Humanitas Critique of Just War Theory Is a Cheap Shot! Leo XIV’s criticism of the abuse of the Just War doctrine would have made sense if he had distinguished clearly between the corruption of the doctrine and the doctrine itself. Instead, Magnifica Humanitas treats the Catholic tradition almost as though it were morally suspect merely because modern politicians and propagandists misuse it. That is a superficial treatment of a doctrine developed through centuries by theologians such as Saint Augustine and Saint Thomas Aquinas precisely to restrain violence, not encourage it. The Catholic doctrine of Just War was never a celebration of war. It was an attempt to place moral chains upon fallen man in a fallen world. The Church understood what modern sentimentalism often refuses to admit: sometimes force is necessary to protect the innocent, defend nations, repel invaders, or preserve Christian civilization against unjust aggression. To call the doctrine “outdated” because it has been abused is intellectually weak. By that logic, one could also call diplomacy outdated because diplomats lie, or forgiveness outdated because false mercy enables evil. The encyclical speaks as though “dialogue, diplomacy and forgiveness” are always sufficient tools. History itself refutes this illusion. Dialogue did not stop World War II. Diplomacy did not stop Hitler. Forgiveness alone would not have liberated Europe from National Socialism, nor protected Christians from Islamic conquests across centuries. Sometimes evil advances precisely because good men hesitate to confront it with legitimate force. One must recognize both truths simultaneously: war is tragic, and yet in certain circumstances resistance through arms becomes a moral duty. The Catechism itself preserves this principle because governments possess obligations toward the common good that go beyond emotional appeals to peace. A father defending his family against a murderer does not become immoral because he used force. The same principle applies to nations. The most troubling aspect of this passage is its tone toward tradition. Instead of refining the Just War doctrine or clarifying its limits in the modern age, the text dismisses it with a broad rhetorical stroke, echoing postwar secular pacifism more than classical Catholic realism. The result is a humanitarian language detached from the tragic reality of human nature after Original Sin. Catholic civilization was not built by naïve men who imagined evil could always be reasoned away. It was built by saints who prayed, forgave, preached, and, when necessary, defended Christendom against destruction. The Just War doctrine emerged from that realism. To reduce it to a mere excuse for violence is not a deep reading of Catholic tradition, but a caricature of it.

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@AuditeInsulae Why would THEY do that?

Step 1: Sack Cardinal Blaise Cupich.

Mark, the problem is not that. The problem is that along with sound teaching among the 42,000 words (Pr 10:19) of the document, it includes ambiguous and very problematic passages, "time bombs" that can in the future be appealed to as authoritative in order to support errant doctrines. Just like Vatican 2.

It's in no way intellectually serious to dismiss this encyclical as neo-Modernist simply because it does not replicate the political vocabulary of late 19th-century papal anti-liberalism. Indeed, ironically, many secular liberals reading this encyclical will likely find it deeply illiberal in its rejection of expressive individualism, technocratic domination and posthuman ideology.

@_Leila @AuditeInsulae Indeed, it is. It involves the use of orthodox vocabulary while assigning ambiguous or direct alternative meanings to it.

@AuditeInsulae Is modernism a matter of vocabulary?

@MrsCasey6 @chesterbelloc3 Great sermon. I keep stumping to have our Priest's sermons published. SSPX has the best preaching I've ever heard.

@EVR_Forge @chesterbelloc3 I would have loved to hear that.

In your charity, please pray for the repose of the soul of Fr. Dreher, the pastor of the SSPX parish in my area.

The methodology seems to "work". Heretics can move up the chain of command with effective protection provided by so-called "conservatives" who claim that teaching hasn't changed. The Overton Window shifts and so-called "conservatives" claim we are still seeing the same scene as before.

4/ I ask only that those who speak for the Church officially, and those who claim to do so, adhere to the same standards I was held to. Nothing more.

1/ As an Anglican clergy convert, I was given piles of Church documents that covered 1,900 years, and I was told I had to accept them. Now, when I support those documents, I'm seen as the problem.

Not a candidate for the clergy, I, too was presented marvelous documents of the pre-Vatican 2 Church. I, too, accepted all of them. Now, it's like I am facing something that has two wheels, handlebars, a gas tank, an engine and a headlight and told that it is not a motorcycle, it's a dairy cow, and if I insist that what I'm looking at is a motorcycle I am a bad man.