Fr Matthew P. Schneider, LC🇻🇦

When parishes close, people often blame the current bishop. But most parish closings are due to demographics outside the Church's control, or issues in the Church going back decades before the current bishop. My piece on @cworldreport. catholicworldreport.com/2026/06/22/who…

Really exciting to have two World Cup semi-final matches where both matches are played by neighbouring countries. 🇫🇷 🇪🇸 🇦🇷 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

@CullumSmith Mainly true.

The SSPX has formally appealed the excommunication of the six bishops. Per Canon 1353, any penalties of excommunication are now suspended, pending the result of their appeal.

As far as I understand, Canon 1353 would not seem to apply to the automatic excommunication of the bishops for illicit consecration as that is neither a judgemental nor decree. It should suspend wider things like them committing schism & thus the excommunication of non-bishops. canonlaw.ninja/?nums=1353

On 109th anniversary of Our Lady appearing to the children in Fatima, the SSPX has formally appealed the Vatican’s excommunications. This means the excommunications—according to Canon Law—must be temporarily set aside until the process unfolds.

I think the US or 2-3 European states together. Germany 2006 only had 1 new stadium built & it's been Bayern Munich's Stadium since then so more a normal replacement over the collection of abandoned stadiums of the 4 between 2006 & 2026. The increase in size to 64 teams makes me think you'd need a 2 or 3 European nation collaboration to not build wasteful stadiums.

On a purely factual basis, America basically is actually the best possible existing World Cup host. It has many large stadiums. It has an extremely diverse population, basically every country on Earth is represented. It can easily accommodate the tourists.

@JoshHochschild Congrats! Are you already in Rome? I'm here another 10 days for a course on seminary formation.

After too long teasing good news, now announcing: for academic year 2026-27, I get to be a visiting scholar in Rome. I’ll be writing and teaching as the Aquinas Chair in Philosophy at the Angelicum. Very grateful for support of both the Dominicans and my home institution!

@charliewrich You...

Shocking how much mileage this joke still gets

As we get older, we need to keep praying more & more in preparation for heaven.

@CJose_Azul They all live in the Vatican and are in good shape. Most serve quite a bit more than 5 years.

@CJose_Azul 100% Swiss Guards. 🤔

@ChasNikisher @SohrabAhmari *7 You got your wars mixed up.

@FrMatthewLC @SohrabAhmari No because it would take 100 years to be resolved

If you were rooting for the US, you’re now obliged to switch to England. Sorry, them’s the rules of the special relationship!

@Charles_Reding Ideally, yes, but sometimes unfortunate things happen. Plus, here if dad still has his house (likely), you me ask toda to be added to the will so you get it back.

@ChristineNiles1 Someone at the SSPX chapel near Charlotte said only ~12 of ~300 would leave... I wonder what the number would be if there was a EF / TLM at a parish a few minutes away? I suspect more would cease going to the SSPX.

A member of an SSPX community in NC confirms most SSPXers aren't interested in communion with Rome: Jim de Piante: "The vast majority are like, 'Yawn, I want to keep doing what I'm doing,'" he said, while another group had simply "a good laugh" about the Vatican's announcement. "There's jokes going around, 'Party like it's 1988' or '1988 copy paste,'" he added. "We've done 1988." The article also reveals the experiences of Louis Massett who grew up in the SSPX community in St. Mary's, KS: "He said Catholics who chose to attend the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter—the Vatican-approved traditionalist order founded by priests who left the SSPX after the 1988 consecrations—were viewed with suspicion by many within the society. Massett recalled friendships ending and even family members refusing to attend one another's weddings because they worshipped at different traditional Latin Mass communities. 'I firmly believe things are going to get worse,' he said." newsweek.com/sspx-member-sa…

“Pope Leo XIV is said to have initiated a series of direct communications with Emmanuel Macron. According to sources within both the diplomatic sphere and the Vatican, His Holiness has been making regular 15-minute phone calls to the French President focused solely on the euthanasia and assisted suicide bill.”

@FrMatthewLC It's almost like growing up with the TLM didn't magically make those priests faithful...

This 2023 chart challenges a certain narrative: before 1965, priests & seminarians were all very conservative / orthodox. Priests ordained before 1970, are WAY more theologically progressive than those ordained since 2010. catholicproject.catholic.edu/wp-content/upl…

@VrilSorcery @grok Note

@FrMatthewLC @grok Does this refer to political conservativism or theological conservativism?

@Zaza0040 Look a little more carefully.

@FrMatthewLC Part of the Explanation might be that "progressive" in 1970 meant something completely different from "progressive" in 2020. 1970: interracial marriages are cool 2020: men can be pregnant

@MargaretPBrady @Cath_SteelMan The report has a different chart for political leanings. Younger priests are more conservative there but the shift is much less dramatic so clearly not 1 to 1.

@Cath_SteelMan @FrMatthewLC You are right, but the chart shows self-described theological orthodoxy, not political conservatism.

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@NYGovPres_67 This is pretty reasonable. I might remove "close" before "ally" & add a sentence on the guy charged with murder.

all things considered this still feels like something out of an autistic alternate wiki box timeline

@DrMaliakkal That logic fails.