Michael O'Connor
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Michael O'Connor
@JDMikeJ
Crypto Lawyer; ex-Kraken; Geek; Penn Stater; Catholic; Husband to an Awesome Wife. Opinions are my own.
Washington, DC Katılım Mart 2012
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Maybe we took Pierce Brosnan for granted as 007. This guy was the perfect Bond at the perfect time - he was exactly what this franchise needed in the late ‘90s. I’ve said it before but I would love a reboot with Brosnan as an older, retired Bond pulled back into the force.
Kalshi Film@Kalshi_Film
Pierce Brosnan never stopped looking like 007
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It sounds bad because there is no real explanation for why Rey would turn other than personal relationship with Kylo. She sees how bad the Empire is and we haven't gotten any "but they did this good thing in my past" to explain why she would suddenly embrace evil.
It DOES make the best of a terrible awful corner Abrams and Johnson painted themselves into. But it's only the best of a selection of bad choices.
The sequel trilogy was terrible from beginning to end. I can't believe Disney allowed maybe their single most valuable IP asset to go forward without any coherent vision. Careening wildly from movie to movie based on directorial whim was inane.
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@flapprdotnet @IMAO_ that sounds bad if i’m being honest
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It left the story with nowhere to go. The only threats left after TLJ were Kylo and Hux — two dweebs the heroes had already bested multiple times.
one dozen rats at a keyboard@PanasonicDX4500
The best decision Rian Johnson made in TLJ was killing off the pointless Emperor knockoff so that Adam Driver’s Kyle Ren could be front and center of the new universe, so of course the first think RoS did was just bring back the Emperor.
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@Pennsyltucky79 @pontificatormax @Sensus_Fidelium "I will grant the singular permission to offer this Mass ad orientem."
Which he doesn't have the authority to prohibit.
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Diocese of Owensboro Latin Mass to end on June 30th, 2026.
Mater Dolorosa, Ora pro nobis!
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@therealaskilroy @kirawontmiss Technically correct but misleading. If total wage including tips is less than the standard minimum wage, then the employer must make up the difference. If the employer is following the law, then the employee will never make less than the standard minimum wage.
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Why do people not understand that the legal Minimum Wage for servers that receive tips is LESS than normal minimum wage? They rely on tips to earn their living. It’s not “tipping culture out of control”. This is how our system was set up and works. And they are automatically taxed based receipts. So if you’re not willing to tip decently, get fast food.
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The focus group, they fail to mention, was just a bunch of Facebook-addled boomers and women with an IQ under 65.
Sam Stein@samstein
NEW: Increasingly in @SarahLongwell25's focus groups, a name keeps popping up among MAGA voters as someone they'd like to see lead the ticket in 2028. That someone: @RealCandaceO thebulwark.com/p/were-not-tal…
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@TheJakeChristie Perhaps because the rumor from the beginning was that Pascal was difficult and they wanted the option to ditch him with minimal problems.
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I still find the most baffling story decision in The Mandalorian the show to be him encountering Mandalorians who don’t wear their helmets who seem to be fine, and that NOT end with him realizing the helmet stuff is nonsense
Bobby Wagner@bwags
The main problem with Mandalorian and Grogu is that the lead character is incredibly, famously static. You can build TV shows around static characters because the episodic format allows you to pursue satisfying B-plots. It’s harder to build movies around static characters
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I have routinely seen contracts with absolutely clear provisions that completely nullify claims. Guess what the plaintiffs' lawyers always try to litigate?
biglawbro@biglawbro
eventually AI will make contracts so clear and comprehensive that there will be less litigation
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@jdleggcan Lay hands on the shoulder. Never the head, if you’re not ordained.
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Cute but nuns should not lay hands on someone’s head during prayer.
Nuns are consecrated religious women but not ordained clergy. The laying of hands on the head is a priestly/sacramental sign reserved for ordained ministers.
Timothy Gordon (Rules for Retrogrades Show)@timotheeology
Dope that the nuns showed up for the Spurs game tonight and that Luke Kornet prayed with them
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You can file a judicial ethics complaint, I guess, because the judge removed a disruptive idiot from his courtroom in a textbook case of contempt.
But it's so obviously dumb he will probably not have to file a response.
Witsit@WitsitGetsIt
For everyone saying “file a complaint here”pointing to some online complaint form, that’s what they want the public to think is the best way to take action.. it is not. Look up the judicial cannons for this district, type up a judicial complaint based on the canons he violated, then send it in certified mail requiring a signature. Even if dismissed, it has to be reported to his insurance. I had a 20 year federal magistrate judge hand off my free speech case and step down immediately retiring early after receiving my formal judicial complaint. It has to be legit. Find the actual judicial cannons he has violated and include only that in the complaint. This is what they don’t want you to know, trust me.
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@jpodhoretz This. This is what concerns Ms. Lorenz. Stunning.
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I can’t believe Taylor Lorenz is real. It’s like she’s a construct of the Babylon Bee.
Taylor Lorenz@TaylorLorenz
NYC bagel shops need to get with the times. The bagels in LA suck, but all the LA bagel shops at least use cashew-based vegan cream cheese. NYC bagel shops almost never have vegan cc or they’re using hyper processed Tofutti 🤢. I hope Zohran can remedy this
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I am terribly sorry that you were misadvised. Any competent canonist would tell you that lack of canonical form is the most straightforward basis for nullity. So I can't help but think that the people advising you were either woefully incompetent or intentionally misleading you. They will have much to answer before the Throne. None of that is your fault, and you are to be commended for following the Church's commands.
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So here's my situation:
- We had a wedding 23 years ago in the Episcopal Church.
- I was Catholic, she was not
- Was assured at the time that the marriage would be "valid, yet irregular"
- She converted to Catholicism 12 years ago
- No one cared or found a problem at Catholic Churches we attended with our marriage which produced four children
- Move to a traditional Church
- Marriage found to be invalid
- Ordered to cease marital relations until marriage can be convalidated.
Am I allowed to kiss my long-term live-in girlfriend?
Novus Ordo Enjoyer 🐓🇵🇷@kingofthehood89
Oh brother what are we even doing here
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@Rural_KS_Pastor Catholics believe that presbyters remain deacons and bishops remain both presbyters and deacons. They are concentric circles with successively fuller expressions of Holy Orders.
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This 3-fold division has a major problem: the NT refuses to cooperate. Paul calls the same men “presbyters” and “bishops.” So either the apostles were deeply confused about church office, or these are later created distinctions not found in Scripture. 🤔
Fr Calvin Robinson ©️®️@calvinrobinson
In the Bible we see diakonos (Deacons) as servant ministers, presbyteros (Presbyters/Priests) as ordained teachers who preside over the Sacraments, episkopos (Bishops) who excercise oversight (overseers) and the fullness of Holy Orders. Protestant “pastors” are somewhere between presbyteros and episkopos coopting the title of shepherd, but they are not ordained into Holy Orders. They have no Apostolic Succession. The deposit of faith is missing in its fullness. Therefore, when a Catholic or Orthodox Christian refers to a Protestant as “pastor” he is being polite, he is not recognising or submitting to any spiritual authority, as the Church teaches there is none there outside of that which all Christians have in the royal priesthood of all believes (i.e. all fathers are the spiritual leaders of their household.) but not the ministerial/sacerdotal priesthood.
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@ChivalryFella @emzanotti I'm still about to have an aneurysm. Fake boomer "sacraments" instead of the real thing. Awful.
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This is kind of the Synod on Synodality writ large:
Kids: “We would like [insert actual Catholic thing here, like confession].”
Nearby Boomer: “I bet the kids would really like [Boomer leftcath hobbyhorse they’ve loved since 1972].”
Kids: “No thank you.”
NB: *Not listening* “Let’s do it!”
Kids: “We’re right effing here.”
𝕊𝕀𝔸𝕋𝔼 𝕊𝔸ℕ𝕋𝕀@SiateSanti
L'Arcidiocesi di #Madrid non allestirà confessionali durante la veglia dei giovani durante la visita di Papa Leone XIV in Spagna il prossimo giugno. Saranno invece disponibili "spazi di ascolto" gestiti da operatori pastorali laici, pronti ad "accompagnare e dialogare con i partecipanti". 🤦🏻♂️
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Catholics and Orthodox both believe that Mary remains physically alive, as she was assumed into Heaven body and soul. Like her Divine Son, she has the glorified body that all the Elect will eventually have.
With that said, Catholics draw no distinction between asking the physically living to pray for us and asking those alive in Christ.
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@emzanotti How would Catholics respond to the criticism of definitions that Mary was physically alive at the time, so what they were doing was something other than what we'd typically think of as prayer?
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The guys who ran out of wine during the wedding at Cana
Yẹmí@KR3Wmatic
Who in the Bible prayed to Mary like Catholics do?
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@CatholicSmark Assuming they should have bishops at all is sheer presumption. The Franciscans have no dedicated bishops, the Augustinians have no dedicated bishops, the FSSP has no dedicated bishop, the ICKSP has no dedicated bishop. That is precisely to avoid creating a parallel hierarchy.
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But it probably went
"You have two bishops. Why do you need more?" Followed by "are you going to reunite with us?"
Patrick @ Creative Minority@CMReport
Here's how it should have worked: SSPX: We are aging and need new Bishops. HSEE: Ok, who are your candidates? SSPX: A, B, C, and D HSEE: We are good with A and D. SSPX: Ok, thanks! We'll send you an invite!
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@followmegee Really? That is what Vatican II said? Are you sure? (Hint: Sacrosanctum Concilium 36.)
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So many would leave the Church if it went back to a Mass that no one can understand. Thank God for Vatican II where Mass was in local speech, just like Jesus spoke.
Pope Pius IX@PopePiusIXStan
I’d say he’d be a miracle away from sainthood if he did this
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@SheriSnowPowers @BreitbartNews Everything every Father of the Church said is not automatically dogma. Only if it is universally held by the Father or later accepted by the teaching authority of the Church is it later held authoritative.
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@BreitbartNews there are many iterations (and lost and/or erased dogma) by the catholic church & christianity over 2000 years...maybe start closer the beginning? see Origen of Alexandria – De Principiis circa 220–230 AD (On First Principles) on the "pre-existence of souls?"
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Stephen Colbert, a professed Catholic, says he believes that when we die, "there is some continuance of some kind. But it’s like a dispersion of the self into some other greater being. And I don’t have any other feelings beyond that.”
This sounds more like the Gnostic concept of the Pleroma than the Catholic doctrine of Heaven.
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@emzanotti IT ABSOLUTELY DOES. Especially the look on the Cardinal’s face.
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This conversation looks an awful lot like the kind I have with my daughter after she’s written on the walls with marker for the 2846462948 time
Catholic Sat@CatholicSat
His Holiness Pope Leo XIV greeting His Eminence Blase Joseph Cardinal Cupich, Metropolitan Archbishop of Chicago, at today’s General Audience.
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Your paper appears to confirm my understanding that while there might be historical and practical arguments for restriction of distribution under both species, that is not the present law of the Church. RS 101 and 102 say not to do it where there is danger of profanation or of an excessive quantity of the Precious Blood remaining.
But managing such matters requires merely experience and common sense. I have served as a sacristan, and estimating amounts needed for Mass is generally straightforward with some experience. Suggesting it is a liturgical abuse to offer the chalice to "large numbers" seems to have little to no basis in the law.
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I became interested in liturgical abuses at one point in my journey into the TLM and read up on liturgical law. I then realised that lots of things that I had assumed were allowed were not. I don’t recommend getting obsessed by this stuff but 1/
Henry von Blumenthal@PaulinusOfTrier
Has anyone actually been at a Mass where there was liturgical abuse, as opposed to seeing it on internet? I have seen these examples. (1) use of crockery at a Mass instead of proper vessels. (2) untrained volunteers being given the role of extraordinary ministers of holy communion resulting in compounded abuses. (3) refusal to give communion to a person who was kneeling for it.
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