Matthew Minerd

Some thoughts on history and the human condition: athomist.com/articles/histo…

"A border is not only a line on a map, it is also a spiritual limit that expresses a spiritual decision." - Pierre Manent

Prof. Fr. Carsten Barwasser, O.P., has published a valuable chapter (in English) on the thought and legacy of Gallus Manser, O.P., titled: “Wrong Philosophy Leads to Wrong Thinking: The Strict Thomism of Gallus Manser (1866–1950) as the Philosophical Basis of Ideological Criticism.” This chapter appears as part of this recent volume (De Gruyter): a.co/d/02GPDHJJ The other chapters in this volume are also quite useful and insightful as well.

Cajetan Cuddy O.P. - Henri de Lubac & Contemporary Thomists youtu.be/i1sA7JEEuDw?si…

“The city of God will have its own body.  Over the ages it will be ceaselessly built.  For the supernatural is itself has a body of flesh, and the tree of grace, with roots that thrust deep down, plunges into the soil and seeks out its depth.” - Charles Péguy

Time to short the Mousing Market.

My favorite hallway is the one filled with bathrooms, some of which sub in as bedrooms

We speak of “liberalism”, “the West”, “the crisis of democracy”. Pierre Manent drives us asks a prior question: what is the political animal, and under what form does he live? If you want a politics beyond slogans, check out our 2026-27 reading group. Link below (details, dates, texts, etc.) 1/2

“Spiritual activity, which is above time, does not vacate time. No, it holds it from on high.” -Jacques Maritain On the Philosophy of History

Ha. I will admit that I thought: geeze, that seems a bit weird for one of our ruthenian parishes.... I would guess it's a liability thing. But, I competence also is questionable. What this person is saying is institutionally correct, however. (There are hopeful things he is overlooking. But it is very isolated positive cases: good parishes here and there in metropolitan areas, where you can get one decent parish of 150-200 max out of 3-6 million people.)

@PhilCatholic That's a photo of the Cathedral Basilica of the Archdiocese of St Louis.

Three very important articles regarding matters in the East in America. I admit that two of them are a bit strong in their lamentations, yet what is said is based in reality: firstthings.com/when-the-bells…

In the US, there is a sizeable movement of Orthodox converts who see it as a kind of deracinated patristic thing that, if anything, should be opposed to the cultural matrix of the given Church. Because these zealous converts very often dislike the people whose ethnic identity is, arguably, a bit stronger than their religious identity. This also happens in the Eastern Catholic Churches, as though one should actually even hate, for example, the old Rusyn devotional hymns because they're not "really Eastern".

@PhilCatholic As a convert I didn’t toss out anything about Orthodoxy, it simply didn’t enter into my experience at all except very notionally. Converts I know seem to be far more alert to the danger of assimilation than most cradle Catholics. Maybe there is context I’m missing…

Also true: "Furthermore, converts underestimate the extent to which assimilation and cultural deracination are a slippery slope to secularism. Contrary to the dictates of the Enlightenment philosophes, “religiosity” cannot exist in a vacuum."

@LiebhaberRyan Well, "wonderful" in the sense of an honest and faithful person's lament! But, thanks for reading them, Father.

@PhilCatholic Wonderful articles, thank you for sharing!

Very true: "As much as it would be unfair to write off all converts as mere LARPers, those who are content with tossing out Orthodoxy’s cultural dimension wholesale could be accused of never fully understanding it."

@IAmSubjugated @johnhboyer @ThomistAnimals The best presentation of a mature way of presenting this issue without the particular weaknesses of the already slanted way of talking about a thing in itself would be the discussion of object and res in ch 3 of Jacques Maritain’s Degrees of Knowledge

@PhilCatholic @johnhboyer @ThomistAnimals "What can be said at all can be said clearly." I think if "the thing in itself" is a coherent concept it can be articulated on X, but not with a meme of course.

Bread isn’t a natural substance

Well, also the reason I’ve not been on the side of this debate is because X is probably never going to beat the place where this large of a difference of outlook is going to be adjudicated. If one cannot adjudicate much smaller differences in person, I highly doubt that this will go much further. But I will say: I concede on a certain semantic meaning of nature, one is justified quite correctly in contesting the words I posted. I was addressing a different public

@PhilCatholic @johnhboyer @ThomistAnimals Better luck next time.

@johnhboyer @IAmSubjugated @ThomistAnimals

@IAmSubjugated @PhilCatholic @ThomistAnimals @PhilCatholic okay now I need to bust out the deely meme