Dan Thimons

@DSDOConnor @Breaking911 What if we simply subtract 2 minutes from every day. So that the days are now 23:58 long. No one would notice. Then, once a month we add that extra hour back in (turn the clock back), giving us a 25 hour day every month. The problem is that we don't change the clocks enough.

@Breaking911 I have a better idea. Instead of identifying reality's noon (midday) as 1pm all year (permanent DST), let's go all out and identify reality's night as day. Imagine the productivity increase of having it be daytime 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

BREAKING: The House has passed legislation to make Daylight Saving Time permanent nationwide, ending the twice-a-year clock changes by a 308-117 vote. Backed by President Trump, the bill now heads to the Senate. If approved and signed into law, Americans would no longer have to change their clocks.

@PappaSciarappa I thought for sure you were a fruit loops guy.

it amazes me when people comment on me drinking black coffee…sorry this surprises you? Does it also surprise you I didn’t eat fruit loops for breakfast? Grow up!

@PappaSciarappa I've worked in four different Dioceses and yours was the only one of those four to leave spouses and children without health insurance. You should be writing to the Diocese as well.

My employer doesn’t offer to cover any of my family on their plan. CHIP seems to be the best way forward but I can’t make it happen. I’ve been waiting on hold for hours. At this point it might add up to days.

Hello @JoshShapiroPA ! I’m having incredible difficulty getting full cost CHIP for my third daughter. I’ve been trying to communicate with caseworkers since January when she was born. Bills have gone to collections. My calls have been “escalated” four times. Help!

@gailfinke @honorablesaint Traditionally, bells are rung as the host and chalice are elevated, prompting attention and adoration. I would imagine that, historically, most people would have looked up at this moment, as this was one of the few times the host and chalice were able to be seen.

There’s no prescribed posture for the laity when the priest raises the Host or the chalice/Precious Blood. Some people bow their heads in adoration then, and some don’t. I usually do, because I’ve seen it and bow before Christ in it, but sometimes i look at it the whole time instead. I don’t have a theological reason for either, and I don’t think anyone else does either. I don’t think there is a prescribed posture for the laity at that point in the TLM, is there?

I have a question for the Catholics. When I was at an NO mass last week, when the priest raised the body of Christ, most people put their heads down. Likewise with the blood of Christ. What I've always done, and at my TLM, most bow our heads after the raising and bringing down of the host. Why? I recall reading St. Thomas Aquinas during my time in RCIA (on my own time) and he made it so obvious to me that this period of time is for adoration. To look upon the host, Christ now fully present, in reverence. Were you guys taught one way or the other? I know some people also make the sign of the cross too when Christ is raised which they then look upon the host. Is this preconcilliar thing vs. V2 change in teaching?

@canonlawyered Is an SSPX priest bound by the seal of confession for any future invalid confessions they will be hearing?

@jdflynn Thanks

Lots of questions this morning. We’re working on them. Stand by.

@PappaSciarappa Asking for a friend?

How does one formally do that?

@jdflynn @canonlawyered What about the case where a Catholic sees an SSPX priest in the airport and asks, "Are you a Catholic priest?" and the priest answers "Yes" and the person asks to receive the Sacrament of Penance. Would this be valid? What if this were an SSPX bishop?

@CatholicFQ His motto is actually "Go to Joseph", the words of Pharaoh to the Egyptians during the famine. The Church applies these words to us, bidding us to "Go to St. Joseph" in our hunger for temporal and spiritual sustenance.

If you have a devotion to St. Joseph you're going to like this guy.... the incoming Bishop of the Diocese of Venice (in southwest Florida). His Episcopal motto is going to be "It's Joseph." First time I've ever seen a Bishop's episcopal motto be about Joseph.

@USBishopsData Blood of Christ, price of our salvation, Save us.

Today is a sad today for the Church.

@RorateCaeli Translation... "No"

Bp. de Galarreta, main consecrator, asked at the beginning of ceremonies: "Do you have the apostolic mandate?" The notary unrolled the scroll-like apparent bull and says: "It is the Catholic and Roman Church, ever faithful to the traditions received from the apostles, which, in utterly exceptional circumstances, demands of us that we provide for the safeguarding of these traditions—that is, of the deposit of faith—and that we adopt the necessary means to transmit them faithfully to all men for the salvation of their souls. From the Second Vatican Council until our own days, the authorities of the Church have been animated by a spirit contrary to the faith and have acted against the holy Tradition. They will no longer tolerate sound doctrine."

In a recent interview, Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, former grand chancellor of the John Paul II Institute on Marriage and Family Life, confirmed the worst suspicions that many of us had. He admitted that the changes he made at the Institute during the Pope Francis years were designed to initiate a "very profound" reform of the idea of the natural law. Instead of absolute moral norms grounded in a keen understanding of the basic goods, he and his colleagues were proposing a moral theory rooted in historical discernment of subjective and cultural experience--not an "armchair theology" but one operating "within history and within people's lives." This, of course, is the language of trendy postmodernism, and it is dangerous indeed. Allow me to illustrate the principle with one example. Is slavery wrong? Intrinsically wrong? Wrong no matter what public opinion polls say about it, no matter what the current consensus on it might be? I imagine any decent person would say yes. But that yes is predicated upon precisely what the tradition calls the natural law and the basic goods. There are some values so fundamental that acts repugnant to them are by their very nature wicked. If you want a highly articulate presentation of this idea, go to St. John Paul II's Veritatis Splendor. If we say that this is just "armchair theologizing" and that morality is a function of ever-shifting cultural and experiential data, then why couldn't slavery be justified? One of the very smartest persons that ever lived, the philosopher Aristotle, thought it was; extremely bright and morally upright persons in our country, well into the 19th century, thought it was permissible. Who is to say whether the consensus might shift back again? Who is to say that "lived experience" might come to justify it? What any truly coherent moral program requires is the very thing that Archbishop Paglia and his colleagues were endeavoring to eliminate, namely, absolute moral norms. Ridding ourselves of these in the name of freedom or pastoral sensitivity actually renders moral discourse dysfunctional, just as relativizing the basic principle of logic would render any rational conversation impossible. The Archbishop's interview, frankly, reminded me of the discussions I had at the Synod on Synodality with some of my German colleagues. Under the rubric of the development of doctrine, they were eager to relativize or radically change the principles undergirding classical morality. If this was and is truly the game, we have ventured onto perilous seas. Link to the article below.

@mattswaim The billions increased faster than the price of a cheeseburger

I am old enough to remember when McDonald's signs used to advertise how many billion people they'd served

@WalkingHymnal Sorry, shaking hands with a Browns fan doesn't rise to the level of joyfully accepting a Terrible Towel.

OH HECK YEAH, BABY!!!! PAPAL APPROVAL FOR THE BROWNS LET'S GO!!!!!!!!!!

@joefrk I'm still sad from Game 7 of the 1992 NLCS

@WashArchdiocese Can Cardinal McElroy please elaborate ... Where do we find the Church’s very precise teaching that UFOs are not linked to demonic presence? In this instance, is there not a grave obligation to cite the document and paragraph?

@EndOfDaysWoman Crazy that my township (with it's own independent government and police force) is so unknown, it didn't even make the map!

It is literally my job to know Pittsburgh like the back of my hand and I’ve never even heard of some of our municipalities. Wilmerding??? Chalfont????? this place is wild

This lady is driving down a stretch of road on St. Louis St. in Springfield, Missouri. She is driving exactly 30 Mph and as she does so the rumble strips create the melody of “America The Beautiful”. This just opened up recently. The song was chosen as a tribute to America’s open road, the spirit of Route 66 and the upcoming celebration of the country’s 250th anniversary. ❤️🇺🇸 I think that is too cool. Love when towns and cities are patriotic. 💯 Never knew this existed or was a thing. I’ve heard there are other roads in our beautiful country that have other songs as well. Did you know this existed? Have you ever driven on a road where the rumble strips play a song before? Isn’t that cool?

@MichaelTG09 Keep singing it throughout the Pentecost Octave!

Been singing this every day throughout Eastertide. Some melodies just feel like home.

@ParentRyanSJ Will the Synod Study Group 9 documents be incensed and then chanted to the tune of the Flintstones theme song?

This Sunday at my Jesuit faith community, the lector will read the synod documents instead of the gospel as we reflect on the revolutionary message of the spirit!