Daniel Smith

@EduardHabsburg “FOR THE GRACE, FOR THE MIGHT OF THE LORD/ FOR THE HOME OF THE HOLY”

God bless the 🇻🇦🇨🇭 Swiss Guards for their heroic sacrifice against... (checks post) ..."Habsburg troops"... Oh dear.

@QuantumG @rightnGA @upstatefederlst Only 4D? You fool! This is clearly a 5D maneuver!

@rightnGA @upstatefederlst Oh, it's 4D chess!! Or maybe you've just got a gaggle of simpletons in control of the biggest military in the world.

Can I ask a question: what was the point of conquering Venezuela if a maritime lane on the other side of the world still fucks our gas prices to this degree?

@acewizardnz “what if our demonstrably false stories were true and had hard evidence, what then?!” I’ve never met a Mormon who wasn’t a wonderful human, they just believe some truly ridiculous things

I try to be tolerant of other religions but Mormonism is so profoundly fake in such obvious ways that I genuinely do struggle to respect it at all.

@BruceNorth46058 In better days, leading the “simple and small“ souls astray was punishable by removal from society. Mormonism is demonstrably false. We know this because there are not any clear genetic ties between native populations on this continent and ancient Israelites.

If we had the golden plates in a museum, and every expert in the world agreed Joseph translated the Book of Mormon correctly, would that "prove" The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is true? Would everyone be compelled to join the Church?

@Cajun5Queen @MostlyPeaceful Keep practicing at it

@MostlyPeaceful I'm a practicing Catholic. Go ahead and deport him. Anyone chosen by Pope Leo is not the right person for the job.

I’m willing to bet this is what was discussed with David Axelrod. Setting a trap for Trump. Either he ignores a high profile illegal and betrays the base by not deporting him. Or he deports him and is accused as attacking the Catholic Church.

@vivovinco @SaysSimulation Only in very specific instances on razor thin topics. He can’t declare the sun is purple while eating a hot pocket as an example. The Church does protect itself from idiocy that undermines reality, even if it is led by the occasional dumpster fire.

@dsmithdevelop @SaysSimulation Forgive my protestant naivety, but even though the Pope was installed for political reasons, by politically compromised archbishops, he's still infallible? Your faith is... Commendable. Even if your reason is non-existent.

Look, I'm not a Catholic. I wish them the best, and how one reconciles "papal infallibility" with blatantly political secular Popes (the Borgias et al) is up to their religion. But, the dark horse Chicago Dem Pope Leo was elected specifically for the purpose of trying to 1/

@Aelthemplaer Oh hell yeah, I’ve always wanted to turn a quaint New England village into a Mordor-esque lithium pit mine

Post the meme boys

Bishops don't excommunicate people anymore, they just a release a statement and look at you like this.

@Lovandfear Wow! Consumable products come from different places. This is identical to millions of Third Worlders flooding western social safety nets. I am very smart.

Your car is German. Your democracy is Greek. Your coffee is Brazilian. Your movies American. Your shirt is Indian. Your electronic Chinese. Your numbers Arabic. Your letters are Latin. And you complain your neighbor is an immigrant!

@ccmembersonly @RickDeVos Israel wouldn’t be able to bribe them all, in theory. Not unless it was to the tune of a McDouble

This and repeal of the 17th Amendment

@VivekGRamaswamy Self interest did some interesting work right there at the very end.

You can travel to Italy, but you’ll never be an Italian. You can travel to France but you’ll never be a Frenchman. You can live in Germany but you’ll never be a German. You can pack your bags and live the rest of your life in China or Japan, but you’ll never be Chinese or Japanese. Yet you can come from any one of those countries to the United States of America, and you can still be an American – so long as you work hard, you play by the rules, you make your contributions, wait your turn, pledge allegiance to the flag, and obtain your citizenship.

@jdflynn @EricRSammons Save us from what? Admittedly tasteless liturgical preferences? The 1960s progressives probably expected that generation to “save”them too but the church has not shifted in iota on any of the essentials. That’s the lesson for me: Christ’s Church ever ancient, ever new.

@EricRSammons perhaps "these priests will save us" is the mistake.

I remember Catholics saying in the 1990's that the new priests would save us because they were more conservative. But that didn't happen. Now, however, it looks like the new priests really might save us.

@JamesMartinSJ Oh cool, an ideologically motivated hagiography presented as gospel truth after the primary person who could refute it is dead, and his staff are dispersed. It’s lovely the little mythologies we create after death.

Pope Francis died a year ago today.  I would like to share one memory, which I think reveals something of what made him such a holy man. In May of 2024, after it was reported that Pope had made some negative remarks about gay priests and used an Italian slur (“frociaggine”) in a meeting with Italian bishops, there was a firestorm of reaction. Even I wondered: How could this be? We had had several conversations and notes back and forth about LGBTQ issues. It seemed so out of character. A few weeks later I was scheduled to be in Rome after helping to arrange a papal audience for a group of professional comedians. The pope invited me to see him, along with two friends who served as translators. I asked a cardinal friend how I could possibly bring up something so difficult—the question of gay priests and his use of language. My friend said, “Just say, ‘Holy Father, these things have been much in the news. What thoughts do you have?’” The very first thing Francis said, as if he had been waiting to say it, was that he knew many holy, faithful and celibate gay priests and seminarians. When I suggested that it might help to say so publicly, he said, “Oh, but I think I have. And in any event, you can say that!” I wanted to make sure I understood him, so said, “So you’re saying I can say that you know many holy, faithful and celibate gay priests and seminarians?” He shrugged his shoulders and said, “Of course. Because I do!”  My friends also told him that he shouldn’t have used that slur.  He nodded sadly, and said, “Yes, yes, you’re right.” For the next hour or so, we discussed the word he used, before moving on to other more general topics: the U.S. church, the political scene, and so on. It was a relaxed and friendly conversation, but initially about a tough topic. A few days later, I saw him at the comedians’ audience, when he gave a beautiful reflection on humor in the Sala Clementina. When everyone lined up to shake his hand, I lingered in the back, since I had just seen him. But then several Vatican officials said, “Father, go ahead!”  When I reached his chair, he laughed and said, “Ah, so now you’re a famous American comedian!” I laughed and started to move away, knowing he was probably busy and tired. But he pulled me back insistently. Then the pope said, “Thank you for our meeting the other day. It was helpful for me. I really needed to hear that.” He smiled and then gave me a thumbs up. (Amazingly, a friend sent me video of this very interchange, linked here, where you can see what’s happening.) I thought: Who does this? Who thanks someone for a difficult meeting? Who thanks someone for being challenged? The answer: a person who is open to the Holy Spirit. A person who is not afraid to listen. A person who is truly humble. Something like that doesn’t make you a holy person or a saint on its own, but it’s an important part of holiness.  May this holy man rest in peace.

@IntoleranceRec @jonesville Came here to same this. The writer of this drama needs better material

@jonesville Hear me out: He’s gay, and his last name is McAnally. These jokes write themselves.

Meet Shane McAnally. Shane recently went viral for telling his infant son he’ll never have a mother. Shane also thinks it’s cute to ask his older children which one of their parents is h*rnier. CPS really needs to step in here.

@catholicpat “Pro-life” is whatever my fringe progressive policy stance is and anything less is literally Hitler.

"You are not pro-life unless you buy me a candy bar"

@Catholicizm1 War? Allies? Enemies? The worst that’s going to happen are a few strongly worded tweets. Let’s not blow things out of proportion.

The Catholic media civil war is going to get very interesting. People I formerly considered friends and allies are going to become enemies.

For many, Catholicism becomes irritating precisely the moment they realize the Church in fact means what she says.

@tastykacey14 @upstatefederlst Thank God, I’m so sick and tired of reading new and horrendous concoctions

We only got like 10 new sentences left

Only a small exaggeration