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I have been working on a personal devotional book arranging the Psalm and Canticle translations in the Abbey Psalms and Canticles for singing and chanting. I realize that others might find it useful. Please leave comments below. Available at: docs.google.com/document/u/1/d…

@FrHarrison 14k words with 102 footnotes in 10 days is pretty insane... Hope it works out!

Just submitted 14,000 words with 102 footnotes to my supervisors. Stick a fork in me, I'm done. (the fruit of 1.5 weeks of intense work)

I miss sitting around a table playing cards because we had nothing better to do. Life used to be very simple.

@Catholicizm1 Then slap my a$$ and call me Sally.

The gayest thing a man can do is drink bourbon

@CyberRacheal Pineapple is delicious.

😂 If you understand this, explain it

@majoriansmusing The trouble is, repenting from being fat does not make you less fat. Would that it were so.

Civilizations rise and fall; waistlines only seem to do one of those things nowadays.

@PapistDirectory More Catholics.

If you ran a Catholic business, what would you create?

I didn't read this until just now. What you wrote here encapsulates my thought (and what I believe to be the correct thought) on this topic. My simplest statement would just be: Making positive claims about Magisterial teaching without presenting the teaching is not skepticism, it's presumption.

In the classical tradition, Just War reasoning contains a combination of both moral principles and prudential judgments. The moral principles are consistent: legitimate authority, just cause, right intention. The other criteria like proportionality, last resort, and probability of success are deeply fact-dependent. They require access to intelligence, strategic assessments, and risk calculations that outside commentators on twitter simply do not possess in real time. St. Thomas Aquinas places the responsibility for judging the justice of war primarily on those entrusted with care of the political community. This does not make rulers infallible (not exempt them from the moral law), but it does mean the laity normally lack the epistemic position to issue sweeping moral condemnations unless the injustice is manifest and obvious. It is one thing to say, “I am skeptical this meets Just War criteria.” It is another thing entirely to say, “No Catholic may in good conscience support it.” The latter implies a level of certainty about facts, proportionality, and necessity that almost no contemporary commentator actually has (especially given all the fake information on here). Historically, many wars that were ambiguous at the outset were only morally assessable in retrospect once consequences were clear. Proportionality and probability of success are teleological criteria; they depend in part on what unfolds.

Mr. Sammons, You declare the teaching without showing your understanding of the teaching. Making a positive claim about a Magisterial teaching without demonstration does not seem edifying in any way. There is, certainly, nuance between what is "preemptive" and what is "preventive" that you fail to address.

The attack on Iran clearly fails to meet the criteria of Catholic Just War Theory and no Catholic can support it in good conscience. Not only did I not vote for this, I consider it an impeachable offense. Pray for peace.

@JoshuaTCharles @BlueBoxDave I jumped the gun there for sure. My apologies. Mr. Sammons is (in my insufficient opinion) just plain wrong in his assessment so I will reply to him directly.

@faandar @BlueBoxDave I’m not here to make Eric’s argument for him. I’m personally waiting until I have more information. I’m here to point out that Mr. Marcus wasn’t offering anything substantive to engage with, and that attacking the fact that someone is a “convert” is a fruitless route to go.

What is it with these converts to Catholicism lecturing those of us who have practiced our faith for decades on what we can and can’t support? You’re not the Pope. Or even a priest…

Sir, I have a lot of respect for you and the work you do. However... Mr. Sammons makes a positive claim without reference to Magisterial teaching. Show us, in the teaching itself, where the contradiction lies. Then we will be able to interact with the claim from the proper perspective.

@BlueBoxDave If you have an argument to make, David, make it. The cradle vs. convert card isn’t an argument. All the Apostles were converts, by the way.

@Chasingharmony1 On the bright side, you are now tied for second place with Mexico for "best hockey team in North America".

I dreaded a Canada vs USA battle for gold in the Olympics because (in light of current politics) I knew if they won, they would gloat and insult us and be generally awful. They immediately showed themselves to be far worse than I imagined. Just zero sportsmanship or class.

@HwsEleutheroi @realmikolson When a female priest gets ordained by the Catholic Church, your argument might carry some weight. Until then, tend to the log in your own eye.

@realmikolson Yeah, like, you know, the Pope? Cardinals. Bishops. All dudes. Well, for now anyway. :-)

He does know there are men who think this too, right? Lots of them. These guys have to shoehorn gender into literally everything, don’t they…

CCC 1415, CCC 1650, CCC 1665, CCC 1695, CCC 2384, CIC 1399 Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church concerning the Reception of Holy Communion by the Divorced and Remarried Members of the Faithful (CDF), 4 If you are arguing against latae setentiae excommunication then I can see that but the teaching is clear.

🧵Fr. SDY is completely false. There is no permanent, universal ban in the Catholic Church on the Eucharist for divorced and civilly remarried persons. That is simply not Catholic teaching.

@redeemed_zoomer @kangminlee My favorite argument for anime and music is that jazz is a uniquely and profoundly American phenomenon and that The Seatbelts exist.

@kangminlee I’m no anime fan but I appreciate how Japanese orchestras still wanna play Beethoven and Bach whereas Western orchestras do world premieres of random atonal slop that’s meant to make a “statement about society” but not a single person remembers the piece after it premieres

Counterpoint:

@ErickYbarra3 It's a multi-part argument from ST III Q 46-49. I will write something and send it to you (mostly to avoid scandal 😇 )

@faandar Let’s see the quotation so we can see what you are talking about

List of Patristic authors that have their own chapters in my forthcoming book He Took Our Punishment: Discovering Penal Substitution in the Church Fathers

@JamesDueck 20000 is one a day for ~= 55 years. I find this unlikely. My brain hurts.

I’ve heard around 20,000 Protestant sermons, in a variety of denominations. Even though I’m Catholic now, I’m still deeply programmed in Protestant thinking, and probably always will be. I’m going to use this knowledge to help others find the truth.

@exQUIZitely Space Invaders Asteroids Galaga Missile Command Tron

Your town makes you CEO of the "Bring Back Arcades" project, and your job is to decide which five arcade games will be bought and ready for opening day. Your five picks are...?

@needGod_net Swimming is a work.

Faith Alone = Christ did everything needed. Faith + Works = Christ didn't do enough, your cooperation (works) is the deciding factor.

@ZacharyLevi 2003 called. They want their emails back.

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