David Kendrick

A pontificate seen by millions risks being remembered through fragments alone. In this essay for L’Osservatore Romano, I reflect on Pope Francis, the United States, and the unresolved tensions that shaped his vision of the Church and the modern world. @oss_romano edizione inglese osservatoreromano.va/en/news/2026-0…

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@CommandersMusee Babe Laufenberg

Commanders/Redskins all time player grid Day 3: Bad Player — Loved by Fans The comment with the most likes wins Taylor Heinicke won yesterday's grid.

@FreeMahBoy I'm almost 65, been watching the NFL since I was 10. That is the most incredible combined pass and catch I've ever seen

Literally this is the game my life changed as a sports fan … like I legit couldn’t believe this shit

It would not, then, be much of a caricature to say that orthodoxy, as represented by much popular preaching and writing, has had no clear idea of the purpose of Jesus’ ministry. For many conservative theologians it would have been sufficient if Jesus had been born of a virgin (at any time in human history, and perhaps from any race), lived a sinless life, died a sacrificial death, and risen again three days later. (In some instances the main significance of this would be the conclusion: the Bible is all true.) The fact that, in the midst of these events, Jesus actually said and did certain things, which included giving wonderful moral teaching and annoying some of his contemporaries, functions within this sort of orthodox scheme merely as a convenience. Jesus becomes a composite figure, a cross between Socrates defeating the Sophists and Luther standing up against the Papists. His ministry and his death are thus loosely connected. The force of this is lost, though, when the matter is thought through. If the main purpose of Jesus’ ministry was to die on the cross, as the outworking of an abstracted atonement-theology, it starts to look as though he simply took on the establishment in order to get himself crucified, so that the abstract sacrificial theology could be put into effect. This makes both ministry and death look like sheer contrivance. -Jesus and the Victory of God

Pope Leo XIV just turnPope Leo XIV just turned the issue of the hierarchy of sin into a major conservation. He quietly reopened one of Catholicism's most buried questions: how did sexual sin come to sit at the top of this moral hierarchy. And here of course history matters 1/10🧵

Washington, DC: The Unaffordable Capital.

In his strongest condemnation yet of the Trump-Vance war against Iran, Pope Leo XIV said today: “We are surrounded by a delusion of omnipotence that’s becoming increasingly unpredictable and aggressive.” “We are met by threats instead of invitations to come together. “Those who pray don’t threaten death. Death enslaves those who have turned their backs on God and turned themselves and their own power into a mute, blind, and deaf idol. “They demand the whole world bends their knee. Enough of the idolatry of self and money! Enough of the display of power! Enough of war! “True strength is shown in serving life!”

Bobby Simone, NYPD Blue youtu.be/vUiESW071Og?si…

Buttigieg's biggest challenge is the Biden admin record, which makes this especially interesting. A quick defense of how COVID fueled inflation than moving the convo again and again to how Trump promised to fix it all and "made it worse."

@LauraRbnsn Uh, "He has come to the help of his servant Israel, for he has remembered his promise of mercy, The promise made to our forefathers, to Abraham and his children for ever."

John 7 recounts Jesus’s brothers going to the Feast of Tabernacles. It does not mention Mary going because she is a Syrophoenician and worships at the Cult of Astarte instead. (This is a joke, sorry Mary, I thought you would also find this funny)

Prophets are not so much people who can tell the future. They are people who can see the present so clearly as to announce ahead of time what will be if there is no course correction.

@davidfrum @DCrittenden1 As Peter Maurin said of his and Dorothy Day's relationship in the Catholic Worker movement: "Man proposes; Woman disposes."

As Russian troops lunged at Kyiv, I remember vividly my wife @DCrittenden1 predicting 4 years ago this day: "the war won't go well for Putin." Ten days later, with the Russian ground forces snarled in their own traffic, I asked her: "How did you know?" 1/x

@ThoNg676733 It was a shock to the system to hear old fashioned metallic rock amid all the disco, which I why I think it went to #1 on the Billboard chart

Imagine living in 1978 and hearing this amazing Song for the first time!🎸🎤

@CaitlinPacific mississippitoday.org/2026/02/05/med…

Never let anyone tell you Medgar Evers’ murder wasn’t a viscous race crime. The killer was a klansman, the white citizens counsel paid for his defense; it took 3 trials to convict because Blacks weren’t allowed on the jury.

@DavidAFrench mississippitoday.org/2026/02/05/med…

Please read this thread.

@john_keim At least you won’t have near as many of the non-Sunday games that throw off your schedule

Another possible site for Washington this season.