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Christopher

@lostinlogres

Opining on Tennis or Catholicism, what I’m reading, or watching, probably.

Wales, UK 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Katılım Ocak 2010
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Christopher
Christopher@lostinlogres·
@HappyThurifer I remember this well. Fr Abbot Christopher Jamison published at least two rather good books on the back of it, “Finding Sanctuary” and “Finding Happiness”. Both worth a read.
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Christopher@lostinlogres·
Sorry to be an old curmudgeon, but it’s one thing to kiddify, say, The Moomins (tho even here something is lost) but I’m not convinced it can ever work with Narnia. Wait till they’re older, or read it to them and just let them absorb without worrying how much they understand.
NarniaWeb@NarniaWeb

Narnia publisher HarperCollins is gearing up for renewed interest in The Magician’s Nephew ahead of Greta Gerwig’s and Netflix’s upcoming film adaptation in early 2027, with brand new picture and board book adaptations aimed at younger readers. 🔗: narniaweb.com/2026/05/new-ma…

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Guykings!@poynterton·
And so it begins.
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@hf_222222 @JohanRuiterRui1 Seems the point is that just war theory (which one?) has “all too often been used to justify any kind of war”. OTH, I always thought the main criteria in Aquinas were defence, and that you couldn’t indiscriminately kill civilians; so I’m not totally clear on the outdated aspects.
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Scott Smith
Scott Smith@hf_222222·
Operation), but the Vatican seems to think it will somehow make it harder to claim suspect military actions are morally ok. So while it is pretty silly, its not a hill I'm going to die on. The Church recuts technical language all the time for not much practical benefit.🤷‍♂️
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Scott Smith@hf_222222·
I mean, no, he did not do that. He seems to want to solidifying the renaming of "just war" to "legitimate self-defence", apparently for rhetorical reasons, but that is literally all that is happening.
Joshua McElwee@joshjmcelwee

Pope Leo this week repudiated a major teaching used by the Catholic Church since at ​least the fifth century to evaluate when countries might be justified in waging wars, in a move experts said could have long-reaching impact. For @Reuters reuters.com/world/spurning…

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Christopher@lostinlogres·
Melodramatic scenes on Philippe Chatrier. Sinner x heat = sickness & shocks on the court.
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Catholic Sat@CatholicSat·
Pope Leo XIV to participants in the Plenary Session of the Dicastery for Evanglization: “It is not by watering down the contents and softening the demands that one can make Christianity attractive, but by bearing witness with humility and courage to the Way, the Truth, and the Life that has converted and sanctified so many people."
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Christopher@lostinlogres·
@Peter88902568 From grey-render, grim-frames and lime-washed wood: good Lord deliver us.
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PAW (Peter)@Peter88902568·
The House of Commons after the new intake of tradie MPs:
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James Esses@JamesEsses·
Channel 4 is airing a programme called Virgin Island, which involves virgins (many with autism) working with a ‘surrogate partner therapist’. The ‘therapy’ culminates with the ‘therapist’ taking their virginity. This is the antithesis of therapy and a safeguarding nightmare.
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Lucy R. Fisher@richmondie·
Never explain, never apologise - said D'Israeli, perhaps. Yes or no?
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Christopher@lostinlogres·
@hf_222222 Absolutely shoehorned in, notably fizzles away and vanishes from the final 2/3 of the document.
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Brendan May
Brendan May@bmay·
Tony Blair is possibly the only person on earth that makes people instantly reach for the dislike button whilst secretly knowing deep inside that he’s absolutely right and no one has come anywhere near his level of seriousness since.
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Christopher@lostinlogres·
@hf_222222 I just had a startlingly clear vision of Shatner’s intense delivery of that little monologue.
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LasallianSean
LasallianSean@LasallianSean·
Final step in the application process to join formation for the Permanent Diaconate tomorrow morning - meeting the Bishop. More nervous than I have been before! Please remember me in your prayers 🙏 #permanentdeacon #Catholic
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Christopher@lostinlogres·
@hf_222222 @lukei4655 Pretty sure that in Orthodoxy (re episcopal consecrations at least) there’s not really a category “valid but illicit” such as we see in the West; the validity and the licity are interdependent. At least, I think I was told or read that somewhere.
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Fr. Gabriel T Mosher, OP
It’s well established that the Church can modify conditions for the validity (not just liceity) of the Sacraments. Canonical Form for Marriage and the essential form of Extreme Unction are the two least controversial occasions on this point. It’s a very touchy thing and not frequently done. However, just because it is rare, and fraught with controversy doesn’t mean that it can’t or won’t be done in certain other fitting instances.
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Christopher@lostinlogres·
@StMichael71 Not cool. And I’m pretty sure a pope who was just telling priests not to use AI to write homilies a few months ago, will be pretty peeved to discover the Curia doing it with formal papal Magisterium.
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Christopher@lostinlogres·
@JohanRuiterRui1 @hf_222222 If I had to offer an opinion, I’d say it’s actually a bit more sceptical of what these institutions and politics/governments have the ability to achieve than these types of documents usually are. FWIW.
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Scott Smith
Scott Smith@hf_222222·
To expand on what I mean here, take this meme, can you use it unironically after MH? I don't think I can. Or say your Parish or Diocese wanted to use AI imagery in a marketing campaign - Could you demand they use human artists now? Probably not to be honest.
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Scott Smith@hf_222222

Encyclicals, over time, get remembered by a kind of shorthand. I.e. Laudato si (climate change bad), Veritatis splendor (proportionalism bad) etc. Magnifica humanitas; shorthand summary is, I suspect, going to be "Church endorses AI".

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Christopher@lostinlogres·
@hf_222222 @JohanRuiterRui1 I think that’s a reasonable concern. My, I suppose, hope is that this isn’t the definitive word on the matter (the document itself seems to lean into this as well) and that really it’s only the opening volley & not the end of the match. (Much like Rerum Novarum, I guess.)
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Scott Smith@hf_222222·
@lostinlogres @JohanRuiterRui1 I think my, ah being underwhelmed, is driven by the fact it seems to permit a very small level of human direction / accountability as enough to satisfy that requirement. Which I fear will result in us perhaps outsourcing too much of what should be human acts.
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Christopher@lostinlogres·
@hf_222222 @JohanRuiterRui1 For me the greatest fault is it tries to do too much. It would have been better to be more tightly focussed on the main issue (AI in the context of Catholic social teaching about human persons), rather than bringing in a lot of padding (suspect non-papal hands working there).
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Scott Smith@hf_222222·
Because there was an emerging Catholic sense that AI perhaps just wasn't appropriate for some types of uses. Whereas now, I don't think we can insist on that, its a tool people can use if they want. For making art - Sacred art included. For doing theology. Anything really.
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