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@AnthonyEsolen @RichRaho Because he’s convinced most of us are stupid or, at least, horribly miseducated. Unfortunately he’s probably right about a large number of the laity, especially in Europe and the US. That’s his calculus.

@RichRaho How in the hell can he say something so staggeringly daft, when all he needs to do is to look at the women-ordaining Protestant churches in his own nation and elsewhere, and see the acceleration of their collapse? And there is a reason for it, if he would open his eyes.

Cardinal Hollerich: “I can’t imagine in the long run how a church can continue to exist if half of God’s people suffer because they have no access to the ordained ministry” katholisch.de/artikel/67760-…

Lou Holtz and Our Lady on the Dome firstthings.com/lou-holtz-and-…

Life is more beautiful when you have friends who know how to be friends.

There are moments in life when words just aren’t enough. Losing Coach Holtz is one of those moments. Coach was so much more than a football coach to me. He was family. I still remember the day he came to my house to recruit me. He didn’t just sit down and talk to me about football or what I could do on the field. He talked to me as a young man. And he spoke to my mom the way a man should speak to a mother who was trusting someone with her son. He looked her in the eye and promised that I would be taken care of at Notre Dame. That moment meant everything to us, and it’s something I’ve carried with me my entire life. Coach Holtz believed in people. He believed in building men, not just players. He welcomed my entire family into the Notre Dame family and always made sure we felt that love and support. That’s who he was. He cared deeply about the people around him, and he made every one of us feel like we mattered. The lessons he taught me went far beyond football. His faith, his discipline, his belief in doing things the right way shaped who I became as a man, a father, and a leader. My heart is broken today, but I’m also filled with gratitude for the time I had with him and for the impact he had on my life. Coach will always be with us—in the lessons he taught, in the lives he changed, and in the love he gave so freely. Thank you for everything, Coach. I love you. You will forever be in our hearts. Go Irish ☘️

Pete Hegseth's mom is Marty Haugen's sister Hegseth is the nephew of the composer of "Gather Us In", "All Are Welcome", "Eye Has Not Seen", and "Shepherd Me, O God"

Notre Dame student newspaper shows more courage than the university’s president and Board of Trustees. God bless ‘em. ndsmcobserver.com/article/2026/0…

Must read. Article by @NDSMCObserver editor-in-chief. Notre Dame still produces so much good for the Catholic Church from all over campus. Yet this one horrific mistake is threatening to destroy all of it. If you don’t reverse this appointment, you will see more and more of your best Catholic faculty and best Catholic undergraduate applicants turn away. This has already started happening in the past few weeks. “The world offers you comfort, but you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness.” - Pope Benedict XVI Be courageous, Notre Dame. ndsmcobserver.com/article/2026/0…

@Chris_arnade I like the analysis, but as embodied, imperfect beings we’re susceptible to thin culture shaping our “personal” thick culture. A constant diet of thin culture glorifying hedonism, materialism, license erodes the discipline and selflessness virtue requires. “Men are not angels.”

When you talk about culture there is thin (fashion, food, music, etc.) and thick (what is the Good? What constitutes a fulfilling life? What is the highest human achievement?), and for the U.S., our thick culture is largely inherited from Western Europe, mostly England, and is best summarized as Careerist Protestant Christianity—a prosperity theology manifest as the American Dream, which synthesizes a moral order built on the Ten Commandments, overlaid with a heavy dose of Lockean individualism and Enlightenment rationalism. Thin culture gets all the attention, but it is the thick culture that makes a nation and determines its long-term path.

Virginia, we have a problem — and it's going to take all of us to fix it. This isn't a Republican issue or a Democratic issue. It's a Virginia issue. Stand with us. Share this page. And mark April 21 on your calendar — because they're counting on you to stay home. 📷 nogerrymanderingva.org

@YardenJZ Can you add the rockets and launchers as a factory package?

A Hilux with a tilting flatbed what could possibly go wrong

@pegobry_en I hadn’t read Perelandra in 30 years until a recent reread. Clearly the worst of the trilogy, but much better than I had remembered. I think one almost has to read That Hideous Strength first then go back and reread to understand Perlandra.

Perelandra is bad but if you don’t think Out of the Silent Planet is great you have neither brain nor soul

@Microinteracti1 Aristotle’s definition of place maybe more insightful and relevant than modern pop science.

While you slept last night, completely still in your bed, our galaxy moved millions of kilometers through the cosmos. You woke up in the same room, on the same planet, yet unimaginably far from where you were the night before. The Milky Way is not drifting quietly through the universe. It is racing through space at around 600 kilometers per second, carrying billions of stars, planets, and everything on them along for the ride. It is a good reminder that even when life feels motionless, you are always in motion. Stay connected, Follow Gandalv @Microinteracti1

As I’m preparing to head back to Thomas Aquinas College (arguably the best place on earth) I’m reminded of the paradox that defines it. The education there is about as impractical as one could imagine by modern standards. There are no majors. The entire curriculum is a sustained immersion in the Christian and Western intellectual tradition. There are no courses in entrepreneurship, leadership, or “real-world skills.” What they do have is an uncompromising devotion to the seminar, the text, and the discipline of reasoned inquiry. And yet, almost without exception, their graduates are among the most employable people I’ve ever encountered. They can think clearly, argue persuasively, read closely, and learn quickly. In a world obsessed with skills training, they have mastered something far more durable: the ability to actually think.

California's Central Valley produces 80% of the world's almonds. Each almond requires 3.2 gallons of actual irrigation water to grow. Not rainfall. Actual tap water pumped from aquifers. One gallon of almond milk requires 162 gallons of irrigation water. Compare that to dairy milk at 8 gallons of tap water per gallon, with the rest being rainfall that falls on pasture anyway. But here's where it gets properly grim. Almonds bloom for exactly three weeks in February. During those three weeks, California needs every pollinating bee in North America transported to the Central Valley or the crop fails entirely. Commercial beekeepers truck in 31 billion honeybees. That's two-thirds of America's entire managed bee population, all concentrated in one valley for three weeks. The bees are packed into trucks, driven across the country, dumped into almond groves drenched in pesticides, worked to exhaustion, then packed up and shipped to the next crop. The mortality rate is catastrophic. Beekeepers report losing 30 to 50% of their hives annually. That's billions of bees dead. Not from natural causes. From being used as disposable pollination machines for your almond milk. The pesticides don't help. Almond groves are sprayed with neonicotinoids which scramble bee navigation systems, fungicides which weaken their immune systems, and herbicides which eliminate the wildflowers they'd normally forage on between almond blooms. Meanwhile the aquifer depletion is permanent. The Central Valley has sunk 28 feet in some areas from groundwater extraction. That water took 10,000 years to accumulate. It's being drained in decades for almond milk. Your vegan latte killed more bees and used more water than a year's worth of dairy milk. But it's got "plant-based" on the label so you're definitely saving the planet.

@IMPERATORAUS The obvious consequences of nihilism frighten progs, and lacking the discipline needed for existentialism, after apostasy they embrace neo-Marxism—worship of man in the universal, worship of self in the particular. Don’t forget the first step—Protestantism leads to liberalism.

@Joeinblack I also disagree that the Church has not taught differently. I think JP II devoted a large part of his pastoral effort to this very question. We’ve always had the nasty moralists and holier than thou types in the Church but minimizing sin isn’t the answer.

@Joeinblack I reread your tweet. I specifically misunderstood your words “We’ve reduced the beautiful gift of sexuality to “don’t do that”.” And “It’s cruel. It’s insane. That’s a disrespect to the gift and power of the fire God put in us.” On second reading I see you clarify.

The sexual life is a gift God created and put in us. His fire to create, to enter, to be entered…all of it. It’s a gift. For most of human history, right as the gift of that fire was being awakened in young men and women, they were married. Their parents strengthened the bonds of two families by joining these young people in marriage. By the union of these two, two families became one, the tribe became stronger, and the young man and woman learned the gift and the power of their sexuality. They learned it together in the context of marriage. Society very slowly, but steadily shifted and we have moved from arranged marriages for 13 to 15-year-olds to today’s reality where couples marry later and later in life, usually with absolutely no help from their parents. No help wanted, no help offered. At no point that I’m aware of has the church or her leaders offered any kind of wisdom for helping young people deal with this shift & the impact it has on the human body and soul. We’ve reduced the beautiful gift of sexuality to “don’t do that”. We literally tell teenagers that if they masturbate, they will die in mortal sin and go to hell unless they get to confession. It’s absolute insanity and cruelty and a disrespect to the power of the fire God put in them. We tell young couples in their early 20s that they should be engaged for years and years and years, but never sin sexually or, again, they go to hell if they do and then die before confession. It’s cruel. It’s insane. That’s a disrespect to the gift and power of the fire God put in us. I know people will read this and pretend that I’m suggesting that sexual sins either don’t exist or are not serious and that’s not remotely the case. When I am suggesting is that we need to have a real talk about helping people who care about holiness to deal with the fact that God did not create us to procreate like flowers. When we move the average age of marriage from early teenager years to late 20’s, we need to recognize the human nature hasn’t changed.

Notre Dame ROTC Named Best in the Nation Department of War honors Army and Navy branches. Full article at the link below. irishrover.net/2025/12/notre-…

@VicLombardi @JMWSPT Indiana will likely win the CFP and we’re not even sure they’re the best team in Indiana.

Painful reminder: Notre Dame lost on a last minute field goal at Miami in the season opener with a rookie quarterback making his very first start. Wouldn’t be surprised if Miami wins it all. But you can’t tell me Notre Dame didn’t have chance to do the same. Damn committee.