Fr. Stephen Blaxton🇻🇦

Catholic priest of the Diocese of Saginaw.

“Interior intimo meo et superior summo meo”

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@SohrabAhmari The Lists feature is the only thing keeping me here

[Vatican News @VaticanNews]

Excommunication decreed over Lefebvrite episcopal consecrations

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What is education for? https://t.co/NE4LKOeCVq

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Summer reading with @TheGreatB00ks

Achilles vs. Agamemnon? Thetis vs. Hera? Zeus vs. Fate? Calling on the Muses for help…

[Catholic Sat @CatholicSat]

Barcelona, you win. Sagrada Família. Just incredible.

Watch the whole thing with the sound on

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

For centuries, the liturgy has been a driving force for evangelization. Today, we need to renew this energy in continuity with the authentic and living Catholic tradition, that is, according to a dynamic aimed at introducing believers to the fullness of truth. #GeneralAudience

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Truly blessed to have walked with these men and women who came into the Church at my parish this Easter!

[Vatican News @VaticanNews]

Pope Leo released his prayer intention for the month of April, inviting Catholics to pray for priests who are facing a personal crisis in their vocation.

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@jdflynn is not an auctioneer but wears a good hat (and raises good money)!

[EWTN News @EWTNews]

Today in Assisi, the mortal remains of St. Francis of Assisi were solemnly transferred from his tomb to the Basilica of St. Francis, opening an unprecedented period of public veneration marking the 800th anniversary of his death. Nearly 350,000 pilgrims have already registered to visit and pray before his relics during the first public extended exhibition of his remains from Feb. 22 to March 22, 2026.

In communion with Pope Leo XIV, we entrust this historic moment to the intercession of St. Francis, praying that his witness of peace, conversion, and love for all creation may lead many hearts back to Christ.

“Saint Francis, our brother, you who eight hundred years ago went to meet Sister Death as a man at peace, intercede for us before the Lord… In this age marked by conflict and division, intercede for us so that we may become peacemakers: unarmed and disarming witnesses of the peace that comes from Christ. Amen.”

[Edward Feser @FeserEdward]

Thucydides: “Civil war ran through the cities… And they reversed the usual way of using words to evaluate what they did. Ill-considered boldness was counted as loyal manliness; prudent hesitation was held to be cowardice in disguise, and moderation merely the cloak of an unmanly nature. A mind that could grasp the good of the whole was considered wholly lazy. Sudden fury was accepted as part of manly valor… A man who expressed anger was always to be trusted, while one who opposed him was under suspicion... In brief, a man was praised if he could commit some evil action before anyone else did, or if he could urge on another person who had never meant to do such a thing.

Family ties were not so close as those of the political parties, because party members would readily dare to do anything on the slightest pretext… To take revenge was of higher value than never to have received injury...

Those who led their parties in the cities promoted their policies under decent-sounding names: “equality for the mass of citizens” on one side, and “moderate aristocracy” on the other. And although they pretended to serve the public in their speeches, they actually treated it as the prize for their competition; and striving by whatever means to win, both sides ventured the most horrible outrages and exacted even greater revenge, without any regard for justice or the public good… The citizens who remained in the middle were destroyed by both parties, partly because they would not side with them, and partly for envy that they might escape in this way.

Thus was every kind of wickedness afoot throughout all Greece by the occasion of civil wars... People were sharply divided into opposing camps, and, without trust, their minds were in strong opposition. No speech was so powerful, no oath so terrible, as to overcome this mutual hostility... For the most part, those of weaker intelligence had the greatest success, since a sense of their own inferiority and the subtlety of their opponents put them into great fear that they would be overcome in debate or by schemes due to their enemies’ intelligence…

Those who attacked… primarily out of zeal for equality… were the most carried away by their undisciplined passion to commit savage and pitiless attacks…. Human nature, having become accustomed to violate justice and laws, now came to dominate law altogether, and showed itself with delight to be the slave of passion, the victor over justice, and the enemy of anyone superior. Without the destructive voice of envy, you see, people would not value revenge over reverence, or profits over justice. When they want revenge on others, people are determined first to destroy without a trace the laws that commonly govern such matters, though it is only because of these that anyone in trouble can hope to be saved” (The History of the Peloponnesian War, Book 3, Paul Woodruff translation)

[Edward Feser @FeserEdward]

Pope St. John Paul II: “We need to clarify the essential difference between an unhealthy form of nationalism, which teaches contempt for other nations or cultures, and patriotism, which is a proper love of one's country. True patriotism never seeks to advance the well-being of one's own nation at the expense of others. For in the end this would harm one's own nation as well: doing wrong damages both aggressor and victim. Nationalism, particularly in its most radical forms, is thus the antithesis of true patriotism” (Address to the Fiftieth General Assembly of the United Nations, 1995)

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Pastorally, the challenge is reintroducing our heritage to so many who have been conditioned to ignore it as to have lost the capacity to receive it.

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“Modern man is more like a traveler who has forgotten the name of his destination, and has to go back from whence he came, even to find out where he is going.”
-GK Chesterton

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“Modern man is more like a traveler who has forgotten the name of his destination, and has to go back from whence he came, even to find out where he is going.”
-GK Chesterton

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kecharitōmenē

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Holy Lordy now I’m fordy!

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Happy Fri-giving!

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@jdflynn @PillarCatholic That’s my birthday AND day 1 of the Our Lady of Guadalupe novena…you should recognize both on the show.

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A major new study of U.S. priests by the Catholic Project at The Catholic University of America has highlighted sharp differences in the outlook and experiences of older and younger clergy.
https://t.co/5dVSn48qJx

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@Joeinblack @TheLadyJane Where’s the watch party on Friday?