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[Boh Savant @BohSavant]

@MDLatinMass @CLMCLatinMass The faith of these elderly women literally makes me SOB - really UGLY CRYING over here. Please Jesus, please PURIFY YOUR CHURCH! And start with the MONSTERS in the hierarchy! Come, Lord Jesus! Come QUICKLY!

[Catholic Manhood ❤️‍🔥 @bethecreed]

Peace is not the absence of trouble; it is the presence of Christ.

Peace is not found in calm seas but in Christ within the storm.

The saints knew it. The Cross proves it.

[Catholic Manhood ❤️‍🔥 @bethecreed]

If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.

Ven. Fulton Sheen

[Deacon Nick Donnelly @ProtecttheFaith]

At the @USCCB meeting

During a discussion of doctrine Strickland raised Fr. James Martin and the scandalous confirmation of an openly homosexual man with his 'husband'

He received absolutely no response from the chair or the panel

He'd clearly challenged a taboo topic of his fellow bishops -- the scandalous acceptance and celebration of homosexuality by 'Catholic' clergy and laity

This cannot remain a taboo subject for Catholic bishops because it is open defiance of Divine Revelation

Thank you @BishStrick

[Ryan Lee @honorablesaint]

This "progressive catholic" church is an apostate church. This isn't remotely Catholic.

How has this been allowed? How has this not been condemned?

I've never been more justified in becoming a traditional Catholic. The watering down of the church on a public scale like this is appalling and not a peep is heard from the hierarchy? Not a peep about the LGBTQ parade through the Basilica of St. Peter at the Vatican..not a peep about this?

Did the priest tell him that he isn't married? That the church doesn't recognize his marriage, that he must confess his sins, that he must be repentant, that he must turn away from the evil sin sodomy, that he must divorce his "husband"?

If not, then the priest is leading him straight to hell...knowingly and the Catholic church is doing nothing about it.

[Catholics for Catholics 🇺🇲 @CforCatholics]

. @BishStrick calls on the @USCCB to address @JamesMartinSJ concelebrating the confirmation of a married gay man.

Thank you Bishop for speaking up. This CONFUSION must be addressed!

[Boh Savant @BohSavant]

@itsginnydi Stunning, Ginny! You ROCK!!! You INSPIRE! No AI will EVER be able to relocate YOUR creativity and individuality and charisma! : D

[Boh Savant @BohSavant]

@VoiceOfOBrien @samriegel Your truest pal? Well! Happy Birthday, Vex! JK! Happy happy happy Birthday, Sam!!!

[Boh Savant @BohSavant]

@samriegel @jenofithilien Not true! You have enough shirts of your fellow roleplayers to animate The Mighty Nein yourself - if you just run around fast enough! ; D

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

If a politician supports abortion, he is not in line with Church teaching to any meaningful degree whatsoever and should not only be disqualified from “lifetime achievement” awards but should obviously be excommunicated. Abortion is not just one issue that Catholics can have differing opinions about. To support abortion publicly — much less to fund and facilitate it (as Durbin has for 40 years) — is to be in a state of grave mortal sin and open rebellion against God and the Church. It should not be difficult for the Pope to say this, or for any leader in the Church to say it.

[Lila Rose @LilaGraceRose]

Abortion is the worst human rights crisis of our time. There is no moral equivalence between abortion and other political issues like the death penalty and immigration.

The Holy Father’s of the cuff remarks to media yesterday are not spoken ex cathedra. He was also not making a doctrinal pronouncement.
This is the first important note.

The Holy Father has been extremely clear in the past that the defense of the unborn is paramount.

The Church (both Sacred Scripture and Tradition) has always been extremely clear about the sacredness of human life.

Abortion — the direct and intentional destruction of an innocent unborn child — is intrinsically evil, and always has been. The death penalty is a different matter. It has not been defined as an intrinsically evil act in the same way as abortion. There is a crucial distinction between abortion and the death penalty and they should not be compared. Similarly, US policy on immigration does not permit the murder of immigrants. But US law permits the murder of unborn babies. Again, the distinction is crucial and the issues should not be compared.

I would have loved a clearer, more nuanced answer from the Pope. Am I disappointed? I am. He should not have compared abortion and the death penalty and immigration. Killing an innocent baby vs capitol punishment for a convicted murderer are intrinsically different. Killing an innocent baby vs. deportation politics are also intrinsically different.

Would it have been better if he had spoken more precisely, with more understanding of the political dynamics of his words? Yes, I believe so. I hope in the near future he will clarify further.

I do believe that his intention was to make this ultimate point - that we should treat each other with charity, even those who support what is evil (like abortion) or are in error. I believe the best about the Pope’s intention -  he was trying to make a larger point about respect for one another, with charity and without demonizing on another.

Pray for the conversion of Sen. Dick Durbin, pray for our own conversions, and pray for the Pope.

[Bishop Joseph Strickland @ Pillars of Faith @BishStrick]

My dear brothers and sisters in Christ,

There is much confusion surrounding remarks from the Holy Father regarding the sanctity of human life and the moral clarity of the Church’s teaching. While some may call these “complex ethical issues,” I must affirm without hesitation that on matters of life and death, the truth is not complex – it is clear, revealed, and unchanging.

The Catholic Church has always taught that every human life, from the moment of conception until natural death, is sacred. Abortion is the deliberate taking of innocent life. The Catechism of the Catholic Church states plainly: “Human life must be respected and protected absolutely from the moment of conception” (CCC 2270). There is no ambiguity here.

To say that “no one has all the truth” in these matters undermines the very foundation of the Gospel of Life. Christ Himself is the Truth (John 14:6), and He has entrusted His Church to proclaim that truth clearly to every generation. While human debates may waver, the truth of God does not.

As Catholics, and as men and women of good will, we are indeed called to treat one another with respect. But respect cannot mean silence in the face of grave evil. Respect cannot mean treating the deliberate destruction of the most vulnerable as one “ethical issue” among many. It is the preeminent moral issue of our time.

I urge all of the faithful: stand firm in the truth. Do not be shakenwhen even the highest voices in the Church seem to speak with hesitation. The Word of God is clear: “Before I formed thee in the bowels of thy mother, I knew thee: and before thou camest forth out of the womb, I sanctified thee … ” (Jeremiah 1:5).

We must continue to proclaim life boldly, to defend the unborn, and to call our shepherds – yes, even our Holy Father – to clarity, fidelity, and courage. The Church cannot afford ambiguity where life is concerned. Souls are at stake.

Let us pray together for Pope Leo XIV, for our bishops, and for all leaders in the Church, that they may never waver in defending the truth Christ has entrusted to us. And let us, with unshakable faith, continue to bear witness that life is sacred and that the Gospel is the true way forward.

In Christ,
Bishop Joseph E. Strickland

[Joseph Magnani @JosephMagnani1]

“…“Don’t listen to them; just trust me.””
Mark 5:36

[Anthony Stine @pontificatormax]

Happy Michaelmas:

To St. Michael, in Time of Peace
by G. K. Chesterton

Michael, Michael: Michael of the Morning,
Michael of the Army of the Lord.
Stiffen thou the hand upon the still sword, Michael,
Folded and shut upon the sheathed sword, Michael,
Under the fullness of the white robes falling,
Gird us with the secret of the sword.

When the world cracked because of a sneer in heaven,
Leaving out of all time a scar upon the sky,
Thou didst rise up against the Horror in the highest,
Dragging down the highest that looked down on the Most High:
Rending from the seventh heaven the hell of exaltation
Down the seven heavens till the dark seas burn:
Thou that in thunder threwest down the Dragon
Knowest in what silence the Serpent can return.

Down through the universe the vast night falling,
(Michael, Michael: Michael of the Morning!)
Far down the universe the deep calms calling,
(Michael, Michael: Michael of the Sword!)
Bid us not forget in the baths of all forgetfulness,
In the sigh long drawn from the frenzy and the fretfulness,
In the huge holy sempiternal silence,
In the beginning was the Word.

When from the deeps a dying God astounded
Angels and devils who do all but die,
Seeing Him fallen where thou couldst not follow,
Seeing Him mounted where thou couldst not fly,
Hand on the hilt, thou hast halted all thy legions,
Waiting the Tetelestai and the acclaim,
Swords that salute Him dead and everlasting
God beyond God and greater than His Name.

Round us and over us the cold thoughts creeping,
(Michael, Michael: Michael of the battle-cry!)
Round us and under us the thronged worlds sleeping,
(Michael, Michael: Michael of the Charge!)
Guard us the Word; the trysting and the trusting
Edge upon honour and the blade unrusting.
Fine as the hair and tauter than the harpstring,
Ready as when it rang upon the targe.

He that giveth peace unto us; not as the world giveth:
He that giveth law unto us; not as the scribes:
Shall He be softened for the softening of the cities
Patient in usury; delicate in bribes?
They that come to quiet us, saying the sword is broken,
Break men with famine, fetter them with gold,
Sell them as sheep; and He shall know the selling,
For He was more than murdered. He was sold.

Michael, Michael: Michael of the Mastering,
Michael of the marching on the mountains of the Lord,
Marshal the world and purge of rot and riot,
Rule through the world till all the world be quiet:
Only establish when the World is broken,
What is unbroken is the Word.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

I'm seeing quite a bit of comment about this, so I want to make a couple of points.

I'm not owed eternal agreement from any actor who once played a character I created. The idea is as ludicrous as me checking with the boss I had when I was twenty-one for what opinions I should hold these days.

Emma Watson and her co-stars have every right to embrace gender identity ideology. Such beliefs are legally protected, and I wouldn't want to see any of them threatened with loss of work, or violence, or death, because of them.

However, Emma and Dan in particular have both made it clear over the last few years that they think our former professional association gives them a particular right - nay, obligation - to critique me and my views in public. Years after they finished acting in Potter, they continue to assume the role of de facto spokespeople for the world I created.

When you've known people since they were ten years old it's hard to shake a certain protectiveness. Until quite recently, I hadn't managed to throw off the memory of children who needed to be gently coaxed through their dialogue in a big scary film studio. For the past few years, I've repeatedly declined invitations from journalists to comment on Emma specifically, most notably on the Witch Trials of JK Rowling. Ironically, I told the producers that I didn't want her to be hounded as the result of anything I said.

The television presenter in the attached clip highlights Emma's 'all witches' speech, and in truth, that was a turning point for me, but it had a postscript that hurt far more than the speech itself. Emma asked someone to pass on a handwritten note from her to me, which contained the single sentence 'I'm so sorry for what you're going through' (she has my phone number). This was back when the death, rape and torture threats against me were at their peak, at a time when my personal security measures had had to be tightened considerably and I was constantly worried for my family's safety. Emma had just publicly poured more petrol on the flames, yet thought a one line expression of concern from her would reassure me of her fundamental sympathy and kindness.

Like other people who've never experienced adult life uncushioned by wealth and fame, Emma has so little experience of real life she's ignorant of how ignorant she is. She'll never need a homeless shelter. She's never going to be placed on a mixed sex public hospital ward. I'd be astounded if she's been in a high street changing room since childhood. Her 'public bathroom' is single occupancy and comes with a security man standing guard outside the door. Has she had to strip off in a newly mixed-sex changing room at a council-run swimming pool? Is she ever likely to need a state-run rape crisis centre that refuses to guarantee an all-female service? To find herself sharing a prison cell with a male rapist who's identified into the women's prison?

I wasn't a multimillionaire at fourteen. I lived in poverty while writing the book that made Emma famous. I therefore understand from my own life experience what the trashing of women's rights in which Emma has so enthusiastically participated means to women and girls without her privileges.

The greatest irony here is that, had Emma not decided in her most recent interview to declare that she loves and treasures me - a change of tack I suspect she's adopted because she's noticed full-throated condemnation of me is no longer quite as fashionable as it was - I might never have been this honest.

Adults can't expect to cosy up to an activist movement that regularly calls for a friend's assassination, then assert their right to the former friend's love, as though the friend was in fact their mother. Emma is rightly free to disagree with me and indeed to discuss her feelings about me in public - but I have the same right, and I've finally decided to exercise it.

[Boh Savant @BohSavant]

@Bubblebathgirl 🤮🤮🤮

[Boh Savant @BohSavant]

@BrilynHollyhand Start a Patreon! We'll ALL chip in for gas money! (And for SECURITY!)

[Boh Savant @BohSavant]

@CriticalRole Really well done! Critters are the MOST TALENTED FANBASE BY FAR! Inspired by the MOST TALENTED ROLE PLAYERS EVER!!! Lots of love to EVERYBODY! ... except Sam. ... JK!!! ESPECIALLY TO SAM! His BIRTHDAY is coming up soon!

[Boh Savant @BohSavant]

@samriegel Happy EARLY Birthday, Sam! We love you!

[Turning Point USA @TPUSA]

Erika Kirk’s full speech at Building a Legacy: Remembering Charlie Kirk

@mrserikakirk