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@BrianFragaNCR @realDonaldTrump @Pontifex When you are explaining, you are losing. Barron doing a lot of explaining here

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@MassimoFaggioli Professor Faggioli, you are an interesting academic because you can get a lot of ideas across in a few words. Barron is the classic long winded academic. He needs more and more ink to get his arguments across to defend Trump.

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@ggatehouse I’m reading “the Sovereign Individual “ as you highlighted. only 50 pages in. Iran war shows the authors idea that cyber technology networks is only concern is limited. But its framework for valuation of offensive vs defensive violence and topography is weirdly predictive!!

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@NCRonline The spectrum here across the Right shocked by Trump’s unhinged apocalyptic threats is stunning: Archbishop Coakley, Robert George, Candace Owens, and E Michael Jones. Wow! Throw in Sen Ron Johnson, Megyn Kelly, Tucker Carlson. Apparently still no comment from Bishop Barron!!

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@MassimoFaggioli Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission has become Barron’s Iran War. It’s all so embarrassing, but Barron can’t get out

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@MassimoFaggioli @LoyolaTCD You’ve described US Catholicism as a prize that was sold before. Your description of why that prize is valuable really jumped at me. My HS senior is visiting Villanova in 2 weeks as an accepted student. So disappointed you moved onto Ireland!( but I see the opportunity)

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@gareth_gore @Gaumont @SimonBooks @Ed_Critica Congratulations!!!! This is going to be “The Big Short” of Spanish banking movies, but with physical mortification.

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@ChristopherHale Laura Fields does a great job of describing the intellectual foundations of the post liberal Catholics ( Patrick Deneen, Andrew Vermeule) and the hypermasculine, hierarchical elements of MAGA that overlap with far Right Catholicism in “Furious Minds “. https://t.co/nDdM9bJsyF

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@ChristopherHale Last year this event featured a lot of wing nut clerical types: Bishop Strickland, Father Altman, Pavone, Heilman types. The unpolished versions of Bishop Barron. This year the lay people seem to want to be really front and center…. And from the Tucker Carlson wing of crazy

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@MassimoFaggioli Boller was added to “Gala” program and then came out against war in Iraq.

https://t.co/MwxNXXO8rA

I wonder if she somehow now has to cancel. Wondering which wing nut priests will show up. Not feeling the same vibe as last year’s Mar a Lago “ Gala”

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@MassimoFaggioli @litpress I recall you were quoted and videotaped in the AP news story by Tim Sullivan “ A Step Back in Time”. That story was datelined by my former parish in Madison, St Maria Goretti. Sullivan is based in Minneapolis. Hope he gets wind of this. You worked well together

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@jennmorson @annamlulis obscure 2005 movie on group of young adults who collect frozen food entrees called Never Been Thawed. In it side story on a failed rock group that pivots to Christian Rock. mentor says to follow the required song format: man screws up, man finds Jesus , Jesus fixes problem

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@MassimoFaggioli Broglio , not in Cupich’s circle by any means, says “immoral orders” can be disobeyed regarding military action in Greenland. Similar to Senator Kelly. Will DOJ and Pentagon investigate Broglio?

https://t.co/H7ljN21e1m

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@nytimes Firmly Right Archbishop of Military Broglio states Catholic US officers could disobey "immoral orders" against Greenland. Hard to imagine Broglio getting through lunch with Cupich. Is dam finally breaking? Will the Pentagon investigate Bishop Broglio? https://t.co/H7ljN21e1m

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Wisconsin Capital celebrates all the holidays- including Festivus!

[Scott Bauer @sbauerAP]

It’s back…

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@MassimoFaggioli Thomas Friedman in NYT tunes into the “civilizational “ argument you have been making about US Catholicism for years now.

https://t.co/ZGBMvUFS7y

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@MassimoFaggioli Has this book been translated to English?

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@MassimoFaggioli @commonwealmag MAGA and US conservative Catholicism often strikes me as chicken and egg question. What begets what? Faggioli explanations of this question knock the ball out of the park more often than the Dodgers in October. And he explains all the consequences concisely as well

[Wally Block @Bucky_Block]

Perhaps these rapid elevations from auxiliary show some lack of enthusiasm and trust for some of the US Bishops waiting in the wings?

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What about Archbishop Grob of Milwaukee?

[Rocco Palmo @roccopalmo]

Ahead of +Mark Rivituso’s Wed Installation as Archbishop of Mobile – Leo’s first US Metropolitan pick as Pope – a 2017 @StLouisReview cover feels prophetic…

For context, over this Millennium, only 3 other US Auxes were directly launched to a Pallium: Dolan, Gomez & Gustavo.