Pope Leo XIV says that the Catholic Church’s teaching on sexual ethics must be less prioritized over “greater, more important issues.”
“We tend to think that when the Church is talking about morality, that the only issue of morality is sexual. And in reality, I believe there are much greater, more important issues, such as justice, equality, freedom of men and women, freedom of religion, that would all take priority before that particular issue.”
@thekinocorner I thought Scorsese was adding in too much to make the film not a remake, but it wasn’t for the worse that’s for sure, in comparison Infernal Affairs is a much subtler story while the Departed goes all in on evil Irishmen.
The ending is much more satisfying tho.
He's getting shat on by anti-woke weebs, but this is an rare Razorfist W. I like anime, but Rightoids need to stop unironically pretending it was always "Based & Christpilled". Anime was exposing kids to gay relationships before Steven Universe was a gleam in Rebecca Sugar's eye.
@ResEvilDude Japanese """nationalists""" are almost always crypto-communists. They're mad that the US built a functioning postwar economy in Japan and maintained a military presence to defend against communism instead of allowing Japan to turn into a Chinese vassal state and starve.
Both the "Hippie Buddhist" and "Convertodox" phenomena have some pretty interesting commonalities.
Neither have centralized authorities capable of quickly and efficiently making definite judgements on anything. Both have vague, flexible doctrines. Latent anti-Western sentiments are present in both. Neither have many effective bulwarks against cults of personality, nor effective means for dispute resolution, so splinter sects are easy to form. And foreign governments seem to have a way of meddling or even outright controlling the leadership of these religions as well.
Importantly too, both have been quite effective at distracting Westerners from Catholicism -- which has crystal-clear doctrine, a centralized leadership, highly efficient procedures for making authoritative moral judgements, and a striking degree of global unity that is not easily infiltrated. These qualities make it intensely threatening to the Powers That Be insofar as the Church's ambitions run counter to theirs.
When you look at the enemies of the Catholic Church over the years -- including Communists, secular progressives, the Russian Patriarch, Hollywood, the WASP elite, and various CIA-funded or Mossad-influenced Evangelical groups -- you sort of start to see why there's this omnipresent idea that we all should be "anything but Catholic."
Both Hippie Buddhists and Western converts to Eastern Orthodoxy play into this very nicely. The latter seems to be an updated version of the former in many important ways; that their project comes in "based" packaging makes it all the more potent on the present-day psychological warfare battlefield.
I frankly suspect that the genesis of this recent "Eastern" trend began out of a server farm somewhere, and was not an organic development.
Vlad the Impaler was the OG Border Patrol Agent of Romania. They called him ‘ruthless’ and ‘vicious,’ but he cared about his people and protected their borders.
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DOUTHAT: Let's be honest -- the tone of the administration is not consistently a Christian tone. There is a tone of aggressive uncharity
JD VANCE: Tonal arguments are ways of, frankly, policing working class ways of communication, and covering them in elite preferences