Thomas Mirus

President/editor-in-chief of Catholic Culture Podcast, Criteria: The Catholic Film Podcast, Lives of the Popes

[Thomas Mirus @CatholicPods]

This painting by Corot somehow reminded me of Ozu's film Good Morning.

[Philip Lawler @PhilLawler]

Before you jump on board the bandwagon of support for Msgr. Rossetti, be aware of his background.
https://t.co/EYy5GrKkA7

[Thomas Mirus @CatholicPods]

@agostino_harry @BMcGrewvy Yes, and all sexual acts are morally salient in this way, not just the last split second of them.

[Thomas Mirus @CatholicPods]

@agostino_harry @BMcGrewvy Also, these are clearly degrading acts that violate the personalistic norm, turning sex into a power trip and making nonsense out of theology of the body, if you prefer that language.

[Thomas Mirus @CatholicPods]

@agostino_harry @BMcGrewvy A sodomitical act is still a sodomitical act even if not completed.

[Thomas Mirus @CatholicPods]

This really stinks

[El Reconqristador ابو شربل 🇲🇽 @crawlings13]

Here is the newly appointed "conservative, orthodox" head of the dicastery for communications at the Vatican explaining her involvement in a Christian Zionist organization (Philos) and why it's wrong to want all Jews to know Christ.

Brothers and sisters, we are so [redacted]

[Thomas Mirus @CatholicPods]

Paul Duda joins us to discuss Steven Spielberg’s first extant UFO movie, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and what it says about the kind of meaning and transcendence people are seeking in the current UFO obsession. Paul also talks about the film he is producing about St. Bernadette.

[Thomas Mirus @CatholicPods]

@Gooboberti @RavensNRemnants @DiscussingFilm Yeah, film is a collaborative art form. Multiple people get to exercise their creativity. It's wonderful. It's like the rest of human life in that way. You should try learning to enjoy the human experience.

[Thomas Mirus @CatholicPods]

If one's purpose in homeschooling is to avoid participation in society, then it is vicious. It should be to better prepare for participation in society.

[𝐄𝐮𝐝𝐚𝐢𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐚 @EudaimoniaEsq]

Very happy to see the Right’s advice for young people shifting away from “go live in the woods” and into something that can actually meet the moment.

Go to college, go to professional/grad school. Become a lawyer or an entrepreneur. Get into politics—even at (especially at!) the state and local levels.

Politics is patronage, it’s client services. Much of the Right’s discontent arises from the fact that our patronage networks have largely evaporated and very few of our elected officials are actually serving our needs (that is, their clients’ needs). This needs to change, and it won’t change by telling our smart, motivated young people to go into the trades and/or go live in the woods “off the grid, man.”

Go to the best college you can and get into the rooms where decisions are made and where you can actually make change—either with money you make, your professional knowledge, your political connections, etc. You are smart and capable—smarter and more capable than the people currently in these positions. Trust me.

Get involved. Look out for aligned individuals and promote each other, support each other. Find people at church, political orgs (that are actually aligned, not just nominally aligned). No man is an island. Network with these people and support each other. It’s absolutely necessary. The Left’s various patronage networks already do this. We’re behind because we have been too atomized to do the same.

The word “idiot” comes from the Greek idiōtēs, derived from idios, meaning “one’s own” or “private.” According to Plato and the ancient Greeks generally, a idiōtēs was simply a private person—someone who minded only their own affairs and took no part in public or civic life. Don’t listen to people who tell you to be a Platonic idiot.

If your ancestors fought and died for this country, the least you can do is go to college, make friends, and support those who actually care about making a better tomorrow for their children.

[desert suns @desertnuns]

An obedient reply by exorcist Msgr. Stephen J Rossetti.

(I'm VERY skeptical of any claims UFO activity, but I'm also VERY skeptical of any claims made by McElroy.)

[Kathryn Jean Lopez @kathrynlopez]

Hey, in your charity, say a prayer about this -- for Msgr. Rossetti and the Saint Michael Center, which I know has been a gift to many -- including me

[Thomas Mirus @CatholicPods]

@Jwaughcsc @lukei4655 UFO-mania is being promoted at the highest levels of government, it's appropriate for the Church to offer a response

[Thomas Mirus @CatholicPods]

@xthemasterand I don't know that Msgr. Rossetti is a "celebrity exorcist" unless being an exorcist with any public presence makes one a "celebrity". But we don't call every theologian who has a website about theology a "celebrity theologian"

[Thomas Mirus @CatholicPods]

Agree or disagree with Msgr. Rossetti's statement, it's hard to see how it even slightly, let alone gravely, undermines Church teaching.

[Michael Haynes 🇻🇦 @MLJHaynes]

NEW: Cardinal McElroy has removed Monsignor Stephen Rossetti as an exorcist for the archdiocese of Washington.

McElroy said that “statements made by Mgr Rossetti linking UFOs to demonic presence & the Center’s recent use of social media gravely undermine the Church’s very precise teaching on the devil, demons & exorcism”

In a recent, now deleted video, Rossetti had said that “it’s my personal belief that probably many, if not most of these UFO sightings are in fact demons”

[Thomas Mirus @CatholicPods]

@peterswindal Talk of demons certainly makes the archdiocese look less urbane.

[Peter @peterswindal]

@CatholicPods I wonder how McElroy feels about the state of the schools and universities in his diocese and whether or not the statements of their faculty and staff — even/especially the religious — are gravely undermining Church teaching.

I could pull up such a statement in maybe 5 minutes.

[Walker Percy Gryce @percy_gryce]

@louiseallain @BruvverEccles The evolution of women's roles in the Church can be summarized like this:

The order of widows ➡️ the order of deaconesses ➡️ nuns and religious women

Reviving deaconesses is a bit of antiquarianism--made all the more absurd by the flight of women from monastic and vowed life.

[Thomas Mirus @CatholicPods]

@FrBMulcahyOP @mfjlewis Hard to see how the Msgr.'s statement that in his "personal opinion", many UFO sightings are demonic in nature, even slightly undermines Church teaching, let alone gravely. Even if one might disagree with it.

[Jeremy Wayne Tate @JeremyTate41]

Ben Sasse has always been honest, but facing a terminal diagnosis he has been unplugged. Last night, in exactly 13 seconds, he explained the real reason compulsory education ever started in America.

Catholics, consider this when making choices about education for your children.