Considering Catholicism

Unpacking the faith of the ages for the 21st century

[Considering Catholicism @ConsideringCath]

Host of the Considering Catholicism Podcast, unpacking the faith of the ages for curious non-Catholics in the 21st century.
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[Growing Up Retro @GrowingUpRetro]

The Scholastic Book Fair was LIFE!

[Giga Based Dad @GigaBasedDad]

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[Jason Howerton @jason_howerton]

We like to put massive amounts of lipstick on the pig that is divorce: "It was for the best."

The best for who? If seeing her parents get married moves this little girl like this, what do you think happens to her heart if they get divorced?

[Considering Catholicism @ConsideringCath]

@thewolvenhour He’s not a scholar or deep thinker. He’s talking about the conventions of the film medium: three-act storytelling, internal character arcs, show vs. tell exposition, etc. He’s saying that after 100 years of movies, audiences expect that structure, like a language of film.

[Considering Catholicism @ConsideringCath]

@ZhugeYY He translated the Odyssey into the language of Hollywood b/c if was true to the original, it wouldn't work as a movie and no one would buy a ticket b/c the world of Homer is alien to us. Not every book (or epic poem) should be a movie. Pray they don't make a movie of Dante!

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@DCasperMusic @Joeinblack @jzipple To be clear, I’m not in favor of a photo of a priest holding a gun in a church. I’m not in favor of a lot of other goofy stuff that some priests have done in churches. The selective social media outrage is revealing.

[Considering Catholicism @ConsideringCath]

@Joeinblack @jzipple *Now* the Jesuit is all concerned about rules and appropriateness and tradition? Thought experiment: Fr. Rippenger is waving a rainbow flag. Does the Jesuit cry foul?

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@jzipple @pluant Dante put sodomites in the inner ring of the seventh circle: crimes against nature. "Intrinsically disordered" seems like corporately-softened language for the same thing. I suppose you could say there's nothing wrong with just *desiring* to commit crimes against nature... 🙄

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨WOW!!!

Every Tuesday and Thursday for EIGHT YEARS STRAIGHT, a 73-year-old grandfather has volunteered at a Virginia hospital NICU to hold babies fighting for their lives, some weighing under 2 POUNDS.

And before he lays each one down, he whispers the same blessing over every baby:

"Grow strong. Grow smart. Grow kind." ❤️

His name is Dave Whitlow. He's 73 years old.

He's not a doctor or a nurse. He's a retired government manager, a father of two, a grandfather of three... who decided his retirement belonged to the smallest, most fragile babies in Richmond VA.

Every visit, he holds five or six of them, babies smaller than a loaf of bread, whose parents can't be there every hour because they need to work.

So Dave is there and he's never once missed a day.

"It's the best gig I've ever had. It just feels right."

He doesn't just hold the babies, he says the job is holding up the exhausted parents and the worn-down nurses too. "It all kind of gets tied together, they need God's love too."

For 8 years, every single baby gets the same blessing before he lays them down:

"Grow strong. Grow smart. Grow kind."

Why those words?

"This is what I want from people in general."

He says that somewhere out there in the world are eight years of kids, currently walking, running, starting school, who will never know that when they were two pounds and fighting for every breath, he held them and spoke those words over their lives.

That brings him joy.

He calls that NICU a family he never expected and can't imagine leaving.

GOD BLESS Dave Whitlow.

Grow strong. Grow smart. Grow kind. 🇺🇸

[Considering Catholicism @ConsideringCath]

This is why Tolkien’s work is so unique. It isn’t the swords and dragons. It takes the forms of the old mythologies and recasts them into a Christian (Catholic) universe (or at least worldview). Game of Thrones borrows from the violent old world, LOTR asks, “What if the old myths were Christian?”

[Considering Catholicism @ConsideringCath]

@LostHistory9 So, it insists upon itself?

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@kevinnbass Nolan’s vision was perfect for reimagining Batman as a complex epic hero. That same vision has become tedious when applied to every other story.

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@DefiyantlyFree

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@MagneticNorse In the Roman Empire it was called tax farming.

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@FrMatthewLC The Jews know the true God through what he truly revealed of himself to them through their true (but incomplete) scriptures. What Muslims claim to know about God comes through a false revelation from a false prophet with false scriptures. One of these is not like the other.

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