David Scott

Vice Chancellor for Communications, Archdiocese of Los Angeles

[David Scott @DScottLA]

Local LA news channels have turned since last night to 24-7 coverage of the #PalisadesFire. No more mention of the #EatonFire. Wonder why. Maybe it just stopped burning and threatening lives? #wildfires

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Moby Dick (1956) - Father Mapple's Sermon Courtesy of the great @Jhkunstler. Orson Welles as Father Mapple, delivering Melville’s prophetic sermon on the eternal delight that awaits those who resist the “billows of the seas of the boisterous mob,” and stand up for God and truth “against the proud gods and commodores of this earth.” https://t.co/SitSjN2L8R

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https://t.co/8YmNr61jlP Courtesy of the great @Jhkunstler. Orson Welles as Father Mapple, delivering Melville’s prophetic sermon on the eternal delight that awaits those who resist the “billows of the seas of the boisterous mob,” and stand up for God and truth “against the proud gods and commodores of this earth.” https://t.co/SitSjN2L8R

[David Scott @DScottLA]

But in truth the whole course of Christianity from the first, when we come to examine it, is but one series of troubles and disorders. Every century is like every other, and to those who live in it seems worse than all times before it.

The Church is ever ailing, and lingers on in weakness, "always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in her body."

Religion seems ever expiring, schisms dominant, the light of Truth dim, its adherents scattered.

The cause of Christ is ever in its last agony, as though it were but a question of time whether it fails finally this day or another.

... Well may prophets cry out, "How long will it be, O Lord, to the end of these wonders?" how long will this mystery proceed? how long will this perishing world be sustained by the feeble lights which struggle for existence in its unhealthy atmosphere?

God alone knows the day and the hour ...Meanwhile ... not to despond, not to be dismayed, not to be anxious, at the troubles which encompass us. They have ever been; they ever shall be; they are our portion.

"The floods are risen, the floods have lift up their voice, the floods lift up their waves. The waves of the sea are mighty, and rage horribly; but yet the Lord, who dwelleth on high, is mightier."

— St. John Henry Newman, Lectures on the Prophetical Office of the Church, 14.

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A break from election madness. ...

[Archdiocese of LA @lacatholics]

⚾️ Join @CardinalDolan and @archbishopgomez in their friendly wager for a good cause! #BaseballUnites

Visit https://t.co/Fes5T5Pyhk to see how you can get in the game! ⚾️📚

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"Now, suddenly, I’m no longer the social scientist, I’m a preacher. I’m trying to say, we’re not going to fix polarization, inequality, social isolation until, first of all, we start feeling we have an obligation to care for other people." https://t.co/yIAeJxPIbd

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“Life under Communism was principally a tragedy,” Kadare writes, “but a tragedy with comic, not to say grotesque, interludes. Life over all could be described in those terms, as a tragicomedy.”
https://t.co/P0eVrrbVNr

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“When religion in any traditional form is excluded from the public square, it does not mean that the public square is in fact naked. The vacuum will be filled by ersatz religion, by religion bootlegged into public space under other names.”
https://t.co/nUq58ZWtq3

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This is a great essay: “…the deepest problems we face in the opening decades of the 21st century: neoliberal capitalism and meritocracy; IQ, biotechnology, and the return of eugenic ideology; universal basic income and what to do with “useless bodies.” https://t.co/YjTArhmp62

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Lovely writing: "A series of revolutions crashed through our lives, previously filled only with ambition, long days of work, wanderings in foreign countries and too much wine. We found an insatiable need for what I would now call the authority of God."

https://t.co/tV98QpTi1H

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This is a delightful read: “Richard has been trying to help me with the typing of this letter,” Orwll wrote to a friend, in a line that any work-from-home parent can appreciate." https://t.co/nitRwlSnmD

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"Something's happening in the world today, something exciting. There’s a new movement of the Spirit. Everywhere around us, we can see the signs: God’s love is breaking into the world, and into the lives of the men and women of our times!" https://t.co/rYbpLQNfUb

[Angelus News @AngelusNews]

Scenes from today’s ordination #NewLAPriests

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What a sad story. “Wills decided recently he’s no longer Catholic: ‘St. Augustine didn’t believe in the eucharist, he didn’t buy transubstantiation, fought against a papacy. I consider myself an Augustinian Christian.'” https://t.co/a3moIMMrtt

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"Faithful ministry isn't glamorous. It's pointing people to a God on a cross whose strength is made perfect in weakness. Hardly compares to waging a culture war. That’s the problem w/ Christianity. Its weapons look ridiculously weak to a watching world." https://t.co/t0sCVqQpnz

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@ArchbishopGomez: "Jesus is speaking your name and my name. He’s asking each of you what he asked Peter: Do you love me more than whatever the world has to offer? Will you follow me wherever I lead you?"

https://t.co/MsrnJCg0Ur

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This is so thoughtful. And sad. "Our plan of life has been to put off the old patterns of adulthood. There will be plenty of time for that, for now there’s a vacation, a concert. But something is missing in a life made up of only these things."
https://t.co/YLP370Pr7i

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“The great achievements of the West — in science and technology, in the arts and architecture; all our beliefs about charity, compassion, and social justice — are fruits of the Incarnation and the truth it reveals about human nature and human destiny."
https://t.co/Vc6qVbDwMe

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Good question. "What’s notable is how Francis finds himself almost alone among world leaders in urging humanity to beat swords into ploughshares; and how among elite Western opinion, his calls are greeted with indifference."

https://t.co/8g5zemRwTb