David Calavitta

“If the spark is so bright, what must be the flame?" - Fulton Sheen ⚡️ (Tweets/views are my own.)

[David Calavitta @DavidCal]

Why did Jesus die?

[Mel Gibson @_melgibson1_]

They didn't kill Jesus because he was nice.

They killed him because he spoke the Truth, because he is the Way, the Truth, and the Life.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

The psychopath who arrested paddleboarders and closed hiking trails during Covid is forming a committee to determine what gets deleted from the internet.

What could go wrong?

[David Calavitta @DavidCal]

This is what it means to be poor in spirit.

[C. S. Lewis @CSLewisDaily]

“You may forget that you are at every moment totally dependent on God.” - C.S. Lewis

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

“The idea we closed the beaches was insane, in hindsight”.

No, Gavin. It was insane then. We all told you it was insane then. You knew it was insane then. You’re just an insane person.

[DC_Draino @DC_Draino]

At this point, the federal gov’t should assign Nick a security detail.

He’s doing AG level investigations without the title.

National security type work.

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

This is why California signed the Stop Nick Shirley Act.

You are not angry enough.

[Lila Rose @LilaGraceRose]

A Virginia bishop just did something never done before.

Bishop Michael Burbidge ordered every priest in his diocese to read a letter at Mass, exposing a ballot question that would allow abortion up to birth.

Dismembering fully developed children in the womb is not “healthcare,” it’s murder.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Wow

[Josh Howerton @howertonjosh]

When Christians use the word “generosity” they mean “generosity with your own money.”

When progressives use the word “generosity” they mean “voting for the government to forcibly redistribute other people’s money.”

[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

The tragic case of the young Cambridge professor, Jason Arday, has shed new light on the moral vacuity at the heart of Wokeism.

If I can state the matter abstractly, one should never place relative values in the center of one’s ethical concern. Only absolute goods belong in that location.

Diversity, equity, and inclusion are values, but only, as the medievals would have said, secundum quid and not in se. That means they are worthwhile sometimes and under certain conditions, but not in themselves.

In contrast, love and justice are absolute moral principles, for they are always applicable, no matter the circumstances.

Wokeism relativized justice (rendering to each his due) and love (willing the true good of the other) and absolutized diversity, equity, and inclusion. The result is the moral shipwreck that we have been witnessing the last ten years.

What makes things even sadder is that lots of people have been profiting off of this moral confusion.

[Lila Rose @LilaGraceRose]

BREAKING

A George Soros-backed law firm is threatening @LiveAction, demanding we retract statements where abortion is described as “killing” preborn children.

Our answer is No.

Threats will not stop us from calling abortion what it is or from fighting for the right of every child to live.

We will not be pressured into using language that hides what abortion does or makes the killing of a preborn child easier to accept.

[MEL GIBSON @Melgibsonact]

This is what a 34 week old baby looks like outside the womb. Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey just legalized killing an unborn child at this age. For no reason, just because someone wants to They call it “reproductive rights” because they refuse to call it what it is: murder

[David Calavitta @DavidCal]

If you’re a font geek like me, you might like this. Been having some fun salvaging vintage type and turning them into fonts.

The first batch is live. More to come.

https://t.co/Wux1FYDSqI

“Building a Better Yesterday!”

#fonts #vintagefonts #type

[G. K. Chesterton @GKCdaily]

"Abortion is the Antichrist's demonic parody of the Eucharist. That's why it uses the same holy words, 'This is my body,' with the blasphemously opposite meaning.

–Peter Kreeft

[David Calavitta @DavidCal]

If you’re a font geek like me, you might like this. Been having some fun salvaging vintage type and turning them into fonts.

The first batch is live. More to come.

https://t.co/Wux1FYDSqI

“Building a Better Yesterday!”

#fonts #vintagefonts #type

[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

I know I’ve been posting a lot recently, but as Fr. Richard John Neuhaus used to say, “it’s a target-rich environment” right now.

The governor of Massachusetts just signed into law a statute that permits abortion up until the moment of birth, as long as mother and doctor give the go-ahead.
Please understand what this means. A fully-formed child, moments before exiting the birth canal, can be eviscerated, chopped into pieces, have its head crushed or skin burned off—all under the full protection of Massachusetts law.

What I found particularly gross was the reaction of the entirely female crowd around the female governor of Massachusetts as she signed this barbaric provision into law. They were clapping and cackling with delight because what can only be called infanticide can now be practiced with impunity in their state.

I’m old enough to remember when Mario Cuomo, the devoutly Catholic governor of New York, admitted that, though he found abortion personally repugnant, he was, after tortured wrestling with his conscience, willing to give it limited protection of law.

How far we have fallen from agonized and conflicted Cuomo to the present governor of Massachusetts and her entourage gleefully applauding the murder of children.

[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

Apparently, the University of Michigan’s College of Literature, Science, and the Arts has determined not to count letter grades toward its freshmen’s GPAs during their first semester, starting in 2027. The reason given is that this move will address the growing mental health crisis among young people. Nothing could be further from the truth. It will, in fact, exacerbate the crisis.

Across cultures, one can discern a common pattern in the initiation rituals of primal peoples. The elders of the tribe rip a young person from the comfort of his home during the night. He is then scarified or otherwise physically marked in some way—a tooth is knocked out or his face is cut—in order to impress upon him that life is difficult.

Then he is introduced to the lore and history of his people, and finally he is taken to the edge of the wilderness, given a few simple provisions, and told to make his way for an extended period of time.

The entire purpose of the exercise is to break him free from the dominance of his self-regarding feelings and to orient him to the achievement of objective goods.

Plato famously compared the soul to a horse-drawn chariot. The animals represent the passions, which provide energy for the vehicle, and the driver represents intelligence and refined moral consciousness. As long as the charioteer is in place, the chariot makes its way purposefully. But if the charioteer is kicked out, the horses will run amok.

Our “suicidally empathetic” culture, which consistently privileges feeling over objective value, has produced armies of dangerously uninitiated young people. In terms of Plato’s metaphor, it has given rise to lots and lots of chariots with no sense of direction, crashing into one another.

Electing not to count first-semester grades toward students’ GPAs in order to spare the delicate emotions of eighteen-year-olds is, spiritually speaking, about as dumb a move as a university could make.

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

Small businesses were destroyed. Kids lost years of learning. Doctors who offered alternative therapies lost their medical license.

This wasn't public health. It was the federal government being weaponized by Left-wing groupthink.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

I needed to move a sofa.

I mentioned this to an American. He said, "You know anybody with a truck?"

I did not know anybody with a truck.

He looked at me with real concern. Not pity. Concern. The way you look at a man who has told you he does not have a name.

"You gotta know somebody with a truck."

I asked how one acquires such a person.

He said, "You just do."

This is the third time I have received that answer in this country. It is the answer to everything here. You just do. There is no process. There is only the eventual fact of having.

He said, "Ask Kevin."

I do not know a Kevin. He said Kevin like I should. He said it the way you say a shared uncle.

I met Kevin four days later. Kevin owns a truck. Kevin does not own a truck for himself. Nobody owns a truck for themselves. Kevin owns a truck for a fifteen mile radius.

Inside I said: THIS MAN HAS TAKEN A VOW. HE DID NOT ANNOUNCE IT. HE SIMPLY PURCHASED A BED AND ACCEPTED THE CONSEQUENCES.

Kevin arrived on Saturday. He brought the truck. He also brought a second man.

I had not asked for a second man.

The second man's name is Tony. Tony came because Kevin came. Tony did not know me. Tony did not ask what we were moving. Tony brought gloves.

They moved the sofa in eleven minutes.

I offered them money. Both of them laughed at the same time, which felt rehearsed and was not.

I asked what I owed them.

Kevin said, "Buy the pizza."

That is the price. That is the entire economy. The truck costs one pizza and the pizza is not negotiable and the pizza is also not expensive and everyone knows what size.

Inside I said: THE FEE IS FIXED ACROSS THE ENTIRE NATION AND WAS SET BY NO ONE.

We ate on the floor because the sofa was against the wall and none of us wanted to be the first to sit on it.

Tony told me his daughter plays soccer. I asked if she is good. He said, "She's aggressive."

I still think about that.

Three weeks later, Kevin texted me.

"You free Sunday? Helping Tony move a fridge."

He did not ask if I wanted to. He informed me of a fridge.

Inside I said: I HAVE BEEN CALLED UP. I DID NOT ENLIST. THE PAPERS WERE FILED ON MY BEHALF.

I went. I moved the fridge. I have no truck. I contributed only arms.

Afterward, a man I had never met asked me if I knew anybody with a truck.

I said, "Yeah, I got a guy."

I have a guy.

I am somebody's guy now, too. Tony has told two people about me.

He describes me as "the guy who's strong for his size."

I have never been prouder of a sentence in my life.