Maria Patriot

Wife, grandma, cheese maker's daughter, physician. Abortion is a human rights violation. Cannabis use increases your odds of stroke, MI and psychosis.

[Foundation for Drug Policy Solutions @GoodDrugPolicy]

A 22-year-old college grad died on a Southwest flight in August. The LA County medical examiner has ruled the cause: 7-OH and mitragynine, both from kratom.

It's sold in gas stations nationwide. Schedule the whole plant.

https://t.co/vmcyssQRme

[Dustin Grage @GrageDustin]

Dude couldn’t win public office in Somalia, so he moves to Minnesota to run a fraudulent daycare and win a state legislative seat.

This state is cooked.

[Erin Callaghan @drerincallaghan]

Wanted to share a few thoughts regarding the issue of abortion being a major voting issue for young women during these most recent midterms

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

🚨 EMMER UNLOADS ON MINNESOTA: Asked why his state keeps going blue despite the massive fraud scandals, Tom Emmer didn't hold back.

He says voters elected a state legislator who ran a day care and was found guilty of fraud. He says the attorney general was caught on tape promising to protect people under investigation.

And they sent to the Senate the woman who stood by Tim Walz while the fraud was happening.

Minnesota taxpayers got robbed. Democrats got reelected.

"Nobody seems to care."

[Mark Lambert @sitsio]

Pope Leo XIV has just offered a rather important clarification of what authentic interreligious dialogue actually means and the contrast with Pope Francis' controversial remarks in Singapore is difficult to ignore.

In September 2024, addressing young people from different religious traditions in Singapore, Pope Francis declared that all religions are paths to God, comparing them to different languages expressing the divine. His remarks provoked considerable controversy, not because Catholics object to respectful dialogue with other religions, but because the analogy appeared to place fundamentally different religious claims on the same theological footing.

Yesterday, addressing Christian leaders and representatives of other religions in Buenos Aires, Leo XIV approached the same subject rather differently.

He began by explicitly professing faith in Jesus Christ, true God and true man, acknowledged the Church's spiritual relationship with the Jewish people, and affirmed the respect owed to whatever is holy and true in other religious traditions, in accordance with Nostra Aetate.

But his most significant intervention came when he invoked St John Paul II's teaching that genuine religious dialogue must take place “without relativism or syncretism of any kind”, and should deepen rather than diminish the obligation to bear witness and proclaim.

That distinction is absolutely fundamental.

Catholicism does not teach that other religions contain nothing true or good, nor that God's grace is confined to the visible boundaries of the Catholic Church. The Church explicitly recognises elements of truth and holiness outside her visible communion and acknowledges that those who, through no fault of their own, do not know Christ may nevertheless attain salvation through His grace.

But this is categorically different from suggesting that the world's religions are simply equivalent routes to God. The Catholic claim is not merely that Christianity offers one particularly helpful spiritual vocabulary among many. It is that God has definitively revealed Himself in Jesus Christ, whose Incarnation, death and Resurrection are the source of salvation for humanity.

The distinction matters because genuine dialogue presupposes that the participants actually believe something. If religious differences are ultimately reduced to alternative cultural expressions of an identical spiritual reality, dialogue risks becoming an exercise in mutual reassurance rather than a serious encounter between people committed to truth.

Indeed, there is something profoundly disrespectful about treating another person's religious convictions as interchangeable with one's own. Muslims, Jews, Hindus and Christians do not merely speak different languages about precisely the same theological propositions. Their beliefs contain real and sometimes irreconcilable differences, which deserve to be understood rather than politely dissolved.

Francis' defenders were right to emphasise that his remarks arose in an informal encounter intended to encourage friendship rather than theological confrontation. But pastoral context does not remove the responsibility to speak with doctrinal clarity, particularly when addressing young people who may have little understanding of what distinguishes Christianity from other faiths.

Leo, significantly, did not repudiate Francis. Quite the opposite: he explicitly praised his predecessor's commitment to dialogue and concluded with a prayer taken from Fratelli Tutti. Yet he situated that commitment within a more clearly articulated Catholic understanding of revelation, witness and proclamation.

This is precisely what the Church needs. Not a retreat into religious hostility, nor an accommodation which obscures the uniqueness of Christ, but the confidence to recognise truth wherever it is found while remaining faithful to the fullness of truth entrusted to the Church.

Dialogue is not the suspension of evangelisation. Properly understood, it is one of the places where authentic Christian witness becomes possible.

The Church can respect every person, recognise genuine goodness in other religious traditions and cooperate generously for the common good without pretending that the Great Commission has somehow been superseded.

That is the theological clarity which Leo's remarks help to recover, and it deserves considerably more attention than it has received.

[Maria Patriot @DocMomMN]

@DeRushaJ @Dave_Schwartz @PatGarofalo Little kids don’t just “sleep it off in a crib” when poisoned by THC. A toddler consuming two or three gummies can easily exceed the threshold level predicting severe toxicity with symptoms such as seizures, low blood pressure, and difficulty breathing, requiring ICU admit.

[Maria Patriot @DocMomMN]

@DeRushaJ @Dave_Schwartz @PatGarofalo While I have empathy for retailers who may be struggling, as a physician I have no respect for drugs that can poison children and harm both mind and body.

[Maria Patriot @DocMomMN]

@DeRushaJ @Dave_Schwartz @PatGarofalo The federal ban on intoxicating hemp products received strong bipartisan support in the U.S. Senate and is a major victory for public health and America’s families. keep the ban intact.

[Maria Patriot @DocMomMN]

@DeRushaJ @Dave_Schwartz @PatGarofalo Journal of the American Heart Association found that daily THC use, either inhaled or edible, was associated with a 25% increased risk of heart attack and a 42% increased risk of stroke.

[Maria Patriot @DocMomMN]

@DeRushaJ @Dave_Schwartz @PatGarofalo Researchers from SF found that adults consuming 10 to 20 milligrams of THC per week, the equivalent of one to two THC beverages, had a significant reduction in blood vessel dilation compared to non-THC users

[Maria Patriot @DocMomMN]

@PatGarofalo Of

[Maria Patriot @DocMomMN]

@PatGarofalo There is no healthy amount if THC. So glad it will be gone soon.

[Maria Patriot @DocMomMN]

@xan_desanctis The landscape needs more flowers.

[Jose Maria Mayoral @josemarimayoral]

Impresionante discurso del Papa León XIV esta noche en Montevideo en la Vigilia de oración en el Estadio Centenario. De esos que merece la pena leer completos, guardar y meditar. Algunas frases extraordinarias:

«Dios escogió Belén, y esa elección basta para que no identifiquemos pequeñez con insignificancia».

«La vida se llena de ocupaciones, afectos, proyectos y distracciones, hasta que la ausencia de Dios deja de sentirse como ausencia».

«Cuando se pretende construir un mundo sin Dios, se corre el riesgo de dejar también al hombre sin lugar».

«¡No le teman al “para siempre”! Matrimonios, abran su casa a la vida, incluso cuando el mundo les diga que un hijo es una carga».

«Cuando ser justo y honrado tenga un precio, páguenlo. Cuando perdonar parezca una derrota, perdonen».

«Necesitamos custodiar a Cristo en el centro de nuestra vida mediante la oración, la Misa, la Confesión y la lectura meditada del Evangelio. Todos hemos de volver una y otra vez a ser discípulos».

«Para iluminar mucho no hace falta ser muchos, sino reflejar la luz del Señor».

«¡Sean santos! No se conformen con una vida simplemente correcta ni con una fe de costumbre que se contente con lo indispensable. No le den a Dios solamente una parte de ustedes, ¡dense por completo!».

«Cristo no nos llamó a la mediocridad, nos llamó a una vida nueva y plena como la suya».

Y una frase preciosa para terminar:

«¡Que se note que hemos estado en Belén! Que se note que Cristo vive y que encontrarse con Él hace la diferencia».

Qué maravilla de discurso. Qué claridad para hablar de las exigencias de la vida cristiana y qué manera de recordar que la fe no consiste simplemente en ser buenas personas, sino en entregarse por completo a Jesucristo.

https://t.co/xIncXnVERT

#PapaEnUruguay #ViajeApostolico

[Robert P. George @McCormickProf]

Andy McCarthy puts it all together. https://t.co/jexraK99h3

[Deacon Keith Fournier @KeithFournier7]

Please keep speaking with such clarity.

[Maria Patriot @DocMomMN]

@RealMattFradd Me. I believe in equal rights for women and non-discrimination.

[Ron DeSantis @RonDeSantis]

Every single federal judicial vacancy needs to be filled in the lame duck session. The Senate should pull all-nighters for as long as it takes. Democrats wont confirm a single Trump judge once they take over.

[Dustin Grage @GrageDustin]

Iowa is about to have a Democrat governor.

At 93 years old, Chuck Grassley should resign while a Republican governor can still appoint his replacement.

[Live Action @LiveAction]

Babies aren't murderers, and abortions are never medically necessary 🤝