Hey Philomena 🐦

Abused cat. Gnawed by parrots. Come for the random warship trivia, stay for the Catholic Jeremiads. You can still have bags with that but they now cost 40¢.

[Hey Philomena 🐦 @EaMast]

@DHiddenness @DEGOPer I remind myself daily that the Church Triumphant is glorious and the Church Suffering is luminous, but the Church Militant is mostly a stumbling 💩 show.

Faith imo has to come from the will and Grace because if you let it be ruled by emotions it will die under that smelly heap.

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@EduardHabsburg I'm not a fan of Sagrada either. I saw it a number of years ago and it inspired in me a sense of unease. Its proportions are more insect than human and it reminded me of a huge termite mound.

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

Pope Leo XIV just held mass at La Sagrada Familia to honor 100th anniversary of Gaudi’s death.

They lit up the cross at peak of the Basilica’s Tower of Jesus Christ for the first time and did a light show with a drone visual of Gaudi’s face. Next level.

[Courtney Mares @catholicourtney]

The Our Father during Pope Leo XIV’s Mass in the Sagrada Família basilica

[Hey Philomena 🐦 @EaMast]

@MilHistNow AI creates something so stupid and simultaneously so awesome and yet for some reason people are afraid of it.

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@Simply_Tessy Don't let the bad example of other Catholics drag you down, because I know if they're struggling that the bad example of others is going to be at or near the core of the problem.

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@LionBlogosphere @shagbark_hick The real thing. We lived on the edge of the Jewish neighborhood and had a proper kosher deli nearby.

Dad grew up in the '30s in a working class Italian neighborhood that absorbed Jewish refugees. He grew up with both cuisines.

[Hey Philomena 🐦 @EaMast]

@NolteNC Thank you. All of the above and the overuse (or any use really) of wartime stock footage. They didn't do it to be accurate. They did it because it was cheap. Longest Day and Tora didn't use any. That's a clue.

(I saw it in SENSURROUND too. It was my birthday.)

[Hey Philomena 🐦 @EaMast]

You put your rosary in it. Duh.

[mindy🌷 @mindyisser]

why does everyone want dresses with pockets? putting stuff in a dress pocket makes the dress look worse and i usually have too much stuff to carry so id need a bag anyway

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@MrsRuvi Society already has a robust moral and legal framework for defining the fair use *by humans* of audiovisual assets. Remember, whether you use a pen, a brush, or an AI, YOU are still the artist. It's not Ultron, it's just another tool. Have fun and stop worrying.

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Papa Leone is pretty cool.

[Reuters @Reuters]

Pope Leo sat with the pilots of a flight from Madrid to Barcelona on the second leg of his Spain tour. The pontiff was invited aboard by one of the captains, and waved at Spanish Air Force fighter jet pilots escorting the plane https://t.co/pbv4UuLWFo

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@ZpevakV @OneArmedBoh @UpdatingOnRome The Battle of Attu Island (1943) -- banzai charge into Garands and Brownings -- probably comes close.
https://t.co/XUwVO5FVxy

[Faytuks Network @FaytuksNetwork]

Canada’s three major airlines, Air Canada, WestJet, and Air Transat have indefinitely suspended all flights and vacation packages to Cuba with no resumption date

[Hey Philomena 🐦 @EaMast]

"random dinosaur sounds" 😆

[Military History Now @MilHistNow]

On this day in 1944, Allied armies roll into Rome. It's the first European capital to be liberated from Nazi occupation.

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@daninelkgrove @MilHistNow Dachinifel did a three-part documentary on his life. Good stuff.

https://t.co/LrY33qDtCV

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@Coyote501 @MilHistNow Agreed. Probably the definitive book on the battle. Corrects errors that had crept into the older accounts.

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Battle of Midway hot take:

Midway 2019 is a much better movie than Midway 1976. More accurate, no dumb subplot. '76 fanboys are just nostalgia maxing. I saw it in the theater in Sensurround, which mostly meant that it was just really loud.