David Hahn

Cradle Catholic. Catholic Herald columnist. Faith informed common sense politics. Recovering folk musician. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇺🇸

[David Hahn @Hahnlander]

Some thoughts for your Sunday on localism.

Shout out to my hometown Steubenville!

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[David Hahn @Hahnlander]

Christianity is not just one religion among many. It is the Faith that breaks free from the circles of this world, it alone sets us free from the wretched circus that the stoics, hedonists, utilitarians, and occultists travel round and round. We need to remember that virtue isn’t enough - we needed grace

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The Critical Drinker calling Ellen Page he and him in his latest video about The Odyssey, using the phrase "when he's stood next to another man" is almost as retarded as the movie itself tbh.

[David Hahn @Hahnlander]

The Mass of the Ages did a fantastic job of breaking down the headline elements of the liturgical reform that many Catholics are unaware of.

This continues to help ordinary catholics understand the positions of more traditionally minded brethren - doing far more to bridge the gap between those one either side of the "liturgy wars".

This video does little in the long run, as it is the liturgical equivalent of the podcaster wars. In the short term it will most likely make more people aware of "The Mass of the Ages" and in the long term it will be ignored by the majority of traditional catholics who see through this criticism for employing the same condescending tone that is seen everywhere the tradition of the Church is held up.

"Oh you want the traditions of the Church, well you can still have them silly! Well most of them - the ones that haven't been altered - and only if pastor Bob feels like it"

"Silly trads, don't they know the Church introduced innovations to the mass slowly over the course of a millennia - that's the same thing as overhauling the mass in the course of a few years."

This whole approach is tone deaf to the other side. Disappointing, not surprising.

[Pope Respecter @poperespecter1]

So many brains were broken by the "Mass of Ages" documentary. Unfortunately they were lied to.

That documentary is full of exaggerations, misquotes, and flat out lies.

Watch the below to get a taste for how bad the documentary is.

[Shameless Popery @ShamelessPopery]

“Because of the long and exhausting war the public treasury was burdened with debt, industry languished and the citizenry wearied by misfortunes was split into contending parties. This ruinous and critical state of affairs was put aright by the celebrated George Washington, famed for his courage and keen intelligence. He was a close friend of the Bishop of Baltimore. Thus the Father of His Country and the pioneer pastor of the Church in that land so dear to Us, bound together by the ties of friendship and clasping, so to speak, each the other's hand, form a picture for their descendants, a lesson to all future generations, and a proof that reverence for the Faith of Christ is a holy and established principle of the American people, seeing that it is the foundation of morality and decency, consequently the source of prosperity and progress.”

- Pius XII, Sertum Laetitiae

Happy 250th, America! 🦅🇺🇸

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Backrooms offers more than an unsettling horror story. Read through the lens of Christian realism, it becomes an unexpected meditation on truth, meaning and the dangers of postmodernism.

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[David Hahn @Hahnlander]

The idea that marriage vows should be private is absurd. Marriage is a communal reality and your vows are as much to community as they are to your spouse - you are agreeing to confound a new society and be a constitutive element of perpetuating civilization.

This such a warped representation of what marriage should be on both counts. Marriage is not the day you get to ego trip and indulge your self obsession, but neither is it a day to close yourselves off from the world.

A wedding is a social reality, and the family is the first society! It’s the one day when the polity gets to celebrate and enjoy your love - Tom and Zendaya get to enjoy it privately the rest of their lives.

We need to relearn common sense about our inherited civilization.

[Radical Left Receipts @radleftreceipts]

Tom & Zendaya: quiet, classy wedding. No ego parade no massive spectacle just private vows like normal humans.

Travis & Taylor: renting out MSG for a $100M circus of 1,000 celebs with street shutdowns & helicopter cams.

Because nothing says ‘true love’ like turning your wedding into a narcissistic spectacle for the timeline.

Some marry. Taylor performs.

I give it 6 months tops.

[David Hahn @Hahnlander]

Is it just me, or did anyone else's respect for @TheCriticalDri2 fall through the floor with his passive acceptance of gender ideology in his latest video on The Odyssey?

"We all know that Elliot Page recently transitioned from female to male, and that fine by me. I hope he's living his best life and that he's happy and fulfilled."

What a sentiment, a wholly awful sentiment.

As if to say, we all know that Jim recently became a drug addict, and that's fine by me.

For a long while I have worried that these youtube film critics were sentimental allies. More libertarian - desiring arbitrary freedom as opposed to freedom enabled by virtue. That they only waged the culture war because something they liked (a comic character, film franchise, or video game) was declining in quality - not because of a coherent moral worldview that can stand up to our self-destructive tendencies.

@TheCriticalDri2 didn't need to endorse or decry gender idiology as a film critic - in fact he'd have been wise to avoid it. Instead he has encharitably endorsed another person's self-delusion without qualm or qualification to his audience. Profoundly unsettling.

[David Hahn @Hahnlander]

@Pontifex I might just overdose on hopium

[Michael Haynes 🇻🇦 @MLJHaynes]

Cardinal Burke publishes message for America's July 4 celebrations --

“The Declaration of Independence appeals to the laws of nature & of God.
It affirms that human dignity comes from the Creator & that authentic freedom is inseparable from moral truths.
These truths remain as urgent today as they were 250 years ago.”

Via @GuadalupeShrine & @cardinalrlburke

[David Hahn @Hahnlander]

It is actually a really good point. Friedman absolutely presupposes a religious and moral populace for his marketplace.

The idea that we cannot question the “free market” and its prophet the more it feels like a golden calf.

Desire is subject to the fall, and we are fast learning what happens to market without virtue - a where someone sells what should never be sold to him who has no right to buy.

[Robby Soave @robbysoave]

JD Vance is so frustrating. Here he takes gratuitous shots at Milton Friedman as a bad model for Republican economic thinking.

With Friedman as the guiding light, Ronald Reagan won 49 states and ushered in a decade of unrivaled prosperity.

[David Hahn @Hahnlander]

Surely economic freedom must always serve human flourishing, as it has never exploited it. The freedom to pursue and acquire goods has never once hampered man's ultimate good. Man is after all homo economicus and must serve the market as his god so that it may bless him with his flourishing

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The pope actually sent this thing, it’s called a letter. In it he asked them to hold off a minute and keep talking.

Disagreement was in fact not at issue here. It was the blatant disobedience (see notary’s answer to papal mandate question).

Synodality might be dumb, but it wasn’t Rome who walked away from the table

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@BBCBreaking Novus Ordites will seriously look at this and say "not Catholic".

[David Hahn @Hahnlander]

In order to have the energy necessary to improve something, you must love it.

There is this common misunderstanding that progressives have no love of the west. It’s not that they have no love for it, or else they'd lack the energy to pursue violent revolution.

No, they have love for the west. What they lack is common sense. They are divorced from reality from human nature - they totally lack the inherited wisdom that led to healthy society.

Until we come again to see man as a fallen creature, subjected to unreasonable passions, and in desperate need of faith and tradition we will continue to misplace our love and self-destruct

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Amidst the uncertainty of political life both in the world and Church, it’s more essential than ever to ground oneself in prayer, particularly regular prayer.

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[David Hahn @Hahnlander]

@MLJHaynes Is attending illicit masses a separate issue to formal adherence? Would the SSPX encourage faithful Catholics to attend liturgies they deemed illicit on a regular basis?