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“Ignorantia scripturae ignorantia Christi” Saint Jerome enjoyer. ✝️ suffer from supporting Celtic 🍀. Retweets ≠ endorsements

[CDO 🇻🇦 @Hieronymus87]

@CelticFC @StonewallScot The same organisation which wants gender self ID, and believes kids should be able to identify as trans as young as 2 years old

[Daily Mail Sport @MailSport]

Ghanaian witch doctor says he will put a curse on Harry Kane to derail England's World Cup hopes against his country - after claiming responsibility for an injury to Cristiano Ronaldo https://t.co/NOdrJxpHfw

[Catholic Images That Go Hard @hardflics]

The Vatican national football team is eligible to apply for FIFA.

[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

In a recent interview, Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, former grand chancellor of the John Paul II Institute on Marriage and Family Life, confirmed the worst suspicions that many of us had.

He admitted that the changes he made at the Institute during the Pope Francis years were designed to initiate a "very profound" reform of the idea of the natural law.

Instead of absolute moral norms grounded in a keen understanding of the basic goods, he and his colleagues were proposing a moral theory rooted in historical discernment of subjective and cultural experience--not an "armchair theology" but one operating "within history and within people's lives."

This, of course, is the language of trendy postmodernism, and it is dangerous indeed.

Allow me to illustrate the principle with one example. Is slavery wrong?

Intrinsically wrong? Wrong no matter what public opinion polls say about it, no matter what the current consensus on it might be? I imagine any decent person would say yes.

But that yes is predicated upon precisely what the tradition calls the natural law and the basic goods. There are some values so fundamental that acts repugnant to them are by their very nature wicked.

If you want a highly articulate presentation of this idea, go to St. John Paul II's Veritatis Splendor.

If we say that this is just "armchair theologizing" and that morality is a function of ever-shifting cultural and experiential data, then why couldn't slavery be justified?

One of the very smartest persons that ever lived, the philosopher Aristotle, thought it was; extremely bright and morally upright persons in our country, well into the 19th century, thought it was permissible.

Who is to say whether the consensus might shift back again? Who is to say that "lived experience" might come to justify it?

What any truly coherent moral program requires is the very thing that Archbishop Paglia and his colleagues were endeavoring to eliminate, namely, absolute moral norms.

Ridding ourselves of these in the name of freedom or pastoral sensitivity actually renders moral discourse dysfunctional, just as relativizing the basic principle of logic would render any rational conversation impossible.

The Archbishop's interview, frankly, reminded me of the discussions I had at the Synod on Synodality with some of my German colleagues. Under the rubric of the development of doctrine, they were eager to relativize or radically change the principles undergirding classical morality. If this was and is truly the game, we have ventured onto perilous seas.

Link to the article below.

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

Sir Keir Starmer has resigned as Prime Minister.

He has led the most authoritarian government in more than a generation, unleashing an unprecedented assault on free speech. Indeed, he seems determined to make social media censorship his legacy.

In the process, he has proved to be an effective recruiting sergeant for the Free Speech Union, with our membership growing from 14,000 at the time of the last General Election to more than 45,000 today.

But there is little reason to believe things will improve under his likely successor, Andy Burnham.

It is believed that the former MP for Makerfield and former head of Labour Together, Josh Simons, who resigned so Burnham could fight a by-election, is set for a plum job at the heart of Downing Street. The Free Speech Union recently exposed Labour’s ‘misinformation mafia’ that Simons led, targeting journalists and others that challenged Starmer’s technocratic managerialism. We anticipate an escalation in Labour’s efforts to suppress dissenting speech on social media in the forthcoming Representation of the People Bill, assuming Burnham doesn’t abandon the legislative programme outlined in the King’s Speech.

Burnham is also keen on bringing forward a ‘fully trans-inclusive’ ban on ‘conversion therapy’, which may mean criminalising parents who ‘misgender’ their confused adolescent children or who withhold consent from their children embarking on irreversible medical pathways.

No doubt there will be numerous other assaults on free speech which we’ll be keeping a close eye on.

[The Independent @Independent]

Keir Starmer has resigned

[STV News @STVNews]

Massachusetts becomes first state to legalise haggis.
https://t.co/eiz13cAi9h

[BBC Scotland News @BBCScotlandNews]

Scot stays in American convent for World Cup, and this happens

See more stories on our website: https://t.co/vUE9nAGTbk

[CDO 🇻🇦 @Hieronymus87]

English media now framing that missed pen as deliberate.

Seen it all now 😂😂😂😂

[Match of the Day @BBCMOTD]

He did his research! ✔️

Harry Kane knew if he stuttered in his run-up, there was a chance Croatia goalkeeper Dominik Livakovic would come off his line.

[CDO 🇻🇦 @Hieronymus87]

@Propheticz @jomickane What an obnoxious tweet.

[CDO 🇻🇦 @Hieronymus87]

Anyone else just utterly sick to death of the Merry-go round that is British politics?

[Antonia Bance MP @antoniabance]

Absolutely infuriating that one of my colleagues has decided that what Parliament should focus on in the coming months - given everything going on in the world and here at home - is bringing back the assisted dying bill. Head in hands.

[Scotland National Team @ScotlandNT]

FULL TIME: Haiti 0-1 Scotland.

A win to kick-off our @FIFAWorldCup campaign!

#HAISCO | #FIFAWorldCup

[CDO 🇻🇦 @Hieronymus87]

Your daily reminder 🍀

[Sky Sports Scotland @ScotlandSky]

🍀 “Celtic, Champions AGAIN!”

Callum Osmand ensures Celtic’s title is retained by tapping the ball into an empty net ⤵️

[CDO 🇻🇦 @Hieronymus87]

More of the same tonight…🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[IMPERATOR @IMPERATORAUS]

In his Summa Theologiae, St Thomas Aquinas laid out one of the most charitable yet practical arguments concerning immigration that effectively shaped the West for almost 1,000 years.

1. Immigration must always be proportionate so that foreigners can properly assimilate into the culture and mode of worship of the state.

2. Citizenship – and associated rights – should only ever be granted after the third generation to preserve the culture, mode of worship, and constitution of the state.

3. The common good of the citizens must remain the highest priority of the state, meaning, the state's obligation to provide aid to its neighbours can never be at the expense of the citizens.

However, Aquinas ends with the sobering reminder that some peoples and states are incompatible with one another, and these must be held as "foes in perpetuity".

[CDO 🇻🇦 @Hieronymus87]

No way there’s a player called “Sithole” playing for South Africa hahaha

[Adam Hurrey @FootballCliches]

The most "AI slop" actual human being in World Cup history?

[Learn Latin @latinedisce]

Nulla dies sine linea — “No day without a line.”

[CDO 🇻🇦 @Hieronymus87]

There’s Nigel Farage adverts constantly clogging my feed.

What’s happened?

[CDO 🇻🇦 @Hieronymus87]

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[FearBuck @FearedBuck]

There was a 67 meetup in NYC at 6:07 PM on 06/07.