I think a part of all of this is that a lot of Catholics have internalized the Prot view of Catholicism where there is only Dogma/Orthodoxy or Heresy, not realizing Heterodoxy is a thing that exists.
There's countless minority opinions within Church tradition that aren't heresy.
The fundamental issue with modern society is many people genuinely do not believe in Human Dignity
This means they don't believe in Philosophy, Ethics, Law, Politics, Medicine, and more as things that must always be oriented toward Humanity.
This must be annihilated
NEW: Every week, a Philadelphia nun drives to the immigration court in Harlingen, Texas, to sit beside unaccompanied children, some as young as four, who face a deportation judge with no lawyer and no parent.
This week, an undocumented migrant who is facing imminent deportation called Sister Rose Kuhn his “angel.”
This comes as Catholics across the nation, inspired by Pope Leo XIV, are standing up to the White House’s immigration policies.
The type of perverse disrespect for life that is really only common among the elites. Spoiled city boys who want to play at being wild men to comfort their own hurting sense of manhood.
This is the same conspiracist framework that plenty of activists, scholars, politicians, and journalists have (rightly) decried as a cynical excuse to crack down on internal dissent in other countries, but now being used in the US.
We need to put the "free will isn't real so nobody should go to jail" prison abolitionists and the "free will isn't real so it's fine if God puts whoever He wants in hell" calvinists in an arena and make them fight it out to see who wins the crown of most annoying determinist.
The anti Ukraine stuff on the left is just amazing to me because Russia Ukraine is about as straightforward a conflict as there is in the modern world. Like, it really doesn’t get much clearer than Russia invading Ukraine and trying to erase it as a political entity.
Texas Nun detained by ICE speaks out:
"For me, a nun, not to go to mass on Sunday, not to receive communion, it was very, very heartbreaking for me. I was told, even when I told him, 'can I go to mass? Can I just attend mass? Can I receive communion?' And the answer was no. I did not do anything else when I have 2 men armed. I'm just a small woman, a nun, just with my rosary. I am not only the only one, there are many others in the same situation."
As a pastor at a church with mostly homeless congregants I’ve become hyper aware of how anti-homeless sentiment has seeped into every corner our society. Absolutely disturbing.
If you don’t have empathy for the homeless you don’t have Christ dwelling within you.
Mexican environmental influencer Alex Serna has been found dead nearly two weeks after he disappeared, months after he said he received threats over his reporting
Serna disappeared the same day he posted a video accusing a company of environmental violations
If Pope Leo is in fact successfully able to run the right-wing larping phenomenon out of Christianity he should be canonized immediately after death, no further questions asked
My actual politics have not really changed IRL much at all because I’m aware of the difference between real life and the Internet, but it is actually stunning how deeply unpleasant most leftists on the Internet are. Like truly just rabidly hateful people driven only by misery
@scrump_scooby @Han31506417073 Probably because they are just luxury beliefs that the friend group tacitly knows will never actually impact their lives so they are less impactful on their relationships than their favorite sports teams
NEW: The DEA permitted hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills to hit the streets of New Mexico in bid to build prosecutions
“We poisoned our community to make cases,” DEA Agent David Howell tells @AP
“We 100% got people killed”
w/ @APjoshgoodman
https://t.co/1tRshl8Xoa
Historians are sounding the alarm that if these 200-year-old limestone pillars (rebuilt by James Hoban in 1830 after the British burned the building) are physically carved up or removed, the loss of authentic historic material is completely irreversible.