Peter Zelasko

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[Lila Rose @LilaGraceRose]

83-year-old grandmother Brigitte Stegemann was euthanized against her will in Canada.

She declined MAiD, citing her Christian faith and her preference for a natural death.

Her granddaughter and primary caregiver was away on a 10-day vacation when staff reportedly held private conversations with Brigitte to convince her to die by lethal injection.

They reportedly claimed she had agreed to be killed, despite there being no evidence of her consent.

On the day of her death, her family says she remained silent, with her hands in a prayer position, and did not give the final verbal confirmation they had been assured would be required.

The injection proceeded anyway, and she was killed on July 10.

[Peter Zelasko @PeterZelasko]

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[Peter Zelasko @PeterZelasko]

Support seminarian education in one of the poorest #Catholic dioceses in the U.S.! Tickets available online until midnight, July, 23rd! Raffle drawing is July 25th. Takes one minute to buy a ticket, and you could take a classic #Corvette home! Here's what it looks like up close:

[Peter Zelasko @PeterZelasko]

Finally got the bill for this... #FunWithAOneYearOld #AdventuresInParenting #DadLife

[Peter Zelasko @PeterZelasko]

Yea, reviewing this, it seems wrong to not review. Gonna turn into FIFA's newest conspiracy.

[Peter Zelasko @PeterZelasko]

I'm just surprised that they didnt review the potential foul on Argentina's 3rd goal. Seems like a double standard. Calling back Egypt's 2nd goal was weird. Why not review the almost exact same situation. I guess the AI was just following the script... #fifa #ARGvsEGY

[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.

[Peter Zelasko @PeterZelasko]

@tweetmobb Don't worry, I invited you to watch the webinar you missed and invited you to the dollow up webinars next week. Welcome to the #webinning!

[Chris Stefanick @ChrisStefanick]

I was at a men’s conference in Wichita, Kansas recently, speaking with the legendary Neal McDonough. During the conference they had adoration in a side room for men to go and pray. Often at men's conferences, a big, “manly” monstrance is used for adoration. As is fitting! I was struck by the smallest monstrance I’d ever seen. I’m not sure where they got a host small enough to fit it.
I asked someone why they didn’t get a “better” monstrance and was told, “That was Fr. Emil Kapaun’s monstrance. He carried it onto the battlefield.” (If you don’t know the amazing story of this Venerable/Medal of Honor recipient and Korean War chaplain, watch the short video I filmed on him ten years ago here: https://t.co/RpCHNc5Gd0.) That God would become so small for us is mind boggling. That monstrance drove it home for me.

And Jesus, like the saint who carried that monstrance, doesn’t just show us his humility. He shows us a path. St. Peter Julian Eymard often wrote about how our Eucharistic Lord shouldn’t only be honored and adored but imitated. “All our virtues must come from the Eucharist. For instance, if you wish to practice humility, see how Jesus practices it in the Blessed Sacrament,” he wrote.

When we consider the humility of Jesus in the Eucharist, where God appears to approach the edge of non-existence—or, as Eymard wrote, “He has the air of one who no longer even has a being”—we can’t possibly get small, humble, or selfless enough.

The bar is too low for proud men to meet.

But we try…in traffic…at work…in that fight with our wife…we try.

Jesus, help us be like you.

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[Ed. Condon @canonlawyered]

I cannot imaging it would ever occur to Montse to doctor a photo of a letter of the pope emeritus to mislead the media.

[Chris Stefanick @ChrisStefanick]

A seminarian on day ONE of a 21-day backpacking trip with CORExpeditions begged for a helicopter ride home.

By the end of the trip?
The other guys voted him MVP.

This conversation with Tom Zimmer challenged the way I think about comfort, struggle, and why we actually need healthy risk to grow.

Watch the full episode.

[Michelle Maxwell ™ @MichelleMaxwell]

With everything we are hearing right now about ticks this seems like good information to share.

“Here’s what I’ve learned after more ticks than I care to count.
First, whatever your uncle told you, forget it. No matches. No nail polish. No Vaseline. No soap on a cotton ball. All of those do the same terrible thing, they stress the tick out, and a stressed tick empties its gut back into the bite before letting go. Which, if you think about what that actually means for a second, is literally how Lyme and the rest get transmitted so you’re not speeding up its exit. You’re making it throw up into you.
Fine-tipped tweezers. Grip right where the mouthparts enter the skin, not the body, the head. Pull straight up, steady, no twisting, no jerking. It’ll feel like it’s resisting because it is, the mouthparts are barbed. Just keep the pressure on and it lets go in a few seconds. If a piece breaks off in the skin, leave it alone. Your body pushes splinters out. Digging around with a needle does more damage then the fragment ever would.
Clean it with alcohol or soap. Wash your hands.
Now here’s the part most people skip: don’t flush the tick.
Tape it to an index card. Clear packing tape right over the body, write the date and where on your body it was, and stick the card in a drawer. If you come down with anything weird in the next 30 days, rash, fever, joint pain, that flu-that-isn’t-flu feeling, that tick goes with you to the doctor. Some labs will test the tick itself, which is faster and often more reliable than waiting for antibodies to show up in your own blood. A dated tick taped to a card is one of the most useful things you can hand a doctor who’s trying to figure out what’s wrong with you.
The other thing worth saying out loud: if the tick was engorged when you pulled it, and you can’t swear it was off your body within 24 hours, call your doctor that same day. Don’t wait for a rash. Fewer than three out of four Lyme cases even produce the classic bullseye. A single preventive dose of doxycycline within 72 hours of a deer tick bite cuts the Lyme odds way down, and most docs in tick country will write that prescription without giving you a hard time, especially if you walk in with the tick taped to a card and a clear timeline.”

[JD Flynn @jdflynn]

@ChristopherHale Promoted him to a seat among the College of Cardinals?

Chris, what are you talking about

[Peter Zelasko @PeterZelasko]

The V8's for Vocations program is roaring along! Our latest raffle car is a 1962 Chevy Corvette to support seminarian education for the @DioceseofGallup.

$25 a ticket; Need not be present to win; and as always, "We pay the taxes!"

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