John Regan

Celebrating my imperfections and God's grace daily! Hopefully more Twitter-dee than Twitter-dumb. Go, Irish!
Views are my own.

[John Regan @ProdigalSibling]

@davidwoolw38361 @Joeinblack @HunterBiden Would that everyone grifting get honest jobs and lay low for a while.

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This June, the USCCB will consecrate the United States to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Notre Dame joins in this act of devotion as we look to the Heart of Christ as the source of all hope and the model of a love that embraces every person.

Ave Crux, Spes Unica

[John Regan @ProdigalSibling]

If the principle is “go back to where you came from,” then why are Afrikaners coming here? Their ancestral roots are in Europe — Holland, Germany, and France.

If someone truly believes in “America First,” then logically the Afrikaners should return to their ancestral homelands in Europe, not immigrate to the United States.

And if the principle instead is that we should show compassion to people who are persecuted, then there are many suffering people much closer to us in our own hemisphere who also deserve compassion and refuge — many of whom do not have the financial resources or international options available to most Afrikaners, who could more easily resettle in Europe if necessary.

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Happy for you. But TLM, at best, will be a niche for those who appreciate it. Go to a World Youth Day with the Pope and you’ll encounter hundreds of thousands of young Catholics on fire for Catholicism.
It’s fine to find your niche, but never claim it’s the only future. Everyone knows otherwise.

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@JLLiedl A perfect example is the oxygen given to two commenters in Synod report #9. Does anyone know if anything important was said in any of the other reports?

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@_sn_n Any democrat who didn’t vote in the original democrat primary can vote in the Republican run-off, but don’t tell them that.

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This proposal does rely, at least in part, on logical reasoning. If Mark were not first, who would have written a shortened version of Matthew in poorer Greek?

The idea of Q helps explain why Matthew and Luke share material that is not found in Mark. But that raises the obvious question: have any actual documents of Q ever been found?

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Let’s bookmark this so we can compare your assessment of how Trump ends his presidency. Already he’s setting up immunity for him and his family and businesses, and trying to give his supporters our tax dollars. Will he try to offer pardons to his cabinet as he leaves? What congressmen are doing now is small potatoes compared to what will come. Let’s bookmark these words.

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@PaulinusOfTrier @holysmoke @S_OReilly_USA Do they accept the Catechism of the Catholic Church and the 1983 Code of Canon Law? Those seem pretty mainstream standard sources for what Roman Catholics believe and practice. Are those upheld by SSPX?

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I can understand how those who lived through and were formed during the time of Vatican II might have struggled with some of its teachings. But over time, has the SSPX simply become entrenched—unwilling to reconsider the possibility that they may have been mistaken in some of their disagreements?

In their seminaries, is there any openness to critically evaluating Marcel Lefebvre—for example, acknowledging that he may have been wrong on certain points—or is he effectively treated as beyond criticism and infallible?

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@Sachinettiyil “The Catholic population has doubled in the diocese past three and a half years.”
That claim seems pretty remarkable — to double the size of all the Catholics in the Diocese within 3 1/2 years. Are there actual published statistics to show that?

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I can understand how those who lived through and were formed during the time of Vatican II might have struggled with some of its teachings. But over time, has the SSPX simply become entrenched—unwilling to reconsider the possibility that they may have been mistaken in some of their disagreements?

In their seminaries, is there any openness to critically evaluating Marcel Lefebvre—for example, acknowledging that he may have been wrong on certain points—or is he effectively treated as beyond criticism and infallible?

[John Regan @ProdigalSibling]

I can understand how those who lived through and were formed during the time of Vatican II might have struggled with some of its teachings. But over time, has the SSPX simply become entrenched—unwilling to reconsider the possibility that they may have been mistaken in some of their disagreements?

In their seminaries, is there any openness to critically evaluating Marcel Lefebvre—for example, acknowledging that he may have been wrong on certain points—or is he effectively treated as beyond criticism or infallible?

[John Regan @ProdigalSibling]

@peregasolinus @davidgmac9 @MLJHaynes @Catholic_Radio Does she know she is not in union with the Roman Catholic Church? Of course she does.
If the men illicitly ordained by SSPX were to stand next to Pope Leo would they know they were not in union with the Roman Catholic Church? Who knows?

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Perhaps they learned the tactic from the 60 odd failed cases the Trump campaign brought to courts following the 2020 election, hoping it would somehow add to a narrative that the election was “stolen”. It worked for some, didn’t it?
So here we are. They only need to get a few Independents to believe that the Republicans are trying to “Rig” this election. It may work for some, and Trump supporters, because of their own legal tactics of 2020, don’t have a leg to stand on.

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The decline in numbers of Christians is also do to the higher birth rates of Muslims compared to Christians and the lack of opportunities in Israel. Christian Palestinians tend to be more educated than Muslim Palestinians, and it is easier for them to seek opportunities outside of Israel. But Israeli Jews do need to be held accountable for any violence against Christians and Muslims.

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Is there anything else in the reports worth discussing and learning from?

It seems that all the oxygen in the room has been consumed by the observations of two gay men who said they felt harmed by the way they were treated by the Church. What was needed was a thoughtful, well-crafted response to those observations from another perspective. Instead, we have seen escalation after escalation on Catholic X and elsewhere.

Even the otherwise decent response from Courage seemed to go off course by moving into an unnecessary attack mode.

I would genuinely like to know what else is in the reports.

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I understand and agree with your assessment of how we ought to deal pastorally with brothers and sisters living in situations like Rubin’s.

The interesting question is this: many who often say “welcome, but correct” or “love the sinner; hate the sin” when criticizing a Fr. James Martin approach seem far less vocal when a similar pastoral approach is taken by Bishop Barron. Why? It is fair to ask that question.

Priests and bishops know the difference between conversations we have on the porch of a home and conversations we have in the confessional.

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Is there anything else in the reports worth discussing and learning from?

It seems that all the oxygen in the room has been consumed by the observations of two gay men who said they felt harmed by the way they were treated by the Church. What was needed was a thoughtful, well-crafted response to those observations from another perspective. Instead, we have seen escalation after escalation on Catholic X and elsewhere.

Even the otherwise decent response from Courage seemed to go off course by moving into an unnecessary attack mode.

I would genuinely like to know what else is in the reports. At the same time, you offer an excellent critique of how issues of orientation and activity were too easily overlooked by Bp Barron — and that should make the “welcome but correct” crowd uncomfortable.

[John Regan @ProdigalSibling]

What are you saying about the saints?

Anyone who enters eternity with God will understand perfectly what is necessary for true worship, including the Mass. The saints are not confused by vestment colors, architecture, or legitimate forms of the Roman Rite. They are united with the Church on earth in offering praise and worship to God.

Whatever point you are trying to make about the form of this Mass, invoking the saints to dismiss it is simply nonsense.