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I was not expecting Pope Leo's first encyclical to get into issues like the church's complicity in slavery and the need for ecclesial repentance (see #176 and accompanying footnotes).
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"For this, in the name of the Church, I sincerely ask for pardon."
It’s official—I am now Dr. Richard T. Yoder. Grateful to everyone who made this happen along the way, not least of all my supervisor, Professor Ronnie Po-chia Hsia (pictured here). #PhDone
Today in 1727, the Deacon François de Pâris died in Paris, thus inadvertently kicking off what would become the convulsionnaire movement. I suppose that today is a good day to express some gratitude for everyone who helped me as I completed a dissertation on the subject.
Pope Leo XIV just turnPope Leo XIV just turned the issue of the hierarchy of sin into a major conservation. He quietly reopened one of Catholicism's most buried questions: how did sexual sin come to sit at the top of this moral hierarchy. And here of course history matters 1/10🧵
I wrote an reflection on the extraordinary recent events involving Trump and Pope Leo for @americamag:
"...Two weeks ago, I would have thought such a description referred to Pius VII’s showdown with Napoleon in the early 1800s...
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