SixPackJo

God Bless Texas

[SixPackJo @SixPackJo]

@Vitus_osst Certainly! It’s not that I force them to be any particular vocation.

[Fr. John Naugle @FatherNaugle]

Never forget. @FamedCelebrity

[SixPackJo @SixPackJo]

The order of the mind must correspond to the order of things. Conform the mind to reality.

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

Please go and read this excellent essay by
@HarrisonGarlic1

The Problem With Great Books Programs...
https://t.co/qEdzzho33l

[SixPackJo @SixPackJo]

@RorateCaeli That is pretty much how I see him.

[SixPackJo @SixPackJo]

@roman_orthodoxy @RorateCaeli Well stated, your excellency.

[SixPackJo @SixPackJo]

Is Angel Hernandez reffing soccer now? #redcard #FIFA #worldcup

[SixPackJo @SixPackJo]

From the land of California. "Open minded" Californians not so open minded:
https://t.co/hpXK4Ch369

[SixPackJo @SixPackJo]

@holysmoke @FakeDionysius Good man.

[SixPackJo @SixPackJo]

So this is diversity. Hmm.

[Sherri Unfiltered™ @FFT1776]

This brutality has to end.

They’re going to k*ll or permanently injure her.

Sue the league.

Let’s hear it … is a one-game suspension enough?

Justice. #caitlinclark

[SixPackJo @SixPackJo]

@_BattleForTruth I agree. People can self justify pretty much anything. Lucifer, the light bearer, I believe inaugurated this tradition..

[SixPackJo @SixPackJo]

Priceless

https://t.co/cKIu35KpSH

[SixPackJo @SixPackJo]

@MbarkCherguia 73

[SixPackJo @SixPackJo]

Great read

[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

https://t.co/ZWHOMP2IqB

[SixPackJo @SixPackJo]

@BishopBarron @ChristineNiles1 Great reasoning. I hope more bishops and cardinals speak out in critique of “Catholic Moral Relativism” CMR, coining phrase here.

[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.

[Lepanto Institute @LepantoInst]

All crusaders throughout history are spinning in their graves! The Spaniards who fought valiantly for the reconquest of Spain against Islamic occupation will be witnesses against him! Lord have marcy!

[SixPackJo @SixPackJo]

@the_culturist_ It probably wasn’t as enjoyable as we imagine it was. Liquid is still liquid. Liquidus non frangit jejunium.

[SixPackJo @SixPackJo]

@robertsirico @holysmoke So true. It took me a while to move beyond 70s folk masses and broadway 90s church music to discover Palestrina. Late have I love it.

[SixPackJo @SixPackJo]

@FamedCelebrity If division is eliminated, how will people allocate budgets?