倪神父

Dominican friar (@opdomcentral).

Metaphysics, medieval Latin & Chinese, and assorted tidbits.

Views are my own and do not represent my school, @hkbaptistu.

[倪神父 @StMichael71]

Matt Frad's interview with Ethan Muse really gets to the heart of the matter regarding the SSPX, very clearly and concisely showing what has gone wrong with their reasoning. Excellent.

https://t.co/QaGlq3pLSC

[倪神父 @StMichael71]

I am continually delighted and surprised by our graduate students nurtured through the ATI-CSCS summer seminar in Asian philosophy and Scholasticism.

Hard to think of a better use for that money after seeing them flourish academically and spiritually as exemplary men and women!

[倪神父 @StMichael71]

I am continually delighted and surprised by our graduate students nurtured through the ATI-CSCS summer seminar in Asian philosophy and Scholasticism.

Hard to think of a better use for that money after seeing them flourish academically and spiritually as exemplary men and women!

[Fr. Thomas Petri OP @PetriOP]

Pope Leo spoke these words Saturday evening at a prayer vigil in Uruguay. You can hear notes of St. John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI. This is the joyful truth:

“Be saints!  Do not settle for a merely decent life or for a habitual faith, content with doing only the essential.  Do not give God only a part of yourselves — give yourselves completely!  Saints are men and women who overflow with the abundance of life in Christ.  They are free and authentic people whose lives make it attractive to say a resounding ‘yes’ to love, truth and happiness.  Do not be afraid, then, to aspire to holiness.  Christ did not call us to mediocrity; he called us to a new and full life like his own.”

[倪神父 @StMichael71]

If your theology says you don't have to forgive your enemies, so that Jesus taught nonsense when He taught us to pray "forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us," you desperately need a new theology.

[倪神父 @StMichael71]

*sad to hear

[倪神父 @StMichael71]

Sad the hear of the passing of John Heil, who had been an external reader on my dissertation and provided invaluable guidance in my early years as a philosopher.

Not only was he a thinker whose mind was as sharp a tack, he was one of the kindest and most honorable men I knew.

[Fr. Paul @BackwardsFeet]

the pope really was like

[倪神父 @StMichael71]

@johnamonaco I don't think playing a 'bad' character in a game is much different from acting as a villain in a movie/play. And it is not immoral in principle to act as a villain in a movie/play. Hence, it is not immoral in principle to play a bad character in a game; only, if so, accidentally

[倪神父 @StMichael71]

Someone asked me if Catholics can play GTA VI 🤣

[Mark Ellis @MarkEllis15]

Astonishing story

[Captain Ⓐncapistan @CptAncapistan]

In the future, we're going to look back on AI Seinfeld clips the way we look back on lolcats now, and I'm just happy to be here for the peak.

[倪神父 @StMichael71]

I put up the draft for public consumption: https://t.co/MsQdjGfkWI

[倪神父 @StMichael71]

@DrFrancisYoung We'll be keeping a place for you, for whenever you decide to take advantage of those provisions... ;)

[倪神父 @StMichael71]

@JEBStephens There are many recent translations. If you want an introduction, see the Tiwald and Van Norden volume. If you want Zhu Xi, see the Ivanhoe volume of translations. There are other older translations in Wing-Tsit Chan's big anthology. There's also Reflections on Things at Hand.

[倪神父 @StMichael71]

Ironic that Vatican II taught that the Church has a right to evangelize and convert which the State has no right to impede.

The teaching of Vatican II is horribly perverted when degraded into a right of immunity from conversion or an obligation of the Church not to evangelize.

[倪神父 @StMichael71]

A very good article on recent dust-ups about Catholic doctrine, such as regards religious freedom and obligations to convert non-Catholics, by the Rev Professor STEPHEN MORGAN.

https://t.co/jTOaX4fOmg

[倪神父 @StMichael71]

A very good article on recent dust-ups about Catholic doctrine, such as regards religious freedom and obligations to convert non-Catholics, by the Rev Professor STEPHEN MORGAN.

https://t.co/jTOaX4fOmg

[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

Friends, I don’t think we Christians fully understand how radically we must think about the goal of the Christian life. It is not to become a nice person. An atheist can be a nice person.

The goal is to become a new creation, someone living the very life of God. Jesus is the Son of God by nature, but we become sons and daughters of God by adoption, brought into a share in his life like a child welcomed into a family and their home.

That’s what it means to be a saint: to be invited into the household of God, and to worship God by eating and drinking the body and blood of Jesus, becoming assimilated unto him.

[倪神父 @StMichael71]

@cappadocianist @WalmartThomist My own view is fundamentally the third or fourth view listed in his article, depending how we construe certain features of punishment. I have denied in my published account ('Retributive Harmonies') that contrition alone is sufficient to remit the debt of punishment.