Grace Drinkwater

Jesus Lover | Wannabe Saint | Teacher | Classical Ed Advocate | Country Chick | Amateur Triathlete

[U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops @USCCB]

Sharbel Makhluf, Priest, pray for us!

[Grace Drinkwater @ThorstadGrace]

Not that I have any faith in the AHA (they’re still shilling that all saturated fat is evil), but I will gladly accept this 😂

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

Five cups of coffee a day is fine for most adults, heart association says, as evidence grows about the beverage’s benefits https://t.co/9oxnsqN8hA

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@bethanyshondark Hillsdale’s free online courses basically offer that! Many other schools do the same 😊

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@littleapostate My son did this during his 6 month regression. It was the worst one by far. You get through it, but man is it the toughest (and I was in the military routinely not sleeping for days in my 20s so I feel safe saying that haha).

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@GarminFitness Thanks! Will do; the calories burned and muscle groups involved are pretty different, and I think the math could be done to figure out how to map that to an activity profile!

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Hey @GarminFitness any way your team could add stroller running as a workout option? There must be a noticeable difference in exertion, calories burned, etc.!
Sincerely,
a stroller running mama

[National Park Service @NatlParkService]

When you’ve already explained everything in the email and they reply, “Let’s get on a call and discuss this.”

Mondays can be a real bear. See below. Just remember to take breaks for snacks and naps, and try to avoid any “reply all” mishaps. Save that for Tuesday.

[Papa León XIV @Pontifex_es]

La libertad auténtica se basa en la capacidad de la persona humana para conocer la verdad y adherirse al bien, incluso a costa de un gran sacrificio.

[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

What an appalling speech the Mayor of New York delivered for the 250th anniversary of the nation.

Sadly, it reflects the view of America propagated for years by Howard Zinn and his like-minded colleagues in the universities and believed by armies of the young: a dark, oppressive country where common people are denigrated by tyrants and oligarchs, where immigrants are treated with contempt, where those with “soft hands” hold the wealth created by those with dirty hands.

No sensible person would claim that our country is without flaws, but the relentlessly negative picture painted by Mayor Mamdani is just absurd.

And it is the fruit of the Marxism that, sadly, is all the rage today.

[Grace Drinkwater @ThorstadGrace]

@calvinrobinson Catholic tradition *is* adhering to Rome. I pray for those who find themselves in a tough spot; I’ve attended plenty of horrible modernist masses myself, but we are Catholic (universal) for a reason. 🙏🏻

[Megha @megha_lilly]

Just read a stat that in America in the 1850s, 1 in 3 urban American households had domestic help. Maids, cooks, housekeepers and Nannies. The idea that women have always done everything alone is uniquely modern.

[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

Like many others, I have been alarmed by the success of certain politicians in our country who identify as extreme socialists or communists.

This is not a matter of classical liberals triumphing over standard-issue conservatives; this is the victory of people who stand athwart the fundamental principles that undergird our country.

There are many reasons why I detest Communism, but I want to draw attention to just one issue of supreme importance.

Karl Marx said that the first critique is the critique of religion. He meant that, before a complete re-working of the politics and economics of a society can take place, religion has to be taken down.

This is because religion, as he saw it, is the “opium of the masses,” a drug taken to dull our sensitivity to the suffering caused by economic exploitation. As long as the suffering populace is lured into complacency by fantasies about God's providence and the promise of eternal life, they will never rise up and throw off their chains.

But there is a second reason why the elimination of religion is of paramount significance for Marx.

Communism aspires to be a totalizing system, involving the government's control over education, entertainment, communication, politics, and especially economics.

What stands resolutely athwart this ambition is religion, which declares that all of these societal expressions are finally under the judgment of God. So, if you want Communism to succeed, religion has to be stamped out.

If you doubt me on any of this, I would encourage you to read the recent histories of China, Russia, Cuba, Nicaragua, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Venezuela. Revisit those histories and tell me I'm wrong about the attack on religion.

Might I encourage my fellow believers in God not to be complacent in the face of this very troubling development in the American body politic?

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@Notwokenow @amazon 1000%.

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@Hestia_Esq Work and financial situations impact this heavily too; they can probably afford babysitters/nanny/etc, and her husband’s work is likely flexible given his profession, which is great! Not all of us live that reality, and it’s not possible no matter how hard we try to bootstrap it.

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@oldstatemark We need to resonate more with younger voters (Gen Z especially) and get them to the polls for primaries. As a former HS teacher I can tell you they are not motivated to vote for a bunch of boomers who stereotype them as lazy and whiny.

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@braxton_mccoy The whiplash is pretty intense; my veggie garden is quite confused.

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@Romy_Holland Your child and mine must be the same person. I haven’t found an answer. I do a mix of letting him figure it out (he crawls now so I set up house for him to crawl) or high chair + snacks while I prep dinner. Neither work 100% perfectly.

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@TheoVon Any of your close friends who have solid wives know someone (aka the wives) who would love to find people to set you up with. My bff did this with me + one of her husband’s friends. 5 years married and 1 kiddo, it worked!

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@thegenesisbl0ck I worry about this bc my first/only is a “fickle pickle,” as I lovingly say. But I love him endlessly and can’t imagine not loving him just as much even if next is a piece of cake. Momma hearts grow in capacity with each addition from what I hear. ♥️

[Kaeley Triller @KaeleyT]

Unpopular opinion 5 trillion 785:

One of the reasons we keep losing the culture war on issues such as surrogacy is because too many well-meaning conservatives only seem to care about it when it's gay men commissioning the babies.

Yes, it's wrong to create a child with the clear intent of depriving him of his mother. Babies need their mamas.

But it's also wrong to rent out (usually poor) women's wombs like kitchen appliances.

It's also wrong to intentionally create a child, allow it to chemically bond with its birth mother for 9 months, and then strip it of that bond as soon as it's born. Sometimes this is necessary in adoption. It's never necessary in surrogacy.

When we do this to puppies, we acknowledge that separating them from their mothers too early can have lasting consequences. Yet when the subject is human babies, we're suddenly expected to believe biology doesn't matter.

And in many surrogacy arrangements, the child is not genetically related to the woman carrying him. Egg donors, sperm donors, surrogate mothers, commissioning parents. By design, a child can be separated from one, two, or even three biological parents before he takes his first breath.

We are creating an entire class of children who may spend their lives wondering where they came from, who they look like, whose laugh they inherited, whether they have siblings they'll never meet, and why the adults who created them believed those losses were an acceptable price to pay.

When adoption creates these wounds, we recognize them as tragic consequences of a broken situation. With surrogacy, we intentionally engineer the same losses from the beginning and call it reproductive freedom.

The central question is not whether the commissioning parents are gay or straight. It is whether adults have the right to create children through a process designed to separate them from the very people who brought them into existence.

If the answer is no, then our objection to surrogacy cannot begin and end with gay couples. It has to apply across the board.

Cue firing squad...