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[Sophia Apologetics ♱ @orthodox22790]

Father Stefan Wu Zhiquan (+1970), a native Chinese Orthodox priest who died on this day, 56 years ago.

He was beaten to death by Red Guards in an Orthodox Church in Harbin during the Cultural Revolution.

The Red Guards dressed him up clown's dressing gown, put a cap on his head, and smeared his face with soot. He was beaten over the head with a wooden hammer, braking his teeth, one by one, & beaten with steel rods on shoulders.

His tormentors spat on his cross and then shot him in cold blood.

His grave is currently located at the Huangshan Orthodox Cemetery.

[Edward Feser @FeserEdward]

According to a common view, what really exist are not ordinary objects like tables, but only purportedly scientific correlates such as a collections of particles arranged table-wise. David Oderberg debunks this view in a new article: https://t.co/lO7Dlgg9Pn

[Edward Feser @FeserEdward]

In an important new paper, David Oderberg extends Aristotelian hylemorphism beyond the analysis of physical substance to applications in philosophy of language, ethics, and political philosophy. "Hylemorphism as a Generalized Research Programme": https://t.co/ENyRvh92aN

[dei gratia @DeiGratia64]

Catholic Fun Fact: Queen Nazli of Egypt converted from Sunni Islam to Roman Catholicism in 1950. Following her conversion, she adopted the Christian name Mary Elizabeth. Born Nazli Sabri, she was the Queen Consort of King Fuad I and later the Queen Mother to Egypt's last reigning monarch, King Farouk. Her relationship with her son fractured completely after she left Egypt for medical treatment in 1946 and eventually settled in California. In 1950, Queen Nazli supported the marriage of her youngest daughter, Princess Fathia, to Riyad Ghali, a Coptic Christian commoner. King Farouk was deeply enraged by this union. In August 1950, he officially stripped both his mother and sister of their royal titles, rights, and allowances, forbidding them from ever returning to Egypt. Definitively cut off from her homeland, Queen Nazli chose to formalize her lifelong appreciation for French Catholic education by being baptized into the Roman Catholic Church later that same year. Queen Nazli passed away penniless in Los Angeles on May 29, 1978, at the age of 83. Because of her faith, she received a Roman Catholic funeral service and was interred at the Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California, under her baptized name, Mary Elizabeth Fouad.

[Vatican News @VaticanNews]

The Church, as a caring mother, will welcome with sincere affection and lively solicitude all those who wish to return to full communion.

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[Word on Fire @WordOnFire]

Christopher Hazell once heard a haunting piece of advice: “It’s a terrible thing to spend years climbing up the ladder to find out, once you’ve reached the top, that it’s set against the wrong wall.” 

What do our goals have to do with our souls? Read Hazell’s latest: https://t.co/rqOpeQmvAK

[Edward Feser @FeserEdward]

Anthony Kenny on the role played by Anscombe’s protest of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings and her pamphlet Mr. Truman’s Degree in the revival of just war doctrine (from “Elizabeth Anscombe at Oxford,” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly (Spring 2016):

[Stewart Brand @stewartbrand]

Herculaneum fused scroll read in full.
https://t.co/y8RV6tDzvg

[Carlo Lancellotti @_CLancellotti]

A fair review. This is indeed a difficult book.
https://t.co/C8oAwK9hGk

[Catholic Answers @catholiccom]

What’s the last quote that did this to you?

[Edward Feser @FeserEdward]

Early modern philosophy and science put what is often called a “mechanical” or “mechanistic” conception of the natural world at the center of Western thought. But what exactly does that amount to? “What is the mechanical world picture?”, over at the blog: https://t.co/L2Gwz2DwRB

[Church Life Journal @ChurchLifeND]

It seemed evident to Gibbon and Francis Newman that the whole Catholic dogmatic system was just one doctrinal corruption after another, and their solution was to get rid of the whole thing.
--Matthew Levering

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[Genealogies of Modernity @GenofMod]

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[Courtney Mares @catholicourtney]

Wow! What a speech!

Pope Leo XIV receives a 7-minute standing ovation from members of the Spanish parliament after his 30-minute speech that did not shy away from some of the most debated issues in the country.

(📷: Vatican press pool)

[Courtney Mares @catholicourtney]

In a sweeping address to the Spanish parliament, Pope Leo XIV delivered a forceful defense of the dignity of every human life, declaring that its protection is not a partisan issue but “a goal of civilization,” while addressing the issues of abortion, migration, freedom of conscience, the seal of confession and the Church’s role in public life.

“If life ceases to be recognized as a fundamental value, what future can our societies have? Can a community that casts into the shadows the unborn child, the elderly, the sick, those who suffer in silence, or those who depend entirely on the care of others be called fully just?” the pope asked the members of congress.

“The defense of human life is neither a partisan issue nor a confessional interest: it is a goal of civilization,” he emphasized. “Every human life must be recognized and safeguarded from conception to its natural end, in every circumstance of its existence.”

“The moral greatness of a nation is manifested, above all, in its capacity to accompany, protect and love those lives that are most fragile,” the pope said.

https://t.co/eAp6yMtJDR

[Church Life Journal @ChurchLifeND]

What is the optimal education technology when it comes to thinking? I argue that the manuscript, thought out by hand, cannot be surpassed.
--Chad Engelland

Thinking as Handicraft: Pope Leo XIV and the Joy of Writing | Church Life Journal | University of Notre Dame (https://t.co/VqTD3RSU5B)

[CC Library @carochislibrary]

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[Muse @xmuse_]

Turn the sound ON 🔊

Abraham Cupeiro resurrecting the ancestors inside the 870 year-old Cathedral of Mondoñedo.

The carnyx roaring through sacred stone… Celtic fire 🔥

Pure goosebumps!

[Carlo Lancellotti @_CLancellotti]

You don't understand 20th century history if you don't understand that at some point millions of normal people believed in something as perfectly irrational and even absurd as the advent of "Socialist man."

[Edward Feser @FeserEdward]

On @Pontifex’s Magnifica Humanitas. “Leo XIV contra the new Babel: Reflections on the pope’s landmark encyclical,” over at the blog: https://t.co/K8OrbTKYV5