Christopher Malloy

Author: FALSE MERCY. Chairman and Professor: Department of Theology, The University of Dallas

[Edward Feser @FeserEdward]

Suddenly, this fraudulent blowhard feigns concern about congressional approval and a strict reading of the Constitution. Every day with this gang, it’s another betrayal of principle, another lie, another sophistry. The GOP has proven itself as unfit to govern as the Democrats.

[Paulina Guzik @Guzik_Paulina]

In what will certainly become one of the most fundamental speeches of his pontificate, Pope Leo XIV told the Spanish Parliament, before receiving a 7-minute standing ovation: "The defense of human life is neither a partisan issue nor a confessional interest: it is a goal of civilization."

"If life ceases to be recognized as a fundamental value, what future can our societies have?" he said, speaking to a gathering of politicians, many supporting abortion and euthanasia.

"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?"

"Every human life must be recognized and safeguarded from conception to its natural end, in every circumstance of its existence. When this certainty is obscured, the most vulnerable are the first victims, and the law loses its deepest meaning: to serve and protect every person."

"For this reason, the moral greatness of a nation is manifested, above all, in its capacity to accompany, protect and love those lives that are most fragile," he said, repeating what John Paul II emphasized decades ago.

Starting his speech he commented that Church's is the "message offered in the spirit of service to the human person."

"When the Church addresses anything concerning public life, she does so while respecting the proper mission of institutions and the legitimate responsibility of those who have received the mandate to legislate," Pope Leo said, emphasizing "the Church offers a reflection born of the desire to serve the common good."

He hailed Spain as country that "has known how to view the human being as more than just a cog in the social, economic or political order. It has recognized the human being as a creature open to truth, endowed with freedom, and driven by a thirst for eternity that no temporal reality can quench -- in a word, as someone whose dignity takes precedence over all utility and to whose service legislative action is subject."

He said it was Catholic orders that "helped to shape a legal and moral consciousness capable of remembering that authority always entails responsibility and that every human being must be recognized as a subject of rights and duties."

"That aspiration continues to resonate today: that dignity, justice and the common good should be the measure of social relations, both at the national and international levels."

Referring multiple times to his "Magnifica Humanitas" encyclical, he said: "When the common good ceases to be a shared horizon, public action runs the risk of fragmenting into partial interests, incapable of safeguarding what belongs to all."

"In this context, the family — the primary human reality and the natural foundation of the community — takes on particular importance," Pope Leo said.

"The family will always be the first school of humanity, where one learns, before anywhere else, the basic grammar of living together: welcoming life, caring for others, forgiving, serving and belonging."

"Human life can never be treated as a commodity," the pope said.

"A law does not attain its true greatness merely by having been formally enacted; it attains it when, in addition to being valid in form, it can stand before the dignity of the person and pass that test without shame."

"I invite you, then, to lift your gaze to the world around you, not to turn away from reality, but to remember that every decision by public authorities affects real people, especially those who have less power to make their voices heard."

"The expanse of one’s vision consists precisely in looking more deeply at what is at stake in every public decision. This is why, alongside technical solutions and legal reforms, a moral renewal is also needed."

Video: Vatican Media
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[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

59 years ago today, Israel attacked the USS Liberty in international waters. 34 crew members were killed and 174 were wounded by the IDF.

Today, I spoke on the House floor to honor the fallen and to recognize the survivors who were present in the gallery.

[Christopher Malloy @cmalloy70]

Yes. Time also to Remove Trump from office.

[Edward Feser @FeserEdward]

An unspeakably evil threat. Every soldier has the duty to disobey orders to carry this out, every government official has the duty to do whatever is in his power to stop it, every churchmen has the duty to speak out against it, every citizen to resist in any moral way possible.

[Christopher Malloy @cmalloy70]

@TruthTrumpPost This is an evil post. You have lost your mind. Whose counsel are you taking? It cannot be that of right reason, and it cannot be that of the God of Abraham and it cannot be that of the Father of Jesus Christ. Might does not make right. Evil means mean evil.

[Christopher Malloy @cmalloy70]

How to motivate the seller to put controls on this?

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Major problem

[Edward Feser @FeserEdward]

As Aquinas notes, when a prideful leader’s excesses go unresisted, he is hardened in his delusion that they are licit and becomes even less likely to repent. Christians above all should understand that flattery and sycophancy only harm such a man by endangering his immortal soul.

[Christopher Malloy @cmalloy70]

Not if the mercy is true and divine, converting the guilty to love of the good.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Yes

[Dr Aseem Malhotra @DrAseemMalhotra]

Very disturbing. THIS is why drug companies should no longer be allowed to conduct their own clinical trials. All data needs to be independently evaluated THEN replicated before approval for public use.

[Balázs Orbán @BalazsOrban_HU]

The irony is striking: Brussels claims to defend “European values” by fining Musk €140M for allowing open debate — while fining 🇭🇺 Hungary €1 million a day for protecting Europe’s borders.
The common thread?
An elite that treats dissent as a threat, and sovereignty as a violation.

[Edward Feser @FeserEdward]

Reminder about traditional jus in bello principles from the Catechism of the Catholic Church:

[Josiah Burke @realJosiahBurke]

My brother teacher @EnochBurke is lying in a prison cell tonight because he refuses to sell out and surrender his convictions.

What we are witnessing today is the wholesale sacrifice of law, justice & rights to the tyranny of LGBTQ+ ideology.

He is right.

[Rikki Doolan @realrikkidoolan]

A reported 1.37 million Christian’s took to the streets in Serbia to declare it Christian land. Hallelujah.

[Catholic Quotes @CatholicQuote12]

Young French Catholics are restoring damaged crosses throughout all of France 🇫🇷

[Katie Hopkins @KTHopkins]

Enoch Burke

Persecuted for refusing to kneel to transgender mentalists

Bank accounts emptied

Jailed for Christmas & beyond

See this man and stiffen your spine good people. He is carrying the cross for Ireland.

All the love to the Burke family

[Liz Churchill @liz_churchill10]

“You have become modern-day Nazis…”

A Canadian Pastor has been arrested for refusing to apologize to a Communist Librarian Pervert in Calgary that wanted half-naked Transgender Men to dance and read to innocent children at a Library.

[Anticommie @QueenAnticommie]

This is why we can’t let just any barbarian in this country! Make class and respect for elders great again!

[Christopher Malloy @cmalloy70]

Gave a Thomistic Institute lecture at U.Pitt. Great students there and people from the area (FUS and Pittsburgh generally). Title was "Theology: True Science of God or Poetical Musing?" Find it here: https://t.co/9PFJsZ9Hy0

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