Kevin Greenlee

Catholic first, husband and father second, and somewhere down the line a tabletop roleplayer. Semper servus servorum Fabulae (forever GM).

[Kevin Greenlee @ethawyn]

At least there's this: Suffering born well is an occasion for great merit.

[Kevin Greenlee @ethawyn]

Nobody wants this crap anymore

[Katelyn @stinekey]

Sick kid is in good spirits but still sick. He's turning 6 tomorrow and we're probably going to have to raincheck his party (it was going to be Saturday) until next month. :(

My SIL seems to have it too so please pray it leaves the rest of us unscathed!

[Kevin Greenlee @ethawyn]

This isn't making money for the parish. It isn't simony. And if someone truly can't afford it any parish will still make sure they can have a wedding.

[Kevin Greenlee @ethawyn]

Our parish is on the cheaper end. A staff member spends at least 12 hours on a single wedding, cantors get paid $75, accompanist $250, altar boys $20/each. Going rate for a visiting priest is $150. Easily over $800 in costs to the parish, not mentioning facilities costs.

[Mike, Centering Prayer Strongman @Ring__The_Bell]

Pray for a dear friend who was just told by her parish that it costs $1400 to get married there. Normal diocesan parish in a suburb. I am fucking irate.

[Kevin Greenlee @ethawyn]

@BunelBrian @lukei4655 @dgoodmaniii

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@WalkingHymnal @lukei4655

[Katelyn @stinekey]

What's your favorite slim carseat? Im in the market to replace one and would rather not have one with ginormous width

[Kevin Greenlee @ethawyn]

Not sure what to make of the fact that my autocomplete went for "Evagrius" over "Evangelization."

[Kevin Greenlee @ethawyn]

@Physiologus11 @lukei4655 It's actually very freeing.

[Kevin Greenlee @ethawyn]

@lukei4655 Hey wait, I know you!

[Gretchen Ronnevik @garonnevik]

I’m not going to say too much about the current MIL discourse, other than families are widely different, expectations are widely different, and more generosity is needed all around.

In our family, each set of grandparents have been given the same access but they show up very differently. One set has put in the work of getting to know the in law, has respected boundaries when given, and look for ways to be generous. The others went about their life, expected the in law to just be folded in without any changes, and are typically the ones to make demands.

Grandparents were one of the most precious things for me growing up, and I’ll bend over backwards for any grandparent who wants to love my kids. But both sides aren’t equal. It’s not “well they got to do this so I should get to” as though it was a right, not a privilege—as though relationships were like cookies handed out. Relationships are personal and intimate. You have the relationship you build.

There’s something about weddings, funerals, and babies being born where all the dysfunction is revealed. Play the long game and commit to being the reasonable and generous one. Stop keeping score. Those intense times leave a deep mark, and the mark you leave will having lasting impact.

Like literally every other relationship, you have to put in the work and build the trust. Your child is not your “vote” in decisions like you’ve elected a representative. How you treat and develop a relationship with your son or daughter in law matters. You have the relationship you build, and generosity and genuine patience with the process goes way further than entitlement.

Grandparents are important but being the grandparents who constantly fight to support the marriage, and the ones who are trying to get around the marriage really come to light. As Christians, strive to be the support the marriage ones.

[Edward Feser @FeserEdward]

What Elizabeth Anscombe labeled “consequentialism” – the mentality according to which there is no act, not even killing the innocent, that should be off the table if it has sufficiently good consequences – is very common today on the right no less than on the left, especially where matters of war are concerned. It underlies the skepticism or even contempt many on the right seem to have for just war doctrine. It also seems to be driving many right-wingers to acquiesce to the GOP’s abandonment of its traditional pro-life position, to rationalize lawfare as a tactic to use against those who have used it against them, and to abandon other norms.

As Anscombe warned, consequentialism is deeply morally corrupting, and indeed itself corrupt. It amounts to the view that it is permissible to “do evil that good may come” (Romans 3:8). It is utterly irreconcilable with natural law and Catholic moral theology. Orthodox Catholics are used to thinking that the political right is much closer to Catholic moral teaching than the political left is. I think that used to be true. It pains me to say it, but I don’t think it is true anymore. Jingoism and the lure of political power have led too many right-wingers to adopt an essentially consequentialist mindset, and they rationalize doing so by telling themselves that only those with a “beautiful loser” mentality could object.

Christ famously warned: “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the Sadducees.” Different as those sects appeared to be to their adherents, what was more significant were the ways they were both corrupt. Catholics should beware of the leaven of the Democrats and the Republicans, both of whom have become deeply corrupted and should be held at arm’s length. They should put their Catholic moral principles first, their country second, and party affiliation a distant third.

[furmerly ฅ⁠^⁠•⁠ﻌ⁠•⁠^⁠ฅ ❗⚡️🃏 @furmerly]

I love Kojimas games, but the way he names characters is starting to piss me off

[Edward Feser @FeserEdward]

Just as Hiroshima and Nagasaki were grotesquely out of proportion to the evil of the Pearl Harbor attack, what was done to Gaza is grotesquely out of proportion to the evil of the October 7 attack. What begins as a just cause is often corrupted by war’s self-righteous bloodlust.

[Kevin Greenlee @ethawyn]

First thing I got

[Susannah Black Roberts @suzania]

Incredible

[Tired New Englander🇻🇦 @TiredNewEngland]

I think this is a mischaracterization of the Catholic teaching on Scripture

A person ought to read Scripture in light of other Scriptures (for example, we may read the Lord’s statement to take and eat His body in Matthew 26 in light of the command to eat his flesh in John 6, for example).

Of course, there is the teaching authority of the Magisterium to settle disputes and teach with authority, but ultimately, there is a reason why the laity are encouraged to read the Scriptures. The greatest theologians spent extensive time in exegesis, which largely requires seeing the harmonies of Scripture

When confused on a teaching of Scripture, one ought to look to other areas of Scripture, the Tradition handed down by the Church, and the teaching of the Magisterium

[Kevin Greenlee @ethawyn]

@elmago3221 I have never sympathized with anyone more

[Kevin Greenlee @ethawyn]

@PopCrave Wait, she's only 36?!?

[Kevin Greenlee @ethawyn]

@crousselle Wife and I are both O- so we genuinely don't need rhogam, but would get it if we did. I can tell though that the doctor's don't believe us. I guess this is why.