Ed Tomlinson

catholic priest (married!) husband, father, rugby player, Norwich city fan - fond of 🍺 - priest of the Ordinariate of Our lady of Walsingham

[Ed Tomlinson @fathereddy]

@KonstantinKisin People are angered by injustice & dishonesty.

Christian anthropology- which formed UK- held all people sacred and worthy of respect

woke secular anthropology is divisive at heart- dividing people into groups who then vie for victimhood, resources and power

[Ed Tomlinson @fathereddy]

After the senseless murder of Henry Nowak I ponder if loss Christian anthropology- belief that every person is equal- in favour of identitarian ideology - which divides us into victim and aggressor is leading to chaos and injustice?

https://t.co/GU4airgGF1

[Ed Tomlinson @fathereddy]

@thesmalldray @RealEmirHan They could not be more difference as the film highlights - underlying philosophy of each leads down very different roads.

[Ed Tomlinson @fathereddy]

@FizzyMrs @RealEmirHan few atheists, Stalin, pol pot et al, thought themselves “bad leaders” your point?

If it’s that humans are sinners & utopia is impossible this side of heaven - that’s profoundly Christian!

Meanwhile Christianity enabled sinners to flourish better than any other system

[Ed Tomlinson @fathereddy]

@FizzyMrs @RealEmirHan Of course there have been bad Christians.

But Christianity built the West. And Catholicism, though derided by woke secularists, continues to feed, educate, medicate & shelter more people daily than any other organisation on earth

christians don’t get half credit they deserve

[Ed Tomlinson @fathereddy]

I’m glad Blair spoke out: Net zero is scandal of our time.

Entitled elite signalling virtue as, at enormous public expense, they impoverish nation tinkering with a system that only accounts, in any case, for less than one percent of global emissions.

Hubris writ large.

[Ed Tomlinson @fathereddy]

@ALucieSmith @_F_B_G_ Reverend W Audrey 🤣

[Ed Tomlinson @fathereddy]

In his first encyclical Pope Leo, instead of defending Christian anthropology in the face of modern technology challenges modern technocrats in the face of what it means to be human…

My podcast gives my first impression of it

https://t.co/MqbBi8hTWZ

[Ed Tomlinson @fathereddy]

I often champion subsidiarity in political debates and have to explain what it is to people- delighted to see it front and centre of the new encyclical!

[Ed Tomlinson @fathereddy]

@holysmoke @jshocds Yes - a first skim struck me as something grounded in conventional Catholic thinking rather than a report written by woke activists - encouraging

[Ed Tomlinson @fathereddy]

@ALucieSmith Surely turning down gracious offer of unity presented by Vatican via Ordinariate ended any Catholic claim by those who remained Anglican?

Because to say no meant embracing a future in modern Anglicanism as is, with female clergy & saying no tocommunion with Rome

No?

[Diane Montagna @dianemontagna]

JUST IN: Vatican announces that Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical — titled Magnifica Humanitas, on the safeguarding of the human person in the age of AI — will be presented at 11:30am on Monday, May 25, in the Vaticanʼs Synod Hall, in the presence of the Holy Father.

Speakers at the presentation will include:

Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith;

Cardinal Michael Czerny, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Service of Integral Human Development;

Professor Anna Rowlands, Political Theology, including Catholic Social Teaching, and theological ethics of human migration, Department of Theology and Religion, Durham University, United Kingdom;

Christopher Olah, co-founder of Anthropic (USA) and head of interpretability research for artificial intelligence;

Dr. Leocadie Lushombo, Political Theology and Catholic Social Thought, Jesuit School of Theology / Santa Clara University, California.

Concluding remarks will be delivered by thel Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin.

The presentation will also include an address by Pope Leo XIV.

Magnifica Humanitas was signed and dated on May 15, the 135th anniversary of the promulgation of Pope Leo XIII’s Encyclical Letter Rerum Novarum.

[Ed Tomlinson @fathereddy]

My take from today’s rally.

Labour Party has totally lost touch with working class

In my youth Labour were THE working class party; unions, coal mines, Catholic votes, nationalist & pro family

Today: trendy elitist party; net zero, chosen pronouns, globalist & anti family …

[Ed Tomlinson @fathereddy]

@holysmoke @ALucieSmith @canonlawyered Really good episode - I especially found the angle on more nuanced issues between Vatican and American low church administration fascinating

[Ed Tomlinson @fathereddy]

This week I ponder how the left, once so closely allied to Catholics in working class areas of Britain, abandoned those votes & turned on Christianity. I also ponder how we might win back political space for Christians across the political spectrum

https://t.co/yK7PRSbWGO

[Ed Tomlinson @fathereddy]

@UtdMicah I’m a Norwich fan so totally neutral- correct decision wouldn’t even involve the keeper - because a penalty should have been awarded before that. Whistle blows for first infringement - penalty to West Ham.

[NubesPluantIustum @pluant]

Leo has had a great first year.

The man inherited a nightmare. He’s stabilised the barque and restored a sense of normalcy.

Given how bad things have been, that’s no small accomplishment.

[Ed Tomlinson @fathereddy]

@father_rmv You would need to be pretty dim - or wilfully blind- not to know the answer to that one. It’s the exact same playbook that was used to make the Anglican Church more modernist - so why would it have a different outcome if put into practice on this side of the Tiber?

[Ed Tomlinson @fathereddy]

The Pembury lectures return this autumn…get the dates into the diary!