Fr Gregory Jensen

[Fr Gregory Jensen @frgregoryj]

@CSLCHSnMore Sunny side up and dippy.

[Fr Gregory Jensen @frgregoryj]

@YariLogos @Outlaw_Estel @OrthodoxyAG Yes, the tryzub is the symbol of a nation, but not a nationalist symbol. It has secular roots, but it is also a Christian symbol with the Trident seen as a symbol of the Holy Trinity. If you see it as a nationalist (as opposed to a national) symbol, that's on you.

[Fr Gregory Jensen @frgregoryj]

@Outlaw_Estel @YariLogos @OrthodoxyAG Forgive me I wasn't clear. My concern is the canonical question of the limits of a priest's authority to teach outside his parish not his speaking on behalf of the Church. As for geopolitics, I teach social ethics, this includes the often misunderstood just war theory.

[Fr Gregory Jensen @frgregoryj]

@Outlaw_Estel @YariLogos @OrthodoxyAG The Tryzub (Trident) is the official state coat of arms of Ukraine since 1992 and traces its history back to the grand princes of 10th C Kievan Rus. As with the US flag, some radical/far-right political groups use stylized versions, leading to occasional confusion.

[Fr Gregory Jensen @frgregoryj]

@Outlaw_Estel @YariLogos @OrthodoxyAG Fame is being famous for being famous. How much attention the famous get is an interesting sociological question. It is also a pastoral and canonical question.

[Fr Gregory Jensen @frgregoryj]

@OrthodoxyAG @YariLogos Well, yes, yes it could. This is why we need to grapple with the implication of social media. It can be a blessing, but not unmixed. We have all sorts of folks speaking on behalf of the Church who maybe ought not to be.

[Fr Gregory Jensen @frgregoryj]

@OrthodoxyAG @YariLogos Maybe, maybe not. The canons don't directly speak to social media. Is a priest with an online presence teaching outside his parish? It seems so. What happens if what he says has an negative effect on another community outside his diocese and who decides?

[Fr Gregory Jensen @frgregoryj]

@OrthodoxyAG @YariLogos Nope. I'm only saying that there are canonical issues that we need to consider.

[Fr Gregory Jensen @frgregoryj]

@OrthodoxyAG @YariLogos Geographic and demographic reach are canonical issues. As a priest, I don't have the right to go to another parish and serve, preach, or teach without the blessing of the bishop. This is true even if it is a parish in my diocese.

[Fr Gregory Jensen @frgregoryj]

@EdKrassen State owns shares in major corporations, limits press access to elected officials, and now state run media. None of this is American.

[Fr Gregory Jensen @frgregoryj]

@neweveryday99 No cellphone sign

[Fr Gregory Jensen @frgregoryj]

@Wendy1u17 Then there's the Tab soda in the color. It won't be introduced until 1963.

[Fr Gregory Jensen @frgregoryj]

@Wendy1u17 The color TV on the upper right

[Fr Gregory Jensen @frgregoryj]

@OrthodoxyAG @YariLogos The vast majority of laypeople teaching online probably shouldn't be. The same for clergy. It isn't enough to know things. One needs to know how to explain things within the limits of social media. Instead,we have clergy and laity inflaming the passions of their viewers.

[Fr Gregory Jensen @frgregoryj]

@BasedMikeLee How about Catholic canon law?

[Fr Gregory Jensen @frgregoryj]

@YoungPenitent Kill each other? 😉

[Fr Gregory Jensen @frgregoryj]

@atrupar Wow! Great plan! I need to adopt it in my own life! I run a HUGE deficit with my local grocery store. They NEVER buy anything from me even though I buy from them 2 or 3 times a week?

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

☕️ Here's a question to ponder over your morning coffee. What would have happened if America had simply not spent the last couple of years behaving like a drunk uncle at a wedding, insulting the bride, the groom, the vicar and the man who parked the cars?

The answer is nothing. Nothing at all would have happened to the rest of the world. Life inside America, on the other hand, would have been a great deal more pleasant, because every single problem the country is currently wrestling with was made in America, by Americans, on purpose, and then explained to the public with a lie.

There was no trade deficit emergency. None. So there was no need for tariffs, which means there was no need for the inflation, the diesel and petrol prices heading for the moon, the farmers queuing for bailouts or the bond market clearing its throat every time the president opens his mouth.

Nobody was ripping America off, so there was no need to insult the Canadians until they took their billions and went home, and started filling in the paperwork to become an associate member of the European Union, which is a sentence nobody expected to write in their lifetime. No need to gift-wrap the soybean market and post it to Brazil, and no need to make the average European feel he is doing something noble by putting the bourbon back on the shelf and buying a Mercedes instead.

Iran would have carried on being Iran, which is to say tedious and unchanged. America would still have its bases scattered across the globe with grateful hosts rather than muttering ones, and the allies would still be buying American missiles rather than build their own. Foreign students would still be paying eye-watering sums to attend American universities, tourists would still be queuing in the Florida sun, and the dollar would still be trusted without anyone having to ask an awkward question.

And here is the truly maddening part. Trump would have been more popular than Putin. He would have been sitting on a booming economy, cheap fuel and a world that still picked up the phone, facing a Democratic party so invisible it could have been declared missing, and the midterms would have been a coronation rather than a coin toss.

In other words, the car was running beautifully. And then somebody climbed in, announced that the engine was on fire, and set light to it to prove the point.

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[Fr Gregory Jensen @frgregoryj]

@bennyjohnson I disagree with you on your effective abandonment of Ukraine and your cozying up to Putin and other dictators, you're abandonment of the Pro-Life movement and changing the GOP into a pro-choice party. You cruelly mistreat immigrants whether they are here illegally or legally.