McPapa

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[College Soccer Truth ™ @ImCollegeSoccer]

NO MORE 25 YEARS OF AGE or OLDER INTERNATIONALS.

A win for the home team 🇺🇸

#CSTruth

[McPapa @jbmcguirk]

Of course coaches recruited older internationals … A 24-year-old with years of adult experience should be better than an 18-year-old high school senior.

The question wasn’t around entitlement—it’s whether college soccer should primarily be a pathway for college-aged athletes. The NCAA thought so, and now there will be more opportunities for US talent coming out of high school than there was before.

[McPapa @jbmcguirk]

@_captainpulisic Let’s go!!!!!!!

[McPapa @jbmcguirk]

@DavidFischer @grok True Nothing is just that… Nothing… it can’t be something. An eternal vacuum of irregularities that spontaneously spawn matter/universe/multiverse etc is something. There really should be nothing… and yet, here we are.

[McPapa @jbmcguirk]

@Quinn5777 @LicensePlateGuy I’m down with that! Just want to see Thibs, Burns, and Carter all on the field as part of the core foundation … think a 4-3 is the only way

[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

There is a way past the absurd and deeply divisive “war” between the President and the Pope, which has been enthusiastically ginned up by the press. And it is indicated in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, paragraph 2309 to be precise. After laying out the various criteria for determining a just war—proportionality, last resort, declaration by a competent authority, reasonable hope of success, etc.—the Catechism points out that “the evaluation of these conditions for moral legitimacy belongs to the prudential judgment of those who have responsibility for the common good.” The assumption is that the just war principles function, to use the technical term, as heuristic devices, designed to guide the practical decision-making of those civil authorities who have to adjudicate matters of war and peace.

The role of the Church, therefore, is to call for peace and to urge that any conflict be strictly circumscribed by the moral constraints of the just war criteria. But it is not the role of the Church to evaluate whether a particular war is just or unjust. That appraisal belongs to the civil authorities, who, one presumes, have requisite knowledge of conditions on the ground. So, is the war in question truly the last resort? Is there really a balance between the good to be attained and the destruction caused by the war? Are combatants and non-combatants being properly distinguished in the waging of the conflict? Do the belligerents have right intention? Is there a reasonable hope of success? The posing of those questions—indeed the insistence upon their moral relevance—belongs rightly to the Church, but the answering of them belongs to the civil authorities.

The Pope has said, on numerous occasions, that he is not a politician and that his role is not the determination of any nation's foreign policy. But he has just as clearly said that he will continue to speak for peace and for moral constraint. In making both of these claims, he is operating perfectly within the framework of paragraph 2309 of the Catechism. If we understand that the Pope and the President have qualitatively different roles to play in the determination of moral action in regard to war, we can, I hope, extricate ourselves from the completely unhelpful narrative of “Pope vs. President.”

[McPapa @jbmcguirk]

What are the chances we switch up to a 4-3?

Sign D.J. Reader with cap space just created.

Grab Downs at 5

Build a 4–3 front with Reader and Darius Alexander, and Kayvon Thibodeaux + Brian Burns on the edge

Edmunds runs MIKE LB, McFadden at WILL, and use Abdul Carter as a SAM/edge hybrid who becomes a third rusher on passing downs.

Really unlock that triple threat: Carter, Kayvon, Burns

[McPapa @jbmcguirk]

Tough loss, but not a total loss… #10 pick plus cap space is huge. Grab DJ Reader … and then do we shift to a 4-3 perhaps?

Sign D.J. Reader.

Build a 4–3 front with Reader anchoring the middle, Darius Alexander penetrating at 3-tech, and Kayvon Thibodeaux + Brian Burns setting the edge and rushing the passer.

At linebacker, let Tremaine Edmunds run MIKE, Micah McFadden at WILL, and use Abdul Carter as a SAM/edge hybrid who becomes a third rusher on passing downs.

Draft Caleb Downs at #5 to clean up the back end, support the run, and give the defense flexibility.

Net result: a faster, more balanced defense. And we get to unlock usage of all 3 edge studs.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment. As a result, our social bonds close in upon themselves, forming self-referential circuits that no longer expose us to reality. We thus come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another. Feeling threatened by anyone who is different, we grow unaccustomed to encounter and dialogue. In this way, polarization, conflict, fear and violence spread. What is at stake is not merely the risk of error, but a transformation in our very relationship with truth.

[McPapa @jbmcguirk]

@SteveGuitarMad @frmarcellinus @IAmibeke Feel like I read something in the Bible about Jesus meeting up with Moses and Elijah on top of a mountain. Probably the Sanhedrin would’ve said something like… Moses and Elijah are dead… This is demonic… Read your Torah.

[McPapa @jbmcguirk]

The problem is that currently D1 rosters are loaded with 23yr old international players, which makes it more difficult to get recruited. If this is passes, than likely, it would take a year for it to be implemented… Which means in a year it could be easier to earn a scholarship on a D1 program perhaps?

[McPapa @jbmcguirk]

🌅 The Final Vision

The Bible ends not with escape from the world — but with:
•The heavenly Jerusalem descending.
•God dwelling among His people.
•The wedding feast of the Lamb.

The longing that began in Genesis finds rest in Revelation.

The final word of Scripture is not fear.

It is: “Behold, I make all things new.”

[McPapa @jbmcguirk]

A Complete Salvation History

Using the Mysteries of the Rosary as central detail.

Created → Fallen → Incarnate → Revealed → Redeemed → Glorified → Renewed.

[McPapa @jbmcguirk]

5️⃣ Humanity Re-Established

What was promised in Eden is fulfilled:
•Communion with God restored.
•Humanity glorified.
•Creation harmonized.
•God dwelling with His people.

The biblical story forms a perfect arc:

Creation → Fall → Promise → Incarnation → Cross → Resurrection → Church → Return → New Creation