Jennifer Waechter

Roman Catholic, prolife, conservative twin who has a childlike awe at Creation, classic cinema fan #Astaire, loves UofM/Detroit sports & is an absolute dork!

[Jennifer Waechter @JenWaechter]

#DescribeYourLifeInAPicture

[Rebecca 1956 @1956_rebecca]

America, WAKE UP!!

[DRAGO @dragodimitrov]

Every argument between Catholics and Protestants is secretly about something neither side ever brings up.

Not the Bible. Not the Church. Not the pope.

A 700-year-old metaphysical dispute you were never told you inherited.

Here's the fight underneath the fight. 🧵

[Robert P. George @McCormickProf]

The dumbest "debate" in Catholic circles these days is about whether to prioritize questions of justice or those of sexual morality. Not only are both profoundly important, they are deeply connected. Someone would have to be willfully blind not to see the ravages of the sexual revolution. Its countless victims--from unborn babies, to fatherless children, to porn-addicted boys (and, increasingly, girls), to victims of human trafficking and sexual abuse, to a plague of STDs, to abandoned "partners" and spouses, and on and on--are victims of injustice. We owe it to them, as a matter of justice, to stand up and speak out for principles of sexual morality whose abandonment has produced much of the carnage.

It's obviously true that justice and morality pertain to a vast range of questions, not just those involving sexual conduct and misconduct. It is no less true, however, that justice and morality do pertain to sexual matters and that the abandonment of norms of sexual morality has imposed grave injustices on a massive number of victims.

[Wholesome Side of 𝕏 @itsme_urstruly]

We live on this beautiful planet where trees quietly talk to each other, octopuses dream, elephants gently remember and honor their lost ones, bees dance to show the way, crows never forget a friend, cats heal with their soft purring, and after a fire, the forest always finds a way to bloom again.

[Rep. Riley M. Moore @RepRileyMoore]

Today, I also want to wish a happy Father’s Day to all priests and religious brothers.

Every man is called to paternity, and just like St. Joseph was to Jesus, you all are spiritual fathers for so many of us.

Thank you!

[Mannheim @Willadeanwhy]

@Sachinettiyil At the very least, if no longer used, de-sanctified and torn down and sell only the lot upon which it stood. Never the building that sheltered pious Christians in prayer.

[Lydia Taylor Davis @lydiataydavis]

At its core, the pro-life position is simple:

Your value doesn't disappear because someone finds you inconvenient.

[Joshua Mercer @joshuamercer]

Pray for the poor Catholics of Detroit.

[Fluellen @SphereOverInch]

I mean I probably watch this movie every 2 years anyway, but dang… time for another viewing.

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

I don't think anybody really grasps how desperate this situation is.

University professors are now saying they are unable to teach history because reading long books and passages is how a person learns history. College kids are incapable of reading more than a few pages.

Some classes don't assign any reading at all now, only lectures.

There is an assumption among the people managing this decline that reading is just a way of receiving information. It isn't. Proper reading is how we build the mental muscle to synthesize ideas and evaluate them.

If the catastrophic decline in reading and literacy is not addressed now, we risk losing everything.

Western civilization cannot survive the death of reading because it was built by people with the kind of cognitive depth that a culture of deep reading brings:

Complex reasoning, extended internal dialogue, the capacity to hold opposing ideas in tension. Our systems and institutions are complex, and they require well ordered minds to maintain them.

Reading forms minds, and the West was built by the richest minds in history.

[Catholics for Catholics 🇺🇲 @CforCatholics]

WATCH: US Bishops dedicate and consecration the nation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus!

[Jonathan Liedl @JLLiedl]

At a rectory in Tulsa, 8 priests live under the same roof.

No, it's not religious life; instead, it's likely the largest community of active diocesan priests in the entire country. And it may offer insights into addressing an epidemic of clerical loneliness.

[Brian Williams @LiturgyGuy]

Yesterday Charlotte ordained 10 men to the priesthood, a record high in the diocese’s 54 year history. Interestingly, 8 of the 10 ordained came from parishes directly impacted by Bishop Martin’s restrictions against the TLM and/or altar rail ban. Meanwhile, two of the mega parishes in Charlotte, both of which fit the liturgical style +Martin favors-including one with over 12,000 registered families-haven’t produced a priestly vocation since well before COVID. Will this vocations boom continue in the coming years under Bishop Martin?

[Photo credit: Catholic News Herald]

[𝔃𝔞𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔯𝔦𝔞𝔰 𝔰 @OrdinariateUSA]

St. Thomas in Ann Arbor, Michigan has done a series of renovations

Built in 1899, the historic Irish-German church underwent drastic simplifications in the 1970s.

Between the 90s and 2021, several restorations took place. The first was reinstalling a marble altar and a baldachin.

The most recent was faithfully recreating the sanctuary mural as we see here

[Catholic Frequency @CatholicFQ]

“Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.”

― Fulton J. Sheen

[Sachin Jose @Sachinettiyil]

Happy Birthday to the Long-Standing Rock: 2,000 Years and Still Unshaken

The Catholic Church stands as the only institution in the world with an unbroken 2,000-year history. It has endured and outlasted relentless assaults from every age—persecution under Roman emperors like Nero, invasions by the Ottoman Empire, the aggressions of Napoleon, the brutal repression of communist regimes, and the ongoing challenges of secularism. Yet, despite centuries of opposition, it not only survives but thrives, continuing to lead over 1.4 billion faithful around the globe. And it will continue to stand firm until the Second Coming of Christ, as Christ Himself promised that the gates of hell would not prevail against it.

[Sachin Jose @Sachinettiyil]

Catholic children in Iraq recite the Hail Mary in Aramaic — the language spoken by Jesus.

Video: St Thomas Mission

[John A. Monaco @johnamonaco]

The Diocese of Wichita is doing something right.

They have a 195% priest replacement rate (meaning the diocese has nearly double the number of seminarians needed to replace retiring or deceased priests).

The vast majority of seminarians come from homeschool or parochial schools. The diocesan Catholic schools are authentically Catholic.

Adoration chapels across the entire diocese. Praying for vocations is part of every parish’s culture.

Weekly Mass attendance is through the roof. Liturgies are reverent and embrace tradition.

If I’m a Catholic bishop, I’m looking at this diocese and taking notes. The blueprint for Catholic renewal in the USA is in Kansas.

[Athanasia @saintathanasia]

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[Patricia Heaton @PatriciaHeaton]

Pray for our brothers and sisters