Jordan Phillips

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@TaylorRMarshall In Aquinas’s Commentary on Corinthians, he explains that this is why the gift of tongues was given to the early Church. Since they didn’t have the New Testament yet, they were instructed in this way.

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I wrote an article on what Pope Leo’s Magnifica Humanitas has to say to educators.

https://t.co/5FbRXmOJvv

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@TheGreatB00ks Aquinas’s Shorter Summa or his commentary on the Hail Mary.

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@briankeepsworth Hope is the virtue that our culture misses most. Hope requires us to fix our eyes on our end. To live today with heaven in view. Today, we only look at the immediate. We look only to what Amazon is shipping to us in 1-2 days.

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@HarrisonGarlic1 Would you say that you’re interested in “safeguarding the human person” from artificial pleasures?

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I thought these lines from Magnifica Humanitas sounded a lot like Father Thomas Joseph White.

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@SohrabAhmari This work needed to be this long. It’s a big topic that needs addressed. Plus, the Pope needed a long runway because most of his audience doesn’t know CST. And the whole document is applying principles from CST.

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@GoldenAspen1492 The first half of it is a summary and highlighting of what the most relevant principles of Catholic social teaching are. So, if you feel like you know your way around CST, you can cut the reading in half.

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Skimmed the footnotes on Magnifica Humanitas. The Holy Father cites The Lord of the Rings (187).

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@M_P_Hazell Just have AI summarize it for you

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@darrenjpeattie I wonder how the question was worded in the survey.

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Matt Reeves ending each post with “my friend?” brings up three thoughts. 1. Joker’s conversation with Riddler. 2. Bruce and Harvey. 3. Bruce and Thomas Elliot #TheBatman #EpicCrimeSaga

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@jdflynn I think there’s something similar going on in a counter play in football, or a head fake in basketball. Maybe something similar to an actor too. You aren’t intending to deceive, so much as participate in the activity at a high level.

I haven’t thought about your case though!

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@MarchMadnessMBB Does Notre Dame get an automatic bid?

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@kenshirotism I’m surprised to see so much pushback on this. I thought it was very clear with the light and music imagery he is portrayed with throughout the book.

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@AmericanGwyn A man of many twists and turns.

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@BestMovieMom Small hill to die on, but a large part of the Odyssey is tracking Odysseus as an unreliable narrator. The dramatized renderings are kind of fitting really.

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@RichChadPorChad @michaeljknowles @grok Think it’s Alexis de Tocqueville

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@TheGreatB00ks I really like Greenleaf. I think it’s a bright image of Christ’s hunt for our souls.

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@TheGreatB00ks That he’s highly precise and technical. He’s actually pretty relaxed with the way he uses language.