Kevvy Bee

Curmudgeon

[Kevvy Bee @KevvyBeeee]

@dr_r_j_harley @GoodwinMJ Obama counted people turned away at the border as deportations. He removed remarkably few from the interior. Trump has managed to effectively halt attempted border crossings, these deportations are almost ALL from the American interior.

[Kevvy Bee @KevvyBeeee]

@Ben_Scallan Winning!

[Nordic @based_nordic_]

Los emperadores Habsburgo del Sacro Imperio (y luego de Austria-Hungría) tenían como eje central de su piedad la devoción al Santísimo Sacramento.

Prueba de esto es la versión del Tantum Ergo de santo Tomás de Aquino con la melodía del Kaiserhymne, el himno imperial austriaco.

[Kevvy Bee @KevvyBeeee]

@createstreets ...Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.

[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

In a recent interview, Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, former grand chancellor of the John Paul II Institute on Marriage and Family Life, confirmed the worst suspicions that many of us had.

He admitted that the changes he made at the Institute during the Pope Francis years were designed to initiate a "very profound" reform of the idea of the natural law.

Instead of absolute moral norms grounded in a keen understanding of the basic goods, he and his colleagues were proposing a moral theory rooted in historical discernment of subjective and cultural experience--not an "armchair theology" but one operating "within history and within people's lives."

This, of course, is the language of trendy postmodernism, and it is dangerous indeed.

Allow me to illustrate the principle with one example. Is slavery wrong?

Intrinsically wrong? Wrong no matter what public opinion polls say about it, no matter what the current consensus on it might be? I imagine any decent person would say yes.

But that yes is predicated upon precisely what the tradition calls the natural law and the basic goods. There are some values so fundamental that acts repugnant to them are by their very nature wicked.

If you want a highly articulate presentation of this idea, go to St. John Paul II's Veritatis Splendor.

If we say that this is just "armchair theologizing" and that morality is a function of ever-shifting cultural and experiential data, then why couldn't slavery be justified?

One of the very smartest persons that ever lived, the philosopher Aristotle, thought it was; extremely bright and morally upright persons in our country, well into the 19th century, thought it was permissible.

Who is to say whether the consensus might shift back again? Who is to say that "lived experience" might come to justify it?

What any truly coherent moral program requires is the very thing that Archbishop Paglia and his colleagues were endeavoring to eliminate, namely, absolute moral norms.

Ridding ourselves of these in the name of freedom or pastoral sensitivity actually renders moral discourse dysfunctional, just as relativizing the basic principle of logic would render any rational conversation impossible.

The Archbishop's interview, frankly, reminded me of the discussions I had at the Synod on Synodality with some of my German colleagues. Under the rubric of the development of doctrine, they were eager to relativize or radically change the principles undergirding classical morality. If this was and is truly the game, we have ventured onto perilous seas.

Link to the article below.

[gript @griptmedia]

350 people claimed asylum in Ireland last week, official figures show – the highest number of weekly arrivals since September 2024.

Almost two-thirds were single males, and more than a third came from Somalia.

https://t.co/Qjep3REuKV

[Kevvy Bee @KevvyBeeee]

@GJCMDP @CatholicSat @ModernBoethius Because he's told us. You're as judgmental as anyone on here. Remove the mote from your own eye.

[Kevvy Bee @KevvyBeeee]

@GJCMDP @CatholicSat @ModernBoethius He’s ceased his journey. He is now sitting at the side of the road journey-less. Do not fetishise apostasy.

[Charlie Downes @cfdownes_]

I would sooner live in poverty than see my children grow up as a minority in their own homeland.

Not that we would need to, by the way, as reversing mass immigration would be nothing but a good thing for Britain’s economy.

[Kevvy Bee @KevvyBeeee]

@pegobry_en Tried to pay a Chinese ally to take British territory. Destroyed the House of Lords. Tried and failed to bring in assisted suicide. Hiked benefits and taxes. Continued to let Defence atrophy. He achieved a lot!

[Kevvy Bee @KevvyBeeee]

@cappuccinoo2000 @jdflynn @DrFrancisYoung @WalkerMarcus One in dire need of confession!

[Kevvy Bee @KevvyBeeee]

@SteveDallasDC9 @lukei4655 @thelb236 No. Because they were Dubia from cardinals. But even aside from that: the SSPX know what elements of Vatican 2 they dissent from. They remind us all frequently.

[Kevvy Bee @KevvyBeeee]

@SteveDallasDC9 @lukei4655 @thelb236 The pope is not required to rebut any position held by a priestly association. The SSPX has been candid about the provisions of V2 they don’t adhere to, in respect of religious freedom inter alia.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

The Rape Gang Inquiry Report.

https://t.co/EuKgGWBRhS

[Thaïs d’Escufon @ThaisEscufon]

Europeans and American patriots!

Tomorrow, the courts of my country, France, may decide to send me to prison for daring to say on television that “the main danger to women in France is Black African and Arab immigrant men.”

Meanwhile, my own attacker, a Tunisian migrant, is still at large.

I need your help to generate media pressure and hope to be acquitted.

They cannot silence the truth!

Thank you for your support 💪🏻🇫🇷

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

"World Cup — who are you rooting for to win it all?"

Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D): "Mexico"

Darializa Chevalier (D): "Senegal"

[Kevvy Bee @KevvyBeeee]

@martianwyrdlord They didn't even fight them to a start. They just murdered old men in bars.

[Catholic Sat @CatholicSat]

Valentina, a blind girl from Barcelona, explains the significance of the Jesus Tower of Sagrada Família to Pope Leo XIV and the King and Queen of Spain. Just the best

[Kevvy Bee @KevvyBeeee]

@visegrad24 Irish hero

[Kevvy Bee @KevvyBeeee]

@poetsoup Ireland was not like this is in 2010.