Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic, and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth. #ApostolicJourney#Cameroon https://t.co/bKteFZ3iWE
Public officials may opine about theology, as is their right.
The Successor of Peter teaches. This is his office.
If what he teaches doesn’t sound like what we want to hear, we should admit the likelihood that the problem is in what we want to hear, and not in what he teaches.
People comment on the Holy Father’s appeals for peace as if unaware that contemporary warfare includes massive suffering & casualties of non-combatants. The lost innocents are not “regrettably necessary”. They are the judgment of God on us, the blood on our hands of Isaiah 1,15.
Now I just can’t comment on every single moral stupidity that daily comes out of Washington, nor does my voice matter, but speaking genocidally, even hyperbolically, is too much. If you defend those words, think! We’re becoming what we’ve long said we are not. This must stop.
A cutting reflection from Cardinal Ratzinger, Good Friday 2005:
"Pilate is not utterly evil. He knows that the condemned man is innocent, and he looks for a way to free him. But his heart is divided. And in the end he lets his own position, his own self-interest, prevail over what is right.
Nor are the men who are shouting and demanding the death of Jesus utterly evil. Many of them, on the day of Pentecost, will feel "cut to the heart," when Peter will say to them: "Jesus of Nazareth, a man attested to you by God... you crucified and killed by the hands of those outside the law."
But at that moment they are caught up in the crowd. They are shouting because everyone else is shouting, and they are shouting the same thing that everyone else is shouting. And in this way, justice is trampled underfoot by weakness, cowardice and fear of the diktat of the ruling mindset. The quiet voice of conscience is drowned out by the cries of the crowd.
Evil draws its power from indecision and concern for what other people think."
Believe it or not you can support Team USA and celebrate that fact that we beat Canada in hockey while also thinking the FBI Director probably shouldn’t be chugging beers in the locker room with the boys after the game.
It doesn’t make you a democrat.
It’s not that difficult.
Trump officials treat their jobs as chances for wish fulfillment, personal enrichment, brand building, and score settling.
It’s the most consistent thing about all of them.
James Van Der Beek’s final message to the world is one of the most powerful things I have ever heard. Stop whatever you are doing and listen to this! 🥺
If you think twelve minutes of music in the middle of a football game is enough to destroy western civilization, you are not gonna make it when things get really bad.
“When you wake up in the morning, Pooh,” said Piglet, “what’s the first thing you say to yourself?”
“What’s for breakfast?” said Pooh. “What do YOU say, Piglet?”
“I say, I wonder what’s going to happen exciting today?”
Pooh nodded thoughtfully.
“It’s the same thing.” ~A.A.Milne
I long for a day when the United States has a president who, just for starters, not to even get into more serious matters, is not older than Methuselah and does not sound like a 13 year-old on TikTok talking about middle school classmates. I don’t think this is too much to ask. And do not say to me, I guess you wish we had so-and-so and think what they’d do. We don’t have so-and-so. We have this one. And I don’t think it makes me woke to wish he acted like a grown-up.
Penguins at the Pittsburgh Zoo & Aquarium play in the snow thanks to the recent snow storm.
“Many of the animals like our big cats and elephants enjoy a snow day when they get the opportunity to play in frigid white powder,” the zoo said.
“Animal keepers will bring snow inside for some of our residents like gorillas and siamangs to experience.”
“Penguins love to venture outdoors for a taste of their native waddling grounds, while otters think ice is nice and frolic in their pools with frosty treats.”
“Most of our animals are innately curious and enjoy investigating the foreign weather phenomena.”
Gun owners: here's what the feds — remember that's what we used to call them, The Feds — are telling you, plain as day: if legally exercising your 2nd Amendment rights scares a masked federal agent, they get to murder you belly down, dead in the street even if you're disarmed. 5/
Schrödinger’s Second Amendment:
- Guns are a mandatory prerequisite for the government to respect your rights.
- Guns immediately invalidate your rights and the government can execute you on the spot if you have one.
“Cleaning up a room can say, 'I love you'
Hanging up a coat before you're asked to do it
Drawing special pictures for the holidays
And making plays
You'll find many ways to say, 'I love you'”