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[Simon Godwin @lastenglishking]

@BruvverEccles "But at last came a King who had greed in his eyes. And he lusted for treasure with fraud and with lies."

Anglicans even sing about him in Walsingham!

[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

The tragic case of the young Cambridge professor, Jason Arday, has shed new light on the moral vacuity at the heart of Wokeism.

If I can state the matter abstractly, one should never place relative values in the center of one’s ethical concern. Only absolute goods belong in that location.

Diversity, equity, and inclusion are values, but only, as the medievals would have said, secundum quid and not in se. That means they are worthwhile sometimes and under certain conditions, but not in themselves.

In contrast, love and justice are absolute moral principles, for they are always applicable, no matter the circumstances.

Wokeism relativized justice (rendering to each his due) and love (willing the true good of the other) and absolutized diversity, equity, and inclusion. The result is the moral shipwreck that we have been witnessing the last ten years.

What makes things even sadder is that lots of people have been profiting off of this moral confusion.

[Colm Flynn @colmflynnire]

You’ve got to admit it, Ann Widdecombe was one of a kind. Rest in peace, Ann.

[Luke Coppen @LukeCoppen]

May Ann rest in peace. It was a privilege to once edit her columns.

Despite her formidable reputation, she was a joy to work with. She was also unexpectedly and touchingly supportive at difficult moments.

https://t.co/WxsFvROdab

[Jacob Rees-Mogg @Jacob_Rees_Mogg]

Of your mercy please pray for the soul of Ann Widdecombe.

[M B Patey @mbpatey]

@WalkingHymnal Hit the nail on the head.

[𝐎𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐭𝐑𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐞 @opolot_ronnie]

Jürgen Klopp just said his FAITH in Jesus matters more than trophies… and some people still won’t get it🙏🫡

[Tom Wright @profntwright]

For seven years I was College Chaplain and Worcester College, Oxford. Each year I used to see the first year undergraduates individually for a few minutes, to welcome them to the college and make a first acquaintance. Most were happy to meet me; but many commented, often with slight embarrassment, “You won’t be seeing much of me; you see, I don’t believe in god.”

I developed stock response: “Oh, that’s interesting; which god is it you don’t believe in?” This used to surprise them; they mostly regarded the word “God” as a univocal, always meaning the same thing. So they would stumble out a few phrases about the god they said they did not believe in: a being who lived up the in the sky, looking down disapprovingly at the world, occasionally “intervening” to do miracles, sending bad people to hell while allowing good people to share his heaven. Again, I had a stock response for this very common statement of “spy-in-the-sky” theology: “Well, I’m not surprised you don’t believe in that god. I don’t believe in that god either.”

https://t.co/ZbFBwjYu0b

[Archbishop Sample @ArchbishpSample]

In recent weeks, during the holiest season of the Christian calendar, I have been deeply concerned by the rhetoric of President Trump. His remarks during Holy Week and Easter fall short of the standard one would expect from both his office and his professed Christian faith. 

His threat to eradicate an entire civilization goes beyond what can be considered just or morally acceptable in war. 

Likewise, his criticism of Pope Leo, whom he has disparaged as “weak” and “very liberal,” is misguided. The Holy Father’s call for peace, dialogue, and conversion of heart in the face of war arises not from partisanship or political bias, but from his Christian identity and mission as Supreme Pastor of Christ’s Church on earth. 

The Church’s mission is to preach the Good News of her divine founder, Jesus Christ, proclaiming peace, truth, and the dignity of every human person. 

“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.” (Matthew 5:9)

[Father V @father_rmv]

“In the old liturgy for Palm Sunday, the priest, arriving in front of the church, would knock loudly with the shaft of the processional cross on the door that was still closed; thereupon, it would be opened. This was a beautiful image of the mystery of Jesus Christ Himself Who, with the wood of His Cross, with the power of His love that is given, knocked from the side of the world at God's door; on the side of a world that was not able to find access to God. With His Cross, Jesus opened God's door, the door between God and men. Now it is open." (Homily of Benedict XVI, Palm Sunday, 2007)

[Robbert Leusink 🇳🇱 @robbertleusink]

Every musician alive learned from a Catholic monk

Guido of Arezzo invented the musical staff, the clef, and Do Re Mi in the 11th century to help his singers memorize Gregorian chants

The syllables came from a Latin hymn to St. John the Baptist:

Bach, Beethoven, Mozart,The Beatles... All of them wrote in a language invented by this monk

[M B Patey @mbpatey]

@CanonRobinWard Delighted to hear this news having followed you on here for years. A warm welcome from Somerset.

[John Aburn @MrJohnAburn]

Lots of mighty fine music for the Installation ceremonies next weekend. The live-streams will definitely be worth tuning into just for the music, though of course, the liturgy itself will be sublime.

[Vick @vickagarf]

Remembering The elegance, the education, and the sweetness of then-Cardinal Prevost in the face of the insistent and unconsciously "surgical" reporter, just days before he became Leo XIV, I believe this video will be eternally remembered by all of us.
#PapaLeãoXIV #PopLeoXIV

[M B Patey @mbpatey]

@FrDavidPalmer I liked this line: it would be an arrogance of the West to say that our ideas of progress are the unique ones.

[Weekday Jokes @weekdayjokes]

My biggest pet peeves:

1. Complainers
2. Lists
3. Irony
D) Inconsistency
5. Repetition
6. Repetition

[David Lindsay @david_lindsay77]

It will be illegal to boil a lobster alive, but legal to abort a child at nine months' gestation, or to assist the suicide of her mother. No one is to be allowed social media until the new voting age of 16, two years below the school leaving age that will soon be the age of conscription, but there is to be no minimum age for experimental puberty blockers the adverse effects of which had already caused them to be banned in sheep. @georgegalloway https://t.co/HpsgAAKi1K

[M B Patey @mbpatey]

I was assistant priest here 2012-14

[Fr. Evaristus Bassey @FrEvaristus]

For the first time in my life I attended a Latin Tridentine High Mass, at St. Joseph’s Bedford, UK, a week ago. It is a great heritage of the Church.
I would also say that Vatican ll has done a lot in terms of popular participation in the Liturgy.

[Fr. Evaristus Bassey @FrEvaristus]

For the first time in my life I attended a Latin Tridentine High Mass, at St. Joseph’s Bedford, UK, a week ago. It is a great heritage of the Church.
I would also say that Vatican ll has done a lot in terms of popular participation in the Liturgy.