Nicolas McAfee

Assistant Professor | Department of Political Science and Economics | @ChristendomVA

Politics of Shakespeare and Thomas More

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Every day, one stumbles upon new examples of the commonsense yet commonly-forgotten wisdom: rulers and ruled must know each other, or there will be hell to pay. An ongoing thread:

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@younan3000 I'd be curious how Chaldean local church governance, past or present, has dealt with the question of pastoral stability/priest rotations.

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Church history / canon law friends: is it true as a historical matter that the Catholic Church in America opted into widespread, frequent rotation of parish priests after the 1983/84 promulgation of Complementary Norms to Canon 522 on pastoral stability?

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The common arguments used to justify this recent (?) norm (e.g., cult of personality, being stuck with sub-par priests) seem increasingly shaky the more I think about them. So it would be good to know more of the historical context as to why the US bishops approved the change.

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@johnhboyer Don't look now, John, but whether AI can be used for good now entirely rests on the outcome of your work.

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@suzania Somehow, my anti-imperial, less-than-cosmopolitan political outlook sits in my heart alongside a simple pietas towards the Los Angeles Lakers. The duality of man!

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@suzania @suzania patriot-poasting is a wholesome genre on The Hellsite.

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@TheodoreMadrid1 @Hillsdale Congratulations! 🍻

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@polanskydj @PhilipDBunn I'm fairly confident that, in our lifetimes, a number of distinct and currently unrecognized political peoples will be discovered and forged within the American context.

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@EamonnClark @chesscom When I was growing up, I had some legendary chess battles with my dad that ended with us capturing each other's king 😂

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"You have only one moment, and it is a most beautiful moment: the present moment. Live it completely in the love of God. And if you build up your life like a crystal from a million such sparkling moments, what a beautiful life it will be! Do you not see how easy it is? It is not so difficult!" Ven. Francis-Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan

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@MichaelPBarber Congratulations!

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@LucastaHonoria

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@CatholicSmark Ad multos annos! 🙏🍻

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@ByzCat Is it simply speaking too late? There seems to be plenty of mission territory 🤔

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@paul_jkrause 🎵 "He had it comin', he had it comin' /
He only had himself to blame" 🎵

[John Ehrett @johnehrett]

no thanks, I have book tidying simulator at home

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@CatholicSmark St. Thomas More did this!

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@EricRSammons

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@zslayback Ben Franklin in an astronaut suit: "Always has been"

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@emlwaters Only that's not his reflection, it's him quoting Claude at length 💀