Phillip W. DeVous

[Phillip W. DeVous @PDevous]

Mr. Hanania doesn’t possess the requisite self-knowledge to understand he’d be closely scrutinized as a potential candidate for eugenic elimination. Trolling or whatever his post is…what a dreadful human being.

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

A beautiful girl with an extra chromosome.

It’s kind of like having bangs or dimples.

Just a cute little accessory that adds character to a person.

[Phillip W. DeVous @PDevous]

The Catholic Church has a 2,000 yr old intellectual tradition that has thought through all these matters with nuance & deep insight. This is a child’s cartoonish understanding of a deep principle.

[Wilfred Reilly @wil_da_beast630]

Genuinely believing that "all life" is sacred would require supporting total bans on abortion, abortion pills, Plan B, IVF, fertility clinics, mercy care for coma patients, the death penalty, and probably hunting and war.

A free citizen is entitled to this position, but perhaps 2% of people actually hold it.

[Fr. Thomas Petri OP @PetriOP]

This business about kneeling for Holy Communion was settled long ago. In fact, the USCCB was subtly corrected on the matter in the publication of the 2010 American translation of the 2000 edition of the Missale Romanum. Here's what happened...

In 2000, the third edition of the Missale Romanum was promulgated by St. John Paul II, which included a revised General Instruction of the Roman Missal (i.e., the GIRM). Every episcopal conference could then make adaptations proper to their own bishops' dioceses as long as the Holy See approved those modifications.

In 2002, therefore, this revised General Instruction of the Roman Missal was issued for the United States with the approved adaptations for the United States.

Paragraph 160 of that 2002 US GIRM said: "The norm for reception of Holy Communion in the dioceses of the United States is standing. Communicants should not be denied Holy Communion because they kneel. Rather, such instances should be addressed pastorally, by
providing the faithful with proper catechesis on the reasons for this norm."

Communicants couldn't be denied Holy Communion for kneeling, but they should be "addressed pastorally." Keep in mind, we were still using the 1972 translation of Mass found in what was called then the Sacramentary.

In 2004, the then-Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments at the Holy See issued an all-encompassing document addressing deficiencies and abuses regarding the Most Holy Sacrament called Redemptionis Sacramentum.

In paragraph 90 of that document, the Holy See affirmed: "'The faithful should receive Communion kneeling or standing, as the Conference of Bishops will have determined', with its acts having received the recognitio of the Apostolic See. 'However, if they receive Communion standing, it is recommended that they give due reverence before the reception of the Sacrament, as set forth in the same norms.'"

Note the Holy See's insistence here on the norm that any determination by an episcopal conference on these matters must have the approval (the recognitio) of Holy See.

The following paragraph (91) says this: "In distributing Holy Communion it is to be remembered that 'sacred ministers may not deny the sacraments to those who seek them in a reasonable manner, are rightly disposed, and are not prohibited by law from receiving them'. Hence any baptized Catholic who is not prevented by law must be admitted to Holy Communion. Therefore, it is not licit to deny Holy Communion to any of Christ’s faithful solely on the grounds, for example, that the person wishes to receive the Eucharist kneeling or standing."

Fast forward to 2010 after the US Bishops approved an English translation for the 2000 Missale Romanum, it's sent to Rome to be approved, but NOT WITHOUT a change in the US GIRM at paragraph 160--a change that wasn't reported at the time as being requested by the USCCB. In other words, it's a change that the Holy See simply made on its own authority.

Unlike the 2002 US GIRM at 160, the 2010 and CURRENT US GIRM at 160 doesn't mention any pastoral issue needing to be addressed about the faithful kneeling to receive Holy Communion. Presumably, this is because the Holy See doesn't think it is a pastoral issue.

The 2010 US GIRM, approved by the Holy See and changed from the 2002 version by the authority and initiative of the Holy See, now says:

"It is not permitted for the faithful to take the consecrated Bread or the sacred chalice by themselves and, still less, to hand them on from one to another among themselves. The norm established for the Dioceses of the United States of America is that Holy Communion is to be received standing, unless an individual member of the faithful wishes to receive Communion while kneeling" (and cites Redemptionis Sacramentum, paragraph 91).

Thus, in 2010, the Holy See changed the US GIRM specifically to remove any sense of kneeling being a pastoral issue. Yes, standing is the norm in the United States, UNLESS a member of the faithful wishes to receive Holy Communion while kneeling.

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[Phillip W. DeVous @PDevous]

The task of a proper civilization is to preserve the populace from becoming possessed by self-extinguishing propositions. When the apparatuses of the civilization itself become the agent of such possession, it’s over.

[Phillip W. DeVous @PDevous]

Ah yes, the “conservative” who conserves nothing but a bias for self-extinguishing propositions. Their name is legion.

[Wilfred Reilly @wil_da_beast630]

With no further comment whatsoever, an awkward reality for the Right is that the 5-6 groups most likely to get abortions include.

(1) Lower income/"ghetto" Black single mothers

(2) Feminist "white blue hair" student types

(3) Legal and illegal recent immigrants (!!)

(4) Parents of profoundly crippled kids

The basic Christo-bro take is: "Force every one of those BEAUTIFUL BABIES to be born!!!"

And deen what?

[Phillip W. DeVous @PDevous]

@stephengadubato It never occurred to me I was under any obligation to simply agree with a piece presented for public discussion.

[Phillip W. DeVous @PDevous]

This is one of those “get off my lawn” genre essays. Everyone starts from a place of deficiency & lack. But certain folks like to micturate on others from on high & call it wisdom or sophistication. Tiresome.

[Stephen G. Adubato @stephengadubato]

Faith, for many zoomer converts, does little to resolve the waning competence and agency that plagues their generation. And despite posturing as “countercultural,” does little to concretely challenge the status quo.

I’m in @compactmag

[Phillip W. DeVous @PDevous]

@stephengadubato #metoo

[Phillip W. DeVous @PDevous]

@stephengadubato You play the game, you take the hits. And you like playing the game, throwing the punch. Fair enough. But don’t whine or try to play your imaginary high ground or safe place when someone notices & calls it.

[Phillip W. DeVous @PDevous]

Or, he’s a bullshit artist. There’s always more than one explanation.

[Stephen G. Adubato @stephengadubato]

a lot of you people have yet to realize that i say controversial things not so much because i whole-heartedly believe them, but because I am trying to provoke you to think more deeply about the things you take for granted to be true.
And for this, you should thank me.

[Phillip W. DeVous @PDevous]

@stephengadubato I read just fine. You ended the piece like someone who insults someone who then says, “hey buddy, just joking.” You’ve got a pattern in your pieces. I call bullshit.

[Phillip W. DeVous @PDevous]

This is part of that genre of those “everyone younger than me is bad because I’m &
older & sophisticated” articles. Tiresome & uncharitable. Everyone starts from a deficient somewhere. Mentor the young, not piss on them for not being you.

[john milbank @johnmilbank3]

Gen Z’s Incompetent Converts https://t.co/DFIYcw8f4r

[Phillip W. DeVous @PDevous]

@johnmilbank3 @compactmag This is part of that genre of those “everyone younger than me is bad because I’m &
older & sophisticated” articles. Tiresome & uncharitable. Everyone starts from a deficient somewhere. Mentor the young, not piss on them for not being you.

[Phillip W. DeVous @PDevous]

A great many older priests project they are bitter old men resentful of the youth, conviction, & zeal of younger priests. This is a scandal. The antithesis of being a father. A good father wants to see his sons & other young fathers be better than him in every way!!!

[Phillip W. DeVous @PDevous]

@father_rmv Do you think we could let the new guys just be for a day or two & withhold any “reservations” for a bit, so they could enjoy the moment? This relentless desire on the older to constantly throw cold water on the enthusiasm & idealism of the younger is unnecessary.

[Phillip W. DeVous @PDevous]

One is tempted to recall what happened the last time Germany went sex crazy… #weimar

[Aaron M. Renn 🇺🇸 @aaron_renn]

"In Germany, sex tourism has boomed with an estimated one million men buying sex each day, coming from all over the world as sex tourists, a 30% increase in the market. Berlin now has over 500 brothels."

[Phillip W. DeVous @PDevous]

https://t.co/4NCHTbjazP

[Phillip W. DeVous @PDevous]

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[Phillip W. DeVous @PDevous]

This guy has a problem. I suspect he defines “weird ultra-religious beliefs about sex” as anything that would call into question the unconstrained exercise of the libido.

[Wilfred Reilly @wil_da_beast630]

I don't really care about honorable but - to me - weird ultra-religious beliefs about sex...but watching porn is obviously more akin to reading the dirtiest romance novels or using a toy than to actual sex with actual people.

Porn videos aren't potentially giving you STDs or feelings, saving your number for late night calls, or even doing totally normal but awkward-with-a-new-love stuff like finishing on your face. The videos are just the "Morning Glory Milking Farm" of male entertainment.

[Phillip W. DeVous @PDevous]

@johnamonaco Some of them seem to think such decline is a work of the Holy Spirit.

[Phillip W. DeVous @PDevous]

All the answers I can come up with as to why every Bishop of a diocese where priestly vocations are in decline WOULDN’T look to Wichita for inspiration are dispiriting to ponder.

[John A. Monaco @johnamonaco]

The Diocese of Wichita is doing something right.

They have a 195% priest replacement rate (meaning the diocese has nearly double the number of seminarians needed to replace retiring or deceased priests).

The vast majority of seminarians come from homeschool or parochial schools. The diocesan Catholic schools are authentically Catholic.

Adoration chapels across the entire diocese. Praying for vocations is part of every parish’s culture.

Weekly Mass attendance is through the roof. Liturgies are reverent and embrace tradition.

If I’m a Catholic bishop, I’m looking at this diocese and taking notes. The blueprint for Catholic renewal in the USA is in Kansas.