I think one of the main reasons why some Catholics are shocked by the SSPX excommunications is because in our current day, ecclesial punishment seems to go only one way. Yes, the consecrations against papal approval were a schismatic act, and the punishment is deserved.
But this upcoming Sunday, you could essentially attend a “Pride Mass” (like this one pictured below, from last Sunday) and not face any penalties. You can advocate for women’s ordination, publicly dissent from Catholic teaching on contraception (see Fordham University’s president), or be a pro-abortion politician (Biden)—and you remain in “full communion”.
I’ll leave it to the canon lawyers to figure out legal minutiae. But the fact is, on the ground, faithful Catholics see a ridiculous double standard. You can “bless” a same-sex partnership during Mass (pictured below, at London’s Holy Apostles Church), and remain a priest in good standing. You can doubt the existence of Satan (see the Superior General of the Jesuits), and publicly dissent against revealed truths, and still not be excommunicated.
This isn’t “whataboutism”. This is an attempt to examine the basic principles by which the Church condemns dissent and rebellion. If those principles aren’t applied evenly and consistently, don’t expect the Catholic faithful to trust the Church’s leadership on crime and punishment.
The fact that Tim Walz's Minnesota will pardon a child rapist to make sure he can stay in America deserves to be a national issue for the Democrats.
Voters should be told, very bluntly, that Democrats actively want criminal rapists in America and will change laws, grant pardons, and implement a two-tier system of justice to make it happen.
"More child rapists." That's is the Democrat immigration policy.
With the Supreme Court upholding the principle that a pregnant Nicaraguan can illegally cross the border, have a baby in El Paso, and that child is legally considered just as American as you or me, the only viable option left to us is to completely close our borders and end all immigration to the United States.
>Stop issuing visas to Chinese spies to fly to America, give birth to paperwork Americans, and then fly them back home to be indoctrinated by the CCP into becoming Manchurian candidates.
>Stop granting asylum or refugee claims (which Trump is already thankfully doing).
>Stop letting companies mass import H-1Bs from India.
>Stop allowing any pregnant women from entering the country at all.
>Ban all immigration from Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, and Latin America.
>Double ICE’s budget. Then double it again.
>Quadruple the number of ICE agents and do not allow for any sob stories from illegals or insane cases of main character syndrome from mentally ill libtards to derail the mission of deporting every single illegal from the country.
We have to do all of this because the Supreme Court has closed off the only other normal path to us having a country. There’s no alternative. If the entire world can become an American by virtue of simply setting foot on American soil and having a baby, then we have to physically prevent the entire world from ever being able to set foot on American soil ever again, at least until this ruling gets overturned.
Official transcript from the US Senate on May 30, 1866. Senator Jacob Howard, who introduced the 14th Amendment:
"This will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens...”
SCOTUS got this ruling 100% wrong. A total travesty.
This is the problem with making (publicly professed) “social conservatism” your axis for evaluating political figures. People see le epic feminist meltdown and assume that she must be over the target, which makes sense given that feminists are famously selective about what they react hysterically to.
So, she is BASED because she possesses an opinion — one opinion exactly, yes — that makes feminists mad. Therefore we put on her on the Supreme Court, and “intellectual” DC-types celebrate this.
While these people suffer from some kind of mythological curse that damns them to spend their lives walking into walls, this time the damage is more significant.
I’m shocked that a woman who decided to adopt two children from Haiti to raise as her own may not have the most accurate understanding of what it actually means to be a part of something.
Why yes, you are my child because the paper says so. Why yes, you’re an American too, because the paper says so.
You’ll notice this profile with people who go out of their way to adopt children from third world countries (plenty of American kids in need of homes btw). They do it almost to like prove something to themselves about the universal nature of mankind. That if the socioeconomic factors can be corrected, we can have our own little Haitian Thomas Jefferson running around!
We give Pro Life, Inc. Amy Coney Barrett, we overturn Roe, the results are:
- literally no significant change in “hearts & minds” (look at polling for past several decades)
- literally no significant change in abortion stats
- immediate declaration of war against Trump by Pro Life, Inc. because he refuses to endorse positions that they literally never supported
- significantly more difficult to restore the sovereignty of the American voter, which will only further embolden an increasingly radical left which is enabled precisely by the importation of foreigners who will bloc vote for them always
The handsome speaking fees you collect from waxing poetic about “creating a culture of life” will insulate you from the consequences of your actions. Native Americans will not be so fortunate. I basically hate you.
This is the next frontier of feminism, and men aren’t paying attention.
Marriage laws for unmarried couples are being implemented across the western world — from Washington state, to Canada, to Australia, to the UK.
Imagine being turned down for a mortgage because the bank claims your income isn't reliable enough to cover the next 20 years.
Then you discover that the same institution approved 35 year mortgages for applicants whose legal right to remain in the country was set to expire within 18 months.
You don't have to agree with every lending decision to wonder whether the standards are being applied consistently.
@M_P_Hazell In this chart, the right column is the Novus Ordo version, the middle column is the version before that, the red parts are unchanged, and the blue parts are the changes, correct? How is the left column related to these?
@USCCB These people were let into the country against the will of native Americans. We had no say in it, there was no vote on it. This was a betrayal of our dignity and an injustice. You had nothing to say about that, so don’t be surprised you’re being ignored now
What a fucking photo.
Hung Cao’s family fled the Vietnamese communists as refugees.
He returns to meet with the Vietnamese communists as emissary of the most powerful empire in world history, acting Secretary of the United States Navy.
It’s like a biblical story. Joseph’s brothers sell him into slavery and he returns to them as the powerful representative of the Pharaoh
Amazing
Exactly what I said: as SCOTUS ruled, even if the Secretary violates the law and does not go through the process required by Congress, there is nothing a court can do.
It also means a Dem president could illegally grant TPS and courts would be powerless.
https://t.co/HTPu82g1J5
Haitians first received TPS for an earthquake that happened over 15 years ago.
Syrians first received TPS for a war that is now over.
America is not their permanent hotel.
Temporary means Temporary.