I have some bad news
The CO teacher who was fired for allegedly forcing girls to make out in class got a new job as an elementary school teacher in Malley Drive Elementary School in @Adams12.
You can contact superintendent Chris Gdowski here: 720-972-4000
In a recent interview, Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, former grand chancellor of the John Paul II Institute on Marriage and Family Life, confirmed the worst suspicions that many of us had.
He admitted that the changes he made at the Institute during the Pope Francis years were designed to initiate a "very profound" reform of the idea of the natural law.
Instead of absolute moral norms grounded in a keen understanding of the basic goods, he and his colleagues were proposing a moral theory rooted in historical discernment of subjective and cultural experience--not an "armchair theology" but one operating "within history and within people's lives."
This, of course, is the language of trendy postmodernism, and it is dangerous indeed.
Allow me to illustrate the principle with one example. Is slavery wrong?
Intrinsically wrong? Wrong no matter what public opinion polls say about it, no matter what the current consensus on it might be? I imagine any decent person would say yes.
But that yes is predicated upon precisely what the tradition calls the natural law and the basic goods. There are some values so fundamental that acts repugnant to them are by their very nature wicked.
If you want a highly articulate presentation of this idea, go to St. John Paul II's Veritatis Splendor.
If we say that this is just "armchair theologizing" and that morality is a function of ever-shifting cultural and experiential data, then why couldn't slavery be justified?
One of the very smartest persons that ever lived, the philosopher Aristotle, thought it was; extremely bright and morally upright persons in our country, well into the 19th century, thought it was permissible.
Who is to say whether the consensus might shift back again? Who is to say that "lived experience" might come to justify it?
What any truly coherent moral program requires is the very thing that Archbishop Paglia and his colleagues were endeavoring to eliminate, namely, absolute moral norms.
Ridding ourselves of these in the name of freedom or pastoral sensitivity actually renders moral discourse dysfunctional, just as relativizing the basic principle of logic would render any rational conversation impossible.
The Archbishop's interview, frankly, reminded me of the discussions I had at the Synod on Synodality with some of my German colleagues. Under the rubric of the development of doctrine, they were eager to relativize or radically change the principles undergirding classical morality. If this was and is truly the game, we have ventured onto perilous seas.
Link to the article below.
The Daily Caller seemed to like my ability to fight at City Council, they seemed to like our Flag Waves as well 🥰, I wonder how much GOP press Philly was getting before Flip Philly Red came around 🤔?
@AllanteMcAuley That’s where they most need the America 1st agenda! God bless you for bringing them the opportunity to learn about the prosperity within their grasp.
We are done if a Democrat ever steps foot in the White House again. Biden/Harris ripped open our precious borders and we have barely BEGUN to recover. Another Democrat in power will be the death knell of America.
Reporter: "Leader Thune says it's unrealistic to get the SAVE America Act passed…?"
Vance: "Why don‘t we try? At least force people to vote against it... let people go on the record and actually answer to the American people."
Fire John Thune!
Jillian Michaels on Gavin Newsom: "I don't know how this is legal — but he essentially gives these NGOs millions of dollars and then they donate back to his campaign. And it is so dirty and so corrupt."
Here’s the thing I want to make exceptionally clear:
We know democrats aren’t going to vote with us or ensure that only Americans are voting in our elections.
It’s an act of betrayal when members of the Republican Party won’t vote for the legislation we elected them to enact.
#metoo
What kind-of journalist ignores the Rape Gang Report? The type that has become a political operative and/or a co-conspirator in treason & sedition.
Let me break it down in a simple way that I’ve been reporting from the beginning.
To invent a vaccine for a disease that didn’t exist, our scientific Einsteins used taxpayer money to partner with communist China to create the dangerous virus in a lab—So that they could create a vaccine for it.
Covid was a result of primarily US funded vaccine research, and that’s the thing they could not let you know.
They stopped at nothing to obfuscate, misdirect, cover their tracks, protect themselves, and controversialize anyone telling the truth.
The scientific establishment and media aided and abetted.
I can think of no more impactful, crimes and violations that have occurred in our lifetime.