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English Catholic. Thomist. Recusant enjoyer.

[AC 🇻🇦 @umbratilem]

BIG NEWS:

CORNELIUS À LAPIDE, S.J. COMPLETELY TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH (AND OTHER LANGUAGES)

https://t.co/guVX1PkNEf

[AC 🇻🇦 @umbratilem]

@jesuitpatriot Which catechism would he have in mind? Roman, Pian, etc?

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@HesiCatholic Welcome back brudda

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@IteAdMariam No I'm not saying anything about whether it would look different, as St. Thomas teaches: 'the details of the text admit of either interpretation' (ex De potentis) - we have liberty here, both readings are drawn from possible literal senses of the text

[AC 🇻🇦 @umbratilem]

NEW POST: Cardinal Noris VINDICATES St. Augustine on his reading of Genesis https://t.co/JHSMkRpx0G

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@IteAdMariam You would refer back to what he says about a day referring to a different order in angelic knowledge - but also, this reading can be held by catholics who accept a qualified model of evolution (w/o denying any of the articles of faith that all must believe ofc)

[AC 🇻🇦 @umbratilem]

@IteAdMariam E.g. the celestial objects come after the earth, and even vegetation, because that's when they begin not to exist in and of themselves, but when they begin to exist as 'signs and for seasons, and for days and years'.

[AC 🇻🇦 @umbratilem]

@IteAdMariam For St. Augustine the six days are not six periods of time, but rather six orders in the order of angelic knowledge of material things. Angelic knowledge proceeds from the more simple to the more complex, and so the description of creation is simply ordered this way.

[AC 🇻🇦 @umbratilem]

We love St. Augustine

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they aren't sending their best

[Raymond Arroyo @RaymondArroyo]

“Sin is only mentioned three times in this document…. How is this a Church document?” @RobertSRoyal @GeraldMurray8 and I analyze Pope Leo’s new encyclical. See the full episode here: https://t.co/GETfYTuSKU

[Fr. Paolo D'Angona @RomanoSace57080]

"We cannot underestimate the fact that (...) the crisis of faith (...) has given rise to widespread religious indifference. (...) It is certainly not by watering down the content or softening the demands that Christianity can be made attractive (...)." (Pope Leo XIV, May 28 2026)

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@_bonaventurian Everyone has that one book which is a continual cause of unction

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@Thomisticae We love Capreolus

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@WesleyHoratio He said he condemns it in the sense in which Leo XIII condemned it, this is a nothing burger

[𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘶𝘴 @_bonaventurian]

Love ought to be warm if not wholly enflamed, for God. Hence why being mechanistic in prayer is so unwittingly egregious. Being unfocused and only praying, attending mass, receiving the sacraments by "going through the motions" of regular habit is tepid. Cold. Limp and loveless.

[AC 🇻🇦 @umbratilem]

Excerpts from a letter of St. Robert Southwell SJ to Claudio Acquaviva on the state of the English mission

[Catholic Sat @CatholicSat]

Pope Leo XIV doing the 6 7 at every opportunity he can is sending me 😂

[AC 🇻🇦 @umbratilem]

I am always struck by this part of blessed Job mystically prefiguring the suffering of the Messiah; the fathers also comment on this

[AC 🇻🇦 @umbratilem]

Reject the self-help slop.

Embrace the lives of the saints.

[ThinkingWest @thinkingwest]

Reject the self-help slop.

Embrace the Great Man biography.

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@kalebRetvrn it be like that

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@dissolution1806 this is impious