Will Grannis

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Notre Dame '25, Honors Math/Theology. Chicago Quant

[Richard Nixon Foundation @nixonfoundation]

America is great because her people are great!

[Richard Nixon Foundation @nixonfoundation]

It's Nixon.

[Jarvis @jarvis_best]

One of the weirdest legal "quirks" in Maine is that formal communications with the Secretary of State are not considered valid unless they contain "F*ck ICE. Free Palestine. Up the Hearts." No one knows what the last thing even means but the law has been on the books since 1804.

[Cranky Federalist @CrankyFed]

"So just like that, you're getting a divorce, George?"

"It's not a divorce, Jerry. It's an annulment!"

"Oh, like there's a difference."

"It's a very big difference!"

"Are you at least checking with the Pope?"

"He hath no jurisdiction, Jerry!"

[Will Grannis @WillGrannis]

@DolphinMossad If you make a valid confession of your sins, meaning that you have earnestly repented of your actions, then yes

[Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47]

.@POTUS welcomes U.S. Army Major Kyle Key, descendant of Francis Scott Key, onto the stage for his Independence Day remarks on the National Mall, where Major Key salutes the homemade American flag discovered in Nazi-occupied Belgium. 🇺🇸

[Blood Memory @AnemoiaAmerica]

America was saved in Brooklyn by the Maryland 400, who martyred themselves to save our Nation. Most had never seen combat, yet held the British off until the retreat. Almost all were captured or died.

Washington famously said “Good God! What brave fellows I must this day lose!”

[The Fat Electrician @Fat_Electrician]

250 years, and your empire has been reduced to a single island the size of Michigan, with a GDP barely higher than Mississippi, the poorest of our fifty states.

Enjoy your warm beer in that unairconditioned old pub.

Don’t talk too much shit online though, you might get arrested.

[Fr. Herman ❤️‍🔥 @hmkherman]

Without denying the gravity of these and various other examples of dissent from the Magisterium, especially when expressed publicly, and without claiming that Rome is always rigorously consistent in its discipline, I don’t really think the contrast you’re making constitutes a double standard of discipline.

Unless I’m mistaken, none of the dissenters you refer to have ever come close to stating the likes of what was expressed yesterday at Écône, that «from the Second Vatican Council up to the present day, the authorities in the Church have been animated by a spirit that is contrary to that of the Faith, and have been acting against holy Tradition – “they will no longer endure sound doctrine, turning away their hearing from the truth, and turning towards fables,” as St. Paul says to Timothy in his second epistle.» (I would note in passing that, as expressed, this statement condemns not only the more inclusive/progressive postures of Pope Francis but also the staunch moral conservatism of Paul VI, John Paul II, and Benedict.)

But even more outrageous were the comments, in a liturgical sermon, of one of the newly-ordained bishops, Michael Goldade: “If the Catholic Church in her Tradition brings forth life, the modernist church is a desert. It kills everything that it touches. It kills the supernatural life. It kills the sources of grace. It dries up everything, because it has placed man in the place of God, and therefore turned away from the sources of life.”

He said this with a miter on his head and a crozier in his hand.

I am not myself aware of any progressive-leaning dissenter who has said anything like that, who’s claimed that the Church currently led by Pope Leo doesn’t just teach error on this or that particular topic but is itself a bringer of death, not life, is stopping up the sources of grace and worshipping not God but man.

If any of them really did believe this, and were willing to declare this belief in such a solemn, sweeping manner, they would likely … just leave the Catholic Church. Which is precisely what the SSPX did yesterday. The latae sententiae excommunications simply acknowledge the reality that already manifestly exists.

And yet often such progressive dissenters do not leave—not even during the most heavy-handed and, some might say, inquisitorial years of the Ratzinger CDF. Why not? Is it because they’re conniving infiltrators seeking to make the Church rot from the inside? That may sometimes be the case. But a more charitable reading is that in spite of their dissent, they recognize that unity is life-giving, not death-giving; that unity with the One Church is ultimately the surest safeguard against the precise idolatry the SSPX accuses Holy Church of now promoting. And perhaps that’s because they realize that it’s actually spiritually good to be around people whom they disagree with.

And even in the worst case, in which dissent stems not from good-faith disagreement arrived at after years of theological study and spiritual discernment (though I recognize that some will deny that’s even possible) but instead from wicked cravenness or a seared conscience (I’m thinking here especially of pro-abortion Catholic politicians), even there, has someone like Biden or Pelosi, with all their money and influence, ever spent over 55 years assiduously assembling a parallel presbyterate, a parallel hierarchy, a parallel network of churches around the world, all in express and repeated defiance of both the local diocesan bishop and the Pope, all while publicly rejecting an entire Ecumenical Council—and all while claiming to still believe in the Papacy and its current incumbent?

If any of these dissenters were to try developing something on such a grand scale … assembling hundreds of priests who celebrate sacraments without the blessing of the local bishop, teaching hundreds of thousands of lay people that the Church has apostatized … but not for trad reasons but instead in order to promote contraception, gay marriage, abortion, denial of the devil’s existence, etc., I very much doubt the Holy See would tolerate their parallel church structures growing around the world for anywhere near the 55 years in which it’s not only tolerated but repeatedly reached out to and pleaded with the SSPX—as detailed in the article I tweeted a long passage from this morning.

So it seem to me that for some time, when dealing with dissenters on both the right and the left, the default Vatican approach has been what Isaiah foretold of Christ: “A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench.” But there comes a point where patience is of no more use, and then it’s on to the rest of the verse: “—till he send forth judgment unto victory” (Matt. 12:20, Isa. 42:3).

But of course, the heavy task of discerning exactly when that point has come rests on the shoulders of the one who succeeds St. Peter in holding the keys. May the Lord preserve him and keep him alive, that he may be blessed upon earth, and deliver him not into the hands of his enemies.

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

Why is it ‘cancelled’ in the U.K. but ‘canceled’ in the U.S.?

Because we gave them that L in 1776.

[Candida Moss @candidamoss]

An Augustinian Pope v. Schismatic rigorist catholics ordaining their own bishops? Feels like the Donatist Schism all over again.

[mugjudge @mugjudge]

We achieved every possible interpretation in one fell swoop

[Joe @not_so_gratian]

Teens in SSPX homes be like “I snuck out last night to be with friends because this family is in a state of crisis. We kids do not have access to the recreation we need to thrive. While not denying in anyway your parental authority, your efforts to ground me are null and void…”

[Mike Fragoso @mike_frags]

“Here’s the play, Amy. I’m gonna recommend you to Trump and you’re going to get rid of Roe, get rid of Chevron, keep Trump on the ballot, give him immunity, eliminate affirmative action, eliminate NY’s gun laws, get rid of majority-minority districts, let Trump get rid of TPS but keep metering, protect girls’ sports, get rid of independent agencies, and get rid of Lemon. But when it comes time to let states count ballots after Election Day, that’s when you’ll strike with a narrow opinion deferring to Congress. Got it? We play the long game in Kentucky.”

[Will Grannis @WillGrannis]

Its like fans who, seeing on the Jumbotron slow-mo that the ruling on the field will and should stand, start complaining about the referees before they’ve made their call.

[Will Grannis @WillGrannis]

I find the “We already know we’re going to lose at SCOTUS on birthright citizenship” comments by those who want to delegitimize it from the right fascinating.

[Cernovich @Cernovich]

We already know how the birthright decision is going to go. Accept it now or else this week will be gutting for you.

[𝙲𝚘𝚠 𝙶𝚒𝚛𝚕 𝙺𝚒𝚜𝚜𝚎𝚛 @CowGirlKisser]

"Before I go can I please go crazy on the weather machine you lent us?"
"Yeah, go ahead little buddy. Since you said please you can hit France too, I know you guys hate them."

[Menarion @cath_menarion]

It's almost like the SSPX deciding to consecrate bishops is having a dividing effect among traditional Catholics. A splitting, if you will. A separation of one part from another. I feel like there's a word we use for that in the church but it slips my mind at the moment

[Will Grannis @WillGrannis]

@_JeanLannes Also what’s with swapping Johnson and May?