How to Read Scripture – “The Ignatius Catholic Study Bible—a Bible decades in the making, under the editorship of Steubenville scholars Scott Hahn and Curtis Mitch—recently arrived in our bookstore.” Can the Ignatius Study Bible Save Biblical Studies? (First Things)
The Life of Believers – “I believe the publication of the new Ignatius Catholic Study Bible is an important moment in the life of the Church.” A new way to meet the Word of God (Angelus News)
Suppressing Christian Beliefs – “Gozen Soydag lost her job at a Catholic school for expressing her Christian beliefs. Had she been a Muslim, would they have sacked her?” Christianity has become the ultimate offence – and now a sackable one (The Telegraph)
Hopkins’s Mystical Vision – “Our conservative imagination is such that we don’t believe that ‘new’ equals better or more worthy nor does “old” mean worse or unworthy.” The Conditions for Ultimate Greatness (The Imaginative Conservative)
LGBT+ and Jubilee 2025 – “Pope Francis has approved a pilgrimage for people who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual and transsexual as part of the Jubilee 2025 celebrations.” Pope approves LGBT+ pilgrimage as part of Jubilee 2025 celebrations (The Catholic Herald)
Disrupting Christmas Traditions – “You better watch out, you better not cry, you better look out, I’m telling you why: Satan is coming to town.” Hail Santa and Merry Satan — Satanic Temple Post Display at State House (NH Journal)
Winning Debates – “While I like to think that I’ve learned something along the way from those times I’ve been wrong, I have rarely taken time to reflect before entering into another argument.” On Doing the Reading (Everything Was Beautiful – Substack)
Equal Protection Clause – “In United States v. Skrmetti, which was argued Wednesday, the Supreme Court’s justices are asked to decide whether the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause is violated by a Tennessee law that restricts the use of puberty blockers and hormones by minors.” The Supreme Court Should Rule That Reality Exists (National Review)
Restore All Things in Christ – “Catholic unity in faith, morals, worship, and discipline depends, in large measure, upon the willingness of those in authority to reverently and gratefully acknowledge and conform to Catholic teaching and practice, which are blessings of Divine providence.” Forty Blessed Years a Priest (The Catholic Thing)
All About Bible Commentaries – “When it comes to biblical commentary sets, there is simply too much to say! But I realize that this is important and people want to understand … ” The “Best” Bible Commentary Series (The Sacred Page)
Trump’s 2024 Nominations – “President-elect Donald Trump has chosen to appoint Catholics to several key Cabinet and senior advisory roles. It’s led some to claim that as a result this could prove to be the “most Catholic” Cabinet and administration in the history of US politics.” Trump’s Cabinet picks make it one of the most practicing Catholic yet (Catholic Herald)
The Palestinian Christian Community – “The war’s reach is not contained to the Gaza Strip, and West Bank Palestinians suffer from Israeli military incursions, resulting in the killing of 736 Palestinians as of October 2024 — 719 by Israeli forces, 12 by Israeli settlers and seven by unknown perpetrators.” Rooted in the Land Called Holy (CNEWA)
Anti-Catholic Destruction – “This list shows incidents of vandalism, arson, or other destruction at Catholic sites that have been publicly reported in news media. It excludes incidents where circumstances suggest a motive other than hostility toward the Church.” Arson, Vandalism, and Other Destruction at Catholic Churches in the United States (United States Conference of Catholic Bishops)
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The Pope is declaring this coming Jubilee Year as a Jubilee for Sin and Homosexuality. I’d admonish the Pope that he should be ashamed for the harm he’s done to Christ’s Catholic Church. However, I do think he’s incapable of experiencing shame.
And the harm done to countless misled (or un-led) souls in the upcoming generation.
Such is the novelty of our time…the papacy can signal and imply stuff without ever directly and actually committing heresy. Because, all the while still affirming moral truth in words. The ideological category and homosexual lifestyle are not actually affirmed, only accompanied/ accommodated.
Is this apparent duplicity what St. John Paul II clarified in Veritatis Splendor (VS) when he wrote:
“A separation, or even an opposition, is thus established in some cases between the teaching of the precept, which is valid and general, and the norm of the individual conscience, which would in fact make the final decision [a ‘decision,’ and no longer a ‘moral judgment’] about what is good and what is evil. On this basis, an attempt is made to legitimize so-called ‘pastoral’ solutions contrary to the teaching of the Magisterium, and to justify a ‘creative’ hermeneutic according to which the moral conscience is in no way obliged, in every case, by a particular negative precept [thou shalt not…]” (VS, n. 56).
A real shepherd does not lead from behind, and, therefore, soles remain clean.
@ LGBT+ and Jubilee 2025
“Church: Home for All, LGBT+ Christians and Other Existential Frontiers”. Welcome one and all. All because “existential frontiers” suggests every and all disordered sexuality. Bestiality is one. Others I won’t sully my imagination with. Nor will I suggest eschatology. That’s already a given.
@ Restore All Things in Christ
“The motto ‘To restore all things in Christ’ has been stunningly replaced by a coercive demand that we submit ourselves to a seemingly never-ending ‘synodal’ re-education” (Fr Gerald E Murray).
Fr Murray reads the riot act as rarely heard, pointed condemnations of the heresies inundating our Church. Murray doesn’t fade into into a defensive corner, he rather exhorts us to address the errors proclaim the truths of the faith. Restore all things in Christ. Christ he assures us will not permit his Church to continue to be misrepresented. That we’re assured of.
We’re at the stage when those with faith who perceive the errors are morally compelled to profess the truth however we may within our status. Which means any moral issue addressed unequivocally, including sexual morality which affects us all personally often within family and among friends. We’re literally compelled although it’s not an onerous task, discomforting sometimes fearful. It’s in essence an act of love for the other.