I mean, he's a rabbi; he's got to be used to 800 questions!
06.03.2026 16:25
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I mean, he's a rabbi; he's got to be used to 800 questions!
Yeah, Christianity has too much cultural influence for supersessionism & antiJudaism not to leak into spaces that are not Christian! Similar to how many totally secular people think “OT God = angry & mean; NT God = loving and justice-oriented.”
Distinguishing between love of enemies and bourgeois deference to authority & status quo requires constant, ongoing discernment. And the woman who wrote this ABSOLUTELY has done more, concretely, for migrants than I have—but there’s also some over-identification of love & niceness.
Yes, absolutely. Flipping tables isn’t a go-to image for me—there’s something more complicated about the Second Temple going on there & I worry about mapping “Jesus : Temple :: Justice : Oppression” esp for what it subtly communicates about Jewish worship—but the underlying point, absolutely.
We need a better handle on what "dehumanization" is and is not.
Christ calls us to love our enemies; denying that is denying the gospel (a different question from "how should the left view the right?"), but... with REAL respect for the religious sister who wrote it: America has an article saying we shouldn't laugh at the ICE agent slipping & falling, and...
“America First,” but also “Yeah I guess you should be worried that our unjust illegal war might kill you at home.” Shrug!
I do not know how to move past this.
Over 100 children have been killed at a school. The actual real lives are the most important thing, & I hesitate to post anything that contributes to “but what about AMERICANS?!”
and yet the POTUS saying “I guess” people should worry about strikes on US soil, and “some people will die” is shocking.
screenshot from Click to Pray reading Is a world without nuclear weapons possible? In 2017, the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons was signed by more than 80 countries. None of the countries that currently possesses nuclear weapons signed it. Pope's Worldwide Prayer Network
Something tells me the prompts for prayer on the $80 celebrity-backed Thiel-funded prayer app don’t QUITE resemble the ones on the Vatican’s free Click to Pray app.
* I am not a Midwesterner and will not comment beyond my competency, but: rhetorically, when a public person in the US says "Midwestern values," they don't mean "Chicago values."
Mostly posting this bc I'm fascinated by "[Location] Values" rhetoric. "People work hard, they love their families"--we're used to hearing that described as "small town values," or maybe "Midwest* values."
But the addition of "they appreciate the international flavor of the city"...
"It's not just the fact that he is from Chicago, but his life in some way was formed by the culture of Chicago where people work hard. They love their families. They appreciate the international flavor of the city itself. For instance, we celebrate Mass in 26 languages in Chicago."
If I tell you something in confidence & then you tell a journalist and it shows up in the newspaper, it’s not the journalist I’m mad at!
Yeah, I hold O’Connell and Pique in high respect! I fully buy that there’s something I’m just not getting here (but I think the Church would benefit from something helping us understand that)—but honestly more to the point, it’s not them I’m side-eyeing; it’s the cardinals.
Our Lady of Guadalupe
the only Shield of the Americas I recognize
“Secrecy is absolutely essential to allow the cardinals to set aside all outside influence and listen to the Holy Spirit. Any attempt to undermine this secrecy incurs automatic excommunication.”
(11 months later)
“Your Holiness! Please enjoy our book, written thanks to conclave leaks!”
I’m just a simple city layperson, but I will never not be confused by what conclave leaks don’t incur automatic excommunication. I just don’t get it, guys!
Of course I should not be shocked on this, the website for 38 year olds with graduate humanities degrees, but: dang you all have grandfathers with fancy careers.
It was really very moving. I am very moved.
(yes i am taking an uber home; i am a True Urbanite and do not own a car. but not so True an Urbanite that i will wait an hour at 9:30pm to take the regional rail i took here.)
I was invited to preach at a prayer service in the suburbs, about an hour from the church where I work…
…and about 20 members of the church where I work came, and several told the organizers, “We’ll go anywhere to hear Bridget preach,” and now I’m crying a little in the Uber home.
No absolutely; anyone grouping Haugen & Haas either hasn’t heard about Haas or has truly terrible priorities (or both, I suppose).
OH LORD.
I WILL say it is true that churches should not use Haas’s music, but that is because he is a serial sexual harasser who used his work as a liturgical music composer to harm women.
Bluesky can’t move on from Talarico discourse fast enough, truly.
- your bishops firmly stand against an attack on birthright citizenship, calling it "immoral"
...and your move is to call their teaching incoherent?
(2/2)
What, exactly, is "Catholic" in your culture when:
- 1 in 5 Catholics in the US are either at risk of deportation or live with someone who is
- 61% of immigrants vulnerable to deportation are Catholic - 29% of US Catholics are immigrants
- 14% of US Catholics are the children of immigrants
(1/2)
AAAAHHHHHH
Screenshot showing a google search for "usccb birthright citizenship." The first hit is a link to the USCCB titled "The Catholic Church's Position on Birthright Citizenship." The second hit is a link to a First Things page titled "What the USCCB Gets Wrong About Birthright Citizenship."
I was just trying to find the amicus brief.
hi athena 😍