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The talking point on the far right, for over a decade at least, has been that Islam is an "ideology" incompatible with the Constitution and not a religion and therefore the 1st Amendment doesn't apply. This is false of course, but it's the argument they use.
Source: Enchiridion on Faith, Hope, and Love 3.11 (tr. Albert C. Outler, 1955), www.tertullian.org/fathers/augu...
"Evil, when it is rightly ordered and kept in its place, commends the good more eminently, since good things yield greater pleasure and praise when compared to the bad things. For the Omnipotent God would not allow any evil in his works unless he is able to bring forth good out of evil." — Augustine
Synodality, listening, dialogue, fraternity, and parrhesia "will enable us to live with confidence and a new spirit amid the tensions that run through the life of the Church: between unity and diversity, tradition and novelty, authority and participation."
www.americamagazine.org/speeches/202...
I don't care whether a priest is conservative or liberal, as long as he's pastoral and synodal, does the works of mercy, and teaches the full social doctrine as taught in papal documents.
"Liz Bucar, a professor of religion, said it's clear the syncretic, ad hoc, New Age approach to spirituality by some older generations 'has not been satisfying to Zoomers.' She is seeing a desire for more structured community and moral frameworks that can help Zoomers navigate a suffering world."
I don't think he ever left.
And yet the pope himself is an American Christian.
Reno has done an impressive job destroying the credibility of FT.
"Patristic theology was practical, aiming at a Church that was poor and for the poor, recalling that the Gospel is proclaimed correctly only when it impels us to touch the flesh of the least among us, and warning that doctrinal rigor without mercy is empty talk."
– Pope Leo XIV, Dilexi Te, 48
"...as if they were an obsession on the part of a few and not the burning heart of the Church’s mission, convinces me of the need to go back and re-read the Gospel, lest we risk replacing it with the wisdom of this world. The poor cannot be neglected."
– Pope Leo XIV, Dilexi Te, 15
"Christians too, on a number of occasions, have succumbed to attitudes shaped by secular ideologies or political and economic approaches that lead to gross generalizations and mistaken conclusions. The fact that some dismiss or ridicule charitable works..."
"The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty."
– Pope Leo XIV, Apostolic Exhortation Dilexi Te on Love for the Poor, 14
This article really clearly lays out, plain as day, why Pope Francis put restrictions on the old Latin Mass and why Pope Leo is also concerned about how the traditionalist movement threatens the Church's unity.
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I've experienced four popes, and I've never *not* looked forward to a new papal document. Catholics should be receptive to the papal magisterium even if we may sometimes struggle in our consciences with some particular teaching. We have a pope for a reason: it's part of the genius of Catholicism!
Lirerally—
He described a consistent ethic of life derived from Gaudium et Spes and affirmed by John Paul II, authoritative magisterial teaching, and named a climate crisis named by both JP2 and Benedict XVI.
His critics are not serious people.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/04/e...
"This episode has brought to light a serious rupture in the US Church. Collegiality and fraternity have given way to hostility and open conflict."
wherepeteris.com/bishops-agai...
This is one of the more unusual pictures of a pope I've ever seen! Make a little holy water on the rocks.
A number of Catholics tried to cancel Pope Francis for almost his entire papacy. They were unsuccessful.
The consistent ethic of life has been official Catholic doctrine for many years (see, e.g., the encyclical Fratelli Tutti), so what Pope Leo said isn't surprising or new. However, many American Catholics have been convinced (often by online groups) that it's unorthodox. That needs to change.
"Happy are those whose conscience does not reproach them,
those who have not lost hope."
- Ben Sira 14:2
Based pontiff.
The comments on this app all over the place right now are disgusting and depressing and not at all surprising.
Just horrendous that Charlie Kirk was assassinated. Our society is so sick right now, and this heinous crime will only make it sicker. And sadly I know that some people will try to justify it or at least wink at it. Violence is not the solution to our current social crisis!
I very much would like to see the clunky 2011 translation of the Mass fixed.
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"Injustice, violations of international law & the rights of peoples, grave inequalities & the greed that fuels them are spawning deforestation, pollution & the loss of biodiversity. Extreme natural phenomena caused by climate changes provoked by human activity grow..."
www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
Did you watch it yet? I thought the first episode was a little heavy-handed tbh.
“We are with the young people of Gaza. We are with the young people of Ukraine, with those of every land bloodied by war. My young brothers and sisters, you are the sign that a different world is possible, a world of fraternity and friendship.” - Pope Leo
www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...
RIP