New one by me. I trace the roots of today’s Catholic outrage machine, from post–Vatican II prophecy culture to online conspiracy networks, and show how “bricolage” thinking helps explain why certain narratives spread so fast on Catholic social media.
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The Vatican offered the SSPX dialogue. The SSPX (updated) said no.
A look at five decades of refusal — and why antisemitism, abuse, and an unrepentant culture make reconciliation impossible and probably undesirable.
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New one by me. I trace the roots of today’s Catholic outrage machine, from post–Vatican II prophecy culture to online conspiracy networks, and show how “bricolage” thinking helps explain why certain narratives spread so fast on Catholic social media.
wherepeteris.com/bricolage-an...
A long read but Mike Lewis has something here in this analytical framework drawing from Lévi-Strauss. Recommended.
"John Paul II insisted that truth requires unity of faith and reason — precisely the unity that bricolage disrupts"
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This is an excellent piece by @mfjlewis.bsky.social... Really hard to believe @usccbofficial.bsky.social's commitment with migrants...
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Time for some real talk.
Many Catholics devoted to the Tridentine Mass believe the recent restrictions are arbitrary or unjust—but the reasons behind them are real, concrete, and specific, and those reasons may be hard for some to hear.
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Time for some real talk.
Many Catholics devoted to the Tridentine Mass believe the recent restrictions are arbitrary or unjust—but the reasons behind them are real, concrete, and specific, and those reasons may be hard for some to hear.
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This is just textbook 1930’s fascism
The removal of three outspoken critics of Pope Francis from Sacred Heart Seminary exposes a deeper crisis in the U.S. Church—where dissent from the Magisterium is masked as fidelity and ideology masquerades as orthodoxy.
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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s decision to cancel nearly half a billion dollars in federal funding for mRNA vaccine development is the "most dangerous public health decision" ever, epidemiologist Michael Osterholm said.
The removal of three outspoken critics of Pope Francis from Sacred Heart Seminary exposes a deeper crisis in the U.S. Church—where dissent from the Magisterium is masked as fidelity and ideology masquerades as orthodoxy.
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"Ultimately, The Sacred Heart: A Love for All Times by Dawn Eden Goldstein is more than a book about a devotion; it’s a heartfelt invitation to draw closer to Jesus Christ, whose Sacred Heart remains open to each of us."
— @mfjlewis.bsky.social in @wherepeteris.com. wherepeteris.com/rediscoverin....
Trad: “DO SOMETHING Bishops! Less dialogue, more keys! Man up!"
Bishop: “ok your schismatic behavior will no longer be tolerated and you can virtue signal with your frills in the abandoned cafeteria from now on”
Trad: “NOOO Tyrants of NuChurch REPRESSING me, I am JUST LIKE the MARTYRS of OLD!!!"
I see that the Bishop of Winona-Rochester has announced and named his quarrel with "the extreme Catholic left." I presume he means the "woke" Catholics.
It is embarrassing to explain this but there is no Catholic left. Left and woke aren't ontological categories and a bishop owes his care to...
Today is the fourth anniversary of the death of my dear sister Kate. I wrote this two days after she died.
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I think each of them revealed their true colors. I was initially a fan of all three, but each of them eventually showed that deep down their ego came first.
Spain and Mexico have a few movements but mostly, yes.
“To be deported by Trump, one does not need to be a drug dealer or a terrorist; apparently, having tattoos and being Venezuelan is enough,” @adamserwer.bsky.social writes:
Schism is "the refusal of submission to the Roman Pontiff." They are well past that point. So the question is whether the Church will actually do anything. It's extremely rare for the Church to act.
Personally, I think (just my opinion) they have both automatically excommunicated themselves.
I don't think these characters are salvageable. Obviously the Church will go on. But there's obviously big money funding a schism.
Everything is bonkers here in the Catholic Church in the United States.
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I figured it out.
I think it needed to be retranslated because it was really inaccurate - not just the people's parts but the prayers of the priest.
I think the failed 1998 translation sounded better because it was in actual English. But they inserted ideological changes too, and that sunk it.
In the Latin Mass, they also elevate the host and chalice AFTER the consecration, not during, so it's like you miss the whole thing as it's happening.
It's interesting but there are a few elements that I prefer in the current Mass. For example, being able to see, hear, and pray along with the priest during the Eucharistic prayer. In the TLM, he whispers it in Latin with his back to you.
The ideology extends far beyond the liturgy. My guess is that most of the people in the anti-Francis movement don't actually go to the Latin Mass. They just like the idea of it.
Strickland did toss in some chant and there was incense, if I recall correctly. But my guess is that the music and so forth is what the congregation is used to.
It's a Novus Ordo guitar Mass held in a Maronite Church.
Everything is bonkers here in the Catholic Church in the United States.
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My brother, Dr. Joseph Stuart, was on Paul Fahey's podcast, a discussion about Pope Francis' letter on the renewal of the study of Church history
www.catholicthirdspace.com/p/16-joseph-...
