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ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 2h

I had a "are we the baddies?" moment teaching at a "classical school" mere weeks before the pandemic got rolling after being required to sit through a ludicrous bigot giving a public lecture as part of a sales pitch for our thing and anyway here we are

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ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 4h

National Catholic Register when Catholic prisoners are being denied communion even in the face of a Eucharistic procession

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 7h

📌“The fact that I am American means, among other things, people can’t say, like they did about Francis, ‘he doesn’t understand the United States, he just doesn’t see what’s going on.’
“Do you not see the suffering? Is your conscience not disturbed?”

-Pope Leo in a direct rebuke of the hideous Trump

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Just Zach 🇵🇸🇻🇦 @chioroplast.bsky.social · 5h

Sorry, Woke Idiots, But If Jesus Is The Only Path To Salvation, Would He Even Forgive A Sinner Like Me?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 5h

The riff about one minute into "Unitive Nature of the Godhead"

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ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 5h

Now listening to Pilgrimage

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Quest 64 Official @quest64official.bsky.social · 6h

The meme is a picture of Brian in a vehicle and says

The lion doesn't concern himself with his urgent care bill from 2 years ago stop leaving the lion voicemails

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ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 6h

I still love a good death metal or black metal album but the operative word here is "good"

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ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 6h

My metal-listening years were largely used up in middle school and I'm getting back into it and discovering stuff like this is much more to my taste than the super aggressive stuff I liked when I was 13 lol

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ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 6h

Definitely got jumpscared by the translation of the Sanskrit in track 1 however lmao

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ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 6h

Just discovered, this album goes crazy

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ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 6h

"Real conservatism" is never going to happen, the only choice is to lib out

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ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 6h

Some “American Solidarity Party” chud was mean to my mom on Facebook for being slightly critical of ICE and I went full wine mom on him

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ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 6h

"Despairing of your salvation like this is ackchyually the sin of pride because it makes your sin into an idol"

a close up of a pair of glasses with a yellow object in the background

ALT: a close up of a pair of glasses with a yellow object in the background

media.tenor.com

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ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 6h

At last
A truthful statement from Donald Trump

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 7h

President Trump tells reporters aboard Air Force One that he doesn’t think he’s going to get into heaven.

“I don’t think there’s anything that’s going to get me into heaven.”

(I isolated Trump’s voice)

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Jake @jakeall.bsky.social · 16h

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ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 9h

For one thing it was French (they were inspired by Isaac Hecker in America who further complicating matters is now up for canonization)

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ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 9h

No one ever talks about this

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ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 9h

Blaming Catholic students at Yale who are very obviously be formed against reactionary Catholicism for stuff that happened 40 years before they were born is especially unserious

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ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 9h

I’ll always grant that the ones who should’ve exercised that responsibility were decadent and complacent, but that doesn’t mean that the minority fighting now is simply wrong and stupid (I wasn’t even born yet!)

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ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 9h

I’m Catholic, I’m anti-Catholic, and I vote.

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ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 9h

Yes you’re right, there is zero diversity of opinion or internecine rivalry whatsoever in a communion of over a billion people and it’s obviously true that the reactionaries who like the aesthetics and pretend to believe get the last word as opposed to people who actually believe and fight this

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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly @mollieoreilly.bsky.social · 9h

The Catholic Chapel and Center at Yale has added these (and more) quotations from various papal teachings about care and concern for immigrants to the windows outside its main meeting room. This is the kind of catechesis we need more of in the U.S. church.

A window pane with this text: "...No one would exchange his country for a foreign land if his own afforded him the means of living a decent and happy life." —Pope Leo XIII, Rerum Novarum (1891), no. 47

"Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, living in exile in Egypt to escape the fury of an evil king, are, for all times and all places, the models and protectors of every migrant, alien, and refugee of whatever kind, who, whether compelled by fear of persecution or by want, is forced to leave his native land, his beloved friends and relatives, his close friends, and to seek a foreign soil." —Pope Pius XII, Exsul Familia Nazarethana (1962), Apostolic Constitution

"The poverty and misfortune with which immigrants are stricken are yet another reason for coming generously to their aid... It is necessary to guard against the rise of new forms of racism or xenophobic behavior, which attempt to make these brothers and sisters of ours scapegoats for what may be difficult local situations..." John Paul II, World Migration Day (1996)

"Migrants present a particular challenge for me, since I am the pastor of a church without frontiers, a Church which considers herself a mother to all. For this reason, I exhort all countries to a generous openness which, rather than fearing the loss of local identity, will prove capable of creating new forms of cultural synthesis." Pope Francis, Evangelii Gaudium (2013)

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ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 12h

God works in mysterious ways; the contradictions must continue to heighten

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ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 12h

Learned about Emir Abdelkader today—Sufi sheikh, hero of Algerian resistance against France, protector of Christians against Druze pogroms in Damascus—was surprised to learn also that he was friends with the Bishop of Algiers and that they shared a correspondence on politics and religion

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