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Adam Rasmussen @chrysologus.bsky.social · 1d

Reno has done an impressive job destroying the credibility of FT.

Adam Rasmussen @chrysologus.bsky.social · 4d

"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

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Adam Rasmussen @chrysologus.bsky.social · 4d

"...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

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Adam Rasmussen @chrysologus.bsky.social · 4d

"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..."

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Adam Rasmussen @chrysologus.bsky.social · 4d

"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

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Adam Rasmussen @chrysologus.bsky.social · 6d

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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Straight Answers: The Reasons Behind Restricting the Latin Mass

Traditionalists often argue that Traditionis Custodes and diocesan limitations on the Tridentine Mass are unnecessary, punitive, and directed at sincere Catholics who only want to worship as their anc...

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Adam Rasmussen @chrysologus.bsky.social · 9d

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!

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𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜 @stevenpmillies.com · 9d

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.

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Pope Leo faces MAGA ire after immigration and climate change remarks | CNN

Pope Leo XIV has adopted a more low-key, less combative style to his predecessor in the early months of his papacy. Pope Francis’s openness to the LGBTQ community, advocacy for migrants and critiques ...

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Adam Rasmussen @chrysologus.bsky.social · 10d

"This episode has brought to light a serious rupture in the US Church. Collegiality and fraternity have given way to hostility and open conflict."
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Bishops against Cardinal: The Plan to Censure Cupich

The controversy surrounding the Archdiocese of Chicago’s plan to honor Senator Dick Durbin has rapidly escalated from a local dispute into a revealing test of the internal dynamics of the U.S. hierarc...

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Adam Rasmussen @chrysologus.bsky.social · 12d

This is one of the more unusual pictures of a pope I've ever seen! Make a little holy water on the rocks.

Adam Rasmussen @chrysologus.bsky.social · 13d

A number of Catholics tried to cancel Pope Francis for almost his entire papacy. They were unsuccessful.

Adam Rasmussen @chrysologus.bsky.social · 13d

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.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 13d

Pope Leo in remarks to journalists tonight: "Someone who says I am against abortion but I am in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States, I don't know if that's pro-life.” www.reuters.com/world/pope-l...

Pope Leo criticizes 'inhuman' treatment of immigrants in US

Pope Leo on Tuesday appeared to offer his strongest criticism yet of U.S. President Donald Trump's hardline immigration policies, questioning whether they were in line with the Catholic Church's pro-life teachings.

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Adam Rasmussen @chrysologus.bsky.social · 20d

"Martyrs today give witness to the fact that God has not abandoned us.... The controversies that roiled Romero’s time did not trouble the saint because he set his gaze on God, and the polarizations of our day should not trouble us if we trust in God fully."
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Pope Leo XIV Echoes St. Oscar Romero’s Prophetic Vision

At the ecumenical Commemoration of the Martyrs and Witnesses of the Faith of the 21st century held at the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls on September 14, 2025, Pope Leo XIV began the ceremony ...

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Adam Rasmussen @chrysologus.bsky.social · 24d

"Happy are those whose conscience does not reproach them,
those who have not lost hope."
- Ben Sira 14:2

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Adam Rasmussen @chrysologus.bsky.social · 25d

Based pontiff.

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Adam Rasmussen @chrysologus.bsky.social · Sep 10

The comments on this app all over the place right now are disgusting and depressing and not at all surprising.

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Adam Rasmussen @chrysologus.bsky.social · Sep 10

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!

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Adam Rasmussen @chrysologus.bsky.social · Aug 29

I very much would like to see the clunky 2011 translation of the Mass fixed.
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It's time for a better English translation of the liturgy

The people of God deserve better than what they are hearing in church today, writes Fr. Thomas Reese.

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Adam Rasmussen @chrysologus.bsky.social · Aug 16

"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-...

Message of the Holy Father on the occasion of the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation [1 September 2025] (30 June 2025)

MESSAGE OF HIS HOLINESS POPE LEO XIV FOR THE 10 th WORLD DAY OF PRAYER FOR THE CARE OF CREATION 2025 [1 September 2025] ________________________________

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Adam Rasmussen @chrysologus.bsky.social · Aug 4

Did you watch it yet? I thought the first episode was a little heavy-handed tbh.

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Anne M. Carpenter @catholickungfu.bsky.social · Aug 3

"The Church, as Christ’s Church, will certainly do what is most correct if she leaves behind her own state of knowing too much and returns into the primordial biblical situation, in order to perceive afresh the primordial meaning of her proclamation from the sources..."

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Adam Rasmussen @chrysologus.bsky.social · Aug 4

“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
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Pope Leo: We are with the young people of Gaza, Ukraine and war-torn lands - Vatican News

At the conclusion of the closing Mass for the Jubilee of Youth, Pope Leo remembers young people suffering

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Adam Rasmussen @chrysologus.bsky.social · Aug 1

Great essay about the development of doctrine.
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Cardinal Newman, Doctor of the Church

Given the news today that Pope Leo will name Cardinal Newman as a doctor of the Church, I wanted to reshare my essay from last year about what Newman and the Magisterium say about development of doctr...

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Mike Lewis @mfjlewis.bsky.social · Jul 28

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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False orthodoxy and fired professors

Catholic social media has been abuzz in recent days over the news that three professors at Sacred Heart Seminary in Detroit were dismissed from the faculty by Archbishop Edward Weisenburg. Eduardo Ech...

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Adam Rasmussen @chrysologus.bsky.social · Jul 27

RIP

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