Irenic Bro
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Aspiring Fool and Irenic Bro who was displaying rectitude and high-mindedness when that egghead you work for was still messing his drawers.
I've seen a number of people saying this but as someone who has worked for the church these were quite recognizable types. The msgr least of all but still. It is sorta funny how aflutter spaces like bsky get at the suggestion that not every catholic is a deranged fascist
Watched “Wake Up Dead Man” last night. Fun. But, you know, all of those Catholics were Protestants.
December 16, 2025 at 1:04 AM
I've seen a number of people saying this but as someone who has worked for the church these were quite recognizable types. The msgr least of all but still. It is sorta funny how aflutter spaces like bsky get at the suggestion that not every catholic is a deranged fascist
The only thing that will lose trump R voters is a failure to deliver treats. No matter how much they pretend to be bothered by this or anything else they will never be as bothered by it as having a hispanic person in their church or gay person in their school
December 15, 2025 at 4:34 PM
The only thing that will lose trump R voters is a failure to deliver treats. No matter how much they pretend to be bothered by this or anything else they will never be as bothered by it as having a hispanic person in their church or gay person in their school
Awful, of course, but kind of Funny that he's essentially claiming responsibility there
December 15, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Awful, of course, but kind of Funny that he's essentially claiming responsibility there
You have a right to die and the insurance companies have a right to declare you unfit to live. Something something public private partnership
I don't want to overreact to the new right-to-die legislation bc I watched my father die from pancreatic cancer and if he wanted to peace out early I wouldn't have blamed him but also right-to-die in a country with no real welfare state really is just a Social Murder Machine
December 15, 2025 at 1:34 PM
You have a right to die and the insurance companies have a right to declare you unfit to live. Something something public private partnership
Exactly zero Republicans didn't know they were voting for. They're just mad that they have to sacrifice some treats for the ethnic cleansing
(They did vote for this)
December 15, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Exactly zero Republicans didn't know they were voting for. They're just mad that they have to sacrifice some treats for the ethnic cleansing
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December 15, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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In an era were social rights are uniformly being taken away by all governments (or just not given when they've never been there), it is notable that the only one that has overwhelmingly been granted with all the claims of a major moral breakthrough by all occidental nations is "The right to die".
Noticing that Democrats are passing “right to die” laws before passing “right to housing” or “right to healthcare” laws www.nprillinois.org/government-p...
Gov. JB Pritzker signs 'right-to-die' legislation for terminally ill people to end their lives in Illinois
The new law, which takes effect next September, opens the door for people 18 or older with a terminal diagnosis to be prescribed a fatal drug.
www.nprillinois.org
December 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
In an era were social rights are uniformly being taken away by all governments (or just not given when they've never been there), it is notable that the only one that has overwhelmingly been granted with all the claims of a major moral breakthrough by all occidental nations is "The right to die".
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>the gyre? narrowing
>falcon? hears the falconer
>things? sticking together
>center? holding
>mere anarchy? never heard of it
>blood-dimmed tide? locked up tight
>ceremony of innocence proceeding as normal
>the best have so much conviction
>the worst? listless and apathetic
we're all gonna make it
>falcon? hears the falconer
>things? sticking together
>center? holding
>mere anarchy? never heard of it
>blood-dimmed tide? locked up tight
>ceremony of innocence proceeding as normal
>the best have so much conviction
>the worst? listless and apathetic
we're all gonna make it
December 14, 2025 at 9:40 PM
>the gyre? narrowing
>falcon? hears the falconer
>things? sticking together
>center? holding
>mere anarchy? never heard of it
>blood-dimmed tide? locked up tight
>ceremony of innocence proceeding as normal
>the best have so much conviction
>the worst? listless and apathetic
we're all gonna make it
>falcon? hears the falconer
>things? sticking together
>center? holding
>mere anarchy? never heard of it
>blood-dimmed tide? locked up tight
>ceremony of innocence proceeding as normal
>the best have so much conviction
>the worst? listless and apathetic
we're all gonna make it
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Sorry, chuds, but the word of god is sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing until it divides soul from spirit, and joints from marrow.
everyone calling this stuff “divisive” was also demanding that the church excommunicate Joe Biden
Supporters of the displays say the Bible is on their side, but critics call the scenes sacrilegious and politically divisive, accusing the churches of abusing sacred imagery. n.pr/4rTabaD
December 14, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Sorry, chuds, but the word of god is sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing until it divides soul from spirit, and joints from marrow.
Re: meeting your spouse at church, the best way *I've found* is to be normal platonic friends with women and then eventually one of them sets you up with another friend
December 13, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Re: meeting your spouse at church, the best way *I've found* is to be normal platonic friends with women and then eventually one of them sets you up with another friend
As someone who spent three years doing remedial formation, she is correct on at minimum that point
Mother of Karoline Leavitt’s Nephew speaks out after ICE arrest: I think what I would have to say to Karoline is just because you went to a catholic school doesn't make you a good catholic.
December 13, 2025 at 2:25 AM
As someone who spent three years doing remedial formation, she is correct on at minimum that point
Guy who was otherwise fine with Epstein but draws the line at him distributing contraception
December 12, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Guy who was otherwise fine with Epstein but draws the line at him distributing contraception
And a happy feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe to you too.
Kristi Noem has attacked Sister Norma Pimentel, a leader of Catholic Charities serving immigrants in the Texas Rio Grande Valley, after she spoke out bravely criticizing DHS deportation projects, echoing the words of Pope Leo. www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/268391/...
DHS cuts off aid to Texas Catholic Charities
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has suspended Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley (CCRGV) from receiving federal funding, according to CCRGV.
www.catholicnewsagency.com
December 12, 2025 at 1:11 PM
And a happy feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe to you too.
Women don't like the vehicle
December 12, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Women don't like the vehicle
The best thing for the environment is actually when there's more oil than water in your creeks and rivers
Doug Burgum lies that renewable energy is "worse for the planet, worse for the environment, and it drives up your electric prices"
December 11, 2025 at 5:48 PM
The best thing for the environment is actually when there's more oil than water in your creeks and rivers
Currently trying to explain the difference between depiction and endorsement in "Silence" again. Sort of unfortunate that the work that broke out most is the one so many people cannot "get" on the first take
I'll admit part of my love for McKay and Endō (and a lot of the vaguely similar "type") is that they are instantly recognizable characters for anybody who was on Catholic Twitter in 2017/2018
Most of my convos with Catholics involve me telling them I work on Catholic/Christian literature from the 20th century, them saying "oh like Lewis and Tolkien" and then me getting to introduce them to Endō and McKay and get them to try reading poetry
December 10, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Currently trying to explain the difference between depiction and endorsement in "Silence" again. Sort of unfortunate that the work that broke out most is the one so many people cannot "get" on the first take
You really don't have to engage seriously with "it's wrong and probably abusive to teach poetry to anybody who doesn't intend to be a professional, published poet" any more than you do "I haven't used any algebra since high school, they should stop teaching it"
December 10, 2025 at 12:35 PM
You really don't have to engage seriously with "it's wrong and probably abusive to teach poetry to anybody who doesn't intend to be a professional, published poet" any more than you do "I haven't used any algebra since high school, they should stop teaching it"
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To the question about why he had not prayed as “visibly” as his predecessors had, Leo said: “Who said I didn’t pray? They said I didn’t, but I already explained on the plane—I mentioned a book (‘The Practice of the Presence of God’ by Brother Lawrence)—and perhaps I am praying even now.”
December 9, 2025 at 9:49 PM
To the question about why he had not prayed as “visibly” as his predecessors had, Leo said: “Who said I didn’t pray? They said I didn’t, but I already explained on the plane—I mentioned a book (‘The Practice of the Presence of God’ by Brother Lawrence)—and perhaps I am praying even now.”
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If The Green Knight appeared before me and my uncle and his friends and promised that whatever I did to him he would repay me in one years time I would simply give him an ice cold Modelo Especial.
December 9, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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You're hearing it more and more
between this and evangelicalism’s tendency to downplay Jesus’ Godhood (via the sophistry of Wayne Grudem, et al) in order to shore up complementarianism (???), I’m growing worried that American Arianism with Aryan Commitments is, like, two blog posts away from coming into full existence
ok it’s legitimately funny that they can’t even throw red meat to Catholics without falling into heresy
December 8, 2025 at 8:50 PM
You're hearing it more and more
not *that* unusual for demons to offer you the ability to consult with the mythic founders of the empire
Oh good, Glenn Beck has created an AI George Washington. You will be shocked to learn that the AI George Washington created by Glenn Beck sounds exactly like what would happen if Glenn Beck built an AI George Washington to sound exactly like Glenn Beck.
December 8, 2025 at 8:04 PM
not *that* unusual for demons to offer you the ability to consult with the mythic founders of the empire
Unprofitable servant achievement ✅
December 8, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Unprofitable servant achievement ✅
It's hard to say this without being taken as an anti-bedtime activist but the root ideology for basically all contemporary rw thought is "children (and probably women) are property"
some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think
Oh, here's a big surprise. The transphobes don't believe in ADHD either.
December 8, 2025 at 1:46 PM
It's hard to say this without being taken as an anti-bedtime activist but the root ideology for basically all contemporary rw thought is "children (and probably women) are property"
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some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think
Oh, here's a big surprise. The transphobes don't believe in ADHD either.
then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM
December 8, 2025 at 1:09 PM
some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think