There’s a story about an old monk from a community of my acquaintance who had his own recipe for “Epiphany Water” and would sell the bottles (but not the water) at craft fairs all over the county.

Yeah this particular piece of logic. absolutely happens all over the place.

Lots of parishes have holy water dispensers somewhere too (that are free) since some families keep a holy water stoup by the door at home

@welcome-to-united.bsky.social

Yeah. On board for that. Though you don’t need revelation for that. (Since that’s more internally human than “God exists”. And the Catholic tradition at least insists that “God exists” is knowable by natural reason.

There’s a huge distance between “Jesus is Lord” and “Jesus is homoousious with the Father”. And that difference is precisely the development of doctrine.

And as to whether a miracle produces knowledge from faith- sure. But knowledge of what? That the miracle happened, ok. Of a particular dogma in its particularity, it even a doctrine, probably not

So- revelation is, as Thomas points out, received by various people. There are two terms to revelation (by and to) And quidquid recipitur ad modem recipientis recipitur. So it wouldn’t be received the same by all definitionally. Complexity of a simple creator and a composite creation.

Oh yes. 💯

Also- side point- but these guys don’t really want truth. They want to be able to fight and win. Which isn’t “caring about the truth” at all.

It is the academy I was introduced to though. And thankfully one there’s alternatives to- because of women and queer and just less-toxic-dude academics

The whole Breastplate of Patrick

This is a nonsensical take.
And Burke hasn’t been a US cardinal with any real clout for decades.

This is tradcath wishcasting which for some reason the RNS has decided to play stenographer for. But I guess media now are mostly stenographers for the American far right.

And doves! Scholastica could do more bc she loved more, after all.

(Which the Dominicans could learn from)

Someone should make one the size of an actual floppy file with just a tiny opening inside 🤣

And- if you’re coming to Boston, consider coming a couple days early for the Annual Conference of the North American Academy of Ecumenists (Nov 20-21)

bit.ly/NAAE2025

Pupdate: she got adopted today! ☺️

This is still going on 10 mins later