tradcaths who impulsively became sedes under Francis are probably feeling extremely conflicted now that despite all his faults Francis is the only Pope poised to do the consecration of Russia correctly according to Our Lady of Fatima’s request

God certainly has a sense of humor

Nice https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1504767327023284224?s=21

one thing that makes Catholicism unique is that every facet of human nature is reflected in the heavenly order of grace:
birth (baptism)
rites of passage (confirmation)
food and sustenance (Eucharist)
family (sacrament of marriage),
redemption (penance)
friendships (communion of Saints)
a hierarchical political and social order (episcopacy and papacy),
timekeeping (liturgical year)
ritual (liturgical rites)
sacrifice (the Mass)
language (sacred languages),
passion (sacramentals and affective devotions)
intellect (the deposit of Faith as divinely protected by the Magisterium), etc

Nothing that is most essentially human is left out of the Incarnate Son of God, so likewise is nothing essentially human left out of His Mystical Body, the Church

if you call yourself a “traditional catholic” but can’t even bring yourself to praise Pope Francis for performing the Consecration and singling out Russia, the one thing trads have been obsessed over for decades, you are putting your reflexive antipathy towards Pope Francis before your moral duty to be a faithful son of the Church

honestly you should repent if this describes you

if God did not love you, you wouldn’t exist. simple as.

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God’s act of elevating even one beatified soul beyond the limitations of its nature to partake of His inner Triune Life is infinitely more wondrous than His creation of the whole Cosmos out of nothing

Because of the Incarnation, Christianity is the only religion which insists that the more intimate one’s union with God is, the more authentically expressed one’s distinct identity becomes

“we don’t support drinking the blood of babies we just support tearing them limb from limb with tongs and air suctioning their brains out”

the baptism of a single infant is an infinitely greater display of power than the combined might of all the angels in heaven

The Supreme Court and Presidency should be male-only imo

id rather someone believe in magic crystals or sentient rocks than deny the immaterial altogether

atheists are at the very rock bottom of intellectual respectability

Haydock, commenting on Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem, points out that the donkey and the colt the Apostles were instructed to bring to Jesus represent the Jews and Gentiles, respectively

The colt, not having been ridden on before, represents the Gentiles, who have yet to receive the Divine Revelation entrusted to the Jews

The fact that the Apostles are the ones instructed to retrieve both the donkey and colt for Christ to sit on signifies the dominion the Church is to have over Jews and Gentiles alike, all under the yoke of Christ

to conceive of a limit precisely as limit is necessarily to transcend that limit, at least in potency

this phenomenon should not be possible under eliminative materialism, as this regress can only terminate in the Infinite

i knew skojec was unintelligent but I didn’t realize he was at the “genuinely mind blown by young Sheldon” level

If you live in such a way that manifests a state of being out of communion with God, then so long as you persist in that state unrepentantly, you will abide in that state on the other side of eternity too, but without the fleeting pleasures of this tangible world

someone like skojec has absolutely zero excuse for not understanding this