Not saying Francis has necessarily supported any of the following, but if you’re worried about the future of the Church as far as liberalism is concerned, take solace in the fact that the gravest evils of liberalism are already condemned infallibly by the universal/ordinary magisterium as well as the extraordinary magisterium:

So even if the Pope were to call for a different approach to sodomy, know it is already solemnly condemned as abominable by the Third and Fourth Lateran Councils (as well as by the unbroken and constant apostolic/patristic tradition)

If a Pope were to criticize Humanae vitae’s teaching on contraception, know that its teaching is already safeguarded by the universal and ordinary magisterium as well as the solemn, infallible condemnation of Pius XI in Casti connubii (as well as by the unbroken apostolic/patristic tradition)

If a Pope were to call for a softer approach to abortion, know that a strong condemnation is called for by the infallible Magisterium both in its universal/ ordinary and extraordinary form (unbroken apostolic/patristic tradition, and solemnly condemned in Evangelium vitae of John Paul II)

If a Pope were to embrace classical liberalism or religious indifferentism, know that this is already infallibly condemned by Pius IX’s Quanta cura

And if a Pope were to flirt with women’s ordination, know that women’s ordination is solemnly condemned by John Paul II

These teachings have been codified in the Church’s infallible Magisterium, and are irreformable in and of themselves, binding to all successors of St Peter, and so no future Pope can even in principle dare to overturn them.

It turns out embracing the “no God no master” ethic doesn’t actually make society creative, innovative, or self sufficient it just makes it gay and trans

gays are increasingly becoming the most overprivileged and protected class in this country

catholic Marian dogmas bring even more fulfillment to the philosophical notion of the self-diffusive character of divine goodness, in that while the Incarnation is the maximum of divine self-outpouring, the blessed Virgin reflects that maximum purely on the side of creatures

As some institutional forces within the Church, particularly under the Biden Administration, try to gaslight us into submitting to the current corporate zeitgeist on racial issues, it is essential to call to mind what the actual Magisterium of the Church has already set in stone on the nature of race and its societal significance. I wrote about that last year, but deleted the link on Twitter out of an abundance of caution. You can find it here: https://middleearthmag.com/on-race-and-the-magisterium/

as I get back to YouTube videos very soon (been a very busy semester), these are topics I plan to tackle:
⁃addressing some atheistic objections
⁃continuations of the integralism/metaphysics/divine names series
⁃on the metaphysics of gender
⁃addressing Pope Francis

contrary to divine simplicity skeptics, creation is not God being presented with pre-determined intelligibles and then selecting x against y

y is already grounded in His infinite, Triune self-manifestation, but God also manifests Himself gratuitously and finitely, as x

that He gratuitously and finitely manifests Himself as x is, of course, owed to His ineffable wisdom, but that He manifests Himself as x as opposed to y should not present a problem for divine simplicity

It’s so bizarre hearing gay activists say this, as if the Church actually governing itself in harmony with what it preaches about their own lifestyle wouldn’t also solve the sex abuse crisis https://twitter.com/njchamp722_/status/1371443885445156864?s=21

I know most of you are aware, but as I still get asked how Christianity coheres with classical theism, I do have a (so far) three part series on a) the existence of God b) a philosophical argument for the Incarnation and c) the atonement:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXbTJn6BGgw94T2UvAm7rnUPgm1_2_Glr

what level of pathological gay narcissism do you have to be on to see systemic child sex abuse coverups and being told you can’t have gay sex anymore as somehow equally understandable reasons for leaving the Catholic Church

according to st jerome, Christ breathed His last with a loud voice to signify His authority over death in contrast to most of us who will die in either a low voice or without any sound at all

Lol

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“He waited so that all these things might be accomplished, after which He said “it is consummated”, and departed by His own power, for He did not come by necessity, and so some marveled more at His power of dying than His performing of miracles.” St. Augustine, Tractates on John

Happy Easter!

as the Father goes out from the superabundant fecundity of Divinity to generate His own consubstantial self-Image (exitus), that same self-Image upon receiving that Divine Nature reflects this Divinity back in that same Love that is the Holy Spirit (reditus)

what happens here ad intra is manifested ad extra in the Incarnation (exitus), Death, Resurrection, and Ascension (reditus) of that same Divine self-Image (Son), thereby restoring the integrity of His own self-Image’s cosmic theophany (us)

The Jews reaction after finding the empty tomb