Lord Have Mercy

On this day in 1945, the Enola Gay and its crew took off from Tinian headed for Hiroshima with an atomic bomb codenamed "Little Boy."

Several hours later, we dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan and the world changed forever. pic.twitter.com/wzMBou3sht

— David Hookstead (@dhookstead) August 6, 2021

Remembering Hiroshima
by David R. Henderson@davidrhenderson #hiroshima #HiroshimaDay #Hiroshima76 https://t.co/qbMSMUSx6Y pic.twitter.com/fxrpvDMd9A

— Antiwar.com (@Antiwarcom) August 6, 2021

Olympic Organizers Refuse to Honor Victims of 1945 Hiroshima Bombing
August 6th marks the 76th anniversary of the US dropping an A-bomb on Hiroshima, coinciding with the Tokyo Olympics
by Dave DeCamp@DecampDave #Hiroshima #HiroshimaDay #Olympics https://t.co/Pr6QHUmuX3 pic.twitter.com/6NVjTdGyGe

— Antiwar.com (@Antiwarcom) August 6, 2021

Meditations on the Bomb From a Small-Town Cul-de-Sac (essay by Peter Beaulieu) https://t.co/WyTYCIz7eO

— ImaginativeConservat (@imaginativecons) August 6, 2021

The Untold Story of Japan’s Atomic Bomb (essay by Robert Wilcox) https://t.co/pX5cqsLmt6

— ImaginativeConservat (@imaginativecons) August 6, 2021

Find Your Tribe

if you want to find your life's mission, not this nonsense generated by a female academic living an atomized life.

To Find Your Life’s Mission, Follow Your Questions https://t.co/wwuGI87cQL

— Public Discourse (@PublicDiscourse) July 18, 2021

But the Usurers Are in Control

A Time fo Reconsidering the Catholic Prohibition of Usury
by John Buchmannhttps://t.co/0mzwvs3V2F

— Church Life Journal (@ChurchLifeND) July 14, 2021

When You See Things from the Narrow Perspective of RC Social Teaching

Solidarity and subsidiarity: https://t.co/zXeES8mbuG

— Tradistae (@tradistae) June 25, 2021

No Thanks

Lately I've had a ton of questions about abortion, Covid vaccines, and the common good. Have you? This is for you, then.

When we started @PillarCatholic, we wanted space for the kind of deep dive stuff we simply hadn't had time for. This is what we meant. https://t.co/ZUlw5hVDAu

— Ed. Condon (@canonlawyered) February 22, 2021

Apologists for Sherman (and Lincoln)?

Increasingly, Sherman’s biographers have moved to absolve him of any connection to modern theories of war. From the print edition:https://t.co/pOGn9QOjKN

— First Things (@firstthingsmag) February 4, 2021

Latin Progs Love It When the Shoe is on the Other Foot

Let this put an end to bishops who were opposing vaccines and endangering lives. Roma locuta, causa finita. https://t.co/fr1gD7dj9i

— James Martin, SJ (@JamesMartinSJ) December 21, 2020

Not quite. The CDF note requires us to continue to reject and condemn the practice of abortion and is use in vaccine development. This is still a moral evil, and we are right to oppose the evil, even if our remote cooperation makes its use morally acceptable. https://t.co/uYoBRjn1Vf

— Fr. Pius Pietrzyk OP (@PiusOP) December 21, 2020

Related:

A note from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which was approved by Pope Francis, gives the green light during the pandemic to the use of vaccines produced with cell lines derived from two fetuses aborted in the 1960s.https://t.co/LV5mw7u4xT

— Catholic Sat (@CatholicSat) December 21, 2020

By @eliseannallen, Vatican green-lights COVID vaccines, finds no ‘cooperation’ in abortion for users https://t.co/tmoKAWIo15

— Crux (@Crux) December 21, 2020

The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has today issued a Note on the morality of using some anti-Covid-19 vaccines: https://t.co/5O7PQkljPa

— Fr James Bradley (@FrJamesBradley) December 21, 2020

Sad

... The Catholic Church doesn't say it's OK to kill people convicted of murder as long as you let millions of unborn live.

And the Church doesn't say it's OK to separate migrant kids from parents--FOREVER--because the blood of 60,000,000 aborted children cries from the ground...

— Dawn Eden Goldstein: Wear a Mask/Stop the Spread (@DawnofMercy) October 28, 2020

...In fact, the Church teaches that Jesus would have given his life for you if you were the only person in the world.

So use your vote to elect the candidate most likely to support "the dignity of the human person and the common good of all" (p. 6: https://t.co/egX7GkvIJ0). ...

— Dawn Eden Goldstein: Wear a Mask/Stop the Spread (@DawnofMercy) October 28, 2020

Did they study Ratzinger and the CDF for moral theology at the seminary?

Fr. Raymond J. de Souza on Fratelli Tutti on War

In footnote 242, Pope Francis writes that “we no longer uphold” the teaching of St. Augustine on just war.https://t.co/qa8pL8NUWx

— First Things (@firstthingsmag) October 29, 2020

This Is Like a Facile Reading of the Parable of the Good Samaritan

"Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's..."

Christ rendered unto Caesar obediently.
Caesar took Christ's life.

Thus the Christian view of politics: not just that political authority is good, not just that it is often abused.

Political authority is good, AND it is often abused. pic.twitter.com/QjW3Stgvh6

— Bill McCormick, SJ (@BMcCSJ) October 18, 2020

Possibly bad exegesis as a means of proof-texting for moral theology. The exercise of "political authority" can be good; but there is also such a thing as illegitimate political authority, or tyranny.

Pope Francis on War

Pope Francis calls out the language of war. He speaks against “war” as a solution. In this, he echoes many prior popes – via @josephecapizzi https://t.co/KRMhQztgL1

— Providence (@ProvMagazine) October 16, 2020

Modern warfare is a problem because of scale. The scale problem initiates in the state; the state is the problem that needs to be fixed.

Some Might Interpret This as Advising Absolute Pacifism

But the context is not provided, and he is not present on earth to clarify. It is the case that one cannot wage war on evil directly nor eradicate directly, as one cannot coerce the will. One can only prevent another from committing grave evil or harm. But this charitable reading of the saint's words is probably not what he meant.

"Don't wage war on evil directly, but love Christ and His light, and evil will then retreat." +St. Porphyrios pic.twitter.com/6QNHMsRoh6

— Saint Porphyrios (@saintporphyrios) September 20, 2020

A Bit Pharasaical?

Fr. Pacholczyk said Catholics are not “morally obligated” to refuse a vaccine derived from aborted fetuses, but are expected to “pressure pharmaceutical companies and researchers” to avoid such medical science and to “reformulate problematic vaccines.” https://t.co/SwS7kKaH1r

— Edward Pentin (@EdwardPentin) September 11, 2020

The former is easier to accomplish than the latter, and what power do consumers have over Big Pharma? How much application of pressure is enough to assuage their consciences?

The Morality of the Atomic Bombings

"There was, in other words, no moral justification to use atomic weapons in the way we did even if one concedes its historical necessity." @josephecapizzi
https://t.co/dqxEdB54NH

— Public Discourse (@PublicDiscourse) August 6, 2020

The First Principles of Practical Reason

Public Discourse: On the First Principles of Moral Reasonby Paul R. DeHart

Natural law holds that some things are right for all people, at all times, and in all places. Convictions about what these are is neither here nor there as to whether some things are in fact right always, everywhere, and for everyone, @PaulRDeHart writes. https://t.co/6RMDCetGzV

— Public Discourse (@PublicDiscourse) July 7, 2020

Probably Won't Be Like Rules for Retrogrades

I love cover art for my upcoming book, w/@blsandford, about "soft totalitarianism" & strategies offered for today's church by Christians who endured Soviet-bloc oppression. Pub date 9/29. As of today, you can pre-order it on Amazon, in Kindle or hardcover: https://t.co/MBm4axDXig pic.twitter.com/wvQaPoDQBl

— Rod Dreher (@roddreher) May 17, 2020

Maybe I'll get a copy of Rules for Retrogrades when TAN has a big sale. I suspect that it isn't close to what is advocated by those in the alt-r.

Is a Christian obligated always to use dialectic when engaging in those who are enemies of his community? I think it can be argued that a Christian can use rhetoric to discredit the enemies of his community in order to protect his community and to persuade the uncommitted, but such an action may not be reckoned as "nice" behavior. Shaming them , e.g. calling them easily triggered snowflakes may not be an effective tactic all the time, as some may not care. Shaming tactics can and should be morally used with one's own community; with those who are outside the community it is less of a shaming action than an insult but an insult that may be truth-telling.

Just resistance in political arrangement such as ours is something that Latin moral theology has not really considered, and may never consider before the collapse of Catholic higher education is complete. Responding to attacks by SJWs may necessarily include communication, but communication is only one response of many.

Ultramontanist When It's Your Guy Who's Pope

Here is our first article on Pope Francis' first encyclical! Our now provincial, Damian Howard SJ, set Laudato si' in its cultural and political context, and asked how it fit into the tradition of Catholic Social Teaching. https://t.co/GkkDBbTqQc pic.twitter.com/cxhrsBVlld

— Thinking Faith (@ThinkingFaith) May 17, 2020

What Is the Solution?

The standard Roman Catholic wedding vows do not include a promise for the wife to obey the husband:

Couples wedding in the Roman Catholic Church essentially make the same pledge to one another. According to the Rite of Marriage (#25) the customary text in English is:^[4]

I, ____, take you, ____, to be my (husband/wife). I promise to be true to you in good times and in bad, in sickness and in health. I will love you and honour you all the days of my life.

In the United States, Catholic wedding vows may also take the following form:^[4]

I, ____, take you, ____, to be my lawfully wedded(husband/wife), to have and to hold, from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, until death do us part.

The priest will then say aloud "You have declared your consent before the Church. May the Lord in his goodness strengthen your consent and fill you both with his blessings. What God has joined, men must not divide. Amen."^[5]

Very Sloppy

This doesn't even rise to the level of moral theologizing, as there is no attempt to analyze the proof text for the relevant principles and a determination of their application to the current situation.

Rorate Caeli: Leo XIII -"Man Precedes the State": A State that Destroys Jobs is Destroying the Primary Instinct of Man -- Self-Preservation

Dorothy Day: An Introduction to Her Life and Thought

Ignatius Press: Dorothy Day: An Introduction to Her Life and Thought by Terrence C. Wright

CWR: The radical and orthodox faith of Dorothy Day

Terrence Wright’s recent book demonstrates that Day was a radical in her political and social views because she was first a truly radical Catholic in her appropriation of the deepest currents in the Church’s ancient Tradition.