just as in the waning days of the Western Roman Empire, the elites got overly greedy and complacent--a fatal combination. https://t.co/gogkknBRce
— Charles Hugh Smith (@chsm1th) September 6, 2020
Monday, September 07, 2020
The Last Days of the American Empire...
Matt Stewart Interviews Bradley Birzer
Brass Spittoon: Bradley Birzer on Christian Humanism by Matt Stewart | https://t.co/3w82waGBb1 pic.twitter.com/7ntd4jKcdA
— Front Porch Republic (@FrontPorchRepub) September 7, 2020
Matt Stewart interviews @bradleybirzer about his new book, BEYOND TENEBRAE: CHRISTIAN HUMANISM IN THE TWILIGHT OF THE WEST. https://t.co/3w82waGBb1 pic.twitter.com/0JVRVNcyp4
— Front Porch Republic (@FrontPorchRepub) September 7, 2020
Angelico Press
Whom Does the UN Serve?
The #COVID19 pandemic is demonstrating what we all know: millennia of patriarchy have resulted in a male-dominated world with a male-dominated culture which damages everyone – women, men, girls & boys.
— United Nations (@UN) September 6, 2020
-- @antonioguterres https://t.co/ppSUGLr2Wx pic.twitter.com/krT6HkQil6
More Egalitarian BS
They even had to have 50/50 representation in the collage.
Celebrating #LaborDay2020 and recognizing America's hardworking men and women across our Armed Forces!
— @USASOAC (@usasoac) September 7, 2020
Link to the Presidential Proclamation https://t.co/bogLbWIvQF pic.twitter.com/r0zzP0grdr
Matthew 18:17
What sounds to us like a message of exile ("treat unrepentant sinners as you would a Gentile or a tax collector") completely falls apart when you remember how Jesus actually treated Gentiles and tax collectors: warmly, hospitably, with great hope for their conversion. pic.twitter.com/d8WOKZQaxM
— Catherine Addington (@caddington11) September 6, 2020
Is this how that sentence is normally understood? Exile? (Or excommunication?)
Is such a consequence completely unwarranted?
The English translation of the pope's Angelus address gives a better translation of the passage in question, Matthew 18:17. Pope Francis may give a better explanation:
And Jesus says: “and if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector” (ibid.). This expression, seemingly so scornful, in reality invites us to put the brother in God's hands: only the Father will be able to show a greater love than that of all brothers and sisters put together.
But the alternative explanation offered by Francis is unwarranted by the text, unless one is reading into it -- if one is no longer to consider the unrepetant sinner a brother or sister in Christ, but an outsider, does that mean we are to scorn him or her? No. Does that mean we stop living them with agape? No. But a sinner's offense may be so serious that it does require that we no longer include him in the community -- exile or excommunication. Excommunication or exile is not incompatible with agape. Regardless of whether someone is included in the Church or not, how can the Body of Christ have a greater agape love than that of God Himself?
Let us remember that Christ did not force Himself upon those who rejected Him, tax collector, Gentile, Pharisee, Saducee, Samaritan, etc. He did invite people to repentence but He also made it clear that repentence for sins was necessary for forgiveness.
Bradford Wilcox on the Suzanne Venker Show
Episode 61. I expect very little discussion of feminism's effects on women's expectations of sex, love, romance, and a very blue-pilled view of reality from Wilcox.
Sunday, September 06, 2020
Elizabeth Stice Reviews Breaking Bread with the Dead by Alan Jacobs
Penguin/Random House What little I've seen by Jacobs makes me question whether his Christian humanism isn't just a form of liberal humanism.This is a good review of a good book. I’m not planning to review it myself, so I’ll just add that I wish Jacobs would distinguish more carefully between the goods of reading history and the particular goods of reading old stories and poems. 1/x https://t.co/8IufReHM1H
— Jeffrey Bilbro (@jeff_bilbro) September 5, 2020
Religious Art
She is one of the best. https://t.co/7OIHuqFLbP
— 🌪Bo G Bonner🌪 (@RuinUrLifeWell) September 3, 2020
the artist's website
Her religious art is generally quite good, but it wouldn't be considered iconography.
Even Liberals Can Produce Useful Content?
🔥LIVE: Discussing social media, the suppression of dissent and legal asymmetrical warfare with lawyer @RonColeman Please join us now and please ask questions 🙏 https://t.co/wmGADwGT31
— Adam Townsend (@adamscrabble) September 3, 2020
Kleptopia by Tom Burgis
Harper CollinsLook at what came through my postbox! Lauded by @MishaGlenny and @jonsnowC4 , @tomburgis 's new book promises to delve into corners powerful crooks never wanted exposed. Most importantly, it is a searing indictment of the weaknesses of today's financial system. pic.twitter.com/uH8mBgCT7X
— Catherine Belton (@CatherineBelton) September 3, 2020
Putting Their Faith on Display?
CWR Dispatch: New organization working to promote Eucharistic Processions nationwide by Joseph M. Hanneman
Men of Christ, a Milwaukee-based apostolate, has founded “Unite Our Nation” following the success of the August 15th Eucharistic Procession and patriotic Rosary rally in Madison, WI.
For the sake of argument... let us assume that this, like the March for Life or prayer processions, is not reducible to a mere political act. What is the spiritual significance? Can one have the pure intention of just praying in public like this? Or are there spiritual risks when one is parading in such a manner in front of non-believers? A vestige of Latin triumphalism? It would seem that this is without precedent in the early Church. Is this act ordered towards evangelization? Of course God can work upon the human heart through any event, but is the public display of Roman Catholic piety in a non-Catholic society effective as a means of evangelization? What does such a procession accomplish that prayer within a temple or at home could not?
Would some say that the duelling of gods can be found in the Old Testament and in some missionary saints (St. Boniface) and see such prayer processions being similar to that? But have we accepted a righteousness comparable to the prophets or those missionary saints?
"What Would Stoner Do?"
First shots! Testing & production update on the "What Would Stoner Do?" InRangetv collaboration!https://t.co/Lag9ODnvef#brownells #guns #wwsd #ar15
— Brownells, Inc. (@BrownellsInc) August 27, 2020
Meritocracy and Liberalism (Michael Sandel)
Meritocracy and its discontents: A book event with Michael J. Sandel | American Enterprise Institute - AEI listening to this now. https://t.co/X48FY7g0ak
— University Bookman (@ubookman) September 3, 2020
The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?
David Graeber Passes
“Huge swaths of people, in Europe and North America in particular, spend their entire working lives performing tasks they believe to be unnecessary. The moral and spiritual damage that comes from this situation is profound."
— Michael Krieger (@LibertyBlitz) September 3, 2020
- David Graeberhttps://t.co/h2n2SDGNrf
DDM4 PDW
When you mash together art and function you end up with the DDM4PDW🎨 pic.twitter.com/aw24zvId6O
— Daniel Defense (@DanielDefense) August 27, 2020
Wilhelm Röpke's Liberalism
Wilhelm Röpke's book "showed market liberals how to move beyond the world of supply and demand, and it helped conservatives understand why economic freedom should be central to their creed." @drsamuelgregg https://t.co/no2CIAUhwu via @PublicDiscourse
— Jay W. Richards (@DrJayRichards) September 3, 2020
A Good Crop?
The majority appear to be non-American? Could explain why they don't share the soy look that so many American priests and male religious have.
The 29 newly-ordained priests of the Prelature of Opus Dei with Msgr. Fernando Ocariz! pic.twitter.com/WwpfBhZNcE
— Sachin Jose (@Sachinettiyil) September 5, 2020
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