Propaganda for an Agenda

For the first time since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Father Franciscus Asisi Eka Yuantoro was welcomed earlier this month into a government facility for unaccompanied minors in Donna, Texas, to celebrate Mass, which he called a “blessing.”https://t.co/IuqFWUNFqZ

— Crux (@Crux) June 29, 2021

Abomination

Please check out the next sermon in the series, with blessing of @Elpidophoros, co-sponsored by @FordhamOrthodox & @goarch: Orthodox Scholars Preach: Sunday of St. Gregory Palamas - Eugenia Consta... https://t.co/ksXErQm2Mu via @YouTube @OrthoObserver @GOARCH_Press

— Aristotle Papanikolaou (@atpapanik) March 26, 2021

Should there be Orthodox scholars "preaching"? Not without a commission, if not ordination. But if a bishop were to commission a "layman" to preach, it should be only men and not women. But slowly the errors of feminism and liberalism are infesting the Orthodox world in the US, and they have taken over the Greeks. And as far as I'm concerned, any male academic associated with the Fordham Orthodox is morally disqualified from preaching as well.

"Universal Teacher" or Something

Cardinal Turkson said the Vatican doesn’t discuss salvation “in any group” because they’re multifaith. “It’s not to throw religion at them” but rather “takes the form of the Church’s social teaching... The objective isn’t to provoke everyone to conversion” https://t.co/X2zI8XvpfZ

— Edward Pentin (@EdwardPentin) February 10, 2021

Greeks on Board with This

The World Council of Churches (WCC) and the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue officially launched translations of their latest joint document "Serving a Wounded World in Interreligious Solidarity"#orthodox_timeshttps://t.co/RciH3aSgpG

— Orthodox Times (@orthodox_times) February 5, 2021

Ad Hominem Is Not a Fallacy

in this case, as it is a question of his credibility and witness to Christ, given his dissent from Latin moral teachings.

Father James Martin’s new book looks at how to pray, by @JohnLavenburg https://t.co/3j5c0j41J8

— Crux (@Crux) February 4, 2021

The Glory That is (Female-Led) Churchianity

A clip from the HBO documentary Transhood?

If this doesn't radicalize you, I don't know what will pic.twitter.com/YpWKInUWiS

— Pax Christus (@paxchristus0) November 22, 2020

This Is Not True Ecclesial Reform

Together with the Ecumenical Patriarchate, we will establish a joint committee to study the current needs and dynamics of our Archdiocese and prepare the plan for our new Charter. Clergy and laity together will ensure that our next 100 years in America will be even more fruitful.

— Elpidophoros (@Elpidophoros) October 9, 2020

"We have just received a wonderful opportunity to rebuild the Church in America from the ground up," said Archbishop @Elpidophoros of America​#orthodox_times @goarch @EcuPatriarch

https://t.co/EchzbwxDbB

— Orthodox Times (@orthodox_times) October 9, 2020

Previous developments:

Constantinople suspends Metropolitan of Boston, transfers Metropolitan of New Jersey, suspends Archdiocesan charterhttps://t.co/dopJuzAp2d

On the third day of its current session yesterday, the Holy Synod of the Patriarchate of Constantinople made several major decisions reg... pic.twitter.com/jmNJDL94zz

— Orthodox Christianity (@Orthodoxy2019) October 9, 2020

Not Really an Endorsement of David Bentley Hart

Though in Milbank's mind it is. For me, such praise and endorsement for the reasons presented can only evoke suspicion and maybe even a condemnation of Hart's ideas.

Namaste, you can read it here: @johnmilbank3: https://t.co/hgS36G9sGj Talk to you soon. 🤖

— Thread Reader App (@threadreaderapp) September 6, 2020

Liberalism as Heresy

Liberalism is a kind of arch-heresy, one that does not simply over-extend this or that doctrine of the Church, but argues that Christian doctrine *itself* is the natural, private property of reasonable men. https://t.co/fGubtHT1tT

— New Polity (@PostliberalTho1) August 26, 2020

The Flip Side of Everyone is a Child of God

Putting the paschal mystery at the center of our lives means feeling compassion towards the wounds of the crucified Christ present in the many innocent victims of wars and violence, in attacks on life, in environmental disasters, and in poverty.

— Pope Francis (@Pontifex) August 29, 2020

There needs to be a easy to use name for this... some sort of "univeralism"?

Baylor: Get Woke, Go Broke

“What if their [women's and children's] lives were taken as significant sites for theological work?” I bet the professor of feminist theology doesn't talk about what it means for a woman to respect and to submit to her husband as a part of her divine vocation.

What if the lives of women and children “were taken as significant sites for theological work?” Motherhood: A Confession is an answer to that question.

Glad to be able to review Natalie Carnes’s beautiful new book for @FrontPorchRepub https://t.co/JkH31dI6AE

— Christina Lambert (@cjlambert94) August 12, 2020

Motherhood: A Confession
Image and Presence: A Christological Reflection on Iconoclasm and Iconophilia

In addition to the push for wokeness, Baylor employs feminist theologians like Carnes. Her website.

UChicago Divinity School: Natalie Carnes, Baylor University, will lecture on "Attunement: The Feminist Voice and Christianity’s Patriarchal Tradition" on Tuesday, December 10th at 4:30pm, Swift Common Room.

Really Low-Hanging Fruit

Fr. Bryan Massingale

Scholar-priest-activist Bryan Massingale on the state of Catholic approaches to racism: pic.twitter.com/IlCs9t5HBv

— Institute for Christian Socialism (@smashmammon) June 14, 2020

Commonweal interview

I challenge them to think of this: if it were up to people of color, racism would have been over and done, resolved a long time ago. The only reason that racism continues to persist is because white people benefit from it.

I note the disjunction between “multicultural chatter” and “sacred.” “Sacred” had nothing to do with “multicultural”. Being “sacred” means speaking in a white idiom, praying in a white idiom, using European hymns. It’s this normative whiteness that’s ubiquitous in the Catholic Church—which is its greatest hindrance to dealing effectively with issues of race.

Normative whiteness; if you don't like the ecclesial culture, petition to make your own. If you reject assimilation, then show you have the necessary qualities to successfully inculturate Christianity into your own culture. Don't hide behind your collar or your academic title or tell me that you have a necessary vocation to teach whites about their racism. Actions, not words. Fr. Massingale is more an identitarian activist academic than a Christian presbyter, and it is pathetic that some Christians or Latins would hold him up as a credible voice on white racism.

I still remember that attempt to create a distinct African-American Roman Catholic ritual tradition. How is that parish doing these days?

At this point separation, with all of the difficulties that may require with respect to resettlement and apportioning territory, may be the only peaceful solution.

Another Manifestation of the Gospel of "Niceness"

Do some commit acts of incivility or offend charity in their interactions with others, especially online? Perhaps. But some divisions cannot be reduced, nor can one pretend that they do not exist without being unjust or violating the order of charity, and sometimes justice or the order of charity require confrontation. Some divisions are so serious that separation is required, or mere "co-existence."

Better advice would be to avoid unncessary and/or unconstructive conversation or "debate" with others, especially online, and to focus on doing what one can to build up one's self and others within one's community.

CWR Dispatch: A remedy for divisions with adversaries by Thomas M. Doran
We cannot practice daily self examination, an examination of conscience, without growing as human beings and reducing divisions with others, even those we dislike and resent.

Christianity as Liberalism?

Is the author aware of the order of charity?

Lexington Books: Kyle Haden, Embodied Idolatry: A Critique of Christian Nationalism (via Eastern Christian Books)

Judeo-Christian Bishop

Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades of South Bend-Ft. Wayne: "Friendship with Our Jewish Brothers and Sisters"

CNA/CWR: Catholics must reject social media anti-Semitism, Indiana bishop says

"We are bound together with them in friendship as brothers and sisters in the family of God,” said Rhoades.

This is erroneous, or just plain heresy, and ignores the necessity of divine adoption in Christ.

Any antagonism is a response to transgressions by outsiders, and political in nature, not religious.

The Gospel of Niceness

Kindness is an important virtue, whether one identifies it with benevolence or with one of the lesser social virtues. But it is not all there is to virtue, and there are other necessary virtues as well, ones dealing with aggression and assertiveness. Why do people latch on to this counterfeit gospel? Loneliness, atomization, a harsh world. But while community-building requires kindness, it also requires the appropriate response to threats and evil from other people. Do children need care and guidance? Yes, and Mr. Rogers appeared to provide that to children through his show and in real life. But children need to be taught how to live in the world as it is, not a imaginary community. Was Fred Rogers as bad as today's SJWs? No, but he could be as big an activist as others from the 60s, in his own quiet way, and people have latched on to him perhaps because they are not ready to respond to the world as it is. His version of the gospel of niceness is easily subordinated to the needs of the state, even if he didn't intend it to be -- did ever reject the Civil Rights legislation of the 60s? And what was his response to feminism?

As for his demeanor -- did he talk and act more like a mom or a dad? I have witnessed male teachers who act the same way with their students -- has something about their psychic development been stunted? Or is their behavior rooted in something physiological?

Why Mister Rogers Is More Relevant than Ever by John Pattison
Fr. Martin’s Neighborhood by Kevin Wells



Tom Hanks interview

A False Prophet.

Kyrie eleison.

Blaspheming St. Rachel Held Evans by Rod Dreher



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CWR: A Church drowning in sentimentalism by Dr. Samuel Gregg
Whenever I teach graduate seminars, I lay down one rule for the participants. While they’re free to say what they think, they cannot start any sentence with the words “I feel . . .” or [...]

Listen to St. Paul

A woman raises a question about another woman: "Where do bloggers and speakers like Hatmaker derive their authority to speak and teach?"

Neither woman should have been accorded any sort of authority to teach in the first place.

Rod Dreher: Hatmaker Heresy

Of course, Dreher does not question whether women should teach. Any lay Christian who thinks that he should be teaching others should receive permission from his spiritual father, the bishop. However, given the infection of the Church with liberalism, any Christian who dares to oppose liberalism in its various forms, including feminism, may risk the possibility that he will be condemned by his bishop. In that case, he must present a case against liberalism to his bishop, warning the bishop of heresy, or deviating from Sacred Tradition, or at least asking the bishop to support the case for liberalism from Tradition. And if such a defense is not given? Should the Christian continue to teach (or blog)?

CWR: How Many Faces of Christ? by Dr. Leroy Huizenga
Philip Jenkins' "The Many Faces of Christ" displays plenty of scholarship and erudition, but suffers from a blurring of textual and theological lines that reveals a problematic reliance on sociology.