Thread by @MattGaspers

[Thread] @DawnofMercy, in response to your recent and lengthy diatribe -- principally against @cardinalrlburke, @Patrick_Coffin, and @TaylorRMarshall, but also naming @EWTN, @NCRegister, @EdwardPentin, @SophiaInsPress and others -- I offer a few observations.

@DawnofMercy @cardinalrlburke @Patrick_Coffin @TaylorRMarshall @EWTN @NCRegister @EdwardPentin @SophiaInsPress 1a) With all due respect, you're making a mountain out of a molehill re: @cardinalrlburke's replies to @Patrick_Coffin's questions. Nowhere did +Burke state that we (the faithful) should hold in doubt the validity of @Pontifex's election. Furthermore, the peaceful and ...

@DawnofMercy @cardinalrlburke @Patrick_Coffin @TaylorRMarshall @EWTN @NCRegister @EdwardPentin @SophiaInsPress @Pontifex 1b) universal acceptance of @Pontifex as the Supreme Pontiff following his election constitutes a dogmatic fact (newadvent.org/cathen/05092a.…), which makes this entire conversation moot anyway. See the following link for further details: catholicfamilynews.com/blog/2018/09/1…

@DawnofMercy @cardinalrlburke @Patrick_Coffin @TaylorRMarshall @EWTN @NCRegister @EdwardPentin @SophiaInsPress @Pontifex 2a) I find it very predictable and telling that a graduate of the "University of Saint Mary of the Lake", affiliated with @MundeleinSem (formerly led by @BishopBarron and under @CardinalBCupich's jurisdiction), wants everyone to believe that @TaylorRMarshall's #Infiltration ...

@DawnofMercy @cardinalrlburke @Patrick_Coffin @TaylorRMarshall @EWTN @NCRegister @EdwardPentin @SophiaInsPress @Pontifex @MundeleinSem @BishopBarron @CardinalBCupich 2b) a bunch of 'conspiracy theory' nonsense. With all due respect, @DawnofMercy, do not insult the intelligence of serious #Catholics who recognize that "something is rotten in the state of Denmark" -- and Chicago, New York, D.C., Rome, etc.

@DawnofMercy @cardinalrlburke @Patrick_Coffin @TaylorRMarshall @EWTN @NCRegister @EdwardPentin @SophiaInsPress @Pontifex @MundeleinSem @BishopBarron @CardinalBCupich 2c) The Conciliar Matrix is crashing down around us as we speak. Only those who are willfully ignorant dare to deny this reality. remnantnewspaper.com/web/index.php/…

@DawnofMercy @cardinalrlburke @Patrick_Coffin @TaylorRMarshall @EWTN @NCRegister @EdwardPentin @SophiaInsPress @Pontifex @MundeleinSem @BishopBarron @CardinalBCupich 3a) For someone who holds a doctorate in Sacred Theology, you don't seem to grasp the binding nature of #Tradition, nor the fact that the #Magisterium, including @Pontifex, "is not above the word of God" (Vatican II, Dei Verbum, art. 10).

@DawnofMercy @cardinalrlburke @Patrick_Coffin @TaylorRMarshall @EWTN @NCRegister @EdwardPentin @SophiaInsPress @Pontifex @MundeleinSem @BishopBarron @CardinalBCupich 3b) So, for example, just because @Pontifex declares that "the death penalty is inadmissible" -- which @BishopBarron inexplicably defended in June as "eloquent ambiguity" () -- his papal fiat does not automatically make it so: catholicfamilynews.com/blog/2018/12/1…

@DawnofMercy @cardinalrlburke @Patrick_Coffin @TaylorRMarshall @EWTN @NCRegister @EdwardPentin @SophiaInsPress @Pontifex @MundeleinSem @BishopBarron @CardinalBCupich 3c) And why? Because the Magisterium "is not above the word of God". Or, in pre-conciliar terms, "I entirely reject the heretical misrepresentation that dogmas evolve and change from one meaning to another different ...

@DawnofMercy @cardinalrlburke @Patrick_Coffin @TaylorRMarshall @EWTN @NCRegister @EdwardPentin @SophiaInsPress @Pontifex @MundeleinSem @BishopBarron @CardinalBCupich 3d) "from the one which the Church held previously." (Pope #StPiusX, Oath Against #Modernism -- papalencyclicals.net/pius10/p10moat…). For further reading on the binding nature of #Tradition, see the following book by @RobertodeMattei: angeluspress.org/products/apolo…

@DawnofMercy @cardinalrlburke @Patrick_Coffin @TaylorRMarshall @EWTN @NCRegister @EdwardPentin @SophiaInsPress @Pontifex @MundeleinSem @BishopBarron @CardinalBCupich @RobertodeMattei 4a) In closing, @DawnofMercy, it seems to me that you are thoroughly enmeshed in #Modernism if you think that respectful resistance of "profane novelties" (1 Tim. 6:20) held/promoted by @Pontifex constitutes a "hermeneutic of suspicion" () ...

@DawnofMercy @cardinalrlburke @Patrick_Coffin @TaylorRMarshall @EWTN @NCRegister @EdwardPentin @SophiaInsPress @Pontifex @MundeleinSem @BishopBarron @CardinalBCupich @RobertodeMattei 4b) (did you borrow that phrase from Kevin Symonds, by chance? catholicworldreport.com/2017/11/27/the…), as well as being "close to the schismatic rails" (your characterization of @cardinalrlburke - ).

@DawnofMercy @cardinalrlburke @Patrick_Coffin @TaylorRMarshall @EWTN @NCRegister @EdwardPentin @SophiaInsPress @Pontifex @MundeleinSem @BishopBarron @CardinalBCupich @RobertodeMattei 4c) I doubt you will deign to respond to my observations, but I sincerely hope they prove useful to my Twitter followers and other interested parties. God bless and good day to you, @DawnofMercy.

P.S. Here is another book by @RobertodeMattei that you would do well to read (published by @AngelicoPress): angelicopress.org/product/love-f…