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16 Mar, 4 tweets, 1 min read
So the Prince of Wales shows up in the U.S. and we say "Hey, this freakin coffin couldn't hold George Washington. You remember that guy, right? Anyway, here's some wood."

that's pretty awesome.
Hey, @canonlawyered.

How bout them apples, English?
"But I'm from the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and George III was from the Hanover House..."

"Yeah, well this piece of wood is from the House of USofA, so getdafuq outta here, England..."
(I've decided the guy doing the gifting is from my part of New Jersey.)

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JD Flynn Profile picture
17 Mar
Other things my dad told us:
- that 'Green Chromosomes' are stronger than other genes, so if you are a bit Irish, the green chromosomes will overpower everything until you're all Irish.

- that on St. Patrick's Day, I had to write Seamus on my school papers or I would get a zero.
When I went to college, I decided I was going to rebel *so hard* by not writing Seamus on my papers anymore on 3-17.

Then, thanks to those green chromosomes, I felt deeply guilty and aware of my father's mortality, so I started doing it again.
When I was in high school my dad would call my teachers and explain about the Seamus thing and ask them to make sure I did it.
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16 Mar
If you don't know that much about St. Patrick, this is the year to learn something about him.
His dad was a deacon, but teenage Patrick was not very devout. his grandfather was a priest.

They lived in the northwest of England, which was, in the fifth century, a Roman territory.
Then when Patrick was 16, he got kidnapped by Irish pirates.
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16 Mar
I have been thinking about St. Eusebia all day. Her dad murdered, her mom sent her to a monastery, the girl gets elected an abbess at 12.

An abbess. And even though things start out pretty rough, she ends up leading her monastery through a period of growth and holiness.
When I was 12, I was elected patrol leader in my Boy Scout troop, and it was a disaster. So the 12 year old abbess really impresses me.
Basically, his grace is sufficient, and that's the lesson of St. Eusebia.
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12 Mar
I wonder if they focus grouped the “can and cannot do” language. I suspect it won’t play well with people who are skeptical, who seem to be an important audience for the speech.
Nor will the bit about the 4th of July.
On the whole I think this speech will be celebrated by people who support Biden and be criticized as scolding by those who think the federal government has been overbearing.

A nice enough speech, but I don’t see it moving any needles for anybody.
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13 Feb
There have long been divisions among American Catholics between the sociopolitical “left” and “right” and roughly correspondent theological worldviews.

But the way in which the last four years has deeply fractured “conservative” Catholics is seriously underappreciated.

cont
I used to think this was just a phenomenon among the very online, but it’s not. I hear from a lot of practicing Catholic families who have been seriously fractured over Trump, Vigano, and now vaccines, etc. I hear from campus ministers who say students are confused by that.
What I spent my 20s and early 30s thinking of as kind of the “JP2 coalition” of apostolates, movements, organizations, institutions are now often internally divided.

My impression of bishops is that many of them don’t really see or appreciate this, or its significance.
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6 Jan
Full text thread:

I know your pain, I know you're hurt. We had an election that was stolen from us. It was a landslide election, and everyone knows it, especially the other side. But you have to go home now, we have to have peace. d go home in peace.

(cont.)
We have to have law and order, we have to respect our great...people in law and order. We don’t want anybody hurt.

(cont)
It’s a very tough period of time. There’s never been a time like this, where such a thing happened, where they could take it away from all of us, from me, from you, from our country.

(cont.)
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