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19 Jun, 6 tweets, 1 min read
There remains within some aspects of institutional Catholic culture a desire to be affirmed by the legacy legitimatizing institutions of American public life. The fantasy that if we obscure our weird little popish superstitions, the NY Times will think we're cool.
This is the residual gift of our immigrant past, and maybe the historical circumstances once made the aspiration of social normalcy understandable. But anyone can see the damage it has wrought to the Church, and it is time to stop caring that people will figure out who we are.
We do not let our yes be yes and our no be no, because too often we are trying to find some magical gnostic key to explaining the faith in a way that will cause no scandal. We are left causing scandal while failing to explain the faith.
I wear two woolen squares connected by cords on my neck, so that when I die the Blessed Virgin Mary will pray me into heaven. I'll bet at least half the bishops at the USCCB do too.

If Yale or the New York Times think that's weird, they're right. It's time to stop giving a damn.
I think it was inevitable that lay people would realize this before, for example, bishops, because a bishop can still live mostly within the ambit of the Church’s institutions. We can’t.

We’ve known for a long time that religiosity, and especially ours, was socially taboo.
By the way, I am nervous to die without it by drowning in a pool or something; even though I obviously KNOW better, I’m not sure I believe better. So yeah, that’s who we are.

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18 Jun
Hey Everybody:

In just a few minutes, day 3 of #USCCB21 will begin.

Stay tuned for live-tweets of the third day.
On the agenda today:
Results from voting on various issues, including the drafting of a document on the Eucharist, liturgical translations, the new pastoral framework on marriage, and the development of new pastoral documents on Native Americans and on youths.

#USCCB21
Here's a gif. Because "youths."
Read 129 tweets
17 Jun
At #USCCB21 bishops will now discuss:
+Rhodes is now explaining pathway of document in pre-recorded message. Says there has been much confusion and bad information.

As pastors, we are concerned about decline in belief in the Real Presence. Then the pandemic didn't help that.

#USCCB21
The pandemic has however led to a greater appreciation of the Eucharist for some. But we worry that many Catholics may not come back to Mass. As St. Paul reminded the Corinthians:
Read 132 tweets
17 Jun
Ok friends, we'll be returning to Day 2 #USCCB21 in just a moment.

First, discussion of a national framework for youth and young adults, presented by +Burns of Dallas.
And we are back.

+Gomez says there are some "questions" regarding the approval of amendments on "Called to the Joy of Love, and we'll discuss it again.
But for now +Burns discusses the development of a pastoral framework based upon Christus vivit, the post-synodal apostolic exhortation that came after the "youth synod."
Read 25 tweets
17 Jun
Now at #USCCB21, bishops will discuss "Called to the Joy of Love" pastoral frameowrk and proposed amendments to them.

We dont have amendments yet but are promised them shortle.
Bishops are invited to ask for consideration of proposed amendments that the committee recommends for consent motion approval or rejection.

Cupich wants to ask for a particular amendment to be given individual consideration. We don't know which one yet. USCCB will send ASAP
+Cupich:
I want to talk about the both amendments I proposed, on page 26.

No one else asks for separate consideration. But first consent agenda amendments are adopted.
Read 10 tweets
17 Jun
Hey everybody.

In 15 minutes, Day 2 of #USCCB21 will begin. Today is a pretty full schedule of debate, and I'll be livetweeting it all right here. (Well, in a couple different threads, just to make it easier.)
Before we get started, just a reminder: I aim to give you a straight summary of what's going on, and I do that in real time. I'm not always 💯, and I am often paraphrasing. A quote is not a quote without "..."

If I make an editorial aside, I try to label it as such

*cont
And I urge you to take this as a real-time, on the fly, best-as-I-can summary of what's going. If I get something wrong, feel free to note it, but please know I'm not trying to spin, gloss, or editorialize here, I'm trying to capture it.

*cont
Read 94 tweets
16 Jun
Hey everybody, the opening session of #USCCB21 is set to resume in just a minute.

Right now, kinda heavy jazz is playing in the youtube while we wait.
The meeting is about an hour behind schedule, which, for a meeting scheduled for 90 minutes, is kinda remarkable.

What happened? A virtual floor fight over a motion to allow in the agenda indefinite discussion of the "Eucharistic coherence" document, on the agenda for thursday.
Supporters of motion said that seeking consensus means it is important that every bishop be heard. Critics said it was a stall tactic or a "filibuster" of the Eucharistic coherence document.

Motion failed 59%-41%. Bps have told me they didn't think it would be that close.
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