Just to let y'all know. the person I replied to in these tweets has blocked me. I tried to verify his claim to be a priest & found he'd attempted marriage. It's an identical situation to this: catholicworldreport.com/2018/07/12/onc…. So he was automatically suspended from exercising priesthood.
I mention this as a reminder that not everyone on Twitter who presents himself as having the authority of the Catholic priesthood truly has that authority.
(The person in question was technically correct about not having been laicized, but he's still prevented by canon law from identifying himself as a priest. Here's the article that says he left the Catholic priesthood: canesfish.com/canes-all-star….)
And I would tag him, only he blocked me after I tweeted this (before I knew he was suspended from exercising the priesthood).
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The dean of @TheBuschSchool at @CatholicUniv, where I attend @CUACanonLaw, just launched an anti-"woke" video for Trumpist PAC @CatholicVote. In it, he explicitly identifies himself by his CUA title. So he's appearing in a partisan video as a CUA rep. 1/4
CUA Busch School Dean Abela slams #DEI, #BLM, and, of course, the rainbow flag. He puts scare quotes around "racist" & rags "progressives" for boycotting Georgia over its voting law.
As a pro-life, pro-chastity, pro-marriage Catholic and a grad student at CUA, I'm appalled. 2/4
OK, it's not shocking. @NapaInstitute, Koch, etc., own @TheBuschSchool. Race-baiting insurrectionist @AbbyJohnson was welcomed at CUA, & an image honoring George Floyd's memory was stolen twice. CUA's ban on LGBTQ groups extends to straight allies. ncronline.org/news/people/na… 3/4
"What does the Kremlin need [Ordo Iuris] for? To take over governments in Europe, or at least to lead the West to the verge of a religious and ideological war." -- @KSuchanow. The article shows how Putin's pal Vladimir Yakunin is a major Ordo Iuris funder. resetobywatelski.pl/ordo-iuris-and…
1) Since the icon was at a chapel entrance, why do you call the theft mere "bullying"? Why not call it what it is--blasphemy? 2) Is the theft being investigated as a possible hate crime? (It should be.)
I'm also puzzled, @CatholicPres, at your writing, "our Law School has always seen the figure as Jesus," by which you apparently mean that the figure can't represent _both_ Jesus _and_ George Floyd (i.e., inviting us to see Jesus in Floyd). (2 of 4)
Before saying "our Law School has always seen the figure as Jesus," did you consult @CathULaw's Regina Jefferson or Shani Butts? At the icon's blessing, they seemed to interpret it within the artist's intended dual symbolism--both Jesus and Floyd. law.edu/news-and-event… (3 of 4)
After I posted my talk confronting G.K. Chesterton's anti-Semitism, a commenter asked if there were other comments from Chesterton on Jews that were worse than the ones I cited.
I'm sorry to say that the answer's yes. 1/9
In my talk, I used only examples of GKC's anti-Semitism for which I had pics of original sources. I'd read worse examples in @mayerssd's book Chesterton's Jews but didn't have photos. I feared if I cited them without photos, folks wouldn't believe me. 2/9
Today, with the help of @CUAlibraries, I acquired a scan of an essay by Chesterton containing some of his more offensive comments. The essay in question has never been anthologized. I had seen it quoted in Simon Mayers's book and in this blog entry: simonmayers.com/2013/09/25/g-k…. 3/9
I recently spoke at the @chestertonsoc conference on “Chesterton and My Jewish/Catholic Journey.” When Society prez Dale Ahlquist asked me to speak on being a Jew who converted to Catholicism after reading GKC, I told him I wrestled with Chesterton’s writings on Jews. (1/35)
Dale encouraged me to speak honestly of that wrestling, and I am grateful. I’d like to share some highlights from my talk.
I’ll skip the part about how I discovered Chesterton, as I’ve discussed that elsewhere (see thomasaquinas.edu/news/healing-m…). (2/35)
The first part of my talk focused on how Chesterton shaped my understanding of morality. I identified six moral imperatives I learned from him. Then I read quotations from him on Jews. Finally, I recommended judging his writings on Jews by his own moral imperatives. (3/35)