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Nov 12 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
If you’re interested in a minute-by-minute informed play-by-play this week of #USCCB22, I’ll be livetweeting the public portions of the meeting, right here.
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Nov 15
Hey everybody, this is thread 2 for me from #USCCB22

Bishops will in a moment elect a new president and vice president.

Here's what has happened so far:

Here's a backgrounder for you on how the elections work.

It will answer a lot of your questions:

pillarcatholic.com/how-do-usccb-p…
Gomez is now explaining how voting works. Not sure if he read that Pillar explainer.
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Nov 15
Welcome to #USCCB22, whose public sessions are about to begin.

I’ll be your livetweeting host and Pillar editor-in-chief JD Flynn.

The public meeting is about to begin. Image
You will notice the bishops are seated at round tables. This is a change, part of a focus on building fraternity among the bishops.

#USCCB22 Image
Bishops are beginning with midday prayer.
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Nov 7
Cardinal Ricard sat on the CDF for years with the knowledge that he had sexually abused a 14-year old girl. He participated in decision-making about the canonical crime of sexual abuse.

His duplicity calls into question the integrity of the Church’s administration of justice.
My opinion: This is a counterwitness to the veracity of the Gospel.

Why? Bc/c if people entrusted with the Church’s justice act with startling duplicity, people will ask if they believe in eternal judgment. And if cardinals don’t act like they believe, others will struggle.
What can be done?

1. Act with integrity.
2. Act for reform.
3. Act with contrition.
4. If you live a double life or don’t believe in eternal judgment, leave the clerical state, for the good of others.
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Oct 27
Many Churchmen these days are falling all over themselves to see how many times they can get the word "synodality" into a sentence.

And then there are a few who say that synodality is the singular paradigm through which to understand the Church, and other such things.
This shouldn't surprise us.

Before it was "synodality" it was "accompaniment."

Before that it was "dictatorship of relativism"

and before that, the "new evangelization."
All of those concepts and ideas have a genuine place in the deposit of faith, to be sure.

But it's remarkable how quickly slogans become the predominant motif in episcopal conversations and deliberations.
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Oct 26
So sometimes when Max has trouble focusing in Mass, we go to the narthex, light a candle, say some prayers, and go to the bookstore.

Max browses the bookstore for a few minutes, then we go back to Mass.

And he has this one strange habit in there.
When anyone else comes into the bookstore, Max sizes them up, then runs off to the shelves to pick something out for them.

Sometimes a book, sometimes a medal, sometimes a holy card.

He brings it to them, and then I explain that Max picked this out and thought they’d like it.
People usually think it’s cute, and often they buy what Max picked out for them. I often wish he got a commission.

But two weeks ago, with this one lady, things did not go well.
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