Seldom Affirm. Never Deny. Always Distinguish. “Who is more foolish: the fool, or the fool who retweets him?” TAC 2010, CUA-JCL 2014
Dec 8, 2021 • 106 tweets • 23 min read
Welp, promised myself I would read that Marquette document today... so, here it goes. 🧐 (I heard it doesn't explicitly mention pronouns, so theoretically it's at least one order of magnitude less cringe than the documents from Lansing and Arlington, right?)
...three hours and one handful of distractions later, I've got 12 pages dripping in multi-colored handwritten notes. Gonna take a break, but then 100% coming back to The Bird App and... processing.
tl;dr – It's strangely mixed bag. Could have been worse. Lots of room for growth.
Jul 21, 2021 • 34 tweets • 8 min read
tl;dr – This particular angle on today's news is aimed in the right direction, but fundamentally flawed. A thread.
One of my Catholic friends expressed the following sentiment this evening, reacting to the above story:
"This is exactly why Rome is so toxic. The Gospel is good news. God came to free us from sin... He didn’t come to suffocate us with details."
Aug 12, 2020 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
So I think this article is raging dumpster fire of half-truths mixed with dangerous falsehoods. And as a canonist, I feel qualified to comment as someone having a relatively educated opinion. A thread.
The core problem reduces to this question:
What defines a "vocation"?
If we want to be *very* traditional, then the formal and personal “calling” (voco, vocare) by the bishop for candidates to receive ordination - mirroring the formal and personal calling by Christ of His apostles - is arguably the only “true” vocation, strictly speaking.
