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Matt Swaim
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Son Rise Morning Show/Journey Home. #gratefultweet daily logger since September 2011. My puns are mightier than your sword.
Jul 30 • 31 tweets • 5 min read
As a Catholic Convert who’s been in the Church for a couple decades now, I’ve been stewing on this a while, so here you go:

5 things you won’t hear me say about Catholics and Protestants and Conversion, a thread

🧵🪡 1. “Converts make the best Catholics.”

This is often more anecdotal than anything else, and usually means something like, “converts know a lot more facts about Catholicism than cradle Catholics do.”
Jul 31, 2024 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
A favorite Jesuit joke for today's feast of St. Ignatius:

There was a miser who had three sons-- all three became priests. One joined the Dominicans, another the Franciscans, and the third joined the Jesuits. At his death, the will was read, and the miser, rather than leaving money to his sons and their orders, made a single request:

That each of them place a thousand dollars in the casket to buried with him.
Sep 22, 2022 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Sometimes someone who has a strong aversion to the Catholic Church will post an example of something that serves to them as a "proof" that the Catholic Church persists in theological error.

Some of those conversations aren't resolvable, but the one I came across today is. The allegation: Catholics worship Mary, and this bumper sticker is proof.

Except I am 99% sure this is not a Catholic bumper sticker.

I have a strong hunch that this is a Mormon bumper sticker. And here's why:
Sep 21, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
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Happy Name Day to me
#FeastofStMatthew St. Matthew is patron saint of tax collectors. He is also patron saint of the Archdiocese of Washington. Make of that what you will.
Dec 5, 2019 • 27 tweets • 5 min read
A question I never really asked until my mid-20's: If the Bible was supposed to be so important, what mechanism did Jesus put in place to make sure it would one day get compiled into a single book?

I realized that whatever that mechanism was, I needed to be in communion with it. And of course, looking around my American protestant landscape at the time, I wondered: if the Bible wasn't yet a book, which present-day denomination could I trust to make sure it became one? Would the Methodists, Baptists, etc. of today come up with the same table of contents?