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Mike Lewis
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Editor of https://t.co/ooZ429ghR8 @Where_Peter_is.
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Sep 28 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
That 2019 article about Melina - a photo op that relied on an anonymous "source" claiming Pope Benedict supported the former JP2 Institute president's grievance against Pope Francis was outrageous. I challenged @jdflynn over it at the time but he stuck to the story. 1/ Pope Francis apparently took notice and mentioned the incident in a recent book-length interview, which I quoted in an article this year. 2/

wherepeteris.com/not-a-dictator/
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Sep 20 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
The latest letter from @BishStrickland (probably written by @KeithFournier7) contains a large number of historical lies and distortions, one of which is a fake quote by Pope Pius X about how modernists should be "beaten with fists."

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 bishopstrickland.com/blog/post/lord… These days, it's a popular meme with radical traditionalists who like it because it is titillating to their juvenile psyches and they think it makes St Pius X look like a based edgelord or something. 2/ Image
Aug 25 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
What are we to make of the the GOP removing its longstanding anti-abortion language from its platform and now Trump's support of reproductive rights?

A theory:

Dobbs set into motion a sequence of events that is rapidly moving US abortion politics to the Western "mean." 1/ Image In 2013, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg argued that Roe "seemed to have stopped the momentum on the side of change."

In 1973, abortion laws in the US had gradually begun to change (legislatively) across the country. Roe ended that process. 2/

law.uchicago.edu/news/justice-r…
Jul 2 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
OK, what in the world is going on here? Fr. PeterChudy Sixtus Simeon-Aguinam (they call him Fr. Chudy) became pastor in January of a mission church on an Apache reservation in New Mexico. He seems to have taken an immediate dislike to the church's icon of Apache Jesus. 1/
Image The building was dedicated on July 4, 1939.

"The icon of the Apache Christ above the altar in the front of the Mission was painted for the Mescalero Apache people in 1989 by artist Robert Lentz of Albuquerque, NM." 2/

stjosephmission.org/history.htm
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Apr 3 • 9 tweets • 5 min read
Are you a hopeful Catholic or a "prophet of doom"?

Insisting on *Massa Damnata* (most are damned) when the Church "allows" us to hope for the salvation of others - non-Catholics, unbaptized infants, suicide victims, even to hope that hell is empty - seems to be a sign. 1/ Image "Prophets of doom" think that a constant and acute fear of eternal damnation is necessary for living a life of virtue and good morals, and that the Church would be best served by instilling this fear in its members.

I'd say this is fundamentalism or even spiritual abuse. 2/ Image
Mar 10 • 17 tweets • 6 min read
Some Catholics apparently think the continuity of every doctrinal development must be mapped out to their personal satisfaction in order to be legitimate.

This inverts the Church's position, which is that the authentic Magisterium decides what's in continuity and what isn't. 1/ Image When the Church promulgates a teaching on a matter of faith and morals, Canon Law (based on the teaching in Lumen Gentium 25 from Vatican II) calls on the faithful to grant assent to it according to the intention with which it was promulgated. 2/ Image
Dec 26, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
There may have been confusion about "couples" and "unions" in the mainstream media on the first day, but now the major outlets - NYT, BBC, Washington Post, CBS, ABC, NPR, CNN, Al Jazeera, The Guardian - have the more accurate wording.

"Catholic" outlets? Not quite so much. Image NPR article's first three paras are pretty clear.

npr.org/2023/12/18/122…
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Oct 11, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
A few things @DrKwasiewski fails to note, in his mean-spirited and melodramatic response to the parody:

- The author of the satire is a former SSPX priest. Kwasniewski gives this "rebuttal" as if he is some kind of ignoramus who is unfamiliar with radtrad arguments. 2) @DrKwasniewski (and DiPippo) concede the author's first point. How do they *know* that "the author has no idea" why "Quo Primum did what it did"? Why would the author not have learned the reasons in his SSPX formation? Image
Sep 28, 2023 • 30 tweets • 6 min read
In light of the doubts many Catholics have about Pope Francis and his orthodoxy, and because many practicing Catholics are worried about the Synod, I re-share this article about my own growth in understanding about the role of the pope and Magisterium.1/

wherepeteris.com/finding-orthod… I think I can relate pretty well to many of the fears and concerns of conservatives and traditionalists today, especially with regard to their worries of a hostile takeover of the Church by modernists and leftists.

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Sep 4, 2023 • 10 tweets • 6 min read
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On the flight back to Rome, Pope Francis answered a question from Antonio Pelayo of Vida Nueva, who mentioned a recent book for which Cardinal Burke wrote the prologue, "The Synodal Process Is a Pandora’s Box."

vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2…
Image The authors of the book are affiliated with the Tradition, Family and Property (TFP) movement, a loose confederation of hardline reactionary Catholic organizations, founded in Brazil by Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira in 1960.
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Jul 13, 2023 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
I've made this point before, but given the latest "debate" about the death penalty and life imprisonment, it's worth repeating. 🧵 In reality, there are three questions being debated:

1) What does the Catholic Church teach about the death penalty?

2) Is the Catholic Church's teaching on the death penalty justified?

3) should the Catholic Church change its teaching on the death penalty?
Jul 13, 2023 • 17 tweets • 3 min read
This might be news to some Catholics, but when the Church teaches authoritatively that "the death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person," clever arguments don't change that, even if you think they are super convincing. 1/ There is a difference between the objective fact that the Church teaches a doctrine ("marriage is indissoluble," "torture is intrinsically evil," "contraception is immoral," "only men can be ordained to the priesthood") and the arguments of those who disagree with them. 2/
Mar 16, 2023 • 27 tweets • 6 min read
Today's Moynihan Newsletter is 🤡🤪👽

Wherein the fugitive churchman welcomes the founding of the "International Movement of Russophiles."

TWO DOZEN US BISHOPS PUBLICLY VOUCHED FOR THIS GUY AGAINST POPE FRANCIS.

Not a single one has publicly retracted.

Think about that. 1 ImageImageImage Paging George Weigel. Neoconservative foreign policy: how far we've come in a few short years. 2

firstthings.com/web-exclusives… ImageImage
Jan 2, 2023 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
Reactionary and inattentive admirers, maybe.

"It seems very hard for any admirer of Benedict to look at the events that followed his resignation and see a vindication of his decision to retire"

@DouthatNYT at his absolute worst here. 1/

nytimes.com/2023/01/01/opi… No pope is perfect. Some of Benedict's pastoral and administrative decisions were disastrous. Some of @Pontifex's decisions may prove to be disastrous as well. But to fail to see the internal continuity and the mutual admiration between them is willful blindness. 2/
Dec 31, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Perhaps too early for this, but I assume some "Benedict is (was) still pope" people follow my account.

Following the precedents of Pope St Martin I and Pope St. Eugene I, it seems like it's time to recognize Francis as pope. Martin was elected pope in 649.

Martin was carried into exile in 653.

Eugene was elected pope while Martin was in exile, in 654.

Martin died in 655.

Eugene died in 657.

Both are recognized as popes and saints by the Church.

newadvent.org/cathen/05598a.…
Dec 22, 2022 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
Twitter is probably not a great place to crowdsource on this issue, but something I've been trying to get a sense of is (roughly speaking) how many priests appeal to the Vatican to get automatic excommunications lifted?
1/ In light of the revelation of the Rupnik case and considering the number of offices and employees the Church has dedicated to resolving such cases (DDF, Apostolic Penitentiary, Cong for Clergy) and the secrecy they operate under... is this sort of thing routine or rare? 2/
Dec 20, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
If you think priests today are bad, I am reading this new Mcgreevey book on Catholicism after the French Revolution and I am pretty sure every priest in the late 18th century and early 19th was either a political revolutionary, a heretic, or had a common law wife and 6 kids. I mean they might be just as bad in the second half of the 19th century but so far I've only gotten to the part where Pope Pius IV has to flee Rome after his Prime Minister gets assassinated in 1848.
Nov 19, 2022 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
It's kind of telling that the best Archbishop Broglio can muster when asked if he's opposed to Pope Francis is basically "that's silly."

Let's be clear: although Francis agrees that the Covid vaccine must be voluntary (must be given with consent), he never opposed mandates. 1/ Some who have fixated on the word "voluntary" have taken this as license to grant exemptions, to treat it as if the Church said it's an equally valid option, or that skipping the vaccine could be the morally superior choice. That is not true. 2/

wherepeteris.com/pope-francis-v…
Sep 7, 2022 • 8 tweets • 6 min read
@JLLiedl @jdflynn Because our website says Catholics should trust the Magisterium and not freak out about what the pope teaches or might teach?

It's one thing to make your voice heard on an issue under discussion. It's another thing to claim the entire discussion is part of a conspiracy. @JLLiedl @jdflynn Take for example this interview of (since 2006) PAV member Rodrigo Guerra that we published in English translation.

He clearly disagrees with some of the things proposed by his fellow members, but he stands with and trusts the pope.

wherepeteris.com/rodrigo-guerra…
Aug 27, 2022 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
It seems that some US bishops, eager to stake out a strong position in the culture war, are being extremely sloppy in their attempts to set diocesan policies on these matters. 1/ Pope Francis has been clear (on one hand) in his opposition to what he calls "gender theory," but he has also met with people who are transgender and has been clear that no one should be turned away from the Church. 2/

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Jul 14, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Until Catholic conservatives figure out why the four cardinals' "dubia" was based on a flawed, simplistic, bad-willed reading of Amoris Laetitia, they will not be taken seriously, and will continue to forfeit their place in the Church's discussion about moral theology. 1/ I oppose relativism and consequentialism and proportionalism and situation ethics as much as the next guy, but JP2 Institute types need to stop tilting at windmills and accusing everyone who interprets AL correctly as a pope-worshipping modernist libertine or whatever...2/