So apparently Archbishop Sample of Portland is basically trying to give a "dispensation" from a major requirement of Traditionis Custodes. Lol Source and full document: facebook.com/story.php?stor…

The cardinal is live here in DC at @PressClubDC.

Tune in on C-SPAN, NPR Radio, or YouTube. Q&A session has begun, beginning with a dialogue on COVID-19.

Cardinal Gregory says those Catholics opposing vaccines are on "shaky" ground, since both living popes are vaccinated.

Also, @XULA1925 is kinda goated for their Daily Mass game (where I ran into Br Herman)...

The chapel is dumb nice—complete with my flavor of modernist architecture, a MASSIVE #BlackJesus above the altar, and Afrocentric stations of the Cross in the side windows. (pics soon!)

https://twitter.com/natemup/status/1310727276942839816

Plus we sing at Daily Mass, which = life.

That seems to be a fairly common thing at Black parishes, but this is the only place I've seen full-on 4-hymn sandwich Monday-Friday.

👏🏾Love.👏🏾To.👏🏾See.👏🏾 It.

(Also doesn't hurt that the pianist is amazing and has a beautiful voice.)

halp but no really: who did this?? 😭

#BlackCatholicHistoryIsCatholicHistory

#BlackCatholicSaints

#BlackBlesseds

Josephites wiki is coming right along, by the way! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_o…

Used the Jesuits wiki as a model—for obvious reasons. They're the world's biggest religious order, we're the world's best, and our postnominal (SSJ) is basically the "super" version of theirs (SJ) anyway.

https://twitter.com/natemup/status/1307863989267968000

Check out the updated infobox up top (complete with the full list of founders and the official heraldry), the much-expanded history section (used to be one small section), and the brand-new Superior General table (used to just be a list, and of only the guys since like 1988).

I don't mean to rag on Bishop Barron so much—this has been a spicy week for me—but I can't help but feel like this is an answer about young White people posing as an answer about all young people. americamagazine.org/faith/2020/09/… While I can't speak for everyone and it might even be a reach, I have it on good sources that young Black people—men included—are actually doing fairly well on theism, the problem of evil, relativism, and even sexual ethics to an extent.

But hey.

(Almost) unbelievably, yesterday the @nola_catholics newspaper, @ClarionHerald, published a pro-CTE—i.e. youth football—story that referred to COVID-19 as but a "silly pandemic".

The Clarion tried to get cute with a commenter who pointed it out, before realizing she was right. When asked if there will be discipline forthcoming for the author, Ron Brocato, Clarion Editor-In-Chief @PeterFinneyJr demurred, claiming it was an "editing mistake" and "won't happen again".

I say, with St John the Revelator, 'Let the reader discern.'

Tyler HerRo(Y) Tyler Hero

These feast days and Mass readings hittin a lil different lately...

First the whole "fake baptism" crisis last week, promptly settled by the "Upon this Rock" gospel reading on Sunday—reminding us God gave the Pope/bishops the authority to lay down the law *meaningfully*. Then the newest round of police-involved lynchings of Black Americans, followed up by today and tomorrow's two-piece combo of feast days for Saint Monica and Saint Augustine—two of the foremost African saints in the Roman calendar.

Quite simply, you just #LoveToSeeIt. 📅✊🏾🇻🇦

👀👀👀

https://twitter.com/tefehten/status/1278861206481141760

I need Catholic Twitter to figure out what happened to that parish in Birmingham...

I already got my EC goons from FB doing some digging, but as my Grandma Jo used to say: "Many hands make light work."

Just heard a stat in a Masaman YT video that, among Americans of African descent, only about a third are ADOS (i.e. descended from African-American slaves).

African immigrants and Caribbean immigrants (and their respective descendants) each constitute another third.

#TIL!! 🤨🤔 Ok, I'm an idiot. (In case that's news to anyone. 😩)

The vid actually said the Black population is ~40m—which I misheard as *4*—and 4m apiece for Caribbean and African immigrants and descendants.

That's what I get for watching YouTube videos at 3x speed. 🥲

#sorryguise...

This ninja Lillard... How dare he...

"Carl Friedrich, the Divine Word procurator general... found [several high-ranking members of the Roman Curia] particularly supportive of a seminary for Blacks.

Cardinal Laurenti even arranged a private audience for Friedrich with Pope Benedict XV, who applauded the plan" "When Friedrich referred to the possible opposition of some American bishops to the project, Benedict observed that it made no difference whether they objected, since he, the pope, supported the plan and “above the bishops stands the Pope.”"

In the Black community, it's common knowledge that a good number of our people/celebs are somewhere on the anti-Semitic spectrum (ranging from "Jews run the world" to "Black people are the real Jews").

The latter end is a running joke to most of us, but it's obviously rancid.

https://twitter.com/MomentMagazine/status/1283197336114495488

Black celebrities are probably the worst on this, probably because most aren't very educated and tend to hail from "Black cult" hotspots (NY esp).

White people seem to always react to the newest with shock, but notice that #BlackTwitter doesn't even blink.

We already knew.

I'm veeeery early on in my @IBCS_XULA studies, but this paper I'm writing for my Black Theology class... I chose the topic of a prospective sub-rite (within the Roman Rite) for African Americans, and I'm startin to smell myself a lil bit.

I might be lowkey *sayin* some stuff. 👀 Here's a cool little interview I did on the topic a little while back. Hopefully many more to come!

(I'm in the second half of the video. We talk about inculturation in Black Catholicism, and the history/possibility of an African-American rite comes up.)

https://twitter.com/DavidLGray_INFO/status/1280540431999217666?s=19

“This isn’t very Christian, but at one of our meetings, we discussed whether or not there was such a thing as a decent white man.”

natcath.org/NCR_Online/arc…

(From the @NCRonline archives, on Dr. Arthur G Falls, #BlackCatholic and founder of the first Chicago Catholic Worker.) "“The time is not opportune,” the official church used to say when confronted by [racist] moral outrages. “The time was never opportune,” Dr. Falls recalled.

“But... Those who were responsible always knew what they were doing. And that included church leaders.”"

*White Catholic radio listener who wants confirmation of their own biases.

https://twitter.com/brianfraga/status/1276625521414156294

Also, fun fact: Gloria is not the only Black host on the show.

Deacon Harold Burke-Sivers, the self-styled "Dynamic Deacon", is Black—and is Gloria's opponent in both the clips cited by @grnonline in their statement.

This should help make things clear:

https://twitter.com/DrJeffKoloze/status/1273588589692149763?s=19b

Who knew that the Catholic Church's first openly African-American seminarian did not actually become a priest?

William Augustine Williams. 1853.

I was reminded this week by a local priest. I can hardly find ANYTHING online on it besides a few ebook previews, so here's a thread: Williams, a Virginian, was recommended for seminary by a Redemptorist priest, Fr Thaddeus Anwander, who by all indications was woke for his time and convinced 2 bishops to sponsor him.

American seminaries obviously were not open to Blacks back then, so Rome was his only option.

I am entirely too worked up about this whole #SinodoAmazonico controversy—I blame Catholic Twitter—but I just gots to preach a little!

I've been thinking and reading about Black Catholicism a ton these past few weeks and months, and the parallels are eerily similar, I must say. The path to the Black Catholicism found in America today was long and arduous. What came to be seen as White/European Catholicism was forcefully questioned by Blacks galvanized by the Civil Rights and Black Power movements.