While Catholics tend to have very high vaccination rates, there are some pockets of hesitancy and even vocal objections.
I’d love to get a better idea of where these subcultures are most influential.
News from Iran & Lebanon increasingly resembles years of bloodshed in Gaza—civilian areas pummeled, international law ignored & a spiral of war endangering millions. Understanding why means understanding the US-Israel dynamic in one key period: under President Joe Biden, after October 7, 2023
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Psychopathic.
The new papal nuncio to the U.S. is Archbishop Gabriele Caccia. He previously served as nuncio to Lebanon, a difficult post!
I had the opportunity to meet with him there. Here’s his analysis of Lebanon, as of late 2014: www.ewtnnews.com/world/middle...
With wars and disasters overseas, bishops’ annual CRS Collection ‘more vital than ever’
Epstein and Steve Bannon really thought yet another gossipy book about the Vatican could take down Pope Francis?
Were they just feeding each other's grandiosity? www.osvnews.com/the-epstein-...
If you're not following @costsofwar.bsky.social, now is a good time.
Pope warns of ‘irreparable abyss,’ if diplomacy doesn’t take over violence in Iran, Middle East
Sorrow, shock, prayer for Catholics in Middle East as US and Israel strike Iran amid negotiations
I noticed that too!
It sometimes happens when a page is edited but its social media thumbnail is not updated.
But I can’t find any evidence the page itself was edited or corrected.
AZTEC LATIN Renaissance Learning and Nahuatl Traditions in Early Colonial Mexico ANDREW LAIRD
Extremely upset that nobody told me this book came out
He sounds so familiar at some points! Is he riffing on Boethius?
“Such men are friends of the evil, enemies of the just, slaves of lust and avarice, slaves of every wickedness, and ministers of the devil… raging abysses, afflictions of the human race, fodder of everlasting hell…” Sedulius Scottus, “On Christian Rulers”. Those Irish monks knew their stuff.
BREAKING: Judge who allowed FBI to search Washington Post reporter’s home rips into Justice Department for not informing him of the law that explicitly bars raids of reporters
This is often what “undocumented” means in other parts of the world.
All bishops are canonically required to offer resignation upon reaching age 75. The final decision is at the pope’s discretion, but obviously age and energy levels mean most bishops are happy to retire.
While both raging libs and staunch conservatives can botch child protection matters, you’ll see these cases mostly pre-date the “staunch conservative” turn.
Not sure “staunch conservatives” do these sorts of things at ICE detention centers.
St. Brigid asked God to make her ugly.
A statue of her in Denver's oldest standing Catholic Church, Sacred Heart, in the Southwest santos style.
If a journalist rushed a mosque or an abortion clinic with disruptive protesters, would other journalists defend him?
Statements like these won’t reassure skeptics of journalism and of Lemon specifically.
If journalists can avoid violating libel law, they should avoid FACE Act violations too!
The archdiocese offices might help clarify if this was done without permission.
On actual church property or on the street?
Wait has anybody confirmed with the church or the archdiocese that agents are staging there? I’m skeptical.
I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable.
Biden himself said they were fabricated!
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
“These were both homicides. Both men were killed without any due process.”
In professional news, I've joined the Catholic Diocese of Fargo team as assistant editor for New Earth magazine!
We reach over 20,000 households in eastern North Dakota.
I'll miss Denver, but it'll be great to put down roots in the Fargo area.
A nice spot! I only just moved out of that neighborhood.
Important (but below-the-fold) CatholicVote coverage of Jason Jones’ interview with the Mayor of Bethlehem.
Of the post-Oct. 7 military actions, he says "There is no other word than ethnic cleansing."
"What happened in Gaza was definitely harsher than genocide." catholicvote.org/bethlehem-ma...
I’ve joked that we should make the TLM priests be labor union chaplains!
But any quasi-official outreach to labor unions would be a massive improvement for many dioceses and clergy!
