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8 months

J. G. A. Pocock thought his history of civic republicanism, The Machiavellian Moment, would tell the story of a dead tradition. Then, in the summer of 1969, the Vietnam war came home to America, and Pocock discovered he was living in an empire of ghosts:

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JGA Pocock's days of rage

How the violent upheavals of Seventies America helped forge the greatest historian of our time.

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8 months

surreal that we’ve passed in a matter of months from “the attack on the hospital was a misfired Hamas rocket” to “the IDF walking into hospitals and shooting patients in their beds is fine”

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5 years

I regret to inform you that Pope Francis is a weeb

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Pope Francis arrives Japan and declares: “Ever since I was young, I have felt a fondness and affection for these lands.

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I think a lot about how Lenin and Trotsky went to a socialist meeting in London and were so shocked by what they saw that Lenin just straight up decided these people were never going to make it

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9 months

Amusingly, despite being born in the most catholic country in the most catholic part of the world, Michael Löwy is not catholic, but a secular jewish guy who thinks liberation theology is neat. This image is the equivalent of an american weeb getting to meet the emperor of japan

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Alex Callinicos

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9 months

The Marxist philosopher Michael Loewy meets Pope Francis. I hope John Paul II is turning in his grave.

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1 year

I think this might be one of the weirdest instance of workplace malpractice I've ever read about

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The Sacramento diocese is 'completely confident' an alleged priest put forward to hear restaurant employees' confessions was not part of the #Catholic diocese. The troubled restaurant owes workers $140k in back pay and damages.

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2 years

havin a beaker of wheat beer w/ my clade in 7300BC: SICK of hearing about Sky Father. ill keep worshipin the earth cheers when a passing indo-european asks me if I've heard of Sky Father: indeed sir. big fan. im always sayin we need a more complex mythology sir. nice chariot btw

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ME: I hate you papa! I’m tired of how bourgeois you are! I’m running off to join the circus! MY FATHER, FAMOUS REVOLUTIONARY LEON TROTSKY: I am NOT more bourgeois than the circus. Do NOT tell people I am more bourgeois than the circus

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1 year

went to a monastery last week where the resident cat had his own line of merch

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2 years

baby on the table across from me picked up her mother's phone and said "yep yep. bye" into it then put it down again. whole carriage chuckling. mother bodied. baby humour on top once again

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5 years

Baby Yoda doesn't have a rational soul and he will be annihilated at death. No point in baptism

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Jake 🌊🐢

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Baby Yoda is so cute 🥰 Please do not baptize him until he is old enough to make that decision for himself.

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me in 1562 having a friday night flagon of sack with my fellows: i will notte be seen Deade at Chapell now the Protestantes hath done a Numbre on it me on Saturday morning when the constable asks me if he'll see me at church: Most certinly Sir. Chapell gets bettre every Week Sir

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11 months

ⓘ this user has confused being catholic with being mentally ill

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Francis Magne

11 months

I would date the Catholic girl rather than the Prottie girl without any hesitation ⬇️ 1) She has the same Faith than me. 2) The conversation topics are way cooler.

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9 months

He's right. It's ahistorical to describe Jesus as a Palestinian Jew. He lived in the Roman Empire, not Palestine. He was an Italian

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Jake Wallis Simons

9 months

I’m no expert @CNN , but Jesus could not have been a “Palestinian Jew” because the term “Palestine” was introduced by the Romans some years after his death. Jesus lived in Judea. To retrospectively call him “Palestinian” suggests a political agenda

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7 months

iirc Trotsky said he barely improved his English during his time in London because him and Lenin decided they were better off sitting in the British library and reading all day

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11 months

Israeli ambassador to Germany outright arguing the bombing campaign on Gaza is necessary to prevent Muslims conquering Europe and “eliminating us all”. This kind of paranoid bigotry would have been the preserve of fringe online racists not that long ago.

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Ambassador Ron Prosor

11 months

Choose to be on the right side of history. #TheWestIsNext

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1 year

If Cromwell had leaned into the messianism & went through with reforming parliament into a replica of the assembly of elders in ancient Israel the republic of Britain would have put astronauts on the moon by 1762

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1 year

what English civil war opinion will have you like this⁉️⁉️

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4 years

Im very sorry for making this

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2 years

(the monarch has just died) lets raise prayer most Ardent that the next Soverig'n will be a right godly one (my catholic wife glares at me) ande thatte they return to the faith catholick (i see the constable passing by my window) *sweating* which is alfo in Truth reformede,

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5 years

we need a total and complete shut down of gamers whilst we figure out what the hell is going on

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5 years

they're called coldplay gigs simon

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Atheist Republic

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5 months

During the 1969-1970 school year, there were 174 separate major bombing or arson attempts on American college grounds and it didn’t prompt the kind of reactions we’re now getting for columbia students camping without a permit

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i24NEWS English

5 months

Over 100 arrested at anti-Israel protests at Columbia University 'What we are seeing now at Columbia is not ideological war, we are not seeing support for terrorism, we are seeing terrorism' @ShaiDavidai tells @Calev_i24

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11 months

No comfort, but remember that those who ordered Gaza's internet & phone network shut down tonight did so because, like men of violence so often are, they are ashamed of what they are doing, & know themselves to be cowards, and in their hearts they are afraid. And they should be.

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Footage for the unprecedented lsraeli air attacks hitting Gaza Strip.

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5 years

Bernie Sanders quoting St Thomas Aquinas & referencing Dante's inferno in a senate debate on usury

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2 years

The Church of England appears to have inadvertently declared Charles King of France

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Christopher Rees

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2 years

The 39 Articles have been updated. They now mention the King. I think this maybe a error, because the Articles referred to Queen Elizabeth, it was actually Elizabeth 1st not Elizabeth 2nd, but I maybe wrong about that.

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6 years

where are you on the big cow political compass?

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4 years

Mesopotamians in 6000 BC:

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8 months

Worth remembering that the sections of the Geneva convention prohibiting targeting wounded combatants (and iirc assassinations in general) were issued in 1864, so we’re currently failing to meet moral standards considered appropriate by Bismarck and Napoleon III. Great trend 👍

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5 years

when one of your 100 follower replyguys posts complete gibberish in response to one of your tweets but you fave it nevertheless

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1 year

Trump if asked the same question: TRUMP: I have to say yes. I have to say it.I said to the Pope, I said,I’ve been very good for the catholics, very good. I don’t think Ron can say that. It’s very sad but I don’t think he can. Frankly I don’t think the Pope would want to meet him

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5 years

ＴＨＥＳＰＩＣＥＭＵＳＴＦＬＯＷＪＯＮ

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6 years

90% of the guys on here who believe europe is being invaded by islam are americans living in places called tootenhawee, east ohbrasko, where the cultural heritage consists of a museum devoted to sausage making machines

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1 year

Online traditionalism, 2016: WrathOfGnon posting De Maistre quotes with an illustration of a gnome king & getting six likes from anon PhD students. Online traditionalism, 2023: guys called Troy Taylor tweeting "Our Civilisation Can No Longer Build Doors" & getting 70k retweets

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2 years

𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐞𝐝𝐈𝐧 | 𝐖𝐡𝐨’𝐬 𝐕𝐢𝐞𝐰𝐞𝐝 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐞 —————————————— 👨Ralph Greeps at 𝐁𝐢𝐠𝐅𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐩𝐥𝐜 🧔‍♂️Berke Ganzorig at 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐎𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐚 👤Unknown at 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐇𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐅𝐔𝐋 𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐌𝐀𝐍 👨‍🦱 𝐀𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐃𝐚𝐯𝐞

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2 years

Marxist magazines reposting their one article about the anti-capitalist jesus on Christmas

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8 months

“We have to be careful not to represent spirituality as a kind of 'inner well-being', in short, self-care to find harmony with the world … I want to be clear: being at peace with oneself, today, means going to war with the world.” Mario Tronti

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Lake Eater

8 months

they should invent a mysticism that can survive in modernity without making people nazis

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5 years

TOLKIEN: explains at length in LOTR that pipeweed is tobacco TOLKIEN FANDOM IN 1960s: the guys in this book smoke weed everyday lmao TOLKIEN: nnnooo! they smoke delicious tobacco leaf! (LOTR MOVIES COME OUT) ABSOLUTELY EVERYONE: the guys in this book smoke weed everyday lmao

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2 years

"if you lived prior to the 20th century you would have been a peasant" wrong. I would've been a minor figure in the "shizoku uprisings" of former samurai against the government in 19th century Japan till a direct hit by imperial artillery totally disintegrates me. nice try though

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4 years

surprising comeback for this summer 2020 personality

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Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦

4 years

Donald Trump urged a very large crowd of white thugs to storm the Capitol, so they're trying to do exactly that. They've now occupied the steps and lower balconies of the east side of the Capitol. These are terrorists attempting to overthrow the government. Treat them that way.

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10 months

The Catholic Church in the Holy Land states that IDF snipers murdered a mother and daughter taking refuge inside the Catholic parish of Gaza, one of whom was executed as they tried to carry the other woman to safety.

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7 months

@smalwigwamlight MacIntyre believes much antiamericanism is europes repressed guilt at failing to carry through the tasks of modernity

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6 years

HOW TWITTER WORKS:

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5 years

🙋hi! trad e-girl here!🙋 🙏since converting to catholicism🙏 ⏰three weeks ago⏰ 💕ive fallen in love with tradition!💕 😍I love:😍 🛐going to mass🛐 👰wearing my veil👰 📿posting rosary selfies📿 😜recycling the most insane trad opinions about women I can find😜 🔃retweets🔃

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6 years

Guys really live in apartments like this and dont see the problem

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6 years

the two kinds of protestant literature: (a) endless book-length exegesis of paul's epistles (a) My Buddy God Mows My Lawn For Me: A True Story

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5 years

GOD: Adam, ADAM ADAM: Yes papa? GOD: Eating fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the gardem? ADAM: No papa GOD: Telling lies? ADAM: No papa GOD: O̷̟͈͍̓P̶̨̖̲̠͕̰̥̉̏́̈ͅË̸͎́́̏̈́̓́̚Ń̸̛̜̿̈́̎́̉̕ Y̷̥̊̄̏͠͝Ó̶̟̳̩̰̮̫̟̹̹̽̉̂̄̋̊̐͋Ú̸̧̢̺̞̹͉̫͕̓́̓̄̎͜͝ͅR̸̰͔͚̟̃ M̷̧̭͈̹̳̰̠̈́Ö̵́͗̽ųɬɧ

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3 years

We are sad to announce the death of our dear friend Dawn Foster. Dawn passed away at home earlier this week, for reasons related to long-term illness. Please donate in her memory to a charity she loved: To get in touch with us: fordawnhfoster @gmail .com

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4 years

*youth pastor voice* it's fun to laugh at "bean dad" online...but let's not forget the real "bean dad"...Our Lord...who, when we're struggling with the can openers of life, never leaves us on our own

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Rod Dreher, pupils replaced by enormous dollar signs, requesting people pay him $3600 a year for running a substack newsletter

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6 years

I'm in the New York Times

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2 years

"The older I get, the more I meet people, the more convinced I am that we must only work on ourselves, to grow in grace. The only thing we can do about people is to love them, to find things to love in them." Dorothy Day

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1 year

a friend of mine had lunch with a priest in his seventies recently and received this dispatch from the pastoral frontlines

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5 years

Reminder that the joker canonically has quite a good grasp of Saint Augustine's theology

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6 years

🚨 get back here satan! 🚨 / 🚔 \ / 🚔 \ / 🚔 🚔 \ / \ / 👹 \ 🚨 u won't get away with this!🚨 SHARE IF U THINK SATAN SHOULD BE ARRESTED FOR HIS CRIMES

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Palestinian Christian groups have launched an open letter accusing Western church leaders and theologians of "political and theological complicity" with Israel's ongoing bombardment and starvation of the two million civilians trapped in Gaza:

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6 years

reply "Amen" to this post or you will never be allowed to live inside the ＧＯＤＣＵＢＥ

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) ) ) ( ) ) _(___(____)____(_____( \ dying isn’t real /___ \ & organized / | \ civilisation is /____| \ a poor / \ attempt to / \ cope with/ \ god / \_______/

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10 months

hard not to sympathise with Lenin’s comment that unbelievers trying to instrumentalise religion in this way amounts to a kind of “ideological necrophilia”

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WAP Goblin 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇨🇩🇱🇧

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Hot take: Religion can be a tool for good and should be co-opted towards a communist, egalitarian and humanist direction

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1 year

Whilst at one level I think gifting Biden a priceless relic is completely inappropriate, the US president effectively functioning like a pre-modern catholic monarch is also genuinely hilarious

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President Biden

1 year

Catholics from around the world have traveled to worship at the sacred Knock Shrine in Ireland. This morning, I had the honor of joining them – taking a few moments of private prayer in place steeped in God’s light.

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- Pontius Pilate, 33 A.D

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2 years

don't see a way back from this for adults. we do be like yep yep bye into our phones. that's just true

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2 years

sick of rediscovering "unjustly neglected" writers. Let's rediscover some justly neglected writers. Let's revive thinkers who are in no way our contemporaries. Let's uncover the complex legacy of figures who have absolutely nothing to say about the times we're living in. Why not.

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2 years

If Disney has to be a religion they should go full mystery cult: everyone in disneyland losing their minds via ergot hallucinations, Goofy slaughtering a bull by moonlight, being ritually disembowled by thumper from bambi if you trespass in the sacred grove, etc. Boring otherwise

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I'm a religion studies professor researching Disney and I'm here to tell you why to stop pathologizing Disney adults, trending again because of this post. A thread:

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2 years

[twitter in AD2406] 𝐀𝐫𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲_𝐒𝐭𝐮 what job would u do in the 2020s? I would work in a nature reserve looking after animals :D 🔁871♥️2k ↪️𝐀𝐥𝐠𝐚𝐞𝐅𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐀𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐞 are you serious? FYI - you would have been a depressed office worker like 90% of 2020s people -_-

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socialist 🌹😠 til u get rich 💸🤑 feminist ♀😠 til u get married 💒😍 atheist 🔬🤔 til the plane starts fallin ✈👇😵 pro-fluoride water💊🚰 till ya dog starts talking 🐶🗣️😱😭

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I’m based how? I mean based on what? based like im the foundation of somethin?

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6 years

"I'm joining a trade union"

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Mental Floss

7 years

The One Phrase Disney Theme Park Characters Aren't Allowed to Say —

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5 years

weak modern flame DEFEATED by advanced 12th century architecture & GOD

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3 months

My grandfather died this morning. Please pray for him.

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Hey🙋 📖I've been reading 📖 🙏the Bible🙏 🧠in the original greek+Hebrew🧠 😎&I have some epic facts for u all😎 ❓Did u know?❓ The Bible never mentions 🧙‍♂️god🧙‍♂️ 👨‍⚖️rules👩‍⚖️ 💀death💀 🤯BUT IT DOES MENTION🤯 🤗vaguely caring abt poor ppl🤗 🛀self care🛀 🐶hecking cute doggos!🐶

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5 years

what is dead may never die

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Average atheist public intellectual (France) vs. Average atheist public intellectual (Britain)

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✝️COMMONWEALTH CHAT🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 digger_lad: me lords lawn is now a temporary autonomous zone 8👍4✊ BaptistMatt: pray th ROYLE ANTICHRIST is refut'd 8🙏 fifthmonarch1st: 𝐖𝐇𝐎 𝐒𝐇𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐑𝐎𝐔𝐒𝐄 𝐇𝐈𝐌 𝐔𝐏? 8❓ AnglicanDave: ive heard the dead kings son's touch cures scrofula 19👎

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6 years

very concerning image. sinister

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UK catholic twitter vs US catholic twitter

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5 years

slightly creepy how basically no-one challenges the idea of a standing army nowadays given how unpopular they were for centuries

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me enjoying my non-linear cosmology that doesnt differentiate between objects&people: woo! gondowandans rock! me visitin tribes w/a structured cosmology &a stratified mythological order: personally ive always had issues with the gondawandan stuff. giant snake thing is very dated

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there's no such thing as ethical consumption under capitalis-

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Dennis do NOT let the atheists know this. How irresponsible can you get

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PragerU

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If there is no God, murder isn't wrong. You may think it's wrong, but how do you know it's wrong? As @DennisPrager explains, without God, all morality is mere opinion.

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Strongly feel this guy would have cleaned up on twitter

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2 years

“Most of our life is unimportant, filled with trivial things from morning till night. But when it is transformed by love it is of interest even to the angels.” - Dorothy Day

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ᵇᵉᵉ ᵖᵒᵖᵉ ʙᴇᴇ ᴘᴏᴘᴇ 𝔹𝔼𝔼 ℙ𝕆ℙ𝔼 ＢＥＥＰＯＰＥ

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Noted gender ideologue Pope Saint Nicholas I in his letters to the bulgars, 866 A.D: “We consider what you asked about pants to be irrelevant…we do not desire to know what you are wearing except Christ”

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Father V

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In 1960, Giuseppe Cardinal Siri, Archbishop of Genoa, published a pastoral letter on modesty in dress for which he was roundly mocked. However, in point of fact, the Cardinal was among the first to sound the alarm on what is known now as gender theory. “The wearing of men’s

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FACT CHECK: ❌THIS CLAIM IS FALSE❌ ✝️In traditional Catholic theology✝️ 👼the two nations created for god's glory👼 ⚠️are NOT Israel and the US⚠️ ⬇️they are:⬇️ 🇮🇪IRELAND🇮🇪 and 🇮🇹ITALY🇮🇹

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Lauren Boebert

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There have been two nations created for God’s glory, Israel and the United States of America. We will glorify God!

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The historian J. G. A. Pocock, himself of impeccable burkean pedigree, used to enjoying asking American conservatives what it was about their culture that any reasonable person would want to conserve

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Ryan James Girdusky

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Paglia almost never missed

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being an American who's really into Tolkien or CS Lewis and moving to Oxford must be one of the peak human experiences...unfathomable levels of delight...tragic contrast with jaded Brits who can never entirely forget that the place was built by Victorian arsenic magnates etc

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5 years

the priest who saved the relics and the blessed sacrament from notre dame also looks like a guy hired from central casting as a "french priest" character

@Eloraillere

Etienne Loraillère

5 years

Le père Fournier, aumônier des @PompiersParis , est allé avec des pompiers dans la cathédrale #NotreDame pour sauver la couronne d’épines et le Saint-Sacrement...

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Saint Augustine & Pelagius debate original sin, 416 A.D

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┏┓ ┃┃╱╲ in this ┃╱╱╲╲ church ╱╱╭╮╲╲ we ▔▏┗┛▕▔ ╱▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔╲ ✝️Eat God✝️ ╱╱┏┳┓╭╮┏┳┓ ╲╲ ▔▏┗┻┛┃┃┗┻┛▕▔

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ME [at confession]: ...I resolve with the help of your grace, to confess my sins, to do penance+to amend my life. Amen. PRIEST: ME: Father? Will you grant me absolution? PRIEST: ME: father? PRIEST [revealed to be a jansenist houseplant]: *𝘳𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘮𝘯𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘭𝘺*

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2 years

this is the intellectual trajectory of every mid-century catholic theologian

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2 years

Can someone tell this guy what crucifixion was a punishment for

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POPE JOHN XXIII: the laughing pope POPE JOHN PAUL I: the smiling pope POPE JOHN PAUL II: let us build a civilisation of love POPE BENEDICT XVI: God made you for greatness POPE FRANCIS: let us rejoice in the good news of the gospel POPE PAUL VI:

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Brought death to all men by his sin

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