Life Comes at You Fast...

My review of the doctrinal status of Limbo and related matters is no longer available on Catholic Answers, but here's a link to the archived article.https://t.co/Hs2CsDitSC

— Fr Thomas Crean OP (@crean_fr) April 29, 2023

Abomination

The Vatican announced Wednesday that there will be laypeople participating as voting members in the Synod on Synodality’s October assembly, a break with past custom, which allowed laypeople to participate without the right to vote. https://t.co/10fcH6FymC

— Catholic News Agency (@cnalive) April 26, 2023

On Wednesday the Vatican’s office for the Synod of Bishops announced a series of modifications to the rules governing membership in synod gatherings, for the first time allowing women to be appointed as full members with voting rights.https://t.co/oqikCvBZbP

— Crux (@Crux) April 27, 2023

JUST IN: 10 consecrated clerics to be replaced by 5 women & 5 men religious at Oct Synod in Rome. Auditors to be replaced by 70 non-bishop members chosen by #PopeFrancis. All to be given right to vote, but @Synod_va insists it does not change the episcopal nature of the assembly. pic.twitter.com/I8AKE1XiFF

— Diane Montagna (@dianemontagna) April 26, 2023

A Critic of the Fake Synod

The Synod on Synodality assumes that fidelity to the Church’s teaching needs to be re-imagined and re-worked so that various people will not feel that they are being excluded and rejected. | @GeraldMurray8https://t.co/1EpqhXNJDW

— First Things (@firstthingsmag) April 20, 2023

Still Fighting the Battles of Yesterday

This is an important occasion to recall that adoration & processions went from being a fixture of Catholic life to virtually *nonexistent* in just a few short years by the 70's.

Radical new sacramental theologies were at work. Fr Richard McBrien once infamously articulated it: https://t.co/iUe4bswWVX pic.twitter.com/BEgcMtpY6Y

— JuventutemDC (@juventutemDC) April 15, 2023

When Worlds Collide

Repulsive comment from a priest—at odds with Magisterium.

“They have … subjected some of the inhabitants of said islands to perpetual slavery [subdiderunt perpetuae servituti]. Therefore We ... exhort … that they desist from the aforementioned deeds.”

— Pope Eugene IV, 1435 https://t.co/Tjg0N8juE7

— Sohrab Ahmari (@SohrabAhmari) April 16, 2023

this reply gets to the necessary distinctions...

because mere quantity does nothing to change the nature of the act.

This is slavery considered in its essence, and this response is, indeed, boilerplate moral theory one can find in any number of manuals.

What people have in mind, though, is not slavery strictly considered, +

— Georgius Alexandri f. Mancz (@g_mancz) April 16, 2023

"Ecumenical"

In the design of God's providence, the two great luminaries of their day, Sts Thomas Aquinas and Bonaventure, died in conjunction with Lyon II. https://t.co/NVETPlYRlP

— Fr Dylan Schrader (@FrDylanSchrader) April 16, 2023

The Same Old

Toward a Fundamental Theology of the Priesthood || A one day symposium in Washington, D.C.

Learn more and register! 👉 https://t.co/BfQbRjswtH pic.twitter.com/AFpdzGKKuD

— Thomistic Institute (@ThomisticInst) April 14, 2023

How Uniates Are Normally Treated

Bishop Juan Ignacio Arrieta, secretary of the Dicastery for Legislative Texts, told Vatican News “the new norms determine much more clearly when ecclesiastical authority must intervene in the case of crimes.” https://t.co/tx9m1Hga5Z

— Catholic News Agency (@cnalive) April 5, 2023