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