Historian of ritual, meals, bread. Christian. No friend to fascists. The Ordo Amoris is as Augustine said, not as Vance does.
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Being a vile human being on this site is hardly unusual, but for a Catholic bishop to show such lack of judgment is really extraordinary. Let him spend a week in Algeria before he talks trash - or just a week with real people. What a disgrace.
Well, another Cardinal has come out with a, shall we say, puzzling take on evangelization.
A few years ago, Cardinal Américo Aguiar, at the time auxiliary bishop of Lisbon, said that he and the other organizers of World Youth Day in his hometown had no interest in converting anyone to Christ.
Now Cardinal Jean-Paul Vesco of Algeria has opined that “the Church is not there to convert” and “Christians should approach other religions through fraternity rather than seeking conversions.”
Excuse me, but…what?
Last time I checked, the Founder said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.” Sure sounds like conversion to me.
When St. Paul came to Corinth or Athens or Thessalonica, his purpose was not to listen or to form a discussion group but rather to declare an unnerving message: the euangelion (glad tidings) that Jesus Christ is risen from the dead.
So impassioned is he for this work that he says, “I have become all things to all people, that I might by all means save some. I do it all for the sake of the gospel” (1 Cor. 9:22); and “If I proclaim the gospel, this gives me no ground for boasting, for an obligation is laid on me, and woe to me if I do not proclaim the gospel” (1 Cor. 9:16)!
Moreover, the entire thrust of the Second Vatican Council was toward bringing the Light of Christ to the peoples of the world (Lumen Gentium). And this missionary élan has given rise in the last few decades to the idea of a “new evangelization,” which is to say, a fresh declaration of the Lordship of Christ.
Quite obviously, no one thinks that this work of evangelization should be done in a brow-beating, overbearing, or disrespectful manner (proselytization), but for God’s sake, let’s not throw the baby out with the bathwater.
If I really thought that the Church does not exist to bring people to Christ, then I would resign and get an honest job.
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Marc, you wrote the Pentagon’s case for Iraq while St. John Paul II begged America not to invade.
Two decades later you helped sell Trump on another disastrous war and spent eight months attacking Pope Leo XIV for opposing it.
You’re in no position to lecture anyone about scandal to the Church.
Were you in the room when he decided to abandon his long-held support for the Hyde Amendment and support taxpayer-funded abortion on demand up till the moment of birth? His presidency was a scandal to the Catholic Church and you perpetuate that scandal by holding him up as an example for Catholics in public life.
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The latest issue of Vetus Testamentum features a statement from the editors: "We reject with prejudice the usage of GenAI for brainstorming, structuring, and composing studies of the biblical text and its historical and social contexts."
When does ICE cuff him and send him to detention? Oh, he has a visa? Why? Can he pick fruit? ... Defeated presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro and his family land in Miami after fleeing Brazil apnews.com/article/brazil-el…
P.A. Brunt on Geoffrey de Ste Croix: "Many tutors seek simply to clarify the ideas of their pupils: [he] wished to illuminate their minds, and persuade them of the truth, as he saw it..." (1/2)
You can't buy a free pass to hypocrisy, @elonmusk
Next up: Putin for the FIFA Peace Prize, Russell Brand for the papacy, Kim Jong Un for the Great British Bake-off...
WSJ: Sources from three countries confirm that the Trump Administration has advocated Viktor Orbán for the role of United Nations Secretary-General.
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Nancy Pelosi, who is regularly hammered for her perceived insider trading, has made 213 total trades since 2014. Trump exceeded that number in a single day, which just happened to precede his own tariffs announcement. My latest on the mind boggling self-enrichment:
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If he offered anything in return for the money, even just conversations with his father-in-law, then he would have violated U.S. bribery laws and the foreign agent statute. trib.al/XZeWYh4
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Kushner also failed to disclose himself as an agent of a foreign government, having been paid nearly $2 billion in total by foreign leaders. trib.al/iVl4J9l
Musk's own platform rebrands his call for Ukrainian capitulation to Russian invasion as "end to slaughter." He must be angling for the FIFA Peace Prize.
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Kushner Phone Hack Reveals How Middle East Dictators Bought Him Off trib.al/2NT4jtL
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The GRU hacked into Jared Kushner's iPhone. Dutch military intelligence (MIVD) then recruited a GRU spy who gave them access to the hacked phone. What MIVD discovered was that Kushner had access to two bank accounts --one Azerbaijani, the other Israeli --where Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Emirati ruler Mohammed bin Zayed deposited money. It sounds like a slightly far-fetched episode of "Slow Horses," but it's real. And it proves just how eye-poppingly corrupt this administration was and continues to be as its "special envoy" decides the fate of tens of millions in Europe in the Middle East. Simply incredible reporting by Matthew Cole, drawn from his new book on Kushner. vanityfair.com/story/jared-k…
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