David Hahn @Hahnlander

The idea that marriage vows should be private is absurd. Marriage is a communal reality and your vows are as much to community as they are to your spouse - you are agreeing to confound a new society and be a constitutive element of perpetuating civilization. This such a warped representation of what marriage should be on both counts. Marriage is not the day you get to ego trip and indulge your self obsession, but neither is it a day to close yourselves off from the world. A wedding is a social reality, and the family is the first society! It’s the one day when the polity gets to celebrate and enjoy your love - Tom and Zendaya get to enjoy it privately the rest of their lives. We need to relearn common sense about our inherited civilization.

Radical Left Receipts @radleftreceipts

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Tom & Zendaya: quiet, classy wedding. No ego parade no massive spectacle just private vows like normal humans. Travis & Taylor: renting out MSG for a $100M circus of 1,000 celebs with street shutdowns & helicopter cams. Because nothing says ‘true love’ like turning your

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Is it just me, or did anyone else's respect for @TheCriticalDri2 fall through the floor with his passive acceptance of gender ideology in his latest video on The Odyssey? "We all know that Elliot Page recently transitioned from female to male, and that fine by me. I hope he's living his best life and that he's happy and fulfilled." What a sentiment, a wholly awful sentiment. As if to say, we all know that Jim recently became a drug addict, and that's fine by me. For a long while I have worried that these youtube film critics were sentimental allies. More libertarian - desiring arbitrary freedom as opposed to freedom enabled by virtue. That they only waged the culture war because something they liked (a comic character, film franchise, or video game) was declining in quality - not because of a coherent moral worldview that can stand up to our self-destructive tendencies. @TheCriticalDri2 didn't need to endorse or decry gender idiology as a film critic - in fact he'd have been wise to avoid it. Instead he has encharitably endorsed another person's self-delusion without qualm or qualification to his audience. Profoundly unsettling.

@Pontifex I might just overdose on hopium

Cardinal Burke publishes message for America's July 4 celebrations -- “The Declaration of Independence appeals to the laws of nature & of God. It affirms that human dignity comes from the Creator & that authentic freedom is inseparable from moral truths. These truths remain as urgent today as they were 250 years ago.” Via @GuadalupeShrine & @cardinalrlburke

It is actually a really good point. Friedman absolutely presupposes a religious and moral populace for his marketplace. The idea that we cannot question the “free market” and its prophet the more it feels like a golden calf. Desire is subject to the fall, and we are fast learning what happens to market without virtue - a where someone sells what should never be sold to him who has no right to buy.

Robby Soave @robbysoave

2 days ago

JD Vance is so frustrating. Here he takes gratuitous shots at Milton Friedman as a bad model for Republican economic thinking. With Friedman as the guiding light, Ronald Reagan won 49 states and ushered in a decade of unrivaled prosperity.

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Surely economic freedom must always serve human flourishing, as it has never exploited it. The freedom to pursue and acquire goods has never once hampered man's ultimate good. Man is after all homo economicus and must serve the market as his god so that it may bless him with his flourishing

The pope actually sent this thing, it’s called a letter. In it he asked them to hold off a minute and keep talking. Disagreement was in fact not at issue here. It was the blatant disobedience (see notary’s answer to papal mandate question). Synodality might be dumb, but it wasn’t Rome who walked away from the table

@BBCBreaking Novus Ordites will seriously look at this and say "not Catholic".

In order to have the energy necessary to improve something, you must love it. There is this common misunderstanding that progressives have no love of the west. It’s not that they have no love for it, or else they'd lack the energy to pursue violent revolution. No, they have love for the west. What they lack is common sense. They are divorced from reality from human nature - they totally lack the inherited wisdom that led to healthy society. Until we come again to see man as a fallen creature, subjected to unreasonable passions, and in desperate need of faith and tradition we will continue to misplace our love and self-destruct

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Amidst the uncertainty of political life both in the world and Church, it’s more essential than ever to ground oneself in prayer, particularly regular prayer. My latest at the Catholic Herald 👇

@MLJHaynes Is attending illicit masses a separate issue to formal adherence? Would the SSPX encourage faithful Catholics to attend liturgies they deemed illicit on a regular basis?

I’m sure the bishops opposed to TLM are really bummed about TLM options dropping by 40%. What they really didn’t want was the SSPX to have four new schismatic bishops!

Robby Soave @robbysoave

2 days ago

JD Vance is so frustrating. Here he takes gratuitous shots at Milton Friedman as a bad model for Republican economic thinking. With Friedman as the guiding light, Ronald Reagan won 49 states and ushered in a decade of unrivaled prosperity.

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Any ideas how one could obtain an Old Rite baptism in the UK? Seems like a good day to ask.

Thank goodness that at a time when bishops are ruthlessly clamping down on the TLM and tradition in general the SSPX gave Rome reason to prevent Catholics interested in right relations with the Pope from also attending their chapels. And here I was worried we might actually be moving toward fixing TC. Thank goodness they’ve lived down to their enemies’ calumny. What a day

This is the worst possible scenario imaginable from all sides. The faithful have been scandalized by the traditionally well-intentioned yet again, effectively squandering all good will accrued by TC. Meanwhile the SSPX has lost all ground that it had gained under Benedict XVI. The Holy See could have seen fit to accommodate itself to the SSPX even at the 11th hour - not that they were not well within their rights not to. Yet it has seen fit to face the collision head on. My fear is that it is the many faithful who will suffer the subsequent whiplash and damage.

Michael Haynes 🇻🇦 @MLJHaynes

3 days ago

BREAKING: Holy See declares all 6 SSPX bishops are excommunicated Bishop Galarreta committed "an act of a schismatic nature through the episcopal consecration" All four bishops consecrated received "have ipso facto incurred the latae sententiae excommunication reserved to the

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The Notary explaining to the Pope how the SSPX can do episcopal consecrations without a papal mandate.

It turns out the side marching in Pride parades isn’t that keen on reproduction. Huh. Go figure.

Leading Report @LeadingReport

3 days ago

New study finds declining fertility in the U.S. is disproportionately driven by lower birth rates among left-leaning Americans.

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@GodCloseMyEyes Not sure “weapons” “terror” and transgenderism is really the winning association you think it is.