Calling out Anthony without naming him haha. Why not have a discussion? I don’t mean a debate because we’ve all heard the arguments. You guys need to knaw on this same bone and conclude you’re not enemies, just attacking from different angles.

Lots of great ads for Hallow but your reasons for not biting are exactly mine. Devotional prayer isn’t bought like a yoga class and the lockdowns are over. Go pray with real people!

Strange that in previous generations bishops felt free to speak truth to power and now postmodern bishops are cowed by authority. I’ve never understood why bishops seem not allowed to rebuke the Pope for plain heresy and bullying and selling out to the world like St. Peter was rebuked for an honest mistaken mindset.

Good point about altar girls. Has anyone polled former altar girls or their parents for why they went for it and its effects? Sounds like a job for the Lepanto Institute, but any social science department in a university would be interested in this too.

I hereby crush you for your Latin pronunciation haha Yes, I’m glad you very gently point out Pope Francis personally acting mean to whole groups of people and speaking against the sheep Jesus commands him to feed. The gaslighting from certain conservatives lately is so disheartening. Fellow convert here: Tradition and history and the sharp contrast between even the Novus Ordo and my old Pentecostal service convinced me.

Yes, qanon is Gnostic to the core. That attitude is the only draw they have; their pride convinces weaker wills.

I deeply appreciate your strong stance on this and it disappoints me to hear that others with the same values are excusing themselves. It’s really important to Confess when we slip up and everyone should count this as participation in evil especially but not just on a movie still collecting ratings for future ideas.

Unite the Clans comes from Michael Matt, right? He tends to give other trads their due, so who has he made his enemy and couldn’t you work toward forgiveness? Ditto for Patrick Coffin (whose monotone is the antidote to wakefulness). His papal stance seems like one small and understandable mistake which maybe you could correct through fellowship.

Lol don’t cancel Kennedy Hall but PLEASE edit his writing! He uses excess commas and dangling modifiers most likely to simulate a conversational tone but it makes his articles a slog. Tell him it’s why I haven’t bought his book yet. His writing style detracts from the presentation of his right ideas.

I need a cartoon of Jijiping playing ukulele-pope Francis now

Totally agree the paganism at the Vatican may have instigated the suffering of the past few years and the ongoing nonsense with the Synod.

I would argue that the SCOTUS decision in 2015 and the subsequent change in culture contributed to the fall. The Church failed to make its stand clear as its stance on life (and that, too, pope Francis is urging a retreat from at the request of worldly powers).

This is one of your strongest episodes in a while. Catholics need to unite behind chastity and family issues.

Who were you talking to? Your analogies were all strawmen and insulting. You came across as weak and scrambling. The corruption is the main problem here. You were too busy making excuses and squinting for misunderstandings to realize they’re just that evil. It isn’t just hypocrisy if Fr. J Martin is promoted; they want to destroy the Church from within.

Pushback: the Church frequently entered into dialogue with thinkers of other faiths throughout the Middle Ages, with Jews and Muslims. Many formal debates on record. Vatican II corrupted dialogue and debate with ecumenism and misapplied humility.

we really need to get out ahead of America magazine and the like and spread Gospel and doctrine in the clearest terms possible. there’s no muddying these verses, those catechism paragraphs unless you’re a subversive degenerate.

My journey the becoming Catholic started with the Ben Shapiro interview with Bishop Barron. I think his approach to evangelization is much more effective than most.

I appreciate your honesty about your personal experience and yeah, trads might do better to reserve nastier criticism and instead ask questions. If a parish offers P&W Adoration or Hispanic dancing Adoration there should also be options like chanted Vespers. If public high school choirs sing polyphony, why not parish youth groups? Maybe trads could assert the Both And Principle better.

3 courses of Catholic theology in college left me agnostic from protestant. Now I’m Catholic.

so happy to find you ! Thank you Kennedy