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Daniel Carriere retweeted
If you think "clean water" isn't a serious issue, please come with me on a trip sometime. I will show you just how stupid you look to people who have been outside the First World.
Today is good Friday when Christians celebrate the death of the god man. We ponder the meaning of this event. He came into Jerusalem, the city of peace, knowing this would happen. He freely cooperated with the Father's plan, which had been predicted through the prophets.
Why? To pay for our sins by a meritorious act of love and self sacrifice. To give us an example for which we must emulate in response to the suffering and evils we experience in our own life. To give us hope in face of the curse of death, such the we can say with Saint Paul, "Death, where is your sting?"
The ultimate answer to why? Because he loved us and had compassion on us, mired though we are in evil, wickedness, and selfishness. In this act, he teaches us to follow a better way. The way of patient endurance, of compassionate mercy, and forgiveness.
Psalm 37
Calm your anger and forget your rage;
do not fret, it only leads to evil.
For those who do evil shall perish;
the patient shall inherit the land.
Daniel Carriere retweeted
Martin, with precisely zero provocation, Trump said a year ago that he intended to “annex Canada” and make it the 51st state by applying “economic pressure;”
- He imposed lifted, increased, decreased, re-imposed and repeatedly threatened tariffs on everything imported from Canada, in gross violation of the CUSMA agreement that he signed, calling it “the greatest trade agreement in history;”
- He initially did so on the entirely specious grounds that Canada was a major source of fentanyl imports and illegal migration to the US, both claims completely contradicted by data, and US law enforcement agencies. The claims were so ridiculous - even for Trump - that he has not repeated them for the past ten months;
- He has repeatedly said the US needs “nothing” from Canada, specifically mentioning our energy
- He continues to maintain crippling sectoral tariffs on Canadian steel, aluminum and certain auto components in violation of CUSMA, tariffs that are costing the Canadian economy billions of dollars and thousands of jobs;
- Senior Administration officials (Greer, Lutnick et al) have been intimating for months that CUSMA will not be renewed;
- Trump has repeatedly referred to the Canada-US border as “imaginary” and “fake.”
- His insults and provocations are too many to list, but just in the last week he has said that Canada has been “completely taken over by China” because of a discrete tariff agreement requested by western provinces and initially *endorsed by Trump*; and insulted the honour and memory of our troops, claiming that they “stayed a little back from the front lines” in Afghanistan.
Given all of that and more, you blame the Prime Minister of Canada for CUSMA being in jeopardy? WTH?
After a year of this, how can we still have some Canadians blaming Canada for Trump taking a wrecking ball to the relationship?
Under these circumstances, Prime Minister Carney has exercised remarkable restraint.
What would satisfy you? Grovelling subservience? Giving the US total control over our trade relations with the rest of the world?
We Canadians can and should debate the most prudent way to deal with the completely unpredictable and destabilizing threat from Trump. (I, for one, don’t support the recent deal with China.) But surely no reasonable person can conclude that Canada provoked or is any meaningful way to blame for this crisis.
Daniel Carriere retweeted
Feser (and +Broglio) are right on the moral principles here, but I want to address a possible objection: "wouldn't this lead to anarchy, if soldiers can obey unjust orders?"
Despite his record of orthodoxy, Archbishop Broglio will be attacked for this from the right. But he is showing courage and doing his duty to look after the souls of our servicemen and uphold Catholic teaching. Here is what the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church says on the matter: “Every member of the armed forces is morally obliged to resist orders that call for perpetrating crimes against the law of nations and the universal principles of this law. Military personnel remain fully responsible for the acts they commit in violation of the rights of individuals and peoples, or of the norms of international humanitarian law. Such acts cannot be justified by claiming obedience to the orders of superiors” (503) thetablet.co.uk/news/broglio…
Daniel Carriere retweeted
Pope St. John Paul II: “We need to clarify the essential difference between an unhealthy form of nationalism, which teaches contempt for other nations or cultures, and patriotism, which is a proper love of one's country. True patriotism never seeks to advance the well-being of one's own nation at the expense of others. For in the end this would harm one's own nation as well: doing wrong damages both aggressor and victim. Nationalism, particularly in its most radical forms, is thus the antithesis of true patriotism” (Address to the Fiftieth General Assembly of the United Nations, 1995)
Daniel Carriere retweeted
For a Christian man there is no escape. Marriage may help to sanctify and direct to its proper object his sexual desires; its grace may help him in the struggle; but the struggle remains. It will not satisfy him—as hunger may be kept off by regular meals. It will offer as many difficulties to the purity proper to that state as it provides easements.
No man, however truly he loved his betrothed and bride as a young man, has lived faithful to her as a wife in mind and body without deliberate conscious exercise of the will, without self-denial. Too few are told that—even those brought up in ‘the Church’. Those outside seem seldom to have heard it.
When the glamour wears off, or merely works a bit thin, they think that they have made a mistake, and that the real soul-mate is still to find. The real soul-mate too often proves to be the next sexually attractive person that comes along. Someone whom they might indeed very profitably have married, if only—. Hence divorce, to provide the ‘if only’.
And of course they are as a rule quite right: they did make a mistake. Only a very wise man at the end of his life could make a sound judgementconcerning whom, amongst the total possible chances, he ought most profitably have married!
Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might have found more suitable mates.
But the ‘real soul-mate’ is the one you are actually married to. In this fallen world, we have as our only guides, prudence, wisdom (rare in youth, too late in age), a clean heart, and fidelity of will…
(Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, pp. 51-52)
Daniel Carriere retweeted
Today marks 15 years since the suicide attempt that nearly ended my life. In just 15 months, someone going through the darkness I was back then will be eligible to end their life with MAID. I shared my story in support of Bill C-218, which will stop this and literally save lives.
Daniel Carriere retweeted
I asked Michael Bublé about how his faith at a Vatican press conference today and this was his response:
大家族を持つということは、子供のために富を手放すということです。それは、あなたの社会経済的サークル内の人々と比べて、あなたを貧しくするでしょう。しかし、他の面ではあなたを豊かにするでしょう。
しかし、大家族を持つという選択は、極めて個人的なものです。私には7人の子供がいますが、すべての子供たちに同じことを期待しているわけではありません。
My son did his first live performance with his band. He is the bassist in the background. They were signing Iris by the Googoo Dolls.
youtu.be/VkP3IsOKCb8?si=R9ra…
Daniel Carriere retweeted
聖テレジアは天国を逍遥してからは、もうこの世のものを見ることができませんでした。ある人は彼女に美しいものを見せたとき、聖女はこう申しました『そんなものはつまりません。泥にしかすぎません』と。
聖ジャン・マリ・ヴィアンネ mtbrs.net/ps_catholicsjp_The…
Daniel Carriere retweeted
🏆🎉 Fr. Mike's most viral video ever has won not just one, but three @tellyawards!
In this video, @frmikeschmitz shares a beautiful, clear, shareable summary of the story of salvation: the Bible in 10 Minutes.
Other noteworthy Telly winners for 2025 are "Thank You. All 1 Million of You," "Envision: Theology of the Body for Middle School", and "Ascension Brand Anthem", which all won silver awards. 🙌
We’re truly blessed and grateful to see this authentically Catholic work receive national recognition! Man oh man, what a gift! 🙏
