Lay catholic. Host of the Third Space podcast: https://xitter.cf/t.co/05gHkE7YO5 Contributor at https://xitter.cf/t.co/o8uBVJb53A. "Realities are more important than ideas."
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A resource for lay ministers and clergy (and any Catholic who cares about safe and healthy religious spaces) about how to recognize and respond to spiritual abuse and the abuse of conscience.
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That God can bring good from evil does not make evil good.
Caring for a hospice patient, as they face inevitable death, to see the meaning, purpose, and even beauty in their situation is a noble thing.
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Helping people see the good that God can bring from suffering can easily shift into glorifying suffering.
If someone expresses real suffering that has a remedy I can reasonably provide, but all I do is help them find meaning in suffering, I’ve failed to actually love them
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Paul Joseph retweeted
Prayers for Pope Leo today & some words of caution after tonight's medical bulletin about @Pontifex health:
1) We know the lung nodule removed was cancerous, so we know he HAD cancer, but we don't know that he still has it. Only further diagnostics will reveal this for sure
It’s an election year and, living in Michigan with Abdul El-Sayed running for Senate, I’ve seen renewed use of the word “Socialism” and claims that Catholics can’t be Socialists. So I had @tonyannett on my podcast again, this time to talk about Socialism
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I wonder why the pope is tweeting this now…
The death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person. The common good can be safeguarded and the requirements of justice can be met without recourse to capital punishment: effective systems of detention have been developed that protect citizens while at the same time do not completely deprive those who are guilty of the possibility of redemption. #NoDeathPenalty
In the Summa, Aquinas says that orders that exceed the authority of the person giving the order not only don’t bind the conscience’s others, but are an abuse of conscience.
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The post-Conciliar Church, maybe most explicitly Pope Francis, have made it clear that ecclesial authorities have no authority to replaces consciences, only to help form them. Only God has authority over the personal conscience.
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I spoke with Lindsay Tsohantaridis about abuse of power and systemic cultures of abuse within the Franciscan University of Steubenville and wider charismatic community.
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“Victims of abuse in the Church become the turd in the ecclesial punch bowl; their stories are an assault on the pleasant fiction that things in the Church aren’t that bad.”
“A genuine shift in mindset is necessary: abandoning the logic of defensiveness, hostility, or conquest in order to adopt an attitude that is open, benevolent, and courageous…
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“…Monolithic and isolated models, which encourage a closed view of reality, are proving increasingly inadequate and, ultimately, become sources of violence and suffering for the most vulnerable…
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Also from Nostra Aetate:
“The Church reproves, as foreign to the mind of Christ, any discrimination against men or harassment of them because of their race, color, condition of life, or religion.”
Conservative Catholics: Church teaching doesn’t change! It may develop, but it doesn’t change.
The DDF: “Nostra Aetate…marked a profound change in the Church’s understanding and expression of her relationship with followers of other religions” (A Journey of Hope, 1).